moon_custafer: sexy bookshop mnager Dorothy Malone (Acme Bookshop)
moon_custafer ([personal profile] moon_custafer) wrote2013-06-30 07:32 pm

Forays into Cosplay

harley_closeup by ennalss
harley_closeup, a photo by ennalss on Flickr.

A couple of weeks ago, I started imagining a late-1940s version of Harley Quinn. I even think she could have a backstory where she worked either on a VA psych ward or in the psychological warfare/propaganda department, and by the end of the war she cracks, and takes refuge in a playful anarchy inspired by the Marx Brothers movies she loved as a kid.

Anyway, I've been making a first attempt at a costume. I'm not really happy with the sleeves (the shoulders should be puffier for one thing) and I need to find some way to get the half-peplum to jut out more. Also I need to make a matching skirt and a hat. But I think I like where this is going. I'm also going to try to make a prop "Flit" insecticide gun, as I envision it as her weapon of choice (Dr. Suess famously drew Flit's ads, and also one of their sprayers appeared in Animal Crackers).

[identity profile] bleodswean.livejournal.com 2013-07-01 12:11 am (UTC)(link)
THIS. Yes!

[identity profile] leave-harmony.livejournal.com 2013-07-01 12:12 am (UTC)(link)
Eeeeeeeeeee so cool! :D

[identity profile] moon-custafer.livejournal.com 2013-07-01 12:25 am (UTC)(link)
I also figure she should be rocking the sexy librarian look as seen on Dorothy Malone (http://youtu.be/AO9Q-81w6KQ) in The Big Sleep (she's a bookstore manager, actually, but you get the idea).
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[identity profile] batwrangler.livejournal.com 2013-07-01 01:13 am (UTC)(link)
Looking good. To get the half-peplum to jut out, would inserting some kind of stiffener do the trick?

[identity profile] sushidog.livejournal.com 2013-07-01 02:07 am (UTC)(link)
Cute! Would making the peplum a bit fuller help? Or adding some firm interfacing.