TEAM VICTORIA or TEAM EMILY #corpsebride #Cosplay #halloween #shorts

Team Emily or Team Victoria?? Most of you guessed Corpse Bride based on my last reel but I decided to give it a historical twist. The movie itself is set in the #victorian era so I decided to go with the late 80s as my decade of choice. I started off by making the bodice and the skirt as I would any normal historical costume. I covered my @royaldressforms_global in plastic and decided to the paint the skirt on the mannequin. Then the magical happened: I used my giant @ldh_scissors to start chopping away at the hem until I achieved that scraggly look. Then I used watered down @ritdye (YES I DYED MY FINGERS OMG IT WAS BRUTAL) and fabric paint and starting dyeing the hem. This project was ambitious so I called for backup and my mom answered my cry for help to get the hem a nice aged color. More rips, more tears, more scrubbing with a cheese grater and the skirt finally looked fresh from the grave. I wanted to have a slight nod to Emily’s vines embroidered on the hem but I wanted a 3D effect to sta