...Costumes here, too

Those purple things came in handy a lot. Also, since I don't have pierced ears, I just unbent some paper clips and taped them to my ears.


This one is not that recognizable, I admit. I was hoping the japor necklace would do the trick though the costume itself wasn't great. You'll note that most of these pictures are going to have worried, frowny, anxious expressions. That's Episode III for you!


I reused that belt, this time as a headpiece, and put a lot of work into contorting my hair for about five minutes of screentime. ;)


This was a buttonup shirt of my husband's! Also, no matter what I do I can never get my hair to look very curly for long.


I mean, my hair is just completely flat here. And instead of a lush velvety robe, I have an old green blanket. I used a purple sheet for the belt and then you never really end up seeing it in the scene. Ah well.


A blue shirt flipped upside down with the sleeves pinned sidways, and cardboard for the headband.


Honesty, I really like this one! Reusing the purple shirt and dress yet again, but combined with the headdress and other ornamentations, it really does resemble the original.


Bail has a nice bunch of costumes in this film, but this was the hardest to figure out. I gave up trying to find something metallic and just used a silvery sweatshirt, shaped into the middle section. Then a blanket for the robes, and that marvelous goatee again.


I didn't show much below the chest, so I rarely needed an actual pregnant look. Since Obi-Wan notes the pregnancy in this scene, though, I made sure to have some padding. The costume, meanwhile, is a purple pillow case with a cardigan buttoned over it, as well as yarn for the tassels and colorful socks for the stripes on the sleeves.


A pair of pants slung over my shoulders, brown fabric for the belts, gold duct tape for the ornamentation, and socks for the armbands.


This is actually my wedding dress. With a pillow under the stomach.



Light blue shirt, blue-green blanket, and the japor necklace.




This was quite a challenge to shoot, because I'd been filming myself simply by plunking the camera down on the bed and acting in front of a blanket draped over a dresser. I really wanted a proper shot from above for this scene. Finally I duct-taped the camera to the dresser, pointed downward, and scrambled into position to get the paper flowers in my hair. All for a few seconds of footage. Dedication or insanity? Yes.


I love Queen Breha's tiny little cameo, so her costume was important to me even for that brief moment. I used a shirt flipped upside down for the dress, blue fabric and a rolled up brown cap for the hair and headdress, and of course an adoring smile for the doll in the blanket.


I knew I'd need to get a decent Vader costume for the upcoming three movies, but I didn't want to spend a fortune on something someone else made. The only thing I bought was the mask. Since it only covers my face, I used a black pillowcase for the back of my head. I drew his chest plate and pinned it to a black shirt, along with a black robe and black gloves. And added in the breathing sound effects for every Vader scene.

The original trilogy is much lighter on costumes, so I'll be doing just one post for all three movies. Then, back to Star Words on Thursday!