Anita18
DANCE FOR ME, FUNNY MAN!
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Redskull told me I should make one, so here I am. 
Am planning to go as Catwoman for the TDKR midnight premiere (my first!) so I figured I might as well get started now before everyone jumps on the bandwagon. 
This is pretty much my first time making any sort of costume (seriously) so I'd appreciate any help sourcing stuff. I'm a n00b, so my first and only source is prett much ebay. Not aiming for 100% accuracy since from what I understand, it's damn hard, but gonna try my best while still keeping my sanity.
The boots are pretty basic - thigh-high boots with wedge heels. I already bought a pair from ebay. It has extra stitches but...eh.
The gloves look more complicated. Still debating whether to just buy leather elbow-length opera gloves and calling it a day.
I was probably the only person not staring at Catwoman's butt in the rest of those close-up shots, since I was watching how the fabric moved so I could figure out what it's made out of. Still torn between latex and lycra, but considering it's really hot and humid over in Pittsburgh and that the stuntwoman doesn't look like she's dripping in a big puddle of sweat and can obviously move around easily, I'm leaning toward lycra. Of course Ebay sells lycra catsuits for pretty cheap, but it's not the exact design nor texture. I think it'll be the texture that's the trickiest.
The belt looks simple enough but I think we'll need more close-up shots of it to see what the pouches are made out of.
What will definitely be the most difficult for me to source are the goggles. I wear glasses, am blind without them, and can't do contacts because my eyes are dry. (For the midnight premiere, I'd really like to be able to watch the movie, thank you very much.) So they will have to be OTG goggles. Considering whether to wait and see if someone eventually gets around to making OTG replicas, or getting a pair of OTG goggles off the shelf and doing...something....Kind of clueless as to how to proceed with that.
Am planning to go as Catwoman for the TDKR midnight premiere (my first!) so I figured I might as well get started now before everyone jumps on the bandwagon. This is pretty much my first time making any sort of costume (seriously) so I'd appreciate any help sourcing stuff. I'm a n00b, so my first and only source is prett much ebay.
Not aiming for 100% accuracy since from what I understand, it's damn hard, but gonna try my best while still keeping my sanity.
The boots are pretty basic - thigh-high boots with wedge heels. I already bought a pair from ebay. It has extra stitches but...eh.
The gloves look more complicated. Still debating whether to just buy leather elbow-length opera gloves and calling it a day.
I was probably the only person not staring at Catwoman's butt in the rest of those close-up shots, since I was watching how the fabric moved so I could figure out what it's made out of.
Still torn between latex and lycra, but considering it's really hot and humid over in Pittsburgh and that the stuntwoman doesn't look like she's dripping in a big puddle of sweat and can obviously move around easily, I'm leaning toward lycra. Of course Ebay sells lycra catsuits for pretty cheap, but it's not the exact design nor texture. I think it'll be the texture that's the trickiest.The belt looks simple enough but I think we'll need more close-up shots of it to see what the pouches are made out of.
What will definitely be the most difficult for me to source are the goggles. I wear glasses, am blind without them, and can't do contacts because my eyes are dry. (For the midnight premiere, I'd really like to be able to watch the movie, thank you very much.) So they will have to be OTG goggles. Considering whether to wait and see if someone eventually gets around to making OTG replicas, or getting a pair of OTG goggles off the shelf and doing...something....Kind of clueless as to how to proceed with that.
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