Now that I’ve taken care of the accessories, on to the main event! Kyoshi’s kimono looks complicated, but it’s not; it’s just several simple pieces layered on top of each other. I started out, of course, by looking at as many references as I could find. This primarily consisted of watching the episode “Avatar Day” and playing and pausing profusely during Aang’s trial and Kyoshi’s brief appearance. After a little sketching I came up with a general idea for how Kyoshi’s layers of clothing worked. Underneath everything there was an underskirt of dark green, with two panels of a forest green forming an overskirt. Her kimono over the skirt is kind of non-traditional (I’ll get into this in a minute) and she has really long, flowy sleeves. Everything is held together with an obi. Basically the completed costume had to be put on in five layers: skirt, overskirt, undershirt/sleeves, kimono, and obi. I’ll cover them in that order (obi was covered in the previous post).
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Note: this tutorial was transported over from the old Wordpress site, which is no longer active. Welcome to my first “official” cosplay write-up. I will do these for a few of my costumes to both help out other cosplayers and to have a place to show my progress! I premiered Avatar Kyoshi last Saturday at Wizard World Philadelphia. I had a blast! I’m still trying to track down some pictures that people took of me. This post covers the accessories: Kyoshi’s bracers, obi, and headdress. A few things to note before I get started:
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