Creation of my Alastor Cosplay (Alastor 2.0)
For Momocon, I upgraded my Alastor cosplay a fair amount, so I'm going to go over all the improvements one piece at a time, so buckle up! This will be a long one. The first and biggest piece was the coat. Pretty sure I had gone insane by the time I finally finished this thing I created the coat from a McCall's pattern (Costumes M7003) and heavily modified the shoulders of the pattern. I used some vintage red corduroy I got at a thrift shop as the main fabric and the sleeves & lining fabric is a wine red poplin. The love how well the corduroy worked for the look but my god is it a warm fabric. Atlanta was 95 F Momocon weekend when I wore the cos, so I melted like a little Alastor popsicle. After getting the base coat done, I used a thick gauge sculpture wire & super stiff interfacing to give the coattail structure. Also, I added wire and padding into the shoulders to get that signature exaggerated shoulder look. Creating structure in cosplay is what I c