White Mage Cosplay FFXI

This costume has lots of surface decoration, which consists mostly of hand stitching, gold vinyl, and fabric paint. All of the triangles were made of cloth and had to be stitched on by machine, so that took a lot of work as well.

The white mage staff I made by coating a PVC pipe with foamcore and craft foam. The orb on top is a 4" plastic Christmas ornament that I painted white. (Figuring out the shape of the setting that held the orb was no easy task,--I had to build about a half dozen prototype structures with tagboard before I came across a design that worked...)


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