Actually, another in a string of not-too-terribly-difficult costumes. A bit time-consuming, but not the most difficult thing we’ve sewn. The upper half was sewn, the bottom half was bought.

So, the easiest part, I suppose, was the lower half. I found the bottom skirt in a thrift store, but it was too white, so I did a tea dye bath, then cut up the hem completely, something I could only manage because it was a knit, so it wouldn’t fray. The overskirt was from my own closet, and chosen both to avoid time constraints and because it had an uneven hem without being cut. I like the body it gives, but I might still change it out for another, straight skirt to be more accurate, time will tell. My legs are far too pale because I bought the wrong shade of pantyhose, oops.

The shirt itself wasn’t bad, just a simple shirt pattern… the collar was another matter altogether. We draped the collar in spare fabric a few times until we found a design that matched Molly’s from the animation. The sleeves are pinned up, and may be ironed in place later, and held closed by various snaps, hooks and eyes, and safety pins. The vest was made of a heavier fabric and fully lined. It’s held closed by snaps, with rectangular buttons on for decoration to act as the uneven ties Molly has on her vest (how she has the ties uneven but the vest straight, I’ll never know).

The hair was actually one of the biggest pains of this costume, and the current photos don’t really show that much. My grandmother tested different sorts of curls in my hair, and we wound up using a small curler curled into a larger curler, curling the hair after it was put into a very high ponytail. Florida humidity, unfortunately, flattened the heck out of it before getting to the convention. I might try a photoshoot in the winter at some point and see if that helps any.