Danielle de Barbarac “Breathe Dress”Ever AfterOctober 2017 This costume was a long process from start to finish, it felt so good to be done and also a little emotional. This dress was my ‘white whale’ of cosplay so to speak (yes…
There are a number of important accessories that make up this costume, which this post will be going over. For information on other parts of the Breathe Ever After cosplay head to the following posts: Planning process Corset Dress Part…
Once the skirt and bodice are assembled it’s time to start on the sleeves, which are in essence elaborate tubes of trim. There is no curving or particularly fancy shaping, but there are trims, so much trim and thus so…
With the dress assembled it was time for the finishing touches. I use that phrase loosely because this finishing took way longer than the initial construction, which isn’t including the odyssey of finding the trims. With much trial and error…
As a child I remember dressing up in many attempts to wear this dress, White skirts and shirts with lots of glitter, or a vaguely period dress in our dress up box, but it was never quite the same. After…
A dress is only as good as its support, or something like that… In this case the Breathe dress needs a non decorative under corset to support the wings and other bits (boobs, I’m talking about boobs). As an empire…
Ever After continues to be one of my favorite movies, self-rescuing princess, true love and historical costumes: what’s not to enjoy? Since a very young age I have wanted to have the dress. Anyone who has seen the movie knows…
