Telulu - Witches 5 #1

Telulu - Witches 5: Sailormoon S, manga, Crystal

COSPLAY ID

CHARACTER Telulu
SOURCE Sailormoon manga,  & Sailormoon S anime and Sailor Moon Crystal III anime, by Naoko Takeuchi

COSTUME Witches 5 dress

COSPLAY BREAKDOWN

• black dress with multiple thin black straps/vines, black star on the chest, and petal skirt, with green underskirt.
• green wig with 4 odangos, tied with thin black straps/vines
• pink pearl earrings
• green tights with thin black straps/vines
  
• black shoes
• Death Busters staff with black star

Telulu has been on my make wishlist for many years, it's one of those costumes, like La Andromeda Promethium, which I started, but never picked up again. I even made the earrings, from pink pearls taken from a store bought bracelet, bought, and started heat bending the staff, and bought the skin coloured mesh, and thin black elastic, to make the top part of the dress.

Meanwhile, I gained weight, but Telulu never left my plans. While watching Sailor Moon Crystal III, the urge to make Telulu came back, and new, better solutions for the dress came with it. So I decided to make a hybrid from both anime adaptations and manga versions. There are slight differences, so I'll be using a bit from each. I plan to style the wig more natural, like the Crystal and manga versions, use leaf sequins on the straps/vines, which will also help hide the stitching on the mesh shirt, and make a more pouffy skirt, like in the Crystal anime. The staff will be like in the first anime, and I plan to paint it copper. The stars will have a glossy finish, and I won't add the star to the forehead, like in the Crystal anime (or maybe I'll make one, and add it to my liking, behind the vines).

I have some heeled shoes that will fit, but I'll search for patent leather flat shoes, just in case.

I may or may not make the plant. I still have to decide if in felt, like I once saw in a Telulu cosplayer, or if I make it in a stiffened silky fabric...

denim for the bodice structure, green
and black duchesse satin, plus plastic boning.

Today I bought duchesse satin in black and green, to make the dress, but I only managed to get a smallish piece of the green from the scraps bin. I still bought it because it was the same texture as the black and the right shade of green. There was a nice knit for the tights, the same shade of green, but I didn't get it.

The dress isn't very hard to make, but it requires patience. I plan to bone the bodice, and then make a longsleeve sweater in skin coloured mesh, where I will tack the black elastic to, and then attach to the dress. Much like a figure skater's costume. I will close it in the back with a skin coloured invisible zipper. But before deciding on that, I'll make some tests to put it on like a sweater, as the collar isn't very high.  But then the dress closure will have to be separate, maybe I'll add ties, like a corset, or a corseted Lolita dress. I'll think about it... The underskirt will be attached to the dress, permanently.

I'll use polypropilen leftovers for the staff's star, which will be three-dimensional, which I will cover in black vinyl.

The only creative liberty will be the small leaves, as, a few years ago, I bought a vial of green leaf sequins, which I'll defimitely use for this (I only used a few for that project).

Now I need to pick the PVC tube up from the Batcave, and the heat gun, so I can make the staff. The rest of the old materials, the mesh and the black vinyl, are already at the Sunset House 🌇, just need to reorganize them to the to do section. And order the wig and pigtails from Coscraft, when I order my Yuuko updo wig.

+ most of the pieces are versions of things I already made, I can even upcycle some patterns, which is really good. The props are quite simple, and the sewing parts can be made in a few days.

- I'll definitely need help mark where to attach the vines, especially to the top. The wig, although not the hardest styling, will be a nightmare!

THE CUNNING PLAN 

Keep gathering materials for this costume, but I can only really pick it up after I finish Hokuto Mad Hatter and Yuuko Foxy Lady, which are THE! priority. I only gave in to the Card Girl ♤ and Miss Piggy, because they're simple costumes to get back my cosplay mojo.

I'm also starting to gather materials for Princess Saphyr, but that's for another post.