Miss Piggy - Kermit Dress #10

Kermit and eye paint

Mini-Kermit and Kermit eyes

EXTRA!

I had this felt wired Kermit from a McDonald's Happy Meal (I also have Animal 🤟💘) and, as this costume is a switch, I thought, why not make Mini-Kermit a Piggy costume?

pink dress WIP

But I didn't have either pink satin, nor purple satin, for the dress and gloves (that's how much I like pink or purple...). Nor a pink feather boa, or blonde wig wefts... and Maxi Biju closed... so I had to buy all of these. I couldn't find any the last time I went fabric shopping, Downtown, so I ended up buying the (very cheap) satin, the pink feathers (a cheap feathered fan), and the cheap blonde wig from a Chinese shop nearby. I started with the dress, a simple rectangular top, gathered in the middle, with pink ribbon straps.

Pearl necklace

Then I picked some tiny white pearlsand a clasp, from my Blythe stash, and threaded a pearl necklace.

wig weft

For the wig, I unpicked a 20cm weft from the cheap wig, rolled and sewed it on itself, and added a pin to secure it to Mini-Kermit's head. With the wig on, I trimmed it, and with the steamer, I tried to style it.

wig

From the cheap fan, I unpicked a few feathers, choosing the fluffiest of them, and glued them, with UHU glue, to a pink cord (also from my dolly materials stash). I started at the ends, with the nicer feathers, and kept on glueing snipped and fluffy feather ends, until the middle. I reinforced the ends on both sides, and pinned it, with a small safety pin,  to Mini-Kermit.

Mini-Kermit dressed as Miss Piggy 

Finally, with small scraps of pink fake suede, I made a snout, with an elastic, and tiny pig ears, which I glued to the wig. With the lilac satin, I made the gloves, which close with dolly velcro.

Asheria, Moi and LadyXZeus (as Bianca) at Fórum Fantástico 2023

After finishing everything, I wore the costume for the first time at Fórum Fantástico 2023, for my Tertúlia de Cosplay, a series of talks about cosplay I've been organising every month.

I put my make-up on at home, including the drag queen fake lashes, and wore the dress to the event, with some leggings on top of my skin coloured shorts, and silver strappy sandals. At the event, I took the leggings off, and put my wig, hood, gloves and emerald ring on. Although the ears were skewed most of the day, the result of putting the hood on without a mirror, the hood stayed put, without twisting at the collar, the whole day.

Unfortunately it was really very hot that day, and even though the costume is really very comfortable, anything would be too hot for those 30+°C temperatures... the gloves and dress were very sweaty, great that they're easy to wash. The hood remained clean, not even make-up transfer (thank you make-up setting spray!), but the snout had some lipstick transfer. Mental note, no need to wear lipstick on the top lip with this costume. One of the collar pearls fell off, but I can easily replace it.

All in all, this is a very comfortable and fun costume to wear, I'm glad I made it.

+ Maybe a Mini-Kermit was unnecessary, but it definitely completed the costume. Most people thought I was dressed as Kermit, I needed to either explain or put the snout on.

- The snout is very uncomfortable, especially in that day's hot temperatures. Putting it back on with velvet gloves, isn't also the quickest thing. But it's a minor fault I can't skip. I made it the softest I could, even lining it in t-shirt cotton knit.

THE CUNNING PLAN

Hem the gloves, trim the wig, wash the dress, replace the pearl on the collar. Wear it again. Maybe for Lisboa Games Week?