Progress: Daenerys and Lightning

I've got almost exactly one month before St. Louis Comic-Con, which means it's time to put my cosplay crafting into high gear!

I'll be cosplaying Lightning from Final Fantasy XIII and Daenerys Targaryen from Game of Thrones. There may be a third costume, depending on how much time I have before the con. If I do a third, it will absolutely be something simple and fun.

As far as Daenerys goes, I dyed the top with Rit. The color ended up being different than what I wanted (the brown is a reddish tint rather than a bluish one), so I'm toying with the idea of trying to spray another color of dye over the top. I don't know how well it would show up, but then again, I'm only looking for a tint. I've also got to finish the detailing. The challenge with this costume is that Dany wears so many different versions of it throughout the course of the first two seasons of the show. The versions vary in color, detailing, structure...just about everything that one looks at when making a costume.

The other challenge is restraining my chest. I've got a large one, and halter tops aren't exactly my thing. Thus, I think I'll end up making a bandeau top out of dark brown fabric to wear underneath. That will smash me down a little and also provide a safety plan if something should come undone at the con.

Lightning is coming along, too. I bought two curtains at Goodwill ($8 total), both of a fabric resembling a tie between linen and duckcloth. One was white, and the other tan, to make the vest:

I used a vest I own and traced it onto the white fabric. The lining doesn't go throughout the whole vest, mostly because I planned so poorly. The fit is absolutely terrible. I've got a lot of adjustments to make for it to look any good. Of course, I've still got to do all of the detailing on this as well.

I've also started on the pauldron and the gunblade, but I'll do a separate post for those, likely in a tutorial fashion.