_________Flamedramon
_________Costume Stats
Character Name: Flamedramon
_________Reference
Series: Digimon Adventure 02
Specifics: original gijinka/human form version
Cost: $100
Time: 35 hours
Started: April 2005
Completed: May 2005
Worn: Anme North 2005
_________Information
This year we had a feminized/humanized theme in mBrosia. I originally chose Palmon, then switched to Agumon, and eventually settled on Flamedramon, because he is one of my favorite digimon. ^^
_________Misc
I used a lot of fanart for inspiration in this costume, but most of the inspiration came from Flamedramon's actual design. I tried to turn his armor into comfy clothing.
His top armor has a V-shape around the color. I made this the collar of my shirt version of it. After I made the shirt, I hand sewed carefully cut pieces of yellow polar fleece to the front and the back. On the back of the shirt is the crest of courage. It took my three hours to hand-sew. It's my favorite part of the entire costume. ^^
I made surfer shorts out of a pant pattern, and then added loops for a belt. The belt was made out of some black fabric and a belt buckle. The flame pattern was the most time-consuming part of this costume. It took me two hours to pattern it, another hour and a half to trace it onto the fabric, another three hours to cut it out, and you don't want to know how long to sew on. O____O! It took forever!
But it turned out really nice in the end. ^^ At first, I was scared about using polar fleece for the flames but it gave them a nice "pop" and made them stand out. ^^
The armbands were made like the pants (and took two days to make ><;). The collar was made out of a strip of red fabric. For the shoes, I glued little crests of courage to a pair of my black shoes. This wasn't what I wanted to do with my shoes, but after ruining a pair of running shows trying to get my original plan to work, they were my backup plan.
Flamedramon has a series of black belts on each arm. I made these out of strips of fabric and belt buckles to get the desired look. They are held together by velcrow. ^^
The wig is a spiky blue mullet I pulled into a ponytail at the back. It's spiky and crazy. At first I wanted to trim the wig, but since my friends seemed to like the long look, I left it as it was.
The wig has two light blue ears sewed into it. I wanted to sew a blue tail into the shorts, but it looked weird against the rest of the costume. ^^;
This costume is extremely comfortable to wear and easy to dance in. Plus, it was cool to dress up as a flaming digimon. ^^
At Anime North, a lot of people came up to me, saying they recognized the costume, but didn't know where it was from. When I told them I was dressed as Flamedramon, many people seemed really happy with the costume. There are a ton of Digimon fans out there. ^^
_________Images
Besides me, Amanda dressed up as Gatomon, Becky as Biyomon, Mage as Gomamon and Bianco as Weregarurumon. We had a little Digimon group. ^^
Anime North 2005
NAF 2006
