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So, I've told you about BoA's outfit on the last post. Now I will tell you about the rest of the work, the back dancer's outfit and the accessories.

You knew the reason why I chose BoA's street style from my previous post. But for the back dancers, I chose the all black costume. Because they would look similar, neat, but stylish. Beside, the items for the street costume were harder to find too, so all black costume would make less work for me

The thing was, the all black costume consists of black basic top and pants, and heavy gothic accessorizing. Each of the dancers had their own style and accessories.

Here are their style:


For each character, I had to make choker/necklace, bracelet, and top accessories such as suspenders. I had to draw the design first and started to make a list of things that I had to make.

sorry for my bad drawing, it's written in Indonesia

TOP

Ok. Let's start with the top.
Everybody basically wore black shirt. One of them was long sleeves, two of them were short sleeves, the other two were tank tops, and one of them was in a some kind of body wrap.

Backdancers and their top style

The trickiest part was Aya Sato's top.
I had to make them because they weren't on sale. I made them out of black satin ribbon. First I had to cut them into some layer and sew them into a checkered fabric. Then I sew them into a top. 

Satin Ribbon

Checkered fabric built from satin ribbon

Aya Sato top

Can you imagine? A top from a ribbon. With a tanktop beneath it.

For the other tops I just needed to style it a little. I cut the shoulder for Miki's top. Cut the stomach for Kanata and Akane shirts, gave a front lining for Yuko's tank top, and did nothing for Bambi's body wrap.
The material for Kanata's top was a little tricky, because it shines and sheer like a fish net. But I didn't have time for that so I just made it from cotton shirt. No shine, but it's OK.

That's all for the top.

Bottom Part

This is the easiest part!

Pants style for each dancers

Hotpants with or without hi-waist was easy to find. Skinny pants is always there, everybody's must-have-item. Drop-crotch was a little difficult, but you could always find it among dancers. So, no big deal. Except for Aya's Drop-crotch,  I had to put some thing like suspenders hanging in the right-left side of the pants, and attached sequins in the lower leg part.
Akane's and Kanata's pants material should be latex, but it was quite expensive for me, so I just used the common pants material.

The Accessories

This was the most interesting part, because I had to make them. I had to custom them.
You see that each characters has their own style of necklace, so I made it as closely as the original.

Because I had limited fund, rocker's studded was my first choice. Cheap but has gothic vibe. I bought small rings (usually used in bag) and wire to help me hang the ring to the choker. I couldn't afford leather or leather-like fabric for the choker, so thick jacket fabric became my choice to make the chokers.

Half done

I had to work it in my work-space in Emergency Room ;)

So here you go:

Aya, Miki, Akane, and Bambi wore chokers while Kanata and Yuko wore gold-chain necklace that we can find anywhere. The bracelet was for Aya Sato's style only, while Bambi wore a simple gold bracelet.

I did the same thing for the suspenders. Using the same rings and fabric. I was having a hard time to find black elastic band to make the suspenders, that's why I decided to make it out of fabric. Except for Bambi's top accessories. I made it out of satin and paper beneath it.

And how do we look?

Here you GO!

We did a little bit more accessorizing beside the original accessories

Aya Sato's style. The most gothic and trickiest style

Winning pose

I am so sorry, turns out I didn't have pre-performance picture. I forgot to take the picture. All I have is post-performance picture where all of the accessories and outfit were falling apart :(

But you still can enjoy our performance here:


Haha!

See you on my next post!

Winning pose

Back again!

This time around I will tell you about my latest work on a costume for BoA dance cover.

A month a go I joined in a Japan Dance cover competition in Surabaya called Chocodays 2014. The competition held in Ciputra World mall on 13-15 December. I decided to cover Shout it Out, a song from BoA because I love the song very much. The song is cheerful and happy. but the main reason I chose this song was because Rino Nakasone, my favorite dancer/choreographer, was the choreographer of this fun song!

The choreograph was tricky, fun, hard yet beautiful, but the other fun part of the dance cover was about the costume. One of the most important rule of dance cover is the costume cover. We have to make it exactly like the video we cover. People love so much when they see a performance that is really look like the "real" thing. They want to feel like they were in a concert. So we had to make a deal with the costume. Not just the costume, even the hair makeup and accessorizing must look alike.

First, take a look at the MV from BoA's Shout it Out click here

There are 2 sets of costume: The All black costume and the street costume.

Street style costume (source: google.com)

All-black costume (source: google.com)

For BoA Costume:
I decided to take the Street one instead of the black costume. Because the black costume items were harder to make. I didn't have the pants and I thought it was harder to make it. The tanktop and the beanie hat also. The thing was I couldn't make them all!

(source: google.com)

Then I tried to browse on the internet about BoA street costume. There was a picture shows the original design of BoA's Jacket from Fig and Viper brand and It costs thousands yen! Clearly, buying the jacket wasn't a good solution for my problem. But the basic top and pants BoA wears were easier to find than the all black costume. If the only problem I found was the jacket, then I decided to make the jacket instead of making the top, pants, and hat for the all black costume.

(source: google.com)

The jacket consists of various colors: black, tosca, blue, yellow, red, and white. I had a problem choosing the fabric. Because it costs so much for the real jacket fabric. So I chose the fake one. Cheap satin. Wasn't a wise choice, I know. At first I regreted it because satin was to shinny. It makes my garment looks cheaper. But I already spent so much for 6 colors of satin fabrics, so I didn't have much choice, I had to make it work!

I was a lazy person, so building a jacket from zero will be a big-serious-problem. Instead of cutting fabric and making it from zero, I decided to buy a second hand jacket. A black jacket with silver zipper. And thank God I found the jacket that I wanted. Next thing was to cover the black jacket with the satin fabric in the exact same pattern as the real jacket design.


 That was the work. The real WORK.

Half-done work

The harder part was the sleeves. I had to cut the sleeves open, covered them, and sew them all together again.

But the result is quite satisfying.

Look cheap. But look good from a far.




 For the top, I was using my turtle neck top. Actually BoA's top was a turtle neck tank top, but I chose to cover my sleeves (and some part of my stomach, of course). For the pants, I had to sew 2 line of white ribbon in the side of my black pants to make it look like BoA's jersey pants. I wanted to buy black jersey pants but trust me, my feet were to small and all the jerseys were sooo big. I tried to borrow from my friends to, but they were ill-fit too. So, I had to remake my pants. And Voila!


For Hair/Makeup
My hair was too short for high ponny tail, so I used hair clip to extend it.
For makeup, I did smokey-type.









So, how do I look?

Next, I will talk about the BoA's back dancer costume and accessories, especially for Aya Sato's.

See you on the next post!

(PS. I'm sorry for the bad image quality and bad english :p)