Costume Robes and their bits

[Megan]

No: HPFGUIDX 27608


> I'm interested in making a set of robes from the movie.  Maybe for
Worldcon 
> next year.  Dunno.  Any way, does anyone know if someone is making the 
> patches?  I could embroider some but that seems like a lot of work
for a 
> garment that should take about two hours start to finish to make. 
Have any 
> of the magazines talked about the costumes in more than a designer
way i.e. 
> fabrics and layouts?  Well, I can hope!

A little help on the patches from someone who is trying to make her
own robes-copy from the movie for Halloween.  Wal-mart (and probably
many other places, I'm sure) sells a fabric that (obviously designed
for a pillow) has a panel with all for house "badges" on it.  Pretty
simplistic and shabby, but it'll do if need be.  Wishing someone would
seel whatever they had made for the movie, though!!

And so the ADMIN police don't grab me for OT chatting...I personally
love the way the robes are done in the movie.  Authenticall British,
no one can argue with that.  The colors are excellent--staying with
the typical winter drab wear.  I personally like the fact that they do
have badges--sure does make it a lot easier to tell who is who!!  And
with a school of about 200-400 students, I think I'd want something on
their clothes to at least tell me where they're from because it's
really hard to remember that many people's houses.  On a note, I did
always imagine the robes as closed (slip-over, I suppose)--but I don't
think it really matters in something like this.

-Megan, who personally LIKES uniforms in school and wishes her school
would adopt similar ones to Harry's, :-D