This naughty forest nymph costume was made for the Elf Fantasy Fair in the Netherlands last April. First of all I have to admit, I bought the corset, but only because I didn’t have a pattern to make one. The idea came with the skirt.
It was an old wedding dress that I used as a Halloween costume. So I cut off the top, painted the skirt green (synthetic so had to use water based paint), then added the leaves. Each leaf was ironed onto fusible interfacing and cut by hand. That alone took a few months. Then I sewed them all onto the skirt, partially by machine and the rest by hand. I added green netting just in case the dress had to be lifted.
Sadly you cant really see the cloak but I also made this out of brown/orange organza with a green shine. The sleeves were lined with dark green fleece (very warm!) and the glovelets were made seperately. I then added fake leaves to the back of the cloak. I also used fleece around the next to fasten the cloak.
The handbag was also an existing handbag on which I glued a piece of orange/brown suede and green fleece and decorated this with leaves and little fabric flowers. The hair is sadly not all my own, I used a clip in with dreads in my own colour and added woolen dreads in various shades of green that I made myself.
The horns were cast by a friend out of gypsum type material and I painted these myself in matching colours. All in all this costume took my about 6 months to make.
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That is so pretty. You did a great job and I bet that all that work was so worth it when it was done.
That is really really pretty! You did a wonderful job on it and I especially love the hair falls!
That’s absolutely beautiful! I, too, make elemental nymph costumes every year that take months to create. What I have learned from my fire nymph and water nymph costumes is never to stop. As soon as you are done, you keep finding more materials to integrate – and they always make it better. I have yet to tackle the wood nymph – it seems the most expensive and involved – I mean, you can’t just look like Adam’s “Eve”! But I have a lot of pieces and ideas – Stones, moss, curly twigs, dried baby’s breath flowers, copper colored floral wire, and bird feathers. I plan on designing a kind of carapace thing for the bodice. Anyway – I would love to see you continue enhancing your costume with some other materials like the ones I mentioned to give it an earthier feel.
All of the wok you put into this really shows! This is without a doubt the greatest Forest Fairy costume I have every seen, and that is saying something. I have made Fairy costumes for 20 years. Thanks for sharing the pic and creativity!
Your outfit is possibly the best I’ve ever seen and I’ve been doing live action role play since 1992! If you are ever free for the last full weekend in August, get in touch with me at dirtcreature@hotmail.com I think you’d really enjoy role playing at The Gathering, run by the Lorien trust!
amazing , congratulations and thanks for sharing, you have been a great inspiration
This is a terrific effort! The time you put into this and the creativity you have shown in designing and making this outfit definitely paid off. I LOVE it – it’s a true work of art. I am looking forward to seeing your next design!
just amazing…
What a fantastic costume you must of spent a lot of time and dedication to make this costume. Well done, you are truly talented.
WOW! AWESOME! I also love your clown costume!
Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is so great and inspirational so many nymph costumes
Looks so cheap and tack but this actually looks mythological and creative ! Good job !
..one word. contacts. if you’re going to go all out from head to toe, get some contacts!! makes it look 100% better and more authentic that way! :) great job!