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If my Lulu were a ground dancer I could just make and weave the belts as shown. (Which would be fun, and maybe I'll make a ground-only version another time.) For an aerialist, that presents too much danger of snagging on the equipment, as well as being rather heavier than one wants to wear while doing inversions, not to mention the near impossibility of making such a loosely woven net of belts hold its shape under varying gravitational pulls.
So I need to create the illusion of belts, but on an unbroken panel of fabric, and without buckles to snag on anything. The skirt will be floofy pants, with the belts occupying the two center front panels.
Invisible nude mesh is my choice for the panel backing. It's tough for its weight, but still very lightweight fabric, making me somewhat hesitant about using fake leather for the belts. But my closest fabric stores didn't have any fake leather in the colors I needed, so I was saved the choice. Instead, I did find a box of various raincoat fabrics. I cut long strips, arranged them to my satisfaction, pinned the heck out of them, sewed them all down (tedious, very tedious!), and used grey dimensional fabric paint to draw "buckles" on them. I have pictures of the first two steps:
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| first draft, before the strips were ironed |
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| pinned and almost ready to stitch; just have to cut the strips that cross both panels. That's my grandfather's old extra large lap desk underneath, being drafted into sewing-room duty. |
More pictures when I start assembling the various parts of this costume.
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