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***FYI: THIS TUTORIAL IS VERY OLD ***

Okay since I seem to get this a lot, here’s just how I made my WV cosplay.  Honestly I don’t know how much I can recommend this advice, I’ve seen a lot of other people do WV a lot better than me.  However this is what worked for me, and since people seem interested in emulating it I’m fine with providing how I did it.  Feel free to use this distribute it modify it do whatever you want with this.

For the headpiece, I used foam to construct the base of it.  The soft, squishy sort of foam that you can buy by the roll.  Mine was about an inch thick. I used hot glue to attach the pieces of foam together to form the base of the shape.  What I did was sort of form a cylinder around my head.  After that, for the top of the head I also made sure it extended out so it pointed.  I then attached two other pieces to form sort of a triangle and connected it at the bottom.  You can sort of see it in the picture.  If I could redo this costume again, I would make sure there was a point near my mouth like the original character.

those different colors are all different pieces of foam.

After that I used hot glue (again!) to attach the fabric to the foam.

Here are some in progress shots:

No fabric attached.  I would later pull the headgear down to the beginning of my mouth because it was wayyy easier to talk and such.

Starting to attach some of the fabric.  I did a few layers of fabric, and as you can see in the finished product there isn’t an indent. 

Here was the finished result of the headgear.  I ended up adding some more fabric to it because my forehead was really large when I shoved the zentai on.  Oops.

I used a Zentai.  There are plenty of sites you can get it from, I bought mine from a site you’re NEVER SUPPOSED TO BUY FROM EVER before I knew it was terrible.  I think it’s called milanno?  Something like that.  I wasn’t a bad zentai, however near the end of the con, the fingers were fraying a bit.  When you order it, from wherever you order it from, make sure you ask for a head that is detachable.  It just makes everything easier.

for the under garment, I used a dress from Good Will and attached the fabric to that.

For the poncho, I just layered on fabric and attached to another long piece of fabric with a hole cut into the middle of it for my head to fit.

For the eyes, I just sewed on pieces of felt just a bit off from where my actual eyes were.  I could see pretty much most of the time.

Here was the finished costume:

With me wearing it:

People came up to me at the convention and told me I was the most uncanny valley thing ever.  I was proud

Good luck.  I’m sorry I couldn’t be more helpful!  It’s been about half a year since I made this thing.  My costume is FAR from perfect, but hopefully I could be of some help as a starting base for some people who want to cosplay this character. 

Thanks for dealing with this tutorial!  Good luck!!  Feel free to send me any questions.