ROGUE COUTURE

MORE ABOUT ROGUE COUTURE

After getting majorly into The Adventure Zone: Balance and Critical Role Campaign One: Vox Machina over the course of 2016 and 2017, I have had so many ideas for different DnD inspired looks and cosplays. However, not so much the funds to create every idea in my head. So instead of makin all of them, I ended up creating a few DnD cosplays here and there over the years, and I channeled most of love for DnD into this look, Rogue Couture.

This look ended up being inspired by what is now my favorite DnD class, Rogue, a class typical of assassins and thieves. While looking into that archetype I saw a lot of grungy themes and black and gray color schemes, so I decided to try to challenge myself by creating a crisp and clean silhouette enhanced with some brighter colors. I thought it would be interesting to try to still create something that read as a Rogue, yet was different than the traditional. It was my first time tailoring a jacket and there are some tweaks I would make were I to do this project again, but I'm quite happy with the results anyway!

The jacket is created from a beautiful dark red wool and silk dupioni that I ended up hand dying red to match the wool more precisely. I created the pattern from scratch and used traditional tailoring techniques like a horsehair interfacing understructure, copious amounts of pad stitching, and a lining with couture finishes, to make the final garment crisp as possible. The undergarments are a floor-length skirt made from a poly wool blend with a pleated accent panel in silk dupioni to match the accents on the jacket, and a hooded crop top that ties up the front with grommets and lace. This look heavily features pleating, piping work, and a pair of antique scissors as a unique front closure.