Miyavi Concert Outfit COMPLETED

IT'S FINISHED!!!!!
This is the whole outfit. That's a Miyavi Poster in the background.


The star cut outs were a pain but turned out pretty well. The sarong skirt is my favorite piece for this outfit. I lost love the fact that I was able to keep the pockets from the jacket intact. For accessories we used a glove I made for her Bill Skirt Outfit and a hot pink bracelet I found in Thailand. I bought one of the chains from Home Depot and the other one from Walmart in the craft accessory section.

Miyavi Concert Outfit, The Tops

The Miyavi Concert Outfit (MCO) has a two part top. There is a one sleeve tank that I'll knock-off from the preexisting JRR Concert Outfit . Why not use the preexisting green one you ask. Well Grip N Flip would like it in a burn-your-eyes neon pink fabric she got from her babcia (according to Grip N Flip it sounds like bop-chu, it's Polish for grandmother). Well those Polish Grandmothers sure love vibrant burn-your-eye colors!!!!

I traced out the shirt onto on old over sized calendar. I forget which celebrity is staring at me but it was sort of freaky and distracting the whole time. Next time I have to remember to use the back!!

Here is the burn-your-eyes neon pink fabric I'm about to trace out and cut. I don't think this picture is doing justice to the agonizing retina burnout that occurred while I had to work with the fabric.


I ended up having problems finishing the edges for the collar/sleeve section. I believe that section of fabric is on the bias of the fabric and gave it more stretch than I anticipated. I didn't have time to fix it and because this would be the inner shirt I decided that I would deal with that problem another day.

The second top or outer top would be a simple black shirt with buckles at the straps and triangular cut outs. I made a quick tester to work out the details. It's on the dress form that we made last month. The dress form is still a concave slouching mess, as you can you see in the picture. But Grip N Flip was far away and I need a quick model.

The shirt was taken up significantly and buckles for the straps were found at the last minute. The triangular cut outs ended up not working so we decided to do star cutouts. What I did forget to do was leave opening at the waist side seams since this was a non-stretch fabric. Oh well live and learn.

Miyavi Concert Outfit

Miyavi is coming!! I'm so excited. And with Miyavi coming for a concert it means that Grip N Flip needs an outfit. This outfit is all her own design. I violently and vehemently rejected her first design thusly making complaints on her second design null and void. We're not even going to discuss why the first one that she designed was so reprehensible, it just offended all of my sensibilities.

There are three parts to her outfit. The first part is inspired by this sarong skirt by Refuse To Be Usual (I was afraid to post the picture in case there are some copyright infringement permission line the would be crossed). We made it a little shorter and not ALL the details are the same but that's why it's an inspiration. I actually took apart an old jacket that I didn't wear the make this. I was able to keep the pockets from the jacket. It took apart an old bag for the buckles and belt.














The skirt is mostly completed. I think the biggest challenge wasn't recreating the skirt but figuring out how much fabric I had available from the jacket. And living in fear that if I messed up I wouldn't have any fabric to replace the pieces. It made the process a lot more time consuming and premeditated cutting was necessary, as opposed to my "cut first, figure out later" methodology. I turned out better than I expected. I have it wrapped around a pillow for lack of a model.
















I still need to add a chain, but other than that this skirt is 98% complete.

I still have two more pieces to go. Lets hope that they won't be a pain in the bum.