Character: Eternal Sailor Jupiter

From: Bishojo Senshi Sailor Stars (manga)

First apparition: Bologna Comics April 2004

Awards: 2nd place at Bologna Comics 2004

Why did I choose this character:

After seeing a lot of cosplayers doing eternal sailor scouts surfing on the net, I decided to do my own eternal costume. Plus in Italy nobody made eternal sailor scouts before and this version of the sailor senshi is simply adorable! *_* And Jupiter as always rocks!!! \^_^/
At the beginning l was a little worried because it's a difficult costume, but at the end, after a hard work I got it and I'm really really proud of it! ^_^

Making off:

The dress is composed by a thick lycra leotard with rigid puff sleeves and a double layered round skirt sewed together. Sailor collar and bows are separate pieces.
The leotard has been made with a very thick kind of lycra, such as boot covers and gloves too, because regular white lycra is thin and tend to be transparent. The leotard has a zipper on the back to allow to wear it since the lining skirts are not elastic!
The double layered skirt and puff sleeves are made of double (double because lining is too thin) lining in two different graduations of green! Hunter green (whick I use to call it jupiter green XD) for the first skirt and collar and pale mint green for the second skirt and puff sleeves.
Gloves, bootcovers, collar and leotard are decorated with hunter green satin ribbons V shape sewed with little metal golden stars at the center. The trim of sailor collar is decorated with a silver thin ribbon. Bows are made with pink and pale mint green lining with a rigid crinoline soul to be in shape. The star of the pink bow is a cute styrofoam star, painted green and covered with green glitters, such as aerings too, to give a more star effect at the whole costume! ^_^
Tiara has been made as always with mirror gold adhesive paper with a green star at the center. Hair bubbles comes from my classic Sailor Jupiter costume.^^