AHHHHH!!! I shot Catherine again with my friend Lauren (who is the Katherine I originally made my costume to go with!!) at AnimeNEXT2012 and our lovely photographer Tess is finally able to process pictures I'm so excited to see this costume again!!!! This shoot was so much fun because we actually just went to a bar and got drinks and took pictures and it was perfecttttttt
I had been working on Catherine since NYCC2011 which is when I was originally going to wear her, but that didn't end up happening so I post poned her until katsu. I was really gung ho about making this costume when I first started, spent AGES looking for the perfect lace (which I found! it has hearts on it!) and getting off white fabric for my skirt and top, and white fabric for the bra, and lace, and just put a lot of time into it. Added some model magic to my heel to make it thicker, and painted the shoes white and tan (they were originally blue), got sheer white stockings & seam ripped off the original lace and replaced it with the heart lace, and FUCK THAT WIG. I struggled with it a lot but in the end I'm really happy with how it turned out. I got a little WAH MY WIG IS THE WRONG COLOR but then realized they kind of draw her hair different colors depending on the image.
The top was a pain in the ass, and it's boned in the places boning shows through on her figure (back seams, and front seams). I sort of phoned in the boob cups since at that point I'd been struggling with the stupid thing for half a day (and working on the costume since NYCC) and I was just DONE, but in the end I don't think it looked too bad. The Bra was a super mega push up bra that I covered in pure white spandex and hand sewed lace onto~ I also replaced the straps on the bra with appropriate lace.