{"id":583,"date":"2016-10-12T23:49:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T23:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kirakiracat.com\/?p=583"},"modified":"2020-01-13T00:19:39","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T00:19:39","slug":"the-joker-batman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirakiracat.com\/index.php\/2016\/10\/12\/the-joker-batman\/","title":{"rendered":"The Joker: Batman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"rl-gallery-container rl-loading\" id=\"rl-gallery-container-1\" data-gallery_id=\"584\"> <div class=\"rl-gallery rl-basicgrid-gallery \" id=\"rl-gallery-1\" data-gallery_no=\"1\"> <div class=\"rl-gallery-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kirakiracat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/img_0017-scaled.jpg?fit=1707%2C2560&amp;ssl=1\" title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kirakiracat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/img_0017-scaled.jpg?fit=768%2C1152&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"768\" height=\"1152\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"rl-gallery-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kirakiracat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/joker1.png?fit=1000%2C1401&amp;ssl=1\" title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kirakiracat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/joker1.png?fit=768%2C1076&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"768\" height=\"1076\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"rl-gallery-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kirakiracat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/joker2.png?fit=1000%2C1401&amp;ssl=1\" title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kirakiracat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/joker2.png?fit=768%2C1076&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"768\" height=\"1076\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p> <strong>Character:<\/strong>&nbsp;The Joker<br><strong>Series:<\/strong>&nbsp;Batman<br><strong>Version:<\/strong>&nbsp;Bunny Suit (original art by:&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/raspbeary.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Raspbeary<\/a>)<br><strong>Debut:<\/strong>&nbsp;DCC Fan Days <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a costume I originally started for Dragon Con 2014 but had to pause on because I hit some construction issues and I was buying a house and apparently I can handle the stress of one or the other but not both at the same time. I picked this out because I wanted to challenge myself with constructing a fully boned bunny suit. It was definitely a challenge. When I gave up on this the week before I left for Atlanta 2 years ago I told myself I would pick it back up and finish it ASAP. LOL that didn\u2019t happen. I want to tell you I have really good reasons as to why I kicked this down the line for 2 years but the honest truth is that I was mad at it. I didn\u2019t know how to solve my problems and that made me angry. It wasn\u2019t until I attended one of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JoshuaHartDesign\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">J. Hart\u2019s<\/a>&nbsp;panels at Ikkicon at the beginning of the year that I got all of the answers I needed as to why this thing wasn\u2019t working out, but unfortunately to make it right I would have had to go back to square one. I wasn\u2019t into that, so I came up with a way to salvage all of the time I had put into the project, knowing all of the mistakes I had made and how to fix them if I ever found myself wanting to try again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the suit itself I wanted to constructed all as one piece, with the strength layer built into the suit. I learned that my mistakes in this were that I did not account for fabric ease on the outer layers. When a garment is 3-4 layers thick outer layers need slightly more seam allowance to fit over the under layers. Shout out to J. Hart\u2019s bodice panel for giving me my a-ha moment. I had been following bunny suit tutorials, but none of them ever talked about this. So how was I able to salvage my suit if I didn\u2019t give myself enough ease? I had made my outer most layer out of a 2 way stretch vinyl. I was able to take my boning layer and turn it into a classic over bust corset that was seperate from the suit layer. I then lined the suit with a 2 way stretch lycra. This meant that now my shell could stretch over my corset, where as originally I was trying to line the suit in a non stretch fabric. Classic bunny suits do not have stretch, which is why they are SO FREAKING HARD to make. Since my corset was now seperate i could lace it up and then fit the shell over it. This is not how I wanted this costume to be made, but it\u2019s also the only way I could save the work without starting completely over. I gained a lot of knowledge from it so I was ok with doing it this way, it was not how I wanted it but it\u2019s wasn\u2019t without plenty of experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I patterned the bunny suit out&nbsp;using what I guess you call the saran wrap method. I made a mock up of my strength layer based on a commercial over bust corset pattern. I used canvas and zip ties to draft it, then once I knew the length of bones I needed I was able to order them to put into the mock up for a more accurate fit so I could move on to drafting the suit.&nbsp;I wore my strength layer mock up&nbsp;while my husband wrapped me in saran wrap, then tape, then drew on the seam lines and cut me back out. I then used that to trace and draft a muslin. After 2-3 muslins I was happy with my fit and I began building all of the layers out, and thats when it all fell apart. As I mentioned earlier nothing I read talked about adding ease for outer layers and my suit didn\u2019t fit as a result. This is the point where I stuffed it in a closet for 2 years before coming back and switching to separate pieces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the tailcoat I used a commercial pattern starting point and then modified the crap out of it. I drafted the lapel piece and the tails and added them to the bodice. All of with swirly detail was cut with a hot knife, heat n bonded to the lining and then topstitched for security. The bunny ear design was done with the same method.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Photo: The Dallas Morning News<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Construction notes and photos for The Joker from Batman, Bunny Suit version (original art by: 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