The design on the dress was also painted on since you can't iron on velvet or you'll burn it. I also used mesh fabric and hot glued the design onto it for the chest and back area.
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I searched up a lot of tutorials on sewing circle skirts and how to use the horsehair braid since sewing is still new to me. So i went back to the fabric store and ended up picking up velvet instead and it came out so much better! I used horsehair braid in the circle skirt to give it more volume. I had almost the entire dress made and then ended up not liking how it was turning out. At first I wanted the entire dress to have a pleather look, so I bought stretch pleather. Sewing was not my strong point, I'm much better at creating armor and weapons, but this was a good opportunity to learn. I also bought the game so that I could understand her personality more and literally fell in love with the game and all of the characters. It was really funny because if they see me walking around perfectly fine, wouldn't they think I have some sort of visibility? I saw the trailer for Nier:Automata and really liked 2B's design and decided I wanted to make her outfit.
Some people would even ask how many fingers they're holding up and when I answer correctly, they would be super surprised.
I would hear people walking towards me and say "can she even see?" And then I'd turn in their direction and be like "yes i can!" And it would kind of freak them out. Cosplay in America - "Being able to walk around blindfolded as 2B definitely got a lot of confused looks from people passing by.