Kaylee's Fluffy Layer Cake Dress

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HPRANSOM

Friday, April 8, 2011 6:29 AM

Hello!

I am REALLY in love with this dress, but my google searches to find a place to buy it have not been successful. I have found a few places with instructions about how to make it, but unfortunately my sewing skills are not at all up to the tasks. Does anyone have a replica they are willing to sell or know someone who I can commission to make me one? Your help is greatly appreciated.

Best,
Hannah

TWO

Friday, April 8, 2011 6:55 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by hpransom:
Hello!

I am REALLY in love with this dress, but my google searches to find a place to buy it have not been successful. I have found a few places with instructions about how to make it, but unfortunately my sewing skills are not at all up to the tasks. Does anyone have a replica they are willing to sell or know someone who I can commission to make me one? Your help is greatly appreciated.

Best,
Hannah

Polly Gausewitz is enthusiastic about perfecting her very own homemade Kaylee dress. She might be persuaded to start a second dress for you. It is very presumptuous of me to think Polly would want to start another dress because I don't know her, but that won't stop me!

I started a page about Polly's dress: www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.asp?b=2&t=45531 On that page there are two youtube videos of her making that dress and a third showing her getting Jewel Staites' autograph on it.

This is where Polly put her pictures of the dress: http://bodici22.deviantart.com/ You can send a note to her by the button in the upper right-hand corner of that page.

The Joss Whedon script for "Serenity", where Wash lives, is
Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/two

WHOZIT

Friday, April 8, 2011 7:23 PM

Call FOX, it's most likely back in their woredrobe department. The last time it was used before that was "The King and I", I've called FOX before, those people love to help.

20th Century Fox, Pico Dr, L.A. C.A.

HPRANSOM

Sunday, April 10, 2011 4:41 PM

Well I have contacted both of those people and am waiting to hear back. I have also reached out to some costume designers to see if I can have them make a replica for me. Hopefully I will be able to get my hands on one without breaking the bank. I just sure do wish I was a better sewer myself.

FLORALBUNNY

Sunday, April 10, 2011 9:52 PM

I thught Shawna made it herself out of sari fabric from an Indian store in LA. The hoop skirt understructures for all the ladies' dresses in that scene were used in King and I.

bun

JOURNEY

Sunday, April 10, 2011 10:44 PM

For the hoop skirt, you could also make your own to go under any dress instead of making Kaylee's dress with one built in (or buying one). For mine, I took an extra length of siding (the kind that you put on a house) and cut it in inch and half strips. Use a nail or something sharp to poke holes every inch. Buy a skirt that is long enough and really wide and sew the cut/pierced siding onto the bottom of the skirt-be sure to use really thick thread. For a better hoop skirt do one or two more rings of siding part way up the skirt. The siding works really well because it is stiff enough to hold out the skirt but flexible enough that you can squeeze through a doorway without breaking it and sit without having a King and I moment.

Dinozombies!

DREAMTROVE

Monday, April 11, 2011 1:51 PM

Hi Hannah

http://cosplay.paheal.net/post/view/22903?search=Kaylee_Frye
http://www.joechip.net/liana/2009/02/14/kaylees-pink-shindig-dress-fro
m-firefly/

You probably don't want duct tape, but you can message Toledo and see if she has any patterns.

http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.asp?b=2&t=33959&newsid=0
http://mydisguises.com/2008/06/23/duct-tape-firefly-costumes/

That's what a ship is, you know - it's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs.

FLORALBUNNY

Monday, April 11, 2011 9:04 PM

Love this idea. A friend says make sure the siding is vinyl, not aluminum. LOL.

bun

TWO

Friday, May 13, 2011 11:52 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by hpransom:
Hello!

I am REALLY in love with this dress, but my google searches to find a place to buy it have not been successful. I have found a few places with instructions about how to make it, but unfortunately my sewing skills are not at all up to the tasks. Does anyone have a replica they are willing to sell or know someone who I can commission to make me one? Your help is greatly appreciated.

Best,
Hannah

Cosplay dressmaker is seeking commissions.
http://edgefan-talon.deviantart.com/art/Commission-Kaylee-ShindigDress
-208690851

Angelica “Edgefan-Talon” writes:

Quote:
This is Kaylee's dress that she wears in the Firefly episode "Shindig". This was the most complicated costume I've ever made and it took FOREVER. So... many... ruffles...!

After not looking at it for over a week, I can now say that I'm pretty pleased with it. It is now available for commission or order on our website, Full and Lovely Cosplay: www.fullandlovelycosplay.com/projectsinprogress.htm

The Joss Whedon script for "Serenity," where Wash lives, is
Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/two

THATONEBROWNCOAT

Wednesday, June 15, 2011 7:26 AM

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Originally posted by whozit:
Call FOX, it's most likely back in their woredrobe department. The last time it was used before that was "The King and I", I've called FOX before, those people love to help.

20th Century Fox, Pico Dr, L.A. C.A.

They also love to crush your happiness. Case in point: Firefly's cancellation by that traitorous a**hole Rupert Murdoch

I'm a leaf on the wind

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