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This was another "statement" piece for a night at a club. The idea was a giant gauzy headpiece that would have an ombre of rhinestones, heavy at the top and then fading to sparse black. The inside is a cage of black rigilene boning to make the shoulder harness and bubble. I made a rigilene "headband" to hold the bubble in place over the center of the head.
The whole thing is dropped draped with about 25 yards of black tulle, where I tried to keep only a free few layers around a place to look through. After drapping, I sewing the sewed in tucks and pleats to the underlying cage. Then Next I started gluing glued on left over gem stones from Disco Deer.
Things I found out: gorilla tape is a lie! It seems like it will hold all night, but I had multiple structural failures. Also, sewing the rigilene didn't help either. If I do this again, there will be staples involved. Also, when When testing it at home, I could easily see from inside the dark bubble into my lit room. However, club lights and strobes turn this into an opaque aurora borealis. So I spent most of the night "alone" in my list bubble.
