Drag Hip Pads
Hey reader!
Let's get right on into it. You have seen the title of this post, you know what is coming. I was invited to participate in a drag show! Now, I am not a drag queen - I can't make that mouth click noise and I certainly can't death drop. If I ever wind up in that position, please just plant flowers on me and move on. Who needs both legs anyways?
That being said, if you give me a challenging craft project and I am in it 100%. I decided to make my own dress and see what kind of sickening (am I dragging right?) look I could come up with. I decided I would try my hand at a mermaid dress. I found a few tutorials that I will get into later and so I figured thought I could handle it. When I told some folks that this was my plan, they told me they were mad I didn't have a dramatic reveal. I'll save that for a future look, lets just see if I can make one dress this time - forget about making two.
I don't exactly have the most fishy (yea I have seen a few episodes of Drag Race) shaped body in the world, but since when has that stopped anyone. So before I could do anything dress-related, I would have to make myself a new body. I found this tutorial from Petrilude. They haven't posted anything new in 3 years, which is a shame because they have some great stuff. There are a ton of tutorials out there, but this one made the most sense to me.
First thing was to take some measurements. Petrilude goes into where specifically to measure so I am not going to get into that, but definitely keep trying out the paper pattern against your body to make sure it is the right size. Essentially you are going to make a comma out of a thick brick of foam - correction - two commas. Don't just make one, that will make things worse rather than better.
I have been calling it a comma, but I guess its more like a kidney. I haven't ever seen a kidney to know for sure. I have no interest in seeing a kidney. Maybe that is a really unhealthy shape for a kidney and I just gave you all the wrong idea about your kidney shapes. See a doctor about your kidneys, just to be safe. Whatever, I don't care about your kidneys, this is not JoshPrime's best friend blog (nailed it).
Once that is done, you put a dot on the spot you want the thickest. Unless you are doing something really unique, it is likely near the long edge at the top.
I was really concerned that they wouldn't match, but this process is pretty forgiving. Make sure you have your hip pads facing opposite directions when you do this! Otherwise you will wind up with two left hips and that is not a cute look.
Next came the part everyone said was going to be the hardest, cutting and shaping the foam. I actually found this to be the easiest - albeit the most messy - part of the process. You want to cut from the edges all the way to the dot as straight at you can. If you do that from every edge all the way around, you will have a nice tapered edge leaving up to the thickest point. I found it pretty easy to do it with regular scissors, though I saw a lot of tutorials using a carving knife. I don't think that is necessary, just go straight from your edges up to your dot and you should be fine. This also makes it really easy to have a matching set!
This picture makes it look like the bottom part of the comma kidney is not as gradual as it should be, but I promise that is just a trick of the photo. I had read a lot of horror stories about trying to get the shape just right, but if you just try to work your way straight up to the dot it will come out great!
You might see that and think, wow that is some rough work, he is going to look like he has all the cellulite. First of all, how dare you judge my cellulite. Second of all, this is why you need to make sure that your pads are opposite sides at the start. The cut up side will be against your skin, while the untouched smooth side faces out. Then when you pull on the 3 (at least) pairs of tights, it will press the pad against you and leave a smooth line.
-Mouth click-
And there you have it, hip pads. Next time we will talk about how I use those to create the pattern for my dress!
Keep making cool stuff!
Until next time,
JoshPrime
Let's get right on into it. You have seen the title of this post, you know what is coming. I was invited to participate in a drag show! Now, I am not a drag queen - I can't make that mouth click noise and I certainly can't death drop. If I ever wind up in that position, please just plant flowers on me and move on. Who needs both legs anyways?
That being said, if you give me a challenging craft project and I am in it 100%. I decided to make my own dress and see what kind of sickening (am I dragging right?) look I could come up with. I decided I would try my hand at a mermaid dress. I found a few tutorials that I will get into later and so I figured thought I could handle it. When I told some folks that this was my plan, they told me they were mad I didn't have a dramatic reveal. I'll save that for a future look, lets just see if I can make one dress this time - forget about making two.
I don't exactly have the most fishy (yea I have seen a few episodes of Drag Race) shaped body in the world, but since when has that stopped anyone. So before I could do anything dress-related, I would have to make myself a new body. I found this tutorial from Petrilude. They haven't posted anything new in 3 years, which is a shame because they have some great stuff. There are a ton of tutorials out there, but this one made the most sense to me.
First thing was to take some measurements. Petrilude goes into where specifically to measure so I am not going to get into that, but definitely keep trying out the paper pattern against your body to make sure it is the right size. Essentially you are going to make a comma out of a thick brick of foam - correction - two commas. Don't just make one, that will make things worse rather than better. I have been calling it a comma, but I guess its more like a kidney. I haven't ever seen a kidney to know for sure. I have no interest in seeing a kidney. Maybe that is a really unhealthy shape for a kidney and I just gave you all the wrong idea about your kidney shapes. See a doctor about your kidneys, just to be safe. Whatever, I don't care about your kidneys, this is not JoshPrime's best friend blog (nailed it).
Once that is done, you put a dot on the spot you want the thickest. Unless you are doing something really unique, it is likely near the long edge at the top.
Next came the part everyone said was going to be the hardest, cutting and shaping the foam. I actually found this to be the easiest - albeit the most messy - part of the process. You want to cut from the edges all the way to the dot as straight at you can. If you do that from every edge all the way around, you will have a nice tapered edge leaving up to the thickest point. I found it pretty easy to do it with regular scissors, though I saw a lot of tutorials using a carving knife. I don't think that is necessary, just go straight from your edges up to your dot and you should be fine. This also makes it really easy to have a matching set!
You might see that and think, wow that is some rough work, he is going to look like he has all the cellulite. First of all, how dare you judge my cellulite. Second of all, this is why you need to make sure that your pads are opposite sides at the start. The cut up side will be against your skin, while the untouched smooth side faces out. Then when you pull on the 3 (at least) pairs of tights, it will press the pad against you and leave a smooth line.
-Mouth click-
And there you have it, hip pads. Next time we will talk about how I use those to create the pattern for my dress!
Keep making cool stuff!
Until next time,
JoshPrime
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