13 Cosplays of Halloween - Perona (One Piece)

Day 11! ^^ 2 more days left! Today, we'll be contacting some ghosts because the character of the day is Perona of 'One Piece.' Since the anime is kid-friendly, this can also be used for girls. ^^

Here's Perona pre-timeskip. She'll be our first recipe.

Here's her, post-timeskip. She'll be our second recipe.

What's needed to become the pre-timeskip 'Ghost Princess':

• A king's crown hat (found at Party City or Spirit)
• A red cloak (again, found at Party City or Spirit)
• White and red lace (a thin one and thick one for the red)
• A white long-sleeved shirt *non-button up*
• A heart-shaped belt (found at Walmart or online)
• A red skirt
• Some white fabric *for the little designs*
• Striped leggings
• Red boots (found at Walmart, Kmart, Target, Payless or any shoe store)
• Pink ribbon
• Black fabric marker

How to become her:

1. Take the cloak and put it on. Mark the middle of your biceps using the marker and take off the cloak. Cut off the hood and to where you marked and set it aside.
2. Now for the shirt! Take the shirt and draw the picture on Perona's onto it. To mark the spot of where to cut it, look at the picture, trace your index finger from the bottom of her chest to where the bottom is and do that to your own at the same time. Once you find it, mark the shirt where your finger is and that's where to cut it. Cut the area where you marked and get ready for the cuffs.
3. For the cuffs, get some thick red lace, wrap it around a cuff and pin it. It should lightly drape over your wrist. Similar to where to mark the shirt, do the same with your arm. Instead of cutting, put the thin red lace over where you marked. Do the same things to the other cuff.
4. Time to sew! You can run the larger lace through a sewing machine, but for the smaller ones, I recommend sewing them by hand. When you're done, set it aside.
5. For the skirt, take the white fabric, draw some flower shapes and swoops and cut them out. Either pin them to the skirt or put some Stitch Witchery underneath them. For the pinned method, run the shapes through the machine or sew them by hand. For the Witchery method, just iron them on.
6. Do the same thing as you did with the shirt. This time it's from a swoop to the bottom and instead of just a line, draw another swoop. Once you're done, cut away!
7. Take the cloak you made earlier and pin some white lace to the edges. Again, either run it through the machine or sew it by hand.
8. Time to get dressed! Put on the shirt, skirt, leggings, boots and cloak. For the cloak, either safety pin a pink bow tie to the pre-made one or tie the ribbon alongside it. Top it off with the hat and you're done!

Now for post-timeskip:

• A long black sundress (strapped or strapless)
• White skirt
• A puffy top hat (found at Party City, Spirit or online)
• Some fake white roses (found at Michael's, Walmart, Jo Ann Fabrics or any fabric store)
• Wire stripper (found at Home Depot, Lowe's, Ace, any tool store or just in your toolbox)

How to do it:

1. Cut up the skirt into two horizontal strips. Then, either pin them to the dress and run them through a sewing machine or place some Stitch Witchery underneath them and iron them on. Hang it up to cool if you ironed it.
2. Time to work on the hat! Take a wire stripper and strip a fake rose until the stem is bare wire. Take the hat, stick the tip of the wire into the base of the hat and back out, secure it and cut any excess wire. Do the same thing to the rest until the entire base is covered.
3. Put on the same red boots as the previous Perona recipe and you're done!

If you wanna do the ghosts that fly around Perona, just get some styrofoam balls, wooden dowels, fishing line and white fabric and make them like lollipop ghosts of old. Then use some fabric markers, draw some faces on the formed heads and sew or safety-pin them to the dress. As you walk around, they should 'fly' when they bump into your hips or butt.

Hope you enjoyed! ^^

Tomorrow's character: Jill Valentine (Resident Evil)!