Avatar Korra

Awards Won: Best Recreation at Mysticon 2013, along with a skit with Bad Joke Amon (link soon!)

This award-winning costume, built from mostly stitched existing clothing, is an exercise in excelling without being completely authentic or accurate. As known in other iterations of this costume, this costume was mostly made of reusing thrift store finds, old t-shirts. In the original show, it would have been worn in the Southern pole, where more likely, they would have worn thicker materials such as leather. Unfortunately, such thick materials such as leather are not only expensive, but also, somewhat against the wishes of the creators.

I learned that one of the creators of the Avatar series is vegan, and would probably not like the use of leather. So, as I reflected on my costume and as I was presenting my costume, I realized I could justify my costuming decisions in other things besides accuracy. The creators would have probably been happier if I reused materials and  rather than go for pure accuracy!

So, really, it's true you can win costumes in your own right, through reusing materials and thrift store finds.

This is a completed version of the WIP here:
This whole thing was made of reusable materials, either from thrift store fines or old t-shirts. The main garments were made by thrift store skirt, exercize pants, and a sleeveless turtleneck shirt I found. All armbands were cut of of old t-shirts. The hairbeads/hair-loopies were made of plastic tubing, which was especially challenging for me, because my hair is very thin.


I totally want to make season 2 Korra too!

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