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Medical conditions (such as visual impairment) are not a disqualifying factor. With such, you build the costume to the limit of those conditions. Your best bet is to create a WIP here so that other Mara members and our Costume Advisors can assist you along the way. It is a lot easier to fix some things in the build process than it is once the costume is done.

I've been trying to find a material for the cape and hood with the faint lined patterns that show when lighting is shined on those parts. I'm pretty sure the lined texture is only supposed to signify a heavier material and not the actual texture itself. I have not found anything that I can use at all that is a organic material with a similar pattern. It's all polyester or synthetic fabrics and or don't have the same pattern on the texture. And it's never the right colour. They only stock solid black and it's impossibly to fade if it's synthetic. Linen has a courser texture but though it can look like similar lines at some angles, it is not an exact match for it. There have been some curtain fabrics that look close but they are extremely heavy given this needs 6 layers and as a hot country, not viable in our climate. By this stage i think i will just need to use a similar heavier fabric to simulate it. This is the very faint texture on the model. In the same light it barely shows on the hood even though the same texture is there. The texture itself is imprecise lines with a very subtle counter grain every so often in it. From what I can see, as said before, it looks like the intentions is to show coarseness or a heavier depth of the cape and hood and not focusing on the exact texture. Given that its not very visible at all outside of hard lighting conditions or very close observation, the exact texture if too heavy will break the actual look of the costume pieces and not fit the intent of the costume. Since i'm not exactly super fabric inclined, So i could do with some help. Does it look like anything familiar or viable? Could i be allowed to use something that's not exact or a substitute given it's interpretation is very contradictory even in game and right now with how the global situation is, may not even ever be able to find something exact and or practical? These 2 fabrics I already bought. I bought these with the mind that they would be easier to weather and fade so I could get a more accurate colour. They are both linen but with different weights and coarseness. Con: they are both solid black and don't have the lined texture. I can potentially use them instead for my Darth Revan costume. This one is the lighter fabric. This is the courser weave, and could be used for the cape. It would also have a pretty good drape. These next are the only ones I have found remotely possible. I have not bought these next ones. This is the fabric i could get. It's a heavy linen, has a nice coarse texture and is ash coloured and probably the closest colour to the costume without any modification. Cons: It will fray like crazy and might be too hard to use and control when making it look weathered and battered. (it's not heshin, just a close up) Next is a basket weave. This is a yaya fabric and there was only the roll you see and that's it for the country. It's nice and thick and would weather good. It drapes really well. Con: it's super thick and heavy so layering would not be viable. It's also very expensive and i may not even got much out of the roll. It's probably the furthest off the lined pattern. The next possibility is an online only fabric. I can't tell anything else about it from this one picture. It has the same pattern from the texture and looks the closest. Con: It's polyester and spandex. It's a flat black and the cape/hood is very weathered and faded. I will not be able to correctly colour it. It's also online only so i have no idea what i will be busting my money on and if it's usable at all. Don't know if it's a double textured fabric. It could be textured on only 1 side, thus increasing the amount of layers needed. And i also have no idea how thin the lines are relative to the image shown. This one has a very small weave that has lines a ponti twill, but its the wrong colour and it's also online only. Its made of viscose and spandex so dyeing it may not be possible. However i can get other types of ponti twill but avainlability is very low. I'm not sure if this weave is deep enough to be considered this texture pattern though. And last is also online. It's a linen/cotton combo and it has a slightly different pattern and look from the linens i have above. It does look slightly more lined in one direction than the other linens but it's not exact either. Perhaps ribbed crepe might do it? Not exactly perfect as it's light and has creases as opposed to actual lines. Should i be focusing on the exact texture or colour as a priority? Since it's clear i'm not going to get both. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated. Even a yay or ney would be useful. Also here is an update on my progress. Close to finishing my fantastic cardboard box mold from my abundant supply of removal cartons for using my black worbla roll on. Since i've never used it before, I felt i should test run using the worbla on this costume as it has more leeway for screw ups than the Darth Revan does. So consider this a practice run for finishing that costume. I've tried to make it look as manly as possible in shape, but given i have to fit some large body attributes into it, it was always going to be a little compromised on my figure.