Worn: Photos only, September 2001
This is the first costume I ever sewed myself. It’s actually a Subaru costume I made for a friend for AX00, when I wore Arashi. Subaru’s twin sister Hokuto supposedly looks exactly like him (as if that were possible), so as the story goes she wears this outfit and pretends to be her brother so Seishirou would kill her instead of Subaru. Kinda messed up, but it gives me an excuse to model the first costume I ever sewed. I made the hakama first, and then my mom helped me with the top. We just used a plain white gi for the under layer.
This hakama is the first garment I ever sewed. It may seem weird as a first project, but making a hakama is a lot of folding and not a whole lot of sewing, and you don’t have to worry about fit.