Star Wars: Puttees

Throughout both Lucas trilogies and the New EU movies, Puttee’s have been used in Star Wars costuming. (Puttee’s are leg wrappings that cover from the ankle up to the knee.) Luke Skywalker is the most recognizable character in Star Wars that wears Puttees, Luke in A New Hope wears putties with his boots throughout the movie as part of his Tatooine moisture farmer outfit. However, many other characters also wear puttees in Star Wars, Anakin as a slave in The Phantom Menace, as well as Shmi Skywalker, Padmé (Amidala) Naberrie, in her peasant disguise. And in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Galen Erso wears puttee’s with his farmer outfit. Own Lars also wears puttees in the end of Revenge of the Sith.

According to Star Wars Costumes: The Original Trilogy, Luke’s puttees or leg wrappings are made out of soft suede. and unlike WWI puttees, Luke’s leg wraps do not appear to be held in place by a ribbon tape, instead double sided adhesive tape may have been used.

Original Trilogy:

(ANH: Luke Tatooine Farmer: Luke’s Putees) (Images From The Padawans Guide)

(ANH: Luke Puttees) (Images From: Stat Wars Costumes: The Original Trilogy)

(ANH: Luke Tatooine Farmer: Luke’s Putees) (Images From: Cap-That.com)

Prequel Trilogy:

(TPM: Padmé Peasant Disguise Puttees/Leg Wrappings) (Images From: The Padawans Guide)

(TPM: Anakin Puttees) (Images From: Cap-That.com)

(ROTS: Own Lars Moisture Farmer: Puttees) (Images From: Cap-That.com)

New EU:

Luke in the New Expanded Universe movies, The Force Awakens, wears what appear to be short puttees. Short puttees typically go around the ankle, Luke’s appear to go a little higher then short puttees usually go, but they are not full length or long puttees.

(TFA: Luke Skywalker Short Puttees) (Images From: Google Images)

(RO:ASWS: Galen Erso: Farmer Outfit: Puttees) (Image From: Google Images)

What Are Puttees:

Puttees are a wrapping around the lower legs that became very common for militaries to wear at the turn of the nineteenth century. There are two kinds of puttees, long (that wrapped all the way up from the ankle to the knee) and short puttees (that only wrapped around the ankle and a little up the calf.) The long Puttees that were worn during the turn of the nineteenth century were roughly 3 ½” to 4” in width and around 9 ft. long. Puttees help keep the elements out of boots while also protecting and supporting legs.

How To Wrap Puttees:

 

• VEMRAorg: (Puttees: Video)
• Mike Everest (Puttees Video)

Images:

• Google Image: Galen Erso Puttee’s
• Google Image: Luke Skywalker TFA Puttees
• The Padawans Guide
• Cap-That.com
• Star Wars Costumes: The Original Trilogy

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Star Wars: Blood Stripes

Blood Stripes appear in several Star Wars costumes (blood strips are the different colored stripes that go down the sides of paints.) The stripes appear in all of Han Solo’s costumes, which is likely why in the Legends EU, they are called Corellian Blood Stripes.

(ROTJ: Han Solo: Blood Stripes On Pants) (Images From: Cap-That.Com)

However, blood stripes also appear on Leia’s Commando outfit in (ROTJ), Luke’s end metal ceremony pants in (ANH) and also in the battle handmaiden outfit that Padmé as well as her handmaidens wears in (TPM).

(ROTJ: Leia’s Commando Pants: Blood Stripe) (Images From: Cap-That.com)

(ANH: Luke End Ceremony: Pants Blood Stripe) (Image From: Link Here, this is the only image I could find of Luke’s end ceremony pants)

(TPM: Handmaiden: Blood Stripes) (Images From: Cap-That.com)

Typically blood stripes are made out of one continuous piece of fabric; this is how the stripes on Leia’s commando pants are done. However, Han’s stripes are done differently, instead of being a single stripe of fabric; Han’s stripes are actually embroidered in a dashed line.

(ROTJ?: Han Solo: Blood Stripes) (Images From: The Padawan’s Guide)

Blood Stripes Tutorial:

Though sewing would be more secure, this method would also be a good one for Leia’s Endor Commando Pants. Leia’s Endor Commando Pants have a traditional blood stripe that is one continuous contrasting color. Whereas Han’s are an embroidered dashes line and this method would not work for them.

Star Wars Costumes That Feature Blood Stripes:

• Battle Handmaiden TPM
• Han Solo Smuggler ANH
• Han Solo General TESB
• Han Solo Commando ROTJ
• Leia Commando ROTJ

Attack Of The Clones: Padmé’s Fireside/Black Corset/Dinner Gown Hairstyle

In Attack of the clones, Padmé wears a black corseted dress for dinner with Anakin and then after by the fireside. With this dress Padmé’s hair is done in a elegant but fairly simple style. Like with all Star Wars hairstyles this one will require some hairpieces, to make the twisted coils that wrap around the braid. (See Myths about Star Wars Hairstyles)

Breakdown:

(AOTC: Padmé Fireside Gown Hairstyle: Center Part)

Padmé wears a center part with this hair style, however, it ends on the top of her head, there is no back part to this hairstyle.

(AOTC: Padmé Fireside Gown Hairstyle: No Back Part)

The front of Padmé’s hairstyle is sodtly swept back from the center part into the twist that starts just above the ear. The front is soft and allowed to swoop downto just cover the tops of her ears.

(AOTC: Padmé Fireside Hairstyle:)

Side Twists:

Padm’s hair is twisted back away from her face on both sides, the twist stars roughly an inch or so above eyebrow  high. The twits is roughly an 1 1/2″ or so in width, and rolled tightly until gathered at the base of her neck into one tail.

(AOTC: Padmé Fireside Gown Hairstyle: Side Twist)

(AOTC: Padmé Fireside Gown Hairstyle: Side Twist)

The twist that Padmé wears on both sides of her head follow the base line of her hairline in the back, they also start roughly right around the top of the ears.

(AOTC: Padmé Fireside Gown Hairstyle: Twist Starts Before Ear)

The Tail:

(AOTC: Padmé Fireside Gown Hairstyle: Three Strand Braid)

The tail of Padmé hairstyle is a simple 3 strand braid, the braiding ends roughly mid shoulder-blade on Padmé which is also roughly about where the crease of her arm occurs.

(AOTC: Padmé Fireside Gown Hairstyle: Twisted Coil Wraps Around Hair)

Wrapped around the outside of Padmé’s braid is a twisted coil of hair, (this is a secondary hair piece that is added and no part of her natural hair, note the difference in color.) The twisted coil that wraps around the outside of Padmé’s braid stars at the base of her skull where the beginning of 3 strand braid starts and stops at the end of the braid as well. The twisted coil appears to be braided in a three strands braid manner, using the braid as the middle strand.

(AOTC: Padmé Fireside Gown Hairstyle: Three Hidden Elastic Under Twisted Coil)

Padmé’s three strand braid is likely secured by a small elastic, and this is covered by the end of the twisted coil.

(AOTC: Padmé Fireside Gown Hairstyle: Tail Of The Hairstyle Is Loose And Curled)

The end on Padmé hairstyle hangs loose from roughly mid shoulder blade, the very end of the tail also has a but of a curl.

(AOTC: Padmé Fireside Gown Hairstyle: Braid Length)

The tail of Padmé’s hairstyle ends roughly elbow length.

Things You Will Need:

• Brush & Comb
• Synthetic Braiding Hair
• Felxi Rode Curlers
• Hair Elastics
• Hair Pins

 

• Costumes & Art Work: Fireside Gown (Scrawl Down For Ideas About Hair)

Images From:

• Cap-That.com
• The Padawans Guide

 

Prequel Trilogy: Padmé Curls

Padmé has many hair styles thrghout the Prequel Trilogy, often when Padmé’s hair isn’t in an official style she wears it hair in curls. Padmé’s curls are usually medium to small size curls that fall in soft romantic rings, it is also important to note that Padmé also has different kinds of curl patterns depending on the outfit. Studying reference images helps to get an idea of what kind of curl patterns are needed. Like with all costuming, study the reference images for proportion, and adjust to fit your own unique features from there is one of the best places to start.

See larger size images on the DIY Galaxy Tumblr:

• Attack Of The Clones
• Revenge of The Sith

(Attack of the Clones)

 

 

 

 

(Revenge of the Sith)

 

 

 

 

How To Curl Hair:

There are a lot of different method to curling hair, the main two being heat and heartless curls. If you have naturally curly hair you may want to change your curl pattern, (the natural way your hair curls,) to one more similar to Padmé.

Helpful Tips:

Before curling your hair some tips that can help, use a product in your hair such as, moose, curling serum, or hair spray. Also consider using hairspray on the curls after the curls are finished forming.

When curling hair, wrap the curl on the wand or the roller in the opposite direction every other curl, (curl 1 away from the face, curl 2 towards the face ext.) This helps prevent the curls from tangling together and helps keep them more defined as separate curls.

When using a heat tool using a heat protective product can help keep the heat tool from damaging your hair.

Curling Wand/Heat Curls:

• Mia & Linda (Video)
• Princess Hairstyles (Video)

Heatless Curls:

• CurlyPenny (Video)
• Curlforms (Video)
• NatturallyChea (Video)

Wig Caps:

• Watchluxhair (Video)
• Beckii (Video)
• Ginny Di (Video)
• CholFable (Video)

Images From: The Padawans Guide & Cap-That.com

Attack Of The Clones: Beru Whitesun/(Lars): Hairstyle

The hairstyle that Beru wears in [Attack of the Clones] is a fairly simple hairstyle, of three buns. (Note: Whitesun is Beru’s maiden name 🙂 )

(Note: that all of these estimations on positioning this hairstyle may have to be adjusted for each individual Beru, this is a guide to help with the positioning)

Hair Part:

(AOTC: Beru: Center Part)

Beru has a center part that runs to the back of the top of her head, the part does not go down the back of her head.

Small Side Buns:

(AOTC: Beru: Side Part For Small Bun)

Beru’s hair is parted from in front of the ears up to the center front part on top of her head, this triangle of hair becomes the small side buns.

(AOTC: Beru: Front Rope Braid)

The front forelock section of Beru’s hair, (the part in front of the ears,) appears to be rope braided away from the face  until just in front of the ears, the tail of the braid is done in a three strand, (or English,) braid.

(AOTC: Beru: Small Coiled Side Bun)

The three strand braid is then coiled into a small flat bun, the braids is coiled over itself and there are layers to the coiling. The little coiled bun is roughly set centered above the ear,  the bottom edge of the coiled bun is roughly just above the eyebrows. The top edge of the side bun as shown with the pink link in the picture, is above the front hairline, it also goes up onto the top of Beru’s head a little.

(Note: that the height of eyebrows is not going to be the same on each Beru and there for close examination of the proportion in the photos will be helpful when trying to place Beru’s side buns)

(AOTC: Beru: Small Side Coiled Bun Height)

(AOTC: Beru: Small Side Coiled Bun Height)

Back Bun:

Beru has a three strand, or (English,) braid that is coiled into a bun on the back of her head. The bun is centered on the back of her head, the top edge of her bun is roughly in line with her hairline or a little bit above it. The bottom edge of the back bun lines up roughly underneath Beru’s nose.

(AOTC: Beru: Back Bun Height)

(AOTC: Beru: Small Side Coiled Bun Height)

In the back bun a bit of the braids tail can be seen in some of the pictures, but not all of them.

(AOTC: Beru: Small Side Coiled Bun Height)

Things You’ll Need:

• Large hair pins, (matched to hair color)
• Hair nets, (matched to hair color) – Optional
• Elastic hair ties, (matched to hair color)
• Synthetic braiding hair, (matched to hair color) (Note: Color # 2, dark brown, is almost black) – Optional [if hair needs thickening or length]
• Hair spray (optional for final look)
• A comb

Images From: Cap-That.com

Twi’lek’s: Part 6: Orn Free Taa

Twi’lek’s are some of the oldest and best loved aliens in Star Wars; they are also some of the most varied in representation within the movies and TV shows. This post is part of a series braking down Twi’lek’s from the movies and TV shows.

What Is Orn Free Taa?:

Compared to all other Twi’lek’s, whether for the Original Trilogy, Prequel Trilogy, or in any of the other Star Wars media, Orn Free Taa is drastically different then all the others. 

Fingers:

Where all other Twi’leks from both the original and prequel trilogies, as well as all other Star Wars media, have five fingers. Orn Free Taa has three, this is never explained as to way. Below is a picture of Orn Free Taa next to Cham Syndulla, it is very clear that Cham, a typical male Twi’lek, had four fingers and a thumb and Orn Free Taa has three and a thumb.

(SWTCW:S1:Ep 21: Orn Free Taa Three Fingers)

Lekku:

Where all other Twi’lek’s represented in Star Wars media have two Lekku, Orn Fee Taa has four; two that hang on either side of his face and over his shoulders, and two that hang down his back like regular Lekku.

(SWTCW: S1:Ep22: Orn Free Taa Four Lekku)

Ears:

Orn free Taa has humanoid ears like other male Twi;leks, however, his are much smaller then any of the other male Twi’lek’s, strangely small in fact. This goes for his live action movie as well as the cartoon.

(SWTCW:S1:Ep22: Orn Free Taa Ears Are Smaller The Normal)

(Orn Free Taa: Small Ears) (Image From: Unknown)

Similarities To Other Twi’lek’s:

Orn Fee Taa has pointed teeth, yellow eyes, regular body color and skin patterning, he also has pointed humanoid ears, however, as mentioned above, they are much smaller then other Twi’lek’s ears.

So why these differences? A theory could be just about anything, elective surgery, a terrible accident, born with a birth defect? We may never know, whatever the story is, it has got to be interesting.

The Most likely reason for Orn Free Taa looking this way and the differences from other Twi’lek’s is what they say about the character. All costumes and character desinges tell us something about them, Orn Free Traa is no exception. The idea behind his character is excess, he has excess in everything about him, even down to having twice as many Lekku.

(Send a link to any fan fictions about why Orn Free Taa does not look like other Twi’lek’s by leaving a comment on this post with a link or a message on the DIY Galaxy Tumblr. Love to see them 🙂 )

Twi’lek’s: Part 5: Hats & Headgear

Hats and Headgear:

Females:

Most female Twi’lek’s wear a little hat like headgear or headdress, this is most likely due to the practical need of hide hairlines and Lekku seems.

These hats seem to be only worn by the female Twi’lek’s and have several popular variations, but they almost universally cover the ears, hairline, including the back of the head, and side of the head. Often times they have spaces for the ear-cones to show through.

(AOTC: Senate Twi’lek’s: Hat’s Leave Space For Ear-Cones)

Concept art for Oola, shows the inspiration of the Twi’lek hats, Oola’s human design has a hat that covers much less of the head. A gag was included originally as well in the concept design, and the ear-cons appear to have originally been a part of the headdress. (Images By: DIY The Galaxy of Star Wars) (Images From: The Art of Return of the Jedi: Star Wars Book)

 

Sometimes these hats have chin straps, such as Oola, Hera and Aayla’s.

 

Some of these hats cover the cheeks with little flaps

 

While others don’t cover hem at all.

 

Many of the hat’s feature medallions on the forehead.

 

Some of the hats cover the ear-cones, such as Oola and Hera and the child Twi’lek, they can sometimes be decorative when covering the ear-cones.

 

These hats can be completely decorative such as those of senate Twi’lek’s, or only have decorative parts, such as Oola’s.

 

Some of these hats come in multi colors,

while others come in brown which seems to be a popular color,

 

Or, like Hera and Numa, have different colors and patterns on their hats and they also cover more of the Lekku.

 

In combination with these hats some Twi’lek’s wear their Lekku wrapped in strips of fabric or leather or with a sleeve over them. These can be done only a little or almost all over the Lekku, or not done at all.

 

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Males:

Males typically don’t wear hats, a few wear helmet like hat,

 

For the most part the males only form of decoration or headgear is wrapping their Lekku.

 

Some don’t wear any form of Lekku decoration at all.

 

Some Images from Cap-That.com

Attack of the Clones: Padmé Varykino – Lake Retreat Robe: Lattice/Canadian Smocking

(AOTC: Padmé Varykino Robe) (Images From: The Padawans Guide)

Lattice or Canadian smoking is the type of smocking used on the robe Padmé wears with her nightgown in Attack of the Clones at the Lake Retreat (follow link to see picture). Like with a lot of smocking the pattern is laid off of a square grid and sown by hand. The material used is likely velvet, because smoking fabric eats up length and width you will need more fabric then will take to make the robe without smocking.

Note: for making this project it will be easier to smock the fabric before cutting out your pattern.

 

 

 

 

Helpful Links:

• The Busy Bee Mom: Lattice/Canadian Smocking On Velvet (Video Pt: 1)
• Ventuno Art: Lattice/Canadian Smocking (Video)
• Craft Sewing: Lattice/Canadian Smocking (Video)
• KataFalk: Lattice/Canadian Smocking (Wright Up With Pictures)
• My Patch Work: (Video & Write Up)

Attack of the Clones: Purple Senate/Loyalist Committee Padmé Makeup

Like with all Lucas era media, the makeup in Star Wars follows two trends, the makeup styles of the time period the film was made in and a more neutral palette. Most of Padmé makeup from the Attack of the Clones is very neutral and mostly consists of light brown tones, and dusky pinks.

This look is the approximation from photos of Padmé’s Loyalist Committee/Purple Senate dress makeup.

Foundation:

Padmé’s foundation is natural looking, Padmé’s makeup should not be over done or leave her looking artificial. Any liquid foundation with a powder over top matched to your skin should work well. (Note: that other forms of foundation will also work, as long as they leave the skin looking natural.)

Eye-Shadow:

For this look Padmé wears a dark ashy taupe color on the back of her eye lid that is winged out and up a little past the edge of the eye-socked. Above the lid on the brown bone, as well as in the tear bucket/inner corner of the eye Padmé has a light, possibly white, highly.

(AOTC: Padmé: Eye-shadow)

(AOTC: Padmé: Eye-shadow: Light And Dark Colors)

(AOTC: Padmé: Eye-Shadow Highlight)

Eyeliner/Mascara:

Padmé does not wear eyeliner with this look; instead some of the dark ashy taupe color that is winged on her upper lid is applied to the lower lid under her lash line. Padmé also appears to be wearing mascara, (Note: that noticeably false lashes are not used in this look.)

(AOTC: Padmé: No Eyeliner)

Blush:

Padmé’s blush is a pinky brown or pinky nude color, it is applied to the cheek bones, starting from the bottom of the temple and extending down to the apple of her cheek. The blush is also applied a little below her cheek bones in a downward angle, onto the flat of her cheek.

(AOTC: Padmé: Pinky Brown Blush)

(AOTC: Padmé: Pinky Brown Blush)

Lipstick:

Padmé’s lipstick is a light pinky raspberry color in a semi gloss that is lightly applied to her natural lip shape.

(AOTC: Padmé: Light Pinky Raspberry Lipstick)

Images From Cap-That.com

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Attack of the Clones: Padmé Battle Arena Makeup

Lucas era Star Wars makeup tends to follow the trends of the time the movie was made as well as take the approach of a more neutral and subdued color palette. This look, like many that Padmé wears in [Attack of the Clones,] has a very natural look, with little to no color outside of the lipsticks.

(Note: This is the approximation from analogizing the photos of Padmé makeup, all of these suggestions should be plaid around with to fit each Padmé perfectly.)

Foundation:

Natural looking foundation, any foundation with a setting powder should work well, plus some concealer to give a finished look. It is very natural looking which is the key to most Star Wars makeup, (Padmé does not have any contouring in this look.) For the purposes of movie magic there are likely high-lights and low-lights that are not important to cover here.

Eye-Shadow:

As far as eye-shadow goes Padmé wears a warm light taupe brown only on the back of her upper eyelid.

(Attack of the Clones: Battle Arena Padmé: Warm Light Taupe Brown)

(Attack of the Clones: Battle Arena Padmé: Light Taupe Eye-Shadow)

There is a very light ashy taupe color, this color is only applied to the back of the lid; there is no color on the crease and brow bone, [no smoky eye]. (Note: occasionally the taupe color appears to be blended and winged out a very little past the outer corner of the eye. It is possible that there is a second lighter sandy-brown color that is almost undetectable on the eyelids outer corner and into the crease.)

Eyeliner/Lashes:

It does not appear that Padmé wears any eyeliner on her lower lid or water line, she may be wearing either a black or brown eyeliner on her upper lid just above her lash line, but it is almost undetectable and covered mostly by the mascara. You may consider skipping eyeliner and just go heavy on the mascara near the base of the lashes. She also appears to be wearing mascara, [but noticeably false lashes do not appear to have been used].

(Attack of the Clones: Battle Arena Padmé: No Eyeliner)

Blush:

Padmé’s wears a pinky nude blush, and the application is very light and almost hard to see. The blush is applied to the apples of the cheeks and along in a narrow oval up to the cheek bone.

(Attack of the Clones: Battle Arena Padmé: Blush In Pinky Nude)

(Attack of the Clones: Battle Arena Padmé: Pinky Nude Blush)

Lipstick:

Padmé wears a pinkish light raspberry color in a semi gloss lipstick is applied to Padmé’s natural lip shape.

(Attack of the Clones: Battle Arena Padmé: Lipstick)

Images from Cap-that.com