Riddler 1950's Style!

    This Halloween I've decided on a Batman theme. Funny thing is I'm not dressing like batman...or batgirl as the case would be. I saw some dresses on pinterest that I fell in love with and am going to work on Friday and Saturday as the Riddler's daughter and the Jokers Daughter. Best part is they are done in 1950's style so it's like a double costume!  The ridder style dress took a day and half to complete and I do like how it turned out.

    The first thing I had to do was to hep the poor tiny crinoline.  It was so flat it hardly did a thing and when I held it up next to my red one it was very sad and maybe 1/3 of the size.

  Here it is after adding two layers. There is about 300 inches in the bottom tier. It's not the best addition job but it did make it where it fluffs the dress out.

 
   I used a basic circle skirt pattern for the base and added 7 yards of tulle to add more fullness to the skirt.

 
I measured wrong when I cut the tulle though and it's about an inch to short so I had to tack parts of the bottom down so it looked like it was at least close to the same length.

After I had the skirt assembled I drafter the belt for the dress and added light boning.

 
After I had the bodice sewn I attached it to the skirt and put the side zipper in. It's going to take some wiggling to get out of but that's okay. I can do that.

And here it is all done! There are 16 large "?"  and 15 small ones on the skirt. I divided them among two layers so it would have some extra dimension. and of course the big center front one had to have sparkles!! One of the hardest parts is trying to make the question marks look random and not planned.

Back view.

And that's everything. I hoped you enjoyed this look at my Riddler costume. Now I just have to think of a name to use as the daughter of the Riddler. Hhmmm.