Another weekend with bummer NY weather for painting so hopped over to a new challenge. The cape.
I have never sewn anything in my life before but was determined to learn a new skill and do it myself.
But before I got to sewing up my half shelter, I luckily did some last minute research (and also good advice from others) and came to the realization that the cape that is featured in the SE Promotional shots is NOT the ROTJ Hero cape and has some significant differences.
The first thing that I noticed that made me scratch my head was that the thicker vertical seem of the cape shown in the SE promotional photos is on the side that drapes down the arm, as opposed to on the side that mounts to the shoulder. This is opposite from every ROTJ cape I've seen so it caught my attention, as I wrongly assumed it should be the other way. In addition, the cape looks to be mounted from the backside of the corner of the cape twisted around. Lastly, the edge seams of the cape are folded so they face outwards away from Boba.
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Comparing to some ROTJ references I also noticed the thicker seam on the lower edge of the cape on the sail barge scene, which someone kindly helped point out was a stunt costume and not the ROTJ hero cape. The seams and rips on the cape from this shot lines up with the SE costume, so I assume this is the same cape that ended up on the SE promotional Shot.
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Anyways from all my last minute research, I was able to confirm the SE Promotional cape is the one displayed in the SW Celebration IV gallery which helped with additional angles.
All and all, great weekend of learning new things about this costume and doing my first ever sewing machine project.
I've roughly marked out in photoshop where some rips and holes need to go based off reference and I couldn't resist but adding "Boba Fett" written on the top edge, which can be seen in the SE Promotional photos and the SW Celebration IV gallery.
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