The process of custom-made doll clothes revealed! 1 (2024-11-15)
My Style Dolls' custom-made doll clothing service has been very well received. We recently delivered a costume that was requested, so we would like to introduce the production process to you.
We received a request from a customer to make custom doll clothing, as shown in the photo below.
★ Difficulty of production: Category 5 {Cosplay clothes with complex designs} ★ Doll body for which costumes can be made: Tokyo Doll 40 (height 40cm)
There are eight items to be made: ① Bodysuit ② Dress ③ Socks ④ Head ribbon ⑤ Choker ⑥ Hand band (Decorative item) ⑦ Shoes (accessories) ⑧ Stick-shaped weapon (decorative)
The costume you requested uses an original pattern for most of the parts, including the bodysuit, dress, socks, and shoes. This fabric is not commercially available, so we create the printing data on a computer and print it at a fabric printing factory to prepare the material. It takes about 1-2 weeks from sending the printing data to the fabric printing factory until the fabric is completed, so we do this work first.
The dress for this costume has a very complicated shape, so we first break it down into flat parts. While looking at the character drawings sent by the customer, we create each of the flat parts out of paper.
Attach the paper parts to the doll and shape it.
Once the paper material is confirmed, each part will be created with temporary cloth material.
Attach the cloth parts to the doll and adjust the shape.
Now that the shapes of all the fabric parts have been decided, the next step is to create the print data to send to the printing factory. While looking at the character illustration, the computer draws the pattern data onto each part of the bodysuit, dress, and socks.
Not all patterns are visible in the photo. The hidden and invisible parts are then drawn and converted into flat data by the designer using their imagination. The more complex the design or pattern, and the more invisible parts there are, the more difficult it is to digitize it.
Once the printing data is created, it is sent to the printing factory. The fabric with the printed design will be completed in about 1 to 2 weeks.
The bodysuit has been sewn together.
The back side looks like this.
The socks are sewn together.
Next, we will create a dress.
A dress with a cute ribbon on the chest has been sewn together. A choker for the neck has also been completed.
Let's create the head ribbon.
The hand band is also finished.
From here, we will start making the shoes . First, we will create the shape of the base of the shoes.
Put it on the doll and fine-tune the size.
Now we will create the ankle part.
Paint the base of the shoe and blend it with the ankle part.
The shoes are finished.
Check out the shoe video too.
Finally, the weapon is complete.
It's finally finished!It took a total of 90 days to make. Thank you for your hard work! ☟
