Character: Dr Mrs The Monarch
Series: Venture Brothers
Variant: Council of 13
Total Construction Time: A lot of time
Debut: N/A
Status: Retired
Personal Thoughts: Season 6 for Venture Bros had previewed at SDCC and I wanted to celebrate it. However, by the time I got to this costume I had hit a rough spot. I was not in the greatest of places mentally so it took me an entire year to complete this costume.

Details
I found a pattern I liked from Vogue and created a mock of the entire thing. I decided I wanted to have a false front and have the zipper in the back so I had to re-design it a bit to suit my needs. In my carelessness, I picked a non-stretchy fabric for the base of the costume. I later found this was not the best choice as the bottom does not do well once sitting.

So much time had passed that I had to take the dress in once I began the project again as I had lost weight. I added a bias to the front, cheap but decorative fake buttons to the front and created thigh high boot covers. I’m not 100% happy with them but I’m very pleased that the bottoms look pretty good to me. I had kept an old military-style hat from Party City for years. I had no idea if I would ever use it but I kept it because it was big enough to fit with a wig. Finally, I used extra bias tape for the red and found extra gold trimmings that I used to decorate the hat.

If I were to re-do it, I would use a different pattern, fabric and different bias tape for the front to make it more user-friendly and appear more militaristic.