Cosplay: Elfen Lied Lucy

Have you watched Elfen Lied and admired Lucy's little black dress outfit? So did I and here is a cheap way to cosplay her without spending all the money for a professional cosplay. Let's start with what you need (because when I make a list it is easier to figure out if you are in a hurry)

1. Pink shirt with sleeves to your elbow that has a wide circle neck
2. Black tank top dress that goes to your knees or higher
3. Short, thin Red Ribbon (for your neck)
4. Two, thick lavender ribbons (I Imagine them silk)
5. Black and Grey(preferably dark grey) horizontal striped socks that go to your knees or higher or they could be stockings
6. Red, low heel slip ons
7. Scissors

Alright, now that we have that we can start with the instructions. This is buying all the things except you can make any of the ribbons yourself and you need to modify the socks/stockings. Buy a pink shirt (mentioned above with more detail), buy a black dress that is a tank top style that is form-fitting that goes to your knees or thighs, next buy black and grey striped socks/stockings, get the red heels, buy the ribbons and now you can start modifying.

Socks: put the socks on and stretch the front part of the sock on and make a little cut then put it back normally and cut around the top half, then repeat on the heel except on the bottom leave about two inches thick piece of fabric on the bottom, repeat on the other sock and your done.

Stockings: repeat all the steps above but then take the top part of the stockings and cut it into socks of your desired height (it's better to leave some fabric a little higher so you can make modifications with enough fabric) and your done.

Next, the wig. In this outfit you can use the short hair or long haired Lucy, doesn't matter. You can use whichever you like better, but the most identifiable in this outfit is short hair. If you just wanna do this for school (which is what I'm wearing on the first day) then you can use your regular hair (since they probably/most likely won't allow you to wear wigs at school)

And now, the ribbons!
Red: Take the thin red ribbon and tie it around your neck (not too tight otherwise (obviously) you'd choke yourself) and tie it in a bow in the front of your neck.

Lavender: take the two pieces of ribbon/fabric and tie it in a bow. Then take a clip and put it on the ribbons and place them in your hair/wig on the sides (their used to cover Lucy/Nyu's horns)

Below: something I put together on Polyvore.com to have as in example