With only a short bit of center front to work with, the window-cut cape requires a specialised and preferably invisible closing method, engaging in this execution a strong zipper; worked, hidden under the trimline, into the standing half of the cape’s majestic collar, plus a set of large scale hooks that brim the underside of the falling half and bring the construction to a seamless close while the zipper supports all of the cape’s weight.

The final seam (center front) on the cape construction requires a mighty travail of handwork in preparation of the few minutes machine time needed to give a perfectly connected fabric, trim and lining after ironing.

Upholstering and old design with strings of metallic silver trim sewn precariously along the seams and edges through tiny hoop stitches that create a fresh, streamlined look to go well with cyber and armor style outfits.

After strategically sewing on decorated buttons with a nice industrial look to them, the yarn-tied knot on the leather’s wrong side becomes the placemark for a strong male press button, that can be sewn tight, invisibly, under the coverage of its right side shield. The underlying layer begets the female half of the fastener, allowing it to pop open under excessive force instead of wearing down or ripping under the weight of the material like a buttonhole would.

With mild elastics placed into the knee area forming a primary means of support, the furry coverings are geared in place through a simple loops and buttons fastening, allowing the leg-ins to be easily combined with many variations of garment- or underclothing-constructions that feature waisthigh belt-like straps.

Mounting tranformers onto an old pair of gloves.

Making spikes into ballast to guide the EL-wire.

A twisted slipknot through a round zipper end.

All connected to the battlesuit and ready to go.

Reinstating an old pair of gloves while expanding into new technology by incorporating EL-wire: electrically charged illuminating cable, that can be brought to various flashing speeds through transformators at each hands end; with the length of the wire draping freely between arm and back under guide of gliding weights.

For hiding and protecting seam allowances on a non-lined garment, the “French seam” method proposes to encapsulate them within a second, hidden, seamline, sewn first with the fabric pieces wrong sides together, before the actual, visible, seam locks them away; an amendable procedure that easily justifies the effort.

The last step in finishing the shoulder-guards is enclosing the stretching impenetrable padding with leather covers; the inside giving the construction a nice suede face and the outside, mounted with two heavy spikes.

Following the aspect of locking voluminous gathers within flat reinforced layers: rounded cuffs are added to finish off the sleeve-ends in a manner that reflects their origin from the shoulderdisk; a straight fabric strip catches the body’s hemline gathers while a combined collar completes the mirror-semblance above the disk.