Konomi Yuzuhara ♥ Shrine Maiden

stylized Japanese Miko (Shrine Maiden) costume, generally inspired by;

 

thanks!! the costume is actually a hybrid, based around the kimono top from the old SEGA Sakura Wars Sakura Shinguji doll,
-lightly modified to fit Konomi better- and combined with a schoolgirl skirt, -taken from another To Heart doll- with a scratchmade ribboned obi, complete with stuffed and weighted pouch.

her Geta sandals were sourced from a TAKARA "Jenny" doll, a "Slice of School Days/Angel's Garden" Lillian, to be precise;





in fact, her bra, panties, stockings and socks were actually the only articles completely scratchmade by me;

 

thanks. i've been at it since 2001, and though i've made many, many outfits along the way,
i remain far more adept at enhancing pre-fab doll clothing than making it outright.

even so, i've gotten better than ever at making lingerie. i've had to,
considering i've got to be like the only doll enthusiast on the planet
that actually prefers old fashioned, modestly-designed underpinnings,
-such as high-waisted "Granny Panties" for instance- on my girls,
somehow managing to personally view such styles as inherently sweetly feminine in nature,
rather than unappealingly Frumpy or worse, as many out there seem to generally tend towards.

as such, i've endeavored to learn how to make full sets of coordinated, innocently-feminine lingerie,
-at least for my more overtly sweet and innocent Anime girls-
and have been struggling to make outright or contrive-together full fashions
to complement their standard.

i've finally come to the point where i feel i'm getting reasonably satisfied with results,
but it has not been easy, -or cheap- to get there...