Silent Hill Nurse Costume

Step 2: Dress & Hat

Sewing patterns are fairly straightforward, so just follow the instructions for your size as far as the dress is concerned. Cut out the pattern, pin it, cut out your pieces, unpin, pin pieces together, sew, lather, rinse, repeat..you get the picture. If you have the time and patience (which I most certainly DO NOT), you can choose to handsew it. However, if you've lazy and/or cramming for time, like yours truly, just sew it by machine. Much faster and easier.

Once complete with the dress, put it on, and mark how short you'd like it to be. Simply trim it..no need to hem, it's not like this is going on project runway..could you imagine?

The hat isn't as simple as the dress. This was the one component of the costume that I had outside help from: I found this website.

http://sewing.about.com/library/blnurse1.htm
http://sewing.about.com/library/nnurse.htm (this link is the pattern)

It's very clear, just don't starch it or make it out of cardboard like the website suggests.

Boil a big pit of water, and put about five teabags in it. I used earl grey, don't use anything fruity or you might not get the color you're looking for. Put the dress, hat, and white tights into it for about five minutes. Take them out and hang them to dry.

Once your done with that..onto the mask!