Meeting before the Senate

This was the second fan I made, since the first one wasn't quite right. It is made of hair from an inexpensive make-up brush, glued to a small crescent of cardboard, painted black.  The large gold "beads" are made with built up gold fabric paint.  Metallic fabric trim was added to the fan, and to cover the edges where it met the crochet. The rest of the headpiece was crocheted from off-white thread, then seed beads were added. The bead strings are alternating plastic pearls and elongated iridescent plastic beads strung on strings.

The dress itself is made of three layers.  A dark red under-dress that is sleeveless, a patterned gray long-sleeved robe, then the outer robe of gray-blue fabric, with elaborate "penguin winged" sleeves.  The sleeves are embroidered with light yellow in a abstract vine design.

Amidala is shown with one of her hand-maidens, whose face you can't really see, due to the deep hood.  This is the costume that this Amidala doll came with, being reused.

I really liked how this came out.

And a closeup of the headpiece

And now...the anatomy of a costume. See how this comes together: