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Porter’s First Competition Costume!

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Patterning and cutting out the fabric for my husband’s very first competition costume!

After a lot of debate, he decided on the theme from Star Trek: The Next Generation for his freeskate program.

It’s got a good tempo, he likes it, it showcases one of his fandoms, and he’ll get to wear a cosplay. Boom. Perfect choice!

Next choice: Which colour?

Red doesn’t look good on him… and sounds like a bad idea for ones first skating competition.

Yellow would be most appropriate (engineering), but he hates the colour.

Blue, though? Favourite colour AND one that looks best on him.

So we did it:

Fabric being cut and placed to look like a Star Trek uniform.

Patterning and cutting

The start of a blue Star Trek skating costume.

Start of the top

A skate with black skate cover and pant leg over it.

Decided to make matching skate covers, for a more uniform look at the bottom.

And the final costume:

A blond man wearing a 1 piece figure skating costume that looks like a Star Trek The Next Generation science officer uniform.

About the Number of Pips to Use

Actual discussion on how many pips we should put on my husband’s “Star Trek” program costume:

*Discussion of the meaning of each number*

Me: I don’t know that “captain” works with “Science officer”. I’m not even sure if “commander” works, for that matter

Porter : yeah, but I think I want 3 pips anyway. 2 is just like… 1 step above a rookie.

Me: I like 3, aesthetically. Maybe we should give you 1 though… You WILL be in the intro category, after all…

Porter: WHY DON’T YOU JUST MAKE ME A RED SHIRT? Then I’ll just fall.

LOOOOL.

A close up view of a Blue Star Trek skating costume.

About the Comm Badge

Before anyone comes for me about that comm badge…

We took it off his “First Contact” costume because getting a TNG badge here is OBSCENE.

As I just told someone else… “Star Trek Accessories” and “Good Deal” do not exist in the same space, when that space is Canada.

Also he’s only going to wear it like 2-3 times.

A blue Star Trek skating costume.

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