NYMPH (costume)

Well, as I was searching the boxes of fabric for Leprechaun clothes last night I found some clothes which the nymph as gracious enough to try on. She liked them so here is the bit of info about her bit of clothing.
I decided that the general feeling of this piece was a bit classical Grecco/Roman so I an going with the common depiction of the nymph as a nearly naked young maiden with diaphanous wrappings rather than a winged creature.

 The fabric is a light tan silk scarf which some wonderful person or machine was kind enough to hem with a 1/8' hem all around. I cut off a quarter of the scarf and spent forever slipping an 18 gauge wire into the hem.

I have a triangle shaped piece of cloth with wire on two edges now. One  corner without wire goes from the waist over the shoulder and back to the waist in the front. The wired edge wraps around the waist and attaches to itself.
The wire is posed to hold the cloth away from her body on the left side.

 The rest of the cloth is turned under itself and tacked to points on her body to hold it in the position I want.

On top of the tan scarf I added strips of a white scarf which has had its edges fused with a flame. The white cloth is used as an accent sash which wraps around her waist and hangs in the front and back of her legs. It breaks up the tan color as well as hiding the wire at her waist a little more. I hope to finish the final details today and mount them on a base for our next meeting. First, I need to finish shoveling the ten inches of snow in my loooong driveway! Have a great day!