There are many ideas and techniques we have had to employ the get the right effects over the years here are just a few, In order to get the right shades of cloth or the right pattern if can't be found in a shop I have often applied the technique of dying the cloth either tie dye or a straight flat colour dye to achieve just the right colour.

Most often the best thing to wear under chain mail in order to make it more comfortable to wear is a quilted material this can be incorporated in to most costume designs but can also make a very warm costume for cold winter nights or just a stunning feature to make a costume really stand out in a crowd quilting a section of cloth is a long and painstaking process but in the end well worth the effort I feel if it what makes the costume special totaly worth it.

All items can be trimmed with a huge range of ribbons and cloths, and of course if you wish lining and pockets can also be added to your costume.

Leather work can be embossed,dyed,painted or studded with any number of colours or patterns.

If however you have a pile of cloth lying about that you always meant to do something with but just never seemed to have the time there are various people who send us there materials along with what they would like made and then we only charge for the time spend creating the items, the same with items which require altering a favorite dress that doesn't quite fit anymore or a pair of pants that has split, post them to me or drop them off at one of the many events we attend over the summer and I will repair them for the cost of the time spent repairing the item.

Don't be fooled by the impression custom costume means expensive or elaborate, indeed a lot of the items I am asked to produced are often a simple robe or tabard, as for cost well a pair of bracers can vary from £15 anything up to £45, or a tabard £8 to £50 it entirely depends on what you have in mind, but one thing we can guarantee is it costs nothing to ask for a quote and you have nothing to lose in doing so, you might get a nice suprise. Email Adventurer's Mart by Clicking Here

Always we prefer to ask for a picture to illustrate what you are looking for, it makes it so much easier to create what you want if we know what you are thinking of, however this is not completely necessary, simply a good description will often do.

Of course we do require for people to send us a set of there measurements in order to get the right fit, a copy of how to take the measurements and a information form can be found HERE. remember when taking measurements it is very important to be honest I deal with allot of people large and small and all information given to us is kept confidential and impartial

Eidolon -

I was asked some years ago to create a costume for an Eidolon one of the races at Maelstrom so along with the client I came up with this -

Comprising of black velvet long waist coat, trimmed with gold ribbon with white cotton panels, and logo placed on panels, white damask robe, lined with white wool with turn up sleeves fully reversible, black velvet sash and white hard leather samurai style armour bound with golden ribbons.

Golden Dracosion -

For this piece I was asked to make a kimono for a golden dragon and I was immediately enthused because I had seen the perfect material for this only a couple of days before.

Golden Chinese dragon pattern kimono, trimmed with plain old gold satin and with an old gold satin sash and then made to a male kimono style.

Reversible Gnoll -

I wasn't told when I was asked to make this reversible black and white robe what its purpose was except that it needed to be black and white, fully reversible and of course made of fabrics which colours wont run in the wash also the client wanted it to have pockets, and I think it turned out really well -

Black drill full length front opening robe, lined with white satin fully reversible with a huge hood and really big pockets on both sides.

Masks not provided by Adventurer's Mart

Black Frockcoat-

This is a design for a black damask frock coat trimmed with gold twist and gold and red buttons and lined with red dress lining the commissioner also asked for pockets in this coat.

Bridesmaid's dress -

A friend of mine was getting married and she was having a fantasy theme wedding, so together we came up with this costume for the bridesmaids -

A chocolate satin fully lined floor length dress with a square neck trimmed with old gold satin and matching cloth waist sash.

Breast plate -

For those of you who haven't met me hello this is me modeling my breastplate, I have had real problems tracking down anything I could use as a phys rep for a platemail breastplate that would fit me, I found this leather breastplate in 2007 from eldritch and a few months later decided to try my hand at plating it.

I bought some sheet metal already bronze in colour and some tin snips and followed the lines already in the design of the breastplate, but I am no blacksmith so in order to get around the problem of creating a nice finished edge rather than turning or welding the edges to make them safe and have no points, I cut small strips of fine leather and sewed them along one edge and then attached them using industrial glue around the edges of the cut metal, I finished the whole process of by riveting the metal plates on to the leather breastplate and all in all im very happy with the result.

Air Wizard -

this was created for an air wizard with inspirations taken from a lot of places, the client intended to wear chainmail with this outfit so I decided to make it in two layers.

The first layer (right) is made of dusky blue spun suede and is also lightly body fitted so as to give some shape rather than billowing out, they also have silver quilting across the shoulders to help make the chain a bit more comfortable in the areas where it will weigh heaviest.

The second later (Left) is a navy blue wool outer robe fully lined with blue cotton, two front pockets and a hidden pocket on the left side and inside pockets for all the books and other bits and bobs that are needed for wizzarding, I also put a bit of extra room in to this robe to allow for any extra bulkiness that wearing the chainmail would cause and finished it off with a standard sized hood with a very exaggeratedly long point.

Waistcoat and Britches -

This was a costume designed for the same wedding for one of the guests.

Corn blue long waistcoat and matching knee britches made from linen with a damask front, lined with corn blue satin fitted with pockets and finished with gold buttons and some of our white knee socks.

Ice Sorceress -

This was a piece I created for an ice sorceress I created, I was told the colour palate I had to work with was whites and grays and possibly small amounts of light blues, but I decided to go with the whites and grays and came up with this -

This is a gray floor length wool robe, body fitted and fully lined with white dress liner, this is designed to be all one piece so as to not take to long to put on but due to the it being so well fitted it has a hidden zip at the back so as to make it allot more easy to get in and out of.

It has a quilted breast with lace up detail and matching fitted inner sleeves and is finished off with a huge hood which is also lined and trimmed with fine long haired white synthetic fur.

Crystal Tricorn -

This base black felt hat, and the cloth was given to me by the client, his idea was that he wanted a hat that looked like he had grown it from the same type of crystal his character was made from.

I cut the pieces from the fabric as close to the shape of the hat as I could and then used a strong fabric glue to mold and glue the fabric to the hat I finishing it by adding a black trim round the outside of the brim of the hat so as to tidy us any loose edges and prevent the material from snagging and coming loose.

Green dress -

This was a costume designed for the same wedding for one of the guests.

Green floor length velvet dress, trimmed with silver ribbon with a matching waist sash in silver and square neck detail.

The bride and groom -

And here we have the Bride and Groom in their costumes

Black velvet doublet slashed with blue satin and black britches made from drill, (Breastplate not supplied by Adventurer's Mart)

with matching the satin slashes in the doublet, blue satin medieval style dress trimmed with gold and lined in white.