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What's maybe helpful: Choose a pattern where you will be able to lift your arms (if you're going for the Defying Gravity Scene - my Elphaba actually wears it on stage, so this had to work). The usual dresspatterns are not suited for lifting Arms.
The top/bodice consits of three fabric layers+applications. First, a cotton layer that also holds the boning and gets everything in shape. Second a black tafetta with very small twinkling silver dots, and third a layer of black lace. On the top of that, I applicated these...flamelike thingies.
For the frills in general, I chose a stiff polyestertafetta, which is a) easy to rip rather than cut, that saves a lot time, and b) will melt if burnt. That makes it somewhat dangerous near campfires >.<, but if you look at frills above the arms, you can see I just cut and burnt them at the hems. So you can easily create very irregular and non-straight hems.
The skirt will properbly attempt to kill you ;D Here again, I ripped the fabric, folded it in half and ironed it (this will make the skirt heavier, but again no hems to work on). Then I thought about frilling, and the solution is pretty easy: There's something here (and I'm pretty sure it is all over the world available) that's called rubberyarn (direct translation) It's a kind of rubberband that looks like thick yarn, and it comes on spools too. I used it as the bobbin thread in my sewingmachine, and it will frill the fabric by itself. The frills are stitched on the skirt with a zick-zack stitch.
The very upper ending of the skirt ist left blank of frills, as they are too thick and make your hip look like a...hippo ;D
Hmmmmm I think that would properbly be the most important things
And I've heard many horror stories about the skirt. Luckily for me, I'll probably do the top and get my boss his wife or his team to do the skirt for me. Like the queen of lazy I am!
Thank you very, very much for the detailed reply. (: And it's a great help, thanks. Hopefully I won't sew my hands to it in frustration or end up giving up on it!