Update: A 1984 McCall’s Crafts counter catalogue presents both patterns with Return of the Jedi backdrops.

And not just any Ewok: the envelope back names “Wicket the Ewok”: McCall’s 8731 (1983) Wicket the Ewok costume. Image: Erin Griffith via Etsy.Īfter Return of the Jedi (1983), McCall’s released a children’s pattern for Ewok costumes. Update: a customer used McCall’s 7772 to make these Jawa costumes: McCall’s 7772 Jawa costumes. I have several sizes available in the shop: McCall’s 7772 (1981) Image: PatternVault shop. ( Update: the young Jennifer Connelly played Leia for McCall’s.) The Vader view calls for one single serving cereal box. McCall’s 7772 includes costumes for five characters from the first two films: Chewbacca, Princess Leia, Yoda, Jawa, and Lord Darth Vader. The year after The Empire Strikes Back (1980), McCall’s began releasing children’s costume patterns licensed with Lucasfilm. (I’ve made the Dior in red photos coming soon.) Compare Princess Leia’s iconic hooded dress with a 1976 Dior evening gown available as a Vogue pattern both were made in white silk crepe de chine: Left: Karen Bjornson in Vogue 1553 by Dior, Vogue Patterns, November/December 1976. John Mollo’s costumes for Star Wars, which won an Academy Award in 1978, have immortalized a certain strand of ’70s style. John Mollo’s design for the samurai warrior concept of Darth Vader, 1976. John Mollo’s final sketch for the costume of Obi-Wan Kenobi, 1976. And a new travelling exhibit, Rebel, Jedi, Princess, Queen: Star Wars and the Power of Costume, will open in New York next month. Last year saw the publication of Brandon Alinger’s Star Wars Costumes: The Original Trilogy (Chronicle Books, 2014). In 2005, LA’s Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising (FIDM) organized the exhibit Dressing a Galaxy: The Costumes of Star Wars, accompanied by a book by Trisha Biggar, the costume designer for the prequel trilogy (Abrams, 2005 still in print). Star Wars’ costumes must be among the most discussed in cinema. (Read Vanity Fair’s post here.) Here’s a look at Star Wars costume patterns. For fans of costume design, it helps that Michael Kaplan, who began his career with Bob Mackie and Blade Runner (1982), is designing the costumes for the new film. Trisha Biggar, Dressing a Galaxy: The Costumes of Star Wars (Abrams, 2005) Image: Abrams.Īnticipation is high for Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens, which opens in December.

Dressing a Galaxy by Trisha Biggar