The Outfit, Part A

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I'm sure someone at Hasbro thought this was a brilliant way to handle the multiple layers of the Jedi costume. However, they were wrong. The shirt itself is okay, a nice cotton knit with an elastic waist for draping and some nice trim around the neckline with matching satin. But sewing the sashes together and to the shirt looks silly, interferes with the draping, and makes the shirt unnecessarily difficult to take on and off. And it's fastened with velcro, too. Sigh.

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And for the spring Jedi, the rumpled look?

The robe is another example of a good idea that wasn't. Felt? What happened to the cotton knit? The hood is sewn out to the sides, which means it looks great when down but silly when up. And some idiot seems to have mistaken the flowing robes of the movie for rumpled robes. There is elastic sewn down the sleeves, across the waist, and along the bottom (see image above) that is designed to bunch up the robe at those locations. It's easily fixed, at least. *snip, snip*
Evaluation:
Fabric: B
Style: A-
(hey, I'm not going to argue with a Jedi!)
Execution: B
(note: one letter grade was lost because of use of velcro)
Overall: B

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