Supergirl costume

[ffutures]

I'm putting in a scene in which Supergirl attends a literary lunch hosted by the First Lady at the White House. Does this sound about right for costume?

As the meeting ended Helen Santos posed with Kara for the benefit of the photographers, and said “I think you’ve made the fashion magazines very happy today.”

Kara was wearing another Kryptonian costume, this time a long red open-fronted kaftan with voluminous sleeves over a blue dress with deep red boots. Small replicas of the usual ‘S’ logo were embroidered in gold along the edges of the Kaftan. “It’s the formal wear for a student of the House of El. It seemed appropriate.”

“You really ought to get that cousin of yours into a different outfit.”

“I’m working on it.”

Does this sound vaguely plausible / attractive? Here's a fairly crude attempt at depicting it:

Comments

[nelc.livejournal.com]

You'd probably want to say something about the material, I think. Is the kaftan Kryptonian lycra, like her cousin's working clothes, or wool or something else?

On the picture, I'd be tempted to reverse the colours on the 'S' symbol, so that the S is gold on red, and interlink them somehow.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I don't think I'm going to publish the picture with the story, I just did it to see what the costume would actually look like.

The materials are a good point - I think I'll describe the blue material as "silky" and the red as "a coarser woven fibre" and leave it at that.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I've gone with "A woven material resembling linen" for the kaftan and "silky" for the blue material."

[inamac.livejournal.com]

The pic (which I know you're not going to use) makes the over-robe/kaftan look like a brocade - which is a term you might use.

I'd be a bit confused by the phrase 'usual S logo' - is there another one? "Trimmed with embroidered representations of the S logo" or something might work better.

I rather like that look...

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

It was originally a brocade - this is basically a composite from a picture of the movie version of supergirl, this image

http://www.modernmuslimahs.co.uk/shop/cat,Exclusive/cID,5/product_name,TEKBIR%20KAFTAN%20CODE%20E3

and a lot of small 'S' logos.