I can’t believe it’s taken me ten years to cosplay as Padme, but here we are. As I was planning what I wanted to cosplay for Planet Comic Con, Padme popped into my mind right away. I always liked her look from Attack of the Clones where she’s in the battle arena on Geonosis. It’s functional, yet sexy and I think it looks very recognizable. I am thrilled with how the cosplay came together and I wanted to share how it came to be.

When I started planning out this cosplay, I was contemplating buying a Padme costume from Amazon. However, once I started reading reviews, I turned away from this because many of the reviewers stated that the costumes were pretty cheap-looking. The nice thing about Padme’s arena look is that it’s easy to put together as separate pieces. I found a white crop top, white leggings, white boots, a white fanny pack, and a foam blaster. In total, I ended up spending about $110 on everything which wasn’t that bad considering everything that I purchased.

The white crop top was soft and comfy. It wasn’t as cropped as I was expecting which I felt worked out better than I had hoped for. The white leggings were awesome! I ordered one pair of leggings in medium and one pair of leggings in large. The medium was the better fit as I felt the large were a little bit too big in the waist, although, I ended up keeping that pair to use as comfy leggings. I will say, the leggings were pretty see-through. It’s to be expected since they were cheap leggings off of Amazon. If I were to make any upgrades to the cosplay, I’d invest in white leggings that were thicker. The white boots were another awesome purchase. They weren’t great to walk around in during the convention, but they looked exactly like Padme’s boots that she wore. I wore the boots to work and received compliments from coworkers about how cool the boots looked.

The one other thing that I wanted to point out was the gray armbands. I could not find any gray arm bands that I liked on Amazon. Thankfully, one of my friends is crafty and she graciously agreed to help me and made the armbands for me. She did such a great job! The arm bands were comfortable and not too tight. The material she used was gorgeous, the gray was shiny which I think made the arm bands look expensive. She did such a great job.

I am so happy with how everything came together and how accurate it was. I had a few people come up to me wanting to take a picture with me and I had a lot of fun taking photos with other Star Wars cosplayers. I will definitely cosplay Padme again in the future.