Generic KOTOR I Jedi

ALL, Expanded Universe, Jedi

CHARACTER DESCRIPTION

Jedi wore this style of Jedi robes during the time of Knights of the Old Republic. Jedi seen wearing this style of robes include Master Zhar Lestin, Master Dorak, Master Vrook Lamar, Belaya, Juhani, and Jolee Bindo. The player character of Knights of the Old Republic may also wear this style of robe in one of the three standard colors.

This costume standard details all three main versions of the Jedi robes that appear in Knights of the Old Republic (brown, red, and blue). The general shapes and details of all three costumes are detailed in the brown version first. Differences in color, shape, and details are described in the alternate configuration sections for the red and blue versions below the main standard.

 

BROWN VERSION

 

REQUIRED ITEMS

[box]Outer Tunic (OT)

Required Details:

  1. Long-sleeved tunic that wraps around the costumer at an angle, where the right front panel overlaps the left front panel above the waist.
  2. The lower portion of the OT wraps around the hips, left panel overlapping the right panel. The pieces are tapered from belt-length on one hip to mid-thigh on the other hip, forming a shallow upside-down “V” shape in front. In the back, the wrap pieces extend to approximately knee length and overlap to have a slit up the center back to below the butt then curve into tapering back to belt-length at the hip. The left side of the wrap is still the top layer of the wrap in back.
  3. Sleeves are relatively form fitting and are tucked inside the bracers/gloves.
  4. OT fabric is a medium brown color and matte. Tunic fabric may be smooth or have a homespun or woven texture.
  5. OT has a collar that is approximately 2”-3” / 5-7.5 cm wide. Collar tapers to a narrower width near the waist. Collar is a lighter brown color than the OT. Collar may end under the epaulets or extend fully around the back of the neck. Collar fabric may be smooth or have a homespun or noticeably woven texture.

Optional Details:

  1. Outer Tunic may be a single garment or a top tunic and separate wrap skirt. This seam or waistband between the upper and lower OT pieces is covered by the belt.
  2. There may be trim approximately .5”-1” / 1-2.5 cm wide around the bottom edge of the lower OT/skirt. If present, this trim is made of the same material as the OT collar.
  3. The bottom edge of the lower OT/skirt may be weathered.

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[/box] [box]Epaulets

Required Details:

  1. Rectangular shoulder epaulettes roughly the width of the wearer’s shoulder (leather or leather-like material recommended.
  2. Epaulets extend past the main part of the OT over the collar (if present) and bend down over the shoulder, past the shoulder seam.
  3. Epaulets are medium brown, in a similar or slightly darker shade as the Outer Tunic.

Optional Details:

  1. Epaulets are decorated with two sets of curved lines. The inner set is roughly the shape of an elongated lemon, decorating the top of the shoulder and starting at the center of the edge over the OT collar. The outer set follows the front and back edges on top of the shoulder then curves to a point as the epaulet bends down over the shoulder.
  2. Decorative lines are slightly raised.

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[/box] [box]Inner Tunic

Required Details:

  1. Dark brown, tan, or cream colored shirt with wide, scooped neckline that allows the top of the Under Tunic to be clearly visible beneath it.
  2. Fabric is a solid color and matte. Tunic fabric may be smooth or have a homespun texture.

Optional Details:

  1. May be a false inner tunic where a triangle of fabric snaps into the “V” between the right and left panels of the OT.

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[/box] [box]Under Tunic

Required Details:

  1. Short, white Mandarin-style collar or a short mock turtleneck collar. Collar may open in the center front, wrap around, have a seamed closure, or be a seamless stretch fabric pull-over
  2. Under Tunic may be a full shirt, a false under tunic, or dickey.
  3. Fabric is a solid color and matte. Tunic fabric may be smooth or have a homespun texture.
  4. No visible zippers, snaps, or other closure.

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[/box] [box]Pants

Required Details:

  1. Tan, form fitting pants (but not skin-tight) that are tucked into the boots.
  2. Pants are made of a medium to heavy weight matte, solid-colored fabric.

Optional Details:

  1. Pockets are allowed if covered by the lower part of the outer tunic.

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[/box] [box]Belt

Required Details:

  1. Belt is roughly 2.5”-3” / 6.5-8 cm wide (proportional to wearer).
  2. Belt is brown and made of a leather or leather-like material.
  3. Belt has a silver buckle in the center front that consists of a circular or rounded square ring with a few thin, horizontal silver bars coming out from the sides of the ring. The bars attach to or tuck underneath a brown leather or leather-like rectangle that is as wide as the belt wide on both sides of the buckle. These leather rectangles are decorated by metallic silver plates that are slightly smaller than the leather rectangles.
  4. In the center back, there are several horizontal lines or pieces of leather or leather-like material. These are framed by vertical bands of leather or leather-like material. The vertical bands may be perpendicular to the edges of the belt or angled slightly inwards towards the center at the top. (It is recommended that this section of the belt is made so as to hide the belt closure like a flap or slipcover.)
  5. There is a brown leather or leather-like rectangle as wide as the belt on either side of the vertical bands in the back. The outside edge of this rectangle is secured with two silver round rivets.
  6. A thin metallic silver band is attached two the points of two roughly triangular-shaped rings along both sides of the belt. The bottom edge of the triangular rings are secured to the leather rectangles at the front and back of the belt with matching brown leather or leather-like loop.

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[/box] [box]Boots

Required Details:

  1. Knee-high brown boots made of a leather or leather-like material. Boots are medium brown, similar to the Outer Tunic color.
  2. Boots are flat or have a low heel 1.5” / 4 cm maximum.

Optional Details:

  1. Buckles are permitted but should complement the boot and not detract from the overall look of the Jedi costume.
  2. Boots have an ankle strap and top cuff or seam around the upper part of the boot. These portions may be slightly lighter brown than the rest of the boot.
  3. Covered or inside zippers are allowed.

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[/box] [box]Bracers/Gloves

Required Details:

  1. Fitted medium brown forearm bracers and/or long gloves that extend to the mid forearm. Bracers may be worn without gloves.
  2. Gloves/bracers are made of a matte material (leather, suede, or leather-like material recommended).
  3. If separate gloves and bracers are worn, the gloves are tucked into the bracers at the wrist, with no skin showing.
  4. No lacing, clasps, grommets, or other external closures should be visible. A seam for closure is permitted on the inside of the forearm.
  5. Outer Tunic sleeves are tucked into the bracers/gloves.

Optional Details:

  1. Sleeves are slightly bloused over the end of the bracers/gloves.
  2. The bracers/forearm portion of the gloves are slightly lighter brown in color than the hand portion of the glove.

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[/box] [box]Lightsaber

Required Details:

  1. Costumer must carry one or two single-bladed lightsabers or one double-bladed lightsaber.
  2. Hilt is primarily metallic silver in color and looks like metal. Hilt may have minor black or gold accents.
  3. The lightsaber may be a static prop (hilt only).
  4. No movie-era “hero” lightsabers of face characters may be used. Revan-style lightsaber(s) may be used.

Optional Details:

  1. Attached blade, LED lights and sound effects are allowed, but not required.
  2. If the lightsaber has a blade, the blade may be blue, green, yellow, orange, white/silver, or violet. Red blades are not allowed. If the costumer is carrying two single-bladed sabers, the blades may be two different colors.
  3. Lightsaber may hang from the belt with either a covertex button and clip or a D-ring and hook.

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[/box] [box]Optional Items

  1. Costumers may wear headgear, as it appears in the game “Knights of the Old Republic.” Costumers who wish to use one of the in-game headgear are expected to provide high-quality, unaltered reference images to the judges at the time of costume submission.[/box]

RED VERSION

 [box]Required Items (shapes remain the same unless otherwise noted below)

  1. Outer Tunic
  2. Epaulets
  3. Inner Tunic (dark gray-blue or charcoal gray)
  4. Under Tunic (dusty rose)
  5. Pants (medium orange)
  6. Belt
  7. Boots
  8. Bracers/Gloves
  9. Lightsaber

Optional Items

  1. Headgear (see above)[/box]
[box]Outer Tunic

Required Details:

  1. Outer Tunic is a medium orange-red, homespun texture or visible weave recommended.
  2. Outer Tunic has a dark red or burgundy collar, homespun texture or visible weave recommended.
  3. Outer tunic has matching dark red or burgundy trim around the bottom edge of the skirt portion.

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[/box] [box]Epaulets

Required Details:

  1. Epaulets are black.

Optional Details:

  1. Epaulets have a set of 3-4 indented (tooled) lines across the shoulder, roughly even with the seam between the OT and its collar on the front of the tunic. Lines are parallel with the short edges of the epaulets.

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[/box] [box]Belt

Required Details:

  1. Belt is black or very dark brown.
  2. Instead of metallic rectangular plates on either side of the belt buckle, the belt has small rectangular black pouches. Pouches may be functional or just faux pocket flaps. Pouches are the height of the belt or slightly shorter. The top flap angles down from the top corners then cuts straight across the bottom. Pouch top flap is secured with a silver snap or grommet.
  3. There are also two more identical black (faux) pouches at the middle side of the belt, over the silver band.

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[/box] [box]Boots

Required Details:

  1. Boots are black or very dark brown (must match color of the belt).

Optional Details:

  1. If the boots have an ankle strap and top cuff/band, they may be a slightly lighter color or match the rest of the boot.

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[/box] [box]Bracers/Gloves

Required Details:

  1. Gloves/bracers are black or very dark brown (must match belt and boots).

Optional Details:

  1. The hand-portion of the gloves may be dark brown.
  2. There may be a narrow dark brown band around the wrist.

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[/box] BLUE VERSION

[box]Required Items (shapes remain the same unless otherwise noted below)

  1. Outer Tunic
  2. Epaulets
  3. Undershirt
  4. Pants (black)
  5. Belt
  6. Boots
  7. Bracers/Gloves
  8. Lightsaber

The comic version may make the following substitutes to the above:

  1. Inner Tunic (dark blue)
  2. Under Tunic (white or light gray)
  3. Pants (white or light gray)
  4. Bracers/Gloves are optional

Optional Items:

  1. Headgear (see above) [/box]
[box]Outer Tunic (OT)

Required Details:

  1. Outer tunic is made of a matte medium to dark blue fabric.
  2. Outer tunic does not have a collar or trim along the bottom edge of the skirt portion.
  3. The front of the OT has a narrow black diagonal rectangle that extends roughly 3” / 8 cm beyond the edge of the epaulet. On the right side of the body, it is parallel to the inside edge of the tunic, and roughly 1”-2” / 2.5-5 cm from the edge of the tunic (proportional to wearer). On the left side of the body, it is at the same angle and position relative to the shoulder. This rectangle may be matte fabric or matte or slight sheen leather or leather-like material.
  4. The upper half of the bicep on the sleeve is matte black fabric. There is another narrower band of black fabric roughly halfway up the forearm. The middle portion of the sleeve and the bottom of the sleeve are made of the same blue fabric as the rest of the OT.

Optional Details:

  1. The arm hole seam sits slightly over the shoulder.
  2. Outer tunic is made of many segmented pieces:
    ○ On the front, there are two horizontal bands across the lower half of the torso on both sides. The upper band has three vertical sections. The center of those sections is roughly 1/3 the width of the other two sections.
    ○ The lower front band has wide slit pocket with a rectangular placket below the center and outside sections on the upper band. There is also a vertical seam roughly center front of the torso.
    ○ On the front, there is a vertical seam from in front of the armpit to the top of the top band. There is a vertical seam in the middle band continuing below the top band’s top seam.
    ○ On the front of the OT, there is a seam perpendicular to the narrow black rectangle from the outside edge of the rectangle to the arm hole seam.
    ○ The middle blue section of the sleeve is made of three bands around the arm. The centermost band is narrower than the bands on either side of it, which are roughly the same size. The band above the elbow has a vertical seam on the top center. The middle band has a narrow black rectangle spanning the top half of the sleeve over the elbow.
    ○ On the bottom blue section of the sleeve, there are a few small rectangular sections on underside of the sleeve.
    ○ The OT has a yoke in the back. The yoke is divided into four roughly equally tall horizontal bands. The second-to-the-bottom band has 2-3 narrow vertical spokes that extend up to the seams above and below it on each shoulder. These start roughly even with the inside edge of the epaulets and end slightly before the sleeve.
  3. Seams between the segmented pieces are flat felled with a single row of topstitching.

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[/box] [box]Epaulets

Required Details:

  1. Epaulets are black or very dark blue.

Optional Details:

  1. Epaulets are decorated with a single line roughly even with the outside edge of the narrow black rectangle on the OT.
  2. Decorative line may be indented (tooled) or raised.

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[/box] [box]Undershirt

Required Details:

  1. Black undershirt made of a matte material.
  2. Short Mandarin-style collar or a short mock turtleneck collar. Collar may open in the center front, wrap around, have a seamed closure, or be a seamless stretch fabric pull-over
  3. Undershirt may be a full shirt, a false under tunic, or dickey.

Optional Details:

  1. Undershirt closes in the center front, with a rectangular flap folding from the left side over the right side. Flap has the top corner cut off at a 45-degree angle.
  2. Shirt closure flap has a row of topstitching around the edge.
[/box] [box]Belt

Required Details:

  1. Belt is black or very dark blue.

Optional Details:

  1. Leather rectangles and other details may be dark blue.
  2. Silver metallic portions may be tinted blue.

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[/box] [box]Boots

Required Details:

  1. Boots are black or very dark brown.

Optional Details:

  1. Boots have curved dark blue (same color or slightly darker than the outer tunic) spats up the front of the boot. Spats are made of a hard material (e.g., leather, leather-like, plastic) and are not shiny. Spats are narrow at the front of the ankle and curve up around the sides of the boot into a wide, rounded top.
  2. Spats do not have visible straps or connections to the boot.

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[/box] [box]Bracers/Gloves

Required Details:

  1. Dark blue or black bracers and/or gloves.

Optional Details:

  1. The hand portion of the gloves is dark blue. The bracers/forearm portion of the gloves is black with three horizontal blue bands around the glove.
  2. There is a curved V-shaped indentation cut into the top edge of the bracer/glove on top of the forearm.

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COSTUME RESOURCES
Reference Photo Gallery
Belt Tutorial

Updated: March 18, 2023

PLEASE NOTE: The costume standards are a guide, yet are not an all inclusive outline of required elements. The judges will be looking for quality of workmanship, accurate execution and use of materials in addition to these general standards check lists. If you have a question about fabrics, colors, and parts choices for your build please contact the LCJs for your category about parts/materials you are considering before you start your build.