CHARACTER DESCRIPTION
The High Republic is during an era when the Galactic Republic and the Jedi Order are at their zenith, about 200 years before the events of the prequel trilogy. This was a golden age for the Jedi and a time of galactic expansion in the Outer Rim. It is a hopeful, optimistic time, when the Jedi are true guardians of peace and justice. This style of uniform is used during the High Republic era for formal events in stately Jedi Temples scattered across the ever-expanding known galaxy. Source: Official High Republic Announcement

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REQUIRED ITEMS

[box]Outer Tunic

Required Details:

1. Matte, white, ivory, off-white, or pale cream wrap tunic made of light to medium-weight fabric.
2. Sleeves are straight to moderately belled and moderately wide. Sleeves extend to between mid-forearm and wrist length.
3. The collar is not visible below the belt. It may either end at the costumer’s waist or be completely hidden by the midcoat (if present) and tabards.
4. The bottom edge of the outer tunic fully covers the buttocks of the costumer and extends to roughly mid-thigh length (for Jedi with pants). Jedi with skirts (see below) may extend the bottom edge of the outer tunic to as long as floor-length. The inner tunic, if present, must not be visible at the bottom edge.
5. The outer tunic may have open side slits below the belt.
6. The costume must include a kimono-style collar on the outer tunic and/or an inner tunic (see below) with a kimono style collar. If both are present, the inner tunic may be visible around the neck at this closure. This collar, whichever garment it is on, must meet the following requirements:
   • Kimono-style collar is made of the same material as the garment it is attached to and is roughly 1”-2” / 2.5-5 cm wide, proportional to the costumer. This collar wraps around the neck and overlaps in a neat V below the costumer’s neck and wraps across the chest at an angle. If present, an inner tunic (see below)

Optional Details:

1. An A-line or half-circle flared shape below the waist is recommended.
2. The portion of the outer tunic below the belt may be a continuous portion of the tunic, attached via a waist seam (if hidden by the belt or obi/sash), or a separate skirt piece worn over the outer tunic. If an outer tunic skirt piece is used, the top of the skirt must be hidden by the belt or obi/sash. Outer tunic skirts may be wrap skirts that close in the front (hidden by the tabards or in line with the collar), or close with an invisible zipper or other hidden closure.
3. Jedi with shorter (mid-forearm) length sleeves are especially encouraged to include an under-tunic, arm guards, or wrist wraps that extend to the wrist (see below).
4. Jedi may have one or two thin gold stripes at or just inside the edge of the bottom of the tunic, the sleeves, the outer edge of the collar, the seam between the tunic and the collar, or a combination of those. The stripe may be made from narrow ribbon, soutache, piping, cording, or other simple trim; bias tape; embroidered; vinyl transfer; or finely painted. If the tunic includes the gold strip on multiple edges, it must be the same kind of material on all edges.
5. Tunic may be lined with gold-toned (light, medium, dark, dull, or bright gold are all allowed) fabric. Fabric is matte or has a slight sheen.

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[/box] [box]Bottoms

Required Details:

• Option A: Pants
  1. Plain, matte medium to heavy-weight pants in white, ivory, cream, dark gold, or brown colored fabric.
  2. Pants are straight and tuck into the top of the boots. Moderately loose pants to allow slight blousing over the top of the boots are recommended.
  3. Pants do not have visible pockets. Side and back pockets are allowed if covered by the outer tunic, tabards, and/or midcoat.
• Option B: Skirt
  1. Plain medium to heavy-weight long skirt in white, ivory, cream, or medium to dark gold colored fabric. Tabard fabric is matte or has a mild sheen.
  2. Skirt has an A-line, half-circle, or similar shape and is mid-calf to floor-length (ankle-length recommended).
  3. Skirt may be a wrap style skirt or continuous around the body.
  4. Skirt does not have any visible closures.
  5. Skirt may be a separate garment from the outer tunic (see above) or continue as a continuous robe/dress.
  6. Outer tunic may hang over the top of the skirt or be worn under the skirt at the waist.

Optional Details:

1. Skirt may have a gold line at or just inside the edge of the skirt, matching any gold lines on the outer tunic.
2. Skirt may be split at the sides or center front as long as pants or a continuous skirted tunic is worn underneath.

Note: Padawans (see alternate configuration below) may not use the skirt option.

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[/box] [box]Tabards

Required Details (All Styles):

1. Tabards are made of a white, ivory, cream, or gold-toned (light, medium, dark, dull, or bright gold are all allowed) fabric. Fabric is matte or has a slight sheen.
2. Front tabards are decorated with narrow edge stripes at or just inside the edges of the tabards, straight and V-shaped lines that extend from one edge stripe to the other, and matching colored Jedi heraldry designs. Tabard decorations are made of white, ivory, cream, or gold-toned (light, medium, dark, dull, or bright gold are all allowed) fabric. Decorative trim/fabric is matte, metallic, or has a slight sheen.
3. Tabard decorations are vertically symmetrical.
4. Jedi heraldry decorations must include at least one instance of the High Republic fan/fountain/peacock-like design. On the Y-style and medieval tabards (see below), this ‘fan’ must include an angular teardrop / elongated diamond-shaped / knife-shaped center piece that is taller than it is wide and at least one angled petal on either side of it (no more than 4 petals per side is recommended). The center of the ‘fan’ is optional for split tabards (see below) when the fan is split between the two sides of the tabards, but in those cases, at least 2 petals are required on each side.
5. Tabards hang down to between knee-height and mid-calf height in front. The back tabards may be slightly longer than the front tabard.
6. Tabards end at the bottom in a downward pointing V shape, are cut straight across, or have a gentle convex curve.
7. At the top, tabards do not extend more than 1” / 2.5 cm beyond the shoulder.

Optional Details (All Styles):

1. Back tabards may also have designs on them. Designs on the back of the tabards are the same as on the front. If the tabard is a different shape or is longer than the front, the back designs may be adapted slightly to fill the differing space but must otherwise look very similar.
2. Horizontal, curved, or V-shaped lines are recommended but not required on the tabards. If present, curves or V-shaped lines may point upward or downward. On the shoulder area and split tabards (see below) this may be achieved by symmetrical angled lines on the right and left tabards. Horizontal and V-shaped cross lines may be slightly curved.
3. Likewise, the High Republic fan design may be similarly split across the right and left tabards. In these cases, the center elongated diamond piece can be eliminated or cut in half.
4. Tabard decorations may include a few small vine-line curls branching off the edge stripes or the horizontal/V-shaped stripes across the tabards.
5. Tabard decorations may also include small diamonds or dots, and any other heraldry seen on official High Republic Jedi tabard art. Costumers who wish to use more obscure symbols must provide official reference images from the High Republic era to the judges when applying to support their choices.
6. Tabards are self-lined.
7. Tabards may also have the same decorations on the inside as they do on the outside.

Tabards must be one of the following styles:

Option A: Y Tabards

1. Tabards above the belt consist of two separate pieces with roughly parallel edges, that angle inward from the shoulders to where one overlaps the other at the belt. A single wider tabard piece hangs down below the belt.
2. Above the belt, tabard pieces are roughly the same width as or slightly wider than the obi.
3. Below the belt, the tabard may hang straight down with parallel edges or flare outwards to be wider at the bottom than at the waist.
4. In the back, the tabards may follow the same Y-overlap style as the front, or merge into a single Medieval style tabard (see Option B below). If the latter option is used, the back must still retain the same general shape as the front.

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Option B: Medieval Tabard

1. Tabard is made of a continuous piece of fabric (shoulder and hidden waist seams are allowed) with an opening for the head.
2. Tabard head opening may be rounded, rectangular, V-shaped, and/or include a vertical keyhole opening. The back of the head opening may be shallower than the front.
3. Tabard may be straight with parallel vertical edges or flare wider at shoulders and/or bottom.
4. Tabard may be, at most, as wide as the wearer’s torso, but must be no narrower than the obi.

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Option C: Split Tabards

1. Tabards hang down from the shoulder in front as two separate pieces. Front tabards may hang straight down, parallel to each other, or may angle slightly inwards towards the waist.
2. Each tabard is roughly the same width as the obi.
3. In the back, the tabards may continue as two separate pieces like the front, or merge together behind the neck into a Medieval style tabard.
4. At the bottom edge, like the other tabard styles, split tabards may end in a downward V-shape or cut straight across. Costumers wishing to use the V-shape bottom for split tabards may have both angle downwards towards the middle to make a single, disjointed V-shape.

Optional Details:

1. Back tabards may be longer in the back than they are in the front.

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[/box] [box]Obi

Required Details:

1. A rectangular obi wraps around the waist and is approximately 5”-8” / 13-20 cm wide, proportional to the wearer.
2. Obi is visible both above and below the belt.
3. Obi is made of a plain white, ivory, cream, or gold-toned (light, medium, dark, dull, or bright gold are all allowed) fabric. Fabric is matte or has a slight sheen.
4. Obi may be crisp and flat or lightly scrunched/bloused.
5. If the straight tabards are use, the obi is approximately the same with as the tabards.
6. Obi does not have a visible closure.

Note: Jedi Knight and Master obi do not have loose hanging sash tails. For requirements for Padawan sashes, please see the Padawan Alternate Configuration below.

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[/box] [box]Belt

Required Details:

1. Medium to dark brown leather or leather-like belt with a metallic gold, bronze, and/or silver buckle in the center front.
2. Belt closures are hidden beneath the buckle, holster, or matching leather/leather-like keeper flap or tube.
   • The only exception to this is if an off-center pin buckle is used in addition to the decorative center-front buckle (see Master Arkoff below for an example of this).
3. Buckles may be rectangular (clipped or rounded corners also allowed), diamond shaped, oval, circular, a shape inspired by the High Republic fan/fountain, or similar art deco leaf/feather shape. Buckles may attach to the belt with rivets, D-rings, or similar.
4. The allowed belt styles are:
   • Single Layer Belt: Belt is a single strip with straight edges. Belt is roughly ¾”-4” / 2-10 cm wide, proportional to wearer.
   • Double Layer Belt: The lower belt layer is roughly 2”-3” / 5-7.5 cm wide, proportional to wearer. A thinner secondary belt lays centered on top of it. The secondary belt is roughly ½”-2” / 1-5 cm wide. The secondary belt must lay tight to the wider under belt and not sag. The secondary belt may be a plain strip or braided. Belt may include thin vertical metallic or matching leather/leather-like bars or strips to hold the thinner top belt in place.
   • Jedi Master Rounded Belt: Belt is a single strip with a straight top edge. Belt is roughly 1.5” / 4 cm wide and dips into a half-circle shape on the lower edge in the front. Half-circle dip has a roughly 3” / 8 cm diameter. This style of belt may only have a circle, oval, half-circle, or half-oval shaped belt buckle. Instead of a buckle, it may have a half-circle cut-out in the dip. The dip is worn in the center front or slightly off-center in the front.

Optional Details:

1. Belt buckles may be decorated with the High Republic fan design or other similar High Republic based designs.
2. Buckles may include simple gemstones.

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[/box] [box]Boots

Required Details:

1. Medium to dark brown (same color as the belt) roughly knee-high boots made of a leather or leather-like material. Boots are matte or may have a slight sheen.
2. Boots are flat or have a low heel, 1.5” / 4 cm maximum.
3. Boots have a flat top edge at or just below the knee.

Optional Details:

1. Covered or inside zippers are allowed.
2. Buckles are permitted but must complement the boot and not detract from the overall look of the Jedi costume.
3. Boots may have matching horizontal straps around the top and/or ankle.
4. Boots may have matching spats or mini-chaps.

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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 appears to be made of metal (silver, gold, and/or bronze recommended), but may include significant wood portions. Hilt may include black rubber/plastic details, metallic greeblies, leather/clothing wraps, etc. that look appropriate to the Star Wars universe. Hilt may also include a guard.
3. The lightsaber may be a static prop (hilt only).
4. No “hero” lightsabers of face characters may be used for non-face character Jedi.

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, white/silver, or violet. If the costumer is carrying two single-bladed sabers, the blades must be the same color.

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OPTIONAL ITEMS

[box]Inner Tunic

Note: Temple Formal Attire must include either an Inner Tunic and/or a Midcoat

Required Details:

1. A fitted inner tunic is worn underneath the outer tunic.
2. Inner tunic is made of white, ivory, cream, or gold (light, medium, dark, dull, or bright gold are all allowed) fabric. Fabric is matte or has a slight sheen.
3. Inner tunic collar has a cross-over wrap style like the outer tunic, a rounded scoop neck, or a short mandarin collar that opens in the front.
4. Inner tunic is sleeveless, a dickey, or has wrist-length sleeves. If present, inner tunic sleeves are relatively fitted to the wearer’s arms. The sleeves may be a different color than the collar. Sleeves may end straight around the wrist or sweep out over the back of the hand.

Optional Details:

1. Inner tunic sleeves may have a thin gold (light, medium, dark, dull, or bright gold are all allowed) stripe at or just inside the end of the sleeve at the wrist.
2. Inner tunic may have a thin gold (light, medium, dark, dull, or bright gold are all allowed) stripe at or just inside the edge of the collar.

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[/box] [box]Midcoat

Note: Temple Formal Attire must include either an Inner Tunic and/or a Midcoat

Required Details:

1. A midcoat is worn under any style of tabards. For Y-shaped and split tabards, midcoats are in the same style as the tabards. Midcoats worn under medieval style tabards may either be medieval style or split.
   • Midcoats for any of the three styles may also connect under the arm with wide arm holes like long, sleeveless vests. This style either ends at or above the bottom edge of the outer tunic or splits at the side seam below the belt.
2. Midcoat is made of a white, ivory, cream, or gold-toned (light, medium, dark, dull, or bright gold are all allowed) fabric. Fabric is matte or has a slight sheen. Using a darker colored fabric for the midcoat than the tabards is recommended.
3. Midcoats are wider and shorter in length than the tabards. The outer edges of the midcoat are seen beyond the tabards at the shoulders and/or below the belt.

Optional Details:

1. Midcoat is decorated with narrow edge stripes at or just inside the edges of the midcoat. Decorations are made of white, ivory, cream, or gold-toned (light, medium, dark, dull, or bright gold are all allowed) fabric/trim. Decorative trim/fabric is matte, metallic, or has a slight sheen.
2. Midcoat inside edges/neckline may also be visible beyond the inside edges/neckline of the tabards. Same neckline shape as the tabards recommended.
3. Midcoat is self-lined.
4. Midcoat may have vine-like curls branching from the edge stripes at the bottom corners. If present, these must be left-to-right and front-to-back symmetrical and must be the same color as the edge stripes.
5. Midcoat may have decorative edge stripes and decorative curls also on the underside/lining.

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[/box] [box]Cloak, Cape, or Robe

Required Details:

1. High Republic Jedi wearing formal temple robes may also wear a cloak, cape, or robe:
   • Cloak/robe: opens in the center front and is sleeveless or has wrist length sleeves that are slightly wider and slightly longer than the outer tunic. Cloak sleeves may be straight or belled.
   • Cape: drapes over the shoulders and hangs behind the wearer. Cape has a full drape (A-line shape recommended). Cape fastens in the front center or asymmetrically towards one shoulder.
2. Cloak/cape/robe is made of a white, ivory, cream, or gold-toned (light, medium, dark, dull, or bright gold are all allowed) fabric. (White with gold lining recommended.) Fabric is matte or has a slight sheen.
3. Cloak/cape/robe has a large hood. When the hood hangs down, it can reach the shoulders and the mid-back.
4. The bottom edge of the cloak/cape/robe is between mid-calf and just above floor-length.

Optional Details:

1. Cloak/cape/robe may be self-lined or lined in another of the allowed cloak/cape/robe colors listed above. The hood may be unlined or self-lined even if the body of the cloak/cape/robe is lined in a contrasting color.
2. Cloak/cape/robe edges may be decorated with narrow edge stripes at or just inside the Edge stripes are made of white, ivory, cream, or gold-toned (light, medium, dark, dull, or bright gold are all allowed) material. Decorative trim/fabric is matte, metallic, or has a slight sheen.
3. Cloak/cape/robe may have a shorter capelet or cowl layer around the shoulders in the same fabric as the main body of the cloak/cape/robe. A cloak/cape/robe with a cowl layer may have an off-center clasp.
4. Cloak/cape/robe may hang fully open or clasp with brooches, large buttons, clasps, matching fabric straps, and/or chains in the front, just below the neck. These closures either match the color of the cloak/cape/robe or are made of metallic gold material. Buttons, brooches, and clasps may also include colored gemstones. Cloak/cape/robe closures must match the aesthetic of the High Republic Era (art deco or similar style recommended) and not otherwise distract from the look of the costume.

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[/box] [box]Lightsaber Holster

Required Details:

1. Jedi may have a lightsaber holster and/or metallic Covertex (or similar) clip hanging from the right or left side of their belt. (Jedi carrying two sabers may have clips/holsters on both sides.)
2. Holsters must be fitted snugly to the lightsaber and must be able to support the weight of the costume’s lightsaber hilt when it has no blade attached.
3. Holsters are made of leather or leather-like material (matching the belt) and/or metal or metallic materials.
4. Holsters are brown (matching the belt), black, silver, and/or gold, and may include decorative designs inspired by the tabard patterns.
5. Holsters may either hang directly off the belt or have straps that hang a low-strung holster further down the thigh.

Optional Details:

1. Holsters may have a matching leather or leather-like keeper loop attached at the bottom that fastens around the thigh

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[/box] [box]Belt Pouches

Required Details:

1. Costumer may wear small roughly rectangular pouches on the belt.
2. Pouches may be made of leather, leather-like material, resin, or similar.
3. Pouches are brown and roughly match the color of the belt.

Optional Details:

1. Pouches may be decorated with tooling, embossing, edging, etc. inspired by the tabard decorations. Decorations may be brown or gold tones.

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[/box] [box]Jewelry

Required Details:

1. High Republic Formal Temple Attire may include simple metallic gold jewelry including forehead tiaras/circlets, bracelets, earrings, arm bands, earrings, and/or hair clasps.

Optional Details:

1. This jewelry may include gemstones.

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[/box] [box]Bracers

Required Details:

1. Formal Temple Attire may include basic forearm bracers that roughly extend from below the elbow to the wrist.
2. Bracers are made of cloth, leather/leather-like material, or rigid metallic armor.
3. Bracers are brown, gold, silver, white, and/or cream in color.
4. Bracers may be made to look like a continuous tube on the forearm, have horizontal seams/sections around the forearm, or appear wrapped around the arm.
5. Bracers do not have conspicuous laces, buckles, or other large closures.
6. Bracers for Formal Temple Attire may have decorative edging but do not otherwise have decorative patterns on their surface.

Optional Details:

1. Bracers may extend to cover the back of the hand and/or matching fingerless gloves.
2. Bracers may be connected to the inner tunic sleeve as the lower part of the sleeve.

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PADAWAN

[box]Required Items:

1. Outer Tunic
2. Inner Tunic
3. Pants (Skirt not allowed for Padawans, except Wookiees; See below)
4. Tabards
5. Sash (see below)
6. Belt
7. Boots
8. Lightsaber

Optional Items:

1. Midcoat (sleeveless vest style only)
2. Cloak, Cape, or Robe
3. Jewelry
4. Bracers
5. Lightsaber Holster
6. Belt Pouches
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[box]Sash

Required Details:

1. A rectangular Sash wraps around the waist and is approximately 5”-8” / 13-20 cm wide, proportional to the wearer.
2. One end of the sash hangs down over the right or left help (right hip recommended). The end of the sash hangs down, ending between mid-thigh to just below the knee. The loose end of the sash hangs down from the top edge of the obi portion wrapped around the waist and covers the other end of the sash/obi closure. The loose end of the sash may hang down over the belt or be pressed down onto the obi under the belt and hang down loosely below it.
3. Sash portion wrapped around the waist is visible both above and below the belt.
4. Sash is made of a plain fabric that is matte or has a slight sheen.
5. Sash is the same color as the Padawan’s lightsaber (blue, green, yellow, white/silver, or violet).
6. Sash may be crisp and flat or lightly scrunched/bloused.
7. If the straight tabards are use, the obi is approximately the same with as the tabards.
8. No visible knots, bows, or other clasps; sash end flips down to cover closure knots or clasps

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[/box] [box]Padawan Braid (Optional)

Required Details:

1. Padawans may braid a lock of their hair in a thin (roughly finger width or thinner) to signify Padawan rank, at least shoulder length braid recommended.
2. Padawan braid hangs from behind one of the ears (right ear recommended) or from the center back of the head.
3. If the character is an alien that does not have hair, they may wear piece of braided ribbon, cord, or similar on the right, left, or center back sides of their head. The braid must complement and not distract from the costume design as a whole and must look appropriate for the Star Wars universe. Costumers designing an alien braid of this type are encouraged to submit in-universe reference images of other alien Padawans used for inspiration with their costume application.

Optional Details:

1. Padawan braids may incorporate simple beads, metallic, clasps, or ties to tie off the end of the braid.

Note: If extensions or a hairpiece are used, they must be high quality and look like real hair, matching the rest of the costumer’s hair.

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EXCEPTIONS: ALIEN JEDI

The above standard applies to all humanoid (human shaped and human sized) Jedi. The following is a rough guidance based on Jedi who have appeared in the High Republic series so far. If you wish to create a costume of an alien species outside of what is listed here, seek the guidance of the DCOs of Knights of the Jedi Order (KJO) and the Wretched Hive, and they will bring your proposal to the Rebel Legion Membership and Costume Group (RLMCG) for feedback.

[box]Wookiees

Required Details:

1. Wookiees do not wear pants or boots.
2. Wookiee inner tunics (if present) and outer tunics do not have sleeves. However, Wookie cloaks/robes do have full-length sleeves.

Optional Details:

1. Wookiees may wear short, mid-thigh length skirts. In this case, the bottom of the outer tunic may hang over the top of the skirt or be tucked in at the waist. All other requirements for skirts under “bottoms” above still apply.
2. Wookiee Padawans may wear any style of midcoat. Wookiee midcoats are encouraged to hang out over the shoulder like a short cap sleeve.

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[/box] [box]Trandoshans, Ithorians, and Other Aliens with Broad Feet

Required Details:

1. All requirements and optional items remain the same, except:
   • Broad feet aliens do not wear boots.
   • Pants of broad feet aliens end at or just below the knee. (Rules for skirts remain unchanged.)

Optional Details:

1. Broad feet aliens may wear cloth leg wraps (white, cream, or gold tones) or leather/leather-like (brown) spats that fully or partially cover the lower leg and/or the top of the foot.

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COSTUME RESOURCES:
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ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Updated: May 11, 2023

For Face Characters: Tattoos and body piercings – No tattoos or body piercings may be visible unless it is a tattoo/piercing the character has. They must be covered with makeup or by the costume.

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.