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 )
- Song of Amazon’s Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1jinmKpyJWsTtdZSNz8NZDN4UKFayhrVQ
REQUIRED ITEMS
Outer Tunic
Required Details:
- Outer tunic is made of a medium to heavy weight fabric that is medium to dark brown, gray-brown, or medium gray to black in color. Fabric is matte or has a slight sheen. Material is a woven fabric, leather, or leather-like material.
- Outer tunic may be one of two styles: kimono-style or vest style.
- Kimono style:
- Kimono style outer tunics close in front with an angled wrap collar from one side of the neck towards the opposite hip. This style of tunic either crosses over the chest or angles down to meet above the belt. The combined outer tunic and inner tunic(s), if present, must completely cover the torso up to the base of the neck.
- Kimono style outer tunics may include a kimono-style collar on the outer tunic. 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.
- Vest style
- Vest style outer tunics fully cover the chest and back, attached together at the side seams to at least the belt height.
- Vest style tunics also include a standing collar. The standing collar may be stiff or slouchy (like a turtleneck). Stiff collars either open slightly in the center front or have a hidden closure. There may be a narrow V or keyhole slit below the collar to assist in getting the collar over the head. Alternatively, there may be a center front opening straight down the front if any zippers or other closures are completely hidden by the outer tunic fabric or gold/coordinating trim.
- Kimono style:
- The outer tunic must not have any visible closures.
- The bottom edge of the outer tunic extends to between mid-thigh and roughly knee-length. This edge may be cut straight around the body, come to a point in the front and back, or curve to be higher in the front (fully covering crotch) to lower in the back.
- The outer tunic may either be sleeveless or have wrist-length sleeves.
- Sleeveless tunics either flare out at least 1” (2.5 cm) beyond the outer edge of the shoulder or include 1-2 layered capped sleeves. Capped sleeves are either rounded or come to a central point on the side. Either style is stiff and holds its shape.
- Long sleeves on tunics are wrist-length and straight to slightly belled and moderately wide. They may either tuck into bracers (see below) at the forearm or hang over the bracers to wrist length. Long sleeves, when present, must be medium to dark brown, regardless of the color of the tunic over the chest.
Optional Details:
- The outer tunic may have open side slits below the belt.
- The outer tunic may have gold trim around some or all edges, as well as on the collar seam.
- If the costumer is wearing vest-style tabards the fully cover the buttocks and a single front tabard below the belt that covers the crotch, the outer tunic may be shorter and tuck into the pants at the belt height.
- Vest-style tunics may have horizontal, curved, or V-shaped piecing, seams, or matching decorative lines across the body.
- Outer tunic may flare out to an A-line or half-circle shape below the belt.
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Inner Tunic(s)
Required Details:
- Mission attire includes 1-3 inner tunics. Inner tunics are made of a medium to light-weight fabric that is matte or has a slight sheen.
- If the outer tunic (see above) is sleeveless, the outermost inner tunic layer must have long sleeves. These sleeves are wrist-length and straight to slightly belled and moderately wide. They may either tuck into bracers (see below) at the forearm or hang over the bracers to wrist length. This outermost inner tunic is white, off-white, cream, light gold, or light gray.
- Additional inner tunic(s) beneath this top layer (if present) may additionally be medium to dark gold, black, pale earthy green, medium to dark gray, or medium to dark brown in color.
- If visible at the neck, inner tunics have either a kimono-style collar, standing collar, or turtleneck style collar. These styles may be mixed together if multiple layers of inner tunics are present.
Optional Details:
- Inner tunic(s) may be sleeveless or dickies if the outer tunic has sleeves or one of the other inner tunics has sleeves.
- The inner tunic(s) may have gold trim on some or all edges, and/or on the collar seam.
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Pants
Required Details:
- Plain, matte medium to heavy-weight pants in white, ivory, cream, tan, dark gold, or medium to light brown colored fabric.
- 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.
- Pants do not have visible pockets. Side and back pockets are allowed if covered by the outer tunic or tabards.
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Tabards
Required Details:
- Tabards are made of light to dark brown medium to heavy-weight material. Fabric is matte or has a slight sheen. Material is a woven fabric, leather, or leather-like material.
- Front tabards are decorated with narrow edge stripes at or just inside the edges of the tabards; matching straight or curved horizontal, vertical, or angled lines; and/or Jedi heraldry designs. Edge trim is gold-toned (light, medium, dark, dull, or bright gold are all allowed) material. Heraldry is brown or gold toned. If there are no other instances of gold trim on the tabards, outer tunic, or obi, the heraldry must be gold. Decorations are matte, metallic, or have a slight sheen. Decorations may be fabric, ribbon, smooth or subtly braided trim, piping, finely painted, embroidered, applique, and/or tooled (leather).
- Tabard decorations are vertically symmetrical.
- Tabards hang down to between knee-height and mid-calf height in front. The back tabards may be slightly longer than the front tabard.
- Tabards end at the bottom in a downward pointing V shape are cut straight across, or angle down towards the center.
- At the top, tabards do not extend more than 1” / 2.5 cm beyond the shoulder. Flared shoulders or shoulder armor of the outer tunic must be visible beyond the outer edge of the tabards.
Optional Details (All Styles):
- 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.
- Tabards are self-lined or lined in a matching fabric.
- Tabards may be assembled with decorative piecing using the same or different shades of brown material. Pieces have straight and/or angled sides. Any piecing must be symmetrical across the garment. Piecing may be outlines with brown or gold trim or piping.
Tabards must be one of the following styles:
Option A: Vest & Tabard
- A sleeveless vest is worn over the outer tunic.
- Vest has a standing collar. The collar may be the same or a different shade of brown than the body of the vest. Collar is self-lined or lined in a matching fabric.
- Vest hangs open to at least the sternum, and may be worn with center front edges meeting at a V shape, closing with the center edges together, hanging parallel, or overlapping over the chest (no visible closures).
- The bottom edge of the vest must be at least one hand-width below the bottom of the obi and no longer than slightly below the knees. This edge may be cut straight around the body, angled up or down in a V at the center front and/or back, or curved to be higher in the front than in the back.
- A single tabard hangs down from the waistline, below the obi. The tabard is roughly the width of the obi and may flare out wider near the knees. This tabard is either cut straight across or comes to a V point at the bottom. This tabard ends between just above the kneecap to mid-calf height. The tabard may be worn above or below the vest.
Optional Details:
- This style may also include an identical tabard hanging down from belt height on the back of the costume. Similarly, this may be worn over or under the bottom of the vest.
- Vest is self-lined or lined in a matching fabric.
- The tabard is optional for vests that are at least knee-length that also include gold decorations (see Edge of Balance images below).
- The vest may be slightly flared below the belt.
- The vest may be split at the center back, below the waist, for better movement.
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Option B: Medieval Tabard
Required Details:
- Tabard is made of a continuous piece of fabric (shoulder and hidden waist seams are allowed) with an opening for the head.
- 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.
- Tabard may be straight with parallel vertical edges or flare wider at shoulders and/or bottom.
- Tabard may be, at most, as wide as the wearer’s torso, but must be no narrower than the obi.
Optional Details:
- Tabards may include a standing collar.
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Option C: Split Tabards
Required Details:
- Tabards hang down from the shoulder in front as two separate pieces. Front tabards may hang straight down, parallel to each other, angle slightly inwards towards the waist then hang roughly parallel below the waist, or cross roughly at the waist.
- Each tabard is roughly the same width as the obi.
- 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.
- 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:
- Back tabards may be longer in the back than they are in the front.
- Crossing tabards may have asymmetrical decorations (if present) below the waist.
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Obi
Required Details:
- A rectangular obi wraps around the waist and is approximately 5”-8” / 13-20 cm wide, proportional to the wearer.
- Obi is visible both above and below the belt.
- Obi is made of a light to dark brown, medium to heavy-weight material. Fabric is matte or has a slight sheen. Fabric is woven, leather, or a leather-like material.
- Obi may be crisp and flat or have slight bunching.
- If the straight tabards are use, the obi is approximately the same with as the tabards.
- 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.
Optional Details:
- Obi may have decorative borders/trim in gold or brown.
- Obi may curve to be slightly wider in the front than in the sides/back.
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Belt
Required Details:
- Medium to dark brown leather or leather-like belt with a metallic gold, bronze, and/or silver buckle in the center front.
- 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 Edge of Balance image below for an example of this).
- 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.
- 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.
Optional Details:
- Belt buckles may be decorated with the High Republic fan design or other similar High Republic based designs.
- Buckles may include simple gemstones.
- Belts may include a matching leather or leather-like bandolier across the chest. Bandolier may be used to hold the lightsaber, small pouches, or other greeblies. Bandolier may include a silver and/or gold buckle at or near the shoulder in the front or back.
- Belt and/or bandolier (if present) may have a matching narrow strap in the center of the belt/bandolier that forms several (4-5 recommended) loops that snugly hold small silver cylinders. These cylinders may have flat or rounded ends (both ends must be the same) and are taller than the strap but narrower than the belt/bandolier. Cylinders are roughly the thickness of a pen.
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Boots
Required Details:
- 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.
- Boots are flat or have a low heel, 1.5” / 4 cm maximum.
- Boots have a flat top edge at or just below the knee.
Optional Details:
- Covered or inside zippers are allowed.
- Buckles are permitted but must complement the boot and not detract from the overall look of the Jedi costume.
- Boots may have matching horizontal straps around the top and/or ankle.
- Boots may have matching spats or mini-chaps.
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Lightsaber
Required Details:
- Costumer must carry one or two single-bladed lightsabers or one double-bladed lightsaber.
- 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.
- The lightsaber may be a static prop (hilt only).
- No “hero” lightsabers of face characters may be used for non-face character Jedi.
Optional Details:
- Attached blade, LED lights and sound effects are allowed, but not required.
- 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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Arm Protection
Required Details:
- Mission attire must include at least basic forearm bracers that roughly extend from below the elbow to the wrist.
- Bracers are made of heavy cloth or leather/leather-like material.
- Bracers are medium to brown in color.
- 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.
- Bracers may have gold edges but do not otherwise have any decorations.
Optional Details:
- Bracers may extend into or be worn with full or fingerless gloves in a matching brown color. If the bracer is a separate piece from the glove, the glove must be tucked into the bracer so that no skin is showing at the wrist.
- Forearm guards may be worn over bracers. Forearm guards are made of a rigid material and fully cover the top of the forearm. They may also include a small guard over the back of the hand. They are secured to the arm with at least two straps under the arm. These straps may be black or brown and may include small matching or metallic buckles. Forearm guards are either metallic or brown. Brown bracers are made of leather or a leather-like material. Brown bracers may have gold edging but do not otherwise have any decorations. Metallic bracers are mainly silver, but may include raised gold edges, decorative lines, and/or High Republic heraldry designs.
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OPTIONAL ITEMS
Robe
Required Details:
- High Republic Jedi wearing mission attire may also wear a robe, cloak or cape:
- 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. Robe sleeves may be straight or belled. Sleeves are roughly wrist length, slightly longer than the Outer Tunic and Inner Tunic.
- Cloak/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.
- Robe is made of medium to dark brown fabric. Fabric is matte and medium to heavy weight.
- Robe has a large hood. When the hood hangs down, it can reach the shoulders and the mid-back.
- The bottom edge of the robe/cloak/cape is between mid-calf and just above floor-length.
- If the robe is not lined, the seams inside must be neatly finished (serged, French seams, English seams, felled, etc.)
Optional Details:
- Robe edges may be decorated with narrow edge stripes at or just inside the edge. Stripes are made of gold-toned (light, medium, dark, dull, or bright gold are all allowed) material. Decorative trim/fabric is metallic or has a slight sheen.
- Robe may have a cowl layer around the shoulders in the same fabric as the main body of the robe. A robe with a cowl layer may have a center or off-center clasp.
- 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 robe or are made of metallic gold material. Buttons, brooches, and clasps may also include colored gemstones. 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.
- Robes may be self-lined or lined in a different shade of brown than the outside of the cloak.
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Armor
Required Details:
- Jedi Knights and Masters may wear any combination of the following armor: shoulder armor, shoulder bells, and/or sternum armor.
- Shoulder Armor: Worn completely over the tabards and curves over the top of the shoulders from at least the inner to outer edge of the tabards. This may extend slightly beyond the outer edge of the tabards. Shoulder armor may curve across the upper back like a yoke, connecting both shoulders. Shoulder armor may also include a standing collar.
- Shoulder Bells: Cupped/domed armor that covers the outer shoulder that is worn from under the tabards and Outer Tunic (if sleeveless). Shoulder bells extend somewhat beyond the outer edge of the shoulder and are large enough for the arm to move freely, but not excessively large.
- Sternum Armor: A flat half-circle or U-shaped band, roughly palm-width, curves down from the shoulders, across the sternum/upper chest, and back to the shoulder on the other side. This is worn under the tabards. If inner tunic(s) are present, it may be worn under the outer tunic but over the inner tunic(s).
- All armor may be made of heavy brown leather or leather-like armor (matte or slight sheen). Shoulder bells and sternum armor may additionally be a hard, smooth material that looks like a metal material (silver and/or gold in color).
Optional Details:
- Armor pieces may be decorated with gold edging and/or High Republic heraldry designs.
- Leather/leather-like armor may include parallel quilting lines/piecing seams.
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Lightsaber Holster
Required Details:
- 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); or on their bandolier, if present.
- 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.
- Holsters are made of leather or leather-like material (matching the belt) and/or metal or metallic materials.
- Holsters are brown (matching the belt), black, silver, and/or gold.
- Holsters may either hang directly off the belt or have straps that hang a low-strung holster further down the thigh.
Optional Details:
- Holsters may have a matching leather or leather-like keeper loop attached at the bottom that fastens around the thigh.
- Holsters may include decorative designs inspired by the High Republic logo.
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Belt Pouches
Required Details:
- Costumer may wear small roughly rectangular pouches on the belt.
- Pouches may be made of leather, leather-like material, resin, or similar.
- Pouches are brown and roughly match the color of the belt.
Optional Details:
- Pouches may be decorated with tooling, embossing, edging, etc. inspired by High Republic logo. Decorations may be brown or gold tones.
- Pouches may have gold edging.
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Jewelry
Required Details:
- High Republic Mission Attire may include simple metallic gold jewelry including forehead tiaras/circlets, bracelets, earrings, arm bands, earrings, and/or hair clasps.
Optional Details:
- This jewelry may include gemstones.
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ALTERNATE CONFIGURATIONS
Padawan
Required Items:
- Outer Tunic
- Inner Tunic
- Pants
- Tabards (see notes below)
- Sash (see below)
- Arm Protection (see notes below)
- Belt
- Boots
- Lightsaber
Optional Items:
- Cloak, Cape, or Robe
- Jewelry
- Lightsaber Holster
- Belt Pouches
- Padawan Braid (see below)
Tabards
Required Details:
- All tabard styles above are permitted, except for fully parallel split tabards. When vest & tabard or split tabard styles are used, the tabards must protectively cover at least 60% of the front and back of the torso.
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Sash
Required Details:
- A rectangular Sash wraps around the waist and is approximately 5”-8” / 13-20 cm wide, proportional to the wearer.
- Sash portion wrapped around the waist is visible both above and below the belt.
- Sash is made of a plain fabric that is matte or has a slight sheen.
- Sash is the same color as the Padawan’s lightsaber (blue, green, yellow, white/silver, or violet).
- Sash may be crisp and flat or lightly scrunched/bloused.
- No visible knots, bows, or other clasps; sash end flips down to cover closure knots or clasps.
Optional Details:
- 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.
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Arm Protection
Required Details:
- All of the above requirements for Jedi Knight and Master arm protection apply, except: Padawans may not wear arm guards that include gold decoration. Only plain brown or silver arm guards are allowed.
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OPTIONAL ITEMS
Padawan Braid
Required Details:
- 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.
- Padawan braid hangs from behind one of the ears (right ear recommended) or from the center back of the head.
- 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:
- Padawan braids may incorporate simple beads, clasps, or ties to tie off the end of the braid. These may be metallic gold/silver, match the hair color, or match the color of the lightsaber/sash.
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.
Wookiees
Required Details:
- Wookiees do not wear pants or boots.
- Wookiee inner tunics (if present) and outer tunics do not have sleeves. However, Wookie cloaks/robes do have full-length sleeves.
Optional Details:
- Wookiee sternum armor may extend from the center-bottom of the U into a vertical strip down towards the belt to form a protective chest harness. This is tucked under the obi and belt.
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Trandoshans, Ithorians, and Other Aliens with Broad Feet
Required Details:
- 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.
Optional Details:
- Broad feet aliens may wear cloth leg wraps (brown, white, or off-white) 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:
- Song of Amazon’s Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1jinmKpyJWsTtdZSNz8NZDN4UKFayhrVQ
Disclaimers:
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.