Monster Roar

Adult Katy Perry Roar Set

We have a saying at the Tutu Factory when I (the designer) creates something that everybody wants and we're working silly hours to get the 100s of orders out. "We've created a monster." And with the Roar costume we certainly have! If you've seen any of my other blogs you'll see I love Katy Perry but I didn't set out to make her Roar set. A customer made a custom order to create the roar tutu skirt and I later decided to make one with the flowers and then see if we could make a top to go with it. I placed it on ETSY to see how it would do and here we are. Several hundred sets later and still going...

11-12 Year Katy Perry Roar Costume

3-4 Years Katy Perry Roar Costume

So we thought we'd let everyone see what work goes into making our Katy Perry sets. We don't have a team of people cutting, another sewing, adding detail etc. It's all done by hand, by 1 of 2 people. So yes, it won't be out within 24 hours but it's hand made especially for you so we like to think it's worth the wait.

Making the Tutu

We have 3 different greens to create Katy's jungle leaf tutu look. Each layer has 3 panels and we also have 2 layers of flashes in there too that have to be individually cut out at various lengths depending on the length chosen by the customer.

After cutting the individual layers each layer then has to be 'feathered' into the spikey leaf look!

Now the tutu is cut and ready to be sewn

And into the waiting queue they go! Each tutu has a label with the customer's name, waistband colour choice and sizes

Working out way through the jungle of tutus waiting!

Now it's just time to start adding the flowers and leaves onto the waist

Each flower and leaf is individually hand sewn on

And that's the tutu done! Now for the top...

Making the Top (Long Children's version)

We have made our own pattern for the top. This fabric is £25 a metre so it bumps the price up but it is the best stretchy leopard we've found (and we tried a lot!) So it's worth it!

Drawing around the pattern ready to cut out

The top is cut out by hand with scissors. No fancy shmansy machines for us :(

As most of the edges are left unsewn we have to make sure that the lines are super straight so they give a great finish! It's slow going but we'd rather they look as nice as possible. Then they just need to be sewn together and that's that one done! Just that one...

Now for the next one, and the next... oh, and the next one too.

 Hopefully, you've had an interesting sight into the behind the scenes of the Tutu Factory and how much effort really goes into one of our tutu sets!