My Thomasin Cosplay (The VVitch) | Photography by World of Gwendana

Wanted to share my handmade cosplay of the character Thomasin from Robert Eggers’ The VVitch (2015)! I included references of Thomasin at the end to show that I tried to stay as truthful as possible to her garments (within my skill level - no way I could have hand sewn all of this)! I must confess I did not use historical techniques and materials in the interest of saving both time and money.

I self drafted the pattern for her underdress and modified a pattern from Sewist.com for her jacket. The pink garments are made of cotton flannel, her apron of linen, and her coif from an old cotton pillowcase I had. All the eyelets are hand sewn as are all of the button holes except the bottom two (I initially tried to use my machine, which was a failure). Her “shift” is a men’s pirate shirt which I modified by adding eyelets and ties at the neck and wrists. Her weird blue sock-bag-thing was made by sacrificing the sleeve of a sweater and sewing up the bottom to create that pouch shape. I opted to forgo her knife as I made her outfit to wear to my local Renaissance Faire (I know this isn’t renaissance lol, but I wanted to live deliciously) and they would’ve made me peace bond a fake knife anyhow. The one thing I have left to do on this is add prick stitching on the sleeves, but I honestly lost momentum once everything took shape. Everything was weathered appropriately with eyeshadow and literal dirt.

Absolutely gorgeous and cinematic photography by World of Gwendana. He is an amazing photographer and was able to provide amazing direction despite me struggling (I am a cosplayer/crafter, not an actor, so this was a challenge)!

Real pilgrim hours