Going with Alice/ What about Miranda?

I'm not too worried about having or not having a costume for PAX coming up in two months. Partially because I've been off my antidepressants and I don't feel inspired to do anything and partially because I have alot to worry about as far as finding a job for the summer and bringing my GPA up in school. However, I think that I am going to try to be as casual and relaxed about making my Alice costume as I can because otherwise I am going to hate the process and it is going to completely turn me off from sewing.

I have found a free pattern online for a fifties couture dress that will work well for my Alice dress. The dress is sleeveless but I don't think it will be too hard to sew on puffy sleeves. I haven't even looked for an apron pattern yet, because I think that once I sew the dress the apron shouldn't be terribly hard to figure out.

Here is the dress that I am using as a guide for the alice dress and a link to the pdf of the pattern and instructions:

 Instructions and Pattern

And here are some links that I found to give me an idea of how to create the sleeves:

tutorial video

puffier

For the Miranda Costume, I am thinking that I might just have to make it with either a pleatheryish white fabric or some other alternative fabric. I guess realism for that one shouldn't be that big of a priority seeing as how I have never made a costume at all before, it won't be perfect.

Ideas I had

I don't know who this is, but it's epic, I like the outfit much better than the other ones, it's still sexy but not gratuitous. I am reconsidering Ulala as well though, I like the outfit alot, but i've never been wicked interested in the futuristic scene, I've always looooved steampunk/ dark victorian, like alice/bioshock

So last night I was thinking about my costumes.

First, I was thinking about my Alice dress:

 

The reason that this appeals to me is that I have always been really interested in macabre of the Victorian era as well as the fashion and extremely dark twists on childrens stories. I imagined myself wearing this costume though, and I wasn't really into it. I think the reason why is because this dress is too simple, like it's sweet and kind of sexy, but my take on it would be to add some lace and corset-like ribbon accents.

Then this would deviate from the costume and realistic aspect, but I thought that maybe that was okay, like maybe cosplay is about really getting into the video game and expressing your opinions about the images and such and adding your imagination onto it.

So when I was looking at fabric for my Miranda costume I thought why not deviate here as well? I would really like to make it as true to the video game as possible, but I think that people will understand if I can't and I also think that Alex won't care as long as I'm uuber sexy. I think as long as I stay true to the type of costume, like the accesssories, proportions, ect and have slightly unrealistic fabrics if I have to, then making this costume is a big possibility.

Next step I think... is to measure my size, I think I have to measure around every curve of my body so that it can fit well enough.
Also, with Alex's suggestion I posted on 4chan for help
Here are some of the fabrics that I've been considering for Miranda:

$6.99/yd

$1.29/yd                                                                                                                                                                          

 For this one I was thinking that I would buy a light grey fabric, place this over it and then use some sort of spray paint or spray die (i have no idea how one would do this) and spray white onto it. But the shapes might be too small for it to be worth the effort