Khal Drogo Game of Thrones Costume

With Ren Fest 2k17 approaching my father needed a costume. It's always hard to find a heat sensitive costume to wear because the renaissance time period strongly prefers everyone to be fully clothed, so I turned to GOT for inspiration. Eventually we decided that Khal Drogo would be the best costume I could make in a short period of time. This costume is not an exact replica because I wasn't through in planning it, but it works.

This build cost about $90 dollars to make, and took about 20 hours.

- Leather ( I used about 12 square feet)

- Synthetic hair

- Waxed thread

- Hot glue

- Graments

- Cow hide

- Leather punches

To begin with, I sketched out a rough design of how I wanted the costume to look, I took the measurements, so I knew the scale of every thing. I drew out the pieces onto freezer paper (newspaper works just as well), traced them onto leather, and cut them out.

The middle three leather ovals have these patterns that kind of look like suns (five episodes into watching GOT I realized that the front isn't the only part of the costume that has this design, and hence my costume was inaccurate.) I punched out the holes to weave the leather into with a 3/16 inch leather bunch, the center hole was punched with 3/8 inch hole punch. I also punched eight holes for the leather stitching (it's easier to show than tell for this step so look at the pictures)

I cut a thin strip of leather about 3 feet long and weaved it through the holes to make the sun pattern. Then I used another strip of leather to stitch the leather ovals together (pic 5).

I cut out 1 inch strips from the leather, and weaved them through holes I cut in the leather pieces (just look at pic 4). I used waxed thread to sew the ends of the strips together (pic 3) so the costume wouldn't fall apart. If you don't want to add a corset back, you could just tie these strips together in the back.

I made a little button latch out of a leather strip and a button and sewed it onto the leather. These latches can hold tankards or coin purses.

I used my grament machine to make a corset back.

I took strands of synthetic hairs, and glued them to a leather strip. I folded the leather strip so that one part glued the hair in place and the other part could be strung onto a belt. A visual made from a napkin (pic 5). I forgot to add pic on this part, but I strung a string through the hair pieces, and I also strung pieces of cow hide onto the string as well.

I cut a trapezoid shaped piece out of leather. I glued strips of leather to the gauntlet vertically.

My leather is crudely painted brown btw.

I glued a misshapen strip of leather to the top of the gauntlet (pic 3)

I placed dots where I wanted my graments to go, and used my grament machine to put them in.

The other gauntlet is made from a scrap piece of two punch leather, that I just wrap some strings around.

What a great fest, and a great build!

Khal Drogo Horse Belt

Remember to wear sunscreen kids!

If you have any question feel free to comment below or message me :)