I've made the pauldrons for this costume before (and posted a write-up of them in my Armormaking Tutorial,) but this is my first crack at making the costume in its entirety. A friend's daughter is a big fan of Slayers so for Animazement 2004, I made her this costume. I had made the armor before so it wasn't too difficult to figure out. The shirt was a different story however, since it has a collar that juts up from the neckline without a seam. The gloves and boots weren't too hard to alter, and the demon's blood talismans and belt gems were made by cutting plastic Christmas ornaments in half and gluing them into craft foam and plastic settings. My friend's daughter was a natural model for this costume, as she had the perfect hair (and as you can see from the pictures, had Lina's attitude down PAT.)