[Line/Staff Officer Service Dress, proposal.]

Hope everyone's been enjoying the holidays! My line officer is just about done, and I'm very excited to get started on the service dress variant once that's approved 

[Line/Staff Officer Service Dress, proposal.]

So, I’m inches away from submitting approval photos for my line officer, and I’m really excited to add this variation for my second 501st costume. But I’m a little confused by the recent discussions on this thread.

 

I understand the love for crisp officers with tall riding boots, snazzy hats, and jodhpurs—the pants that seem totally ridiculous on their own, but are somehow perfectly elegant and menacing with the rest of the uniform. But are these concerns relevant to the creation of this CRL? Is it possible to block this CRL out of concern for the purity of the classic officer? 

 

And how is it a bad thing to have a costume that’s easy to build/afford? Why call people choosing this costume lazy? Don’t you want to welcome more people into the 501st and the IOC? It almost feels like people want the IOC to be an exclusive, elitist(?) club, and that worries me as someone just joinning. 

[Imperial "Hall Walker" Officers ANH CRL]

Here are the clearest pictures I could find, FWIW:

 

Hall Walker 1

Hall Walker 2

Hall Walker 3

Hall Walker 4

Hall Walker 5

Hall Walker 6

Hall Walker front

 

And I really hope we keep "Hall Walker" as the official name

[Warrant Officer / Staff Officer / Bridge Crew gloves]

13 hours ago, PArmstr said:

You did a very good job. I only own the DVDs so I have to work with the screen caps from https://starwarsscreencaps.com/ because they have a better quality than anything that I could take but still I was not able to find what you did.

Thanks! Some of the credit definitely has to go to Harmy for this. And doing costume research has been a great way to relax between working on final projects this semester.

[Warrant Officer / Staff Officer / Bridge Crew gloves]

I don't want to get off topic, but since there were references to ESB line officer gloves, which I've been researching for my costume build, I thought I'd share these references I found, which show that Needa and Ozzel do have 3 stitches, and they aren't the super short gloves some of the other officers seem to be wearing.

 

Needa gloves 2

Ozzel gloves

 

It took some very careful frame by frame viewing to catch these, since lighting and motion blur often completely hide the lines.

 

For comparison, here's one of Piett. I know it's blurry, but I think it's still fairly clear that his gloves are shorter.

Piett gloves