Materials:

Skirt and vest fabric: I used a warm, rich red waleless corduroy. Waleless corduroy is very light, is made of cotton so the wearer's skin can breathe, and has only a very, very subtle pattern of lines. It feels wonderful, and from a short distance away has the lustre of velvet, which gives off a sense of wealth and privilege, something important to the character. A satin dress would have looked like a generic prom dress. Waleless corduroy is also washable and ironable, although you have to iron the reverse side of the fabric because the iron crushes the fuzzy pile on the front side and you have to spend time rubbing it to get it to stand back up again.

Ruffle/overskirt fabric: This is something I would redo if I had the chance. The commission was an emergency commission - the client was going to an anime convention in two weeks and needed a rush job - so I wasn't able to do quite as much comparison-shopping as I'd have liked. The color of the ruffle in the anime is closer to turquoise than blue, but I couldn't find the right color in the right fabric. What I ended up doing, after consultation with the clerk in the fabric store, was getting a blue synthetic (I've forgotten exactly what type of fabric it was), and a blue-green netting, which I sewed together. The netting killed the color and the shininess of the blue underlining a bit, and added some needed stiffness to make it ruffle. Since the ruffle isn't very big, I wasn't worried about getting it in a natural fiber because it wouldn't make the wearer overheat. If I were to re-do this costume, though, I'd track down a light non-shiny fabric in the right color and line the bottom edge with horsehair. Horsehair isn't horse hair, contrary to expectations. It's a slightly stiffened woven plastic strip which adds light support to hem edges. The horsehair on the bottom edge of a light fabric would make it ripple properly.

Details:

White muslin (cotton) for the false pockets.

Gold ribbon for the false pocket details and the collar insignia.

Fusible interfacing: The cuffs, the front and armholes of the vest, the false-pocket pieces, and the gold insignia all require stiffening and support. Fusible interfacing works better than sewn-in interfacing for me, because I always screw up when trying to sew it in, and the fusible stuff seems to be stiffer.

Bias tape: wide bias tape for the white strip on the breast-pocket area, and thin bias tape for the edging on the cuffs and vest.

Thread: red, white, turquoise, and a dull gold color.

Four yards of red hook-and-loop tape (Velcro).

7 large white buttons.

Epaulets:

1 yard gold cording with a strip of woven fabric attached to make the epaulets

1 yard plain gold cording for the cord that goes from the brooch to the shoulder.

Orange Ping Pong balls for the epaulets.

Sandpaper to sand the Ping Pong balls to allow the paint to stick to them.

Paintbrush

Gold craft paint for epaulets and brooch.

2 blue tassels for epaulets. Again, due to the time constraints, I wasn't able to get tassels that exactly matched the ruffle and the jewel in the brooch, but I discovered that some of the pictures of the anime show tassels that are a different shade than the ruffle, so I'm slightly mollified.

Brooch:

Wood disks, plastic jewel, pin backs, jump ring for brooch.

T-pin to attach cord to brooch.

Miscellaneous:

Epoxy.