Making the Satyr: The Legs

"Finally!" I'm sure you're all saying.

Here is how I made the legs. Most people who do the digitigrade legs have to accommodate for the foam. At this point my brother decided we were going to scrap the idea of digitigrade and just do regular hairy pants (I will explain how we managed to make them digitigrade after all in a moment). To make the pants without a pattern I just set down a regular pair of pants. Pants are tricky in the fact that you'd expect them to be just two diagonal tubes, but they're more complicated than that. Take a look.

So, using that as a guide (and a fabric pencil I had to sharpen after every two feet of marking) I managed to cut all four pieces of the fur.

Something to note about working with such a hairy fabric: it will make a mess. You will get hair on the floor, on your clothes, and everything else it touches. That's all before you even start cutting it. Make sure you have a lint roller and a vacuum cleaner handy (neither of which you should use on the fur fabric itself, just on what's shedding off)

Here is one of the legs sewn together. It looks long on the bottom and tall on the top, but ended up being perfect on the bottom and maybe a little short on top. I intentionally left part of the bottom unsewn (you can kind of see a V on the left where the foot is poking through) so there was more room and so that the pants can rest on the hooves better.

The pants ended up being surprisingly baggy. Enough so that we decided to bring back the digitigrade pillows and give them a try. We stuffed the upper front pillows from the top and the lower back pillows from the bottom (it takes two people to put the legs on). It's a tight squeeze but it also means the pillows won't slip out.

Overall, this is what we ended up with:

He is standing completely straight.

Perhaps in the future we will consider Velcro to attach the digitigrade pillows and an elastic band for the top of the pants, but for now it works very well for an attempt made with no previous costuming experience.