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A dark brown nearly-floor-length robe with no closure in the front. The robe is constructed so there are no shoulder seams or sleeve seams. The deep hood is pleated into the neckhole and the seam is finished with self-bias tape. I found a great robe pattern online at Amber's Jedi Mediation Chamber: [here]. The fabric is a heavy woven that I found on clearance - approximately 4 1/2 yds. for less than $10.

           

       

Left to Right: front, back, front hood, back hood, sleeves front, sleeves back, robe open
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The double tunics are made from linen and crinkled cotton. The linen is a leftover piece from making my brother's Gandalf cape. I followed Maggie's making-of-page for the general shape of the tunics - you can find that along with pictures of her jedi costume [here]. The obi and tabards are simple rectangles of the same fabric, cut to fit my brother and then finished on the edges with my serger to prevent raveling. The tabbards are both linen; the obi is two layers, linen on the bottom and crinkled cotton over top.

   

Left to Right: front, back
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Since my little brother doesn't have a plain pair of kakhi pants (all of his are cargos with pockets on the sides), we reused his Gandalf pants. Luckily, I had added an extra deep hem that I was able to let out for this year. Check out the Gandalf the White making-of page if you'd like to see how the pants were constructed.
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The double belt was made from brown vinyl and a cheap clasp I found in the notions section of Joanns. I followed Maggie's directions on her making-of-page [here]. The back secures with velcro. I'd forgotten my leather tools and grommets when I was making the belt, so I dug in my stash and came up with one side of a metallic snap as a 'rivet'. These were super-glued on and held up suprisingly well. The smaller inner-belt wasn't showing up well on the vinyl as I had hoped, so I used a sharpie to define the 'shadows' of the belt a bit more. Also, we made food capsules from pen tops and buttons that we spray painted gold and silver. These aren't shown with the final pictures, but will be worn when my brother goes trick-or-treating on Halloween.

   

Left to Right: front, front lightened to show detail
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We bought a lightsaber at Walmart for $20. It's super spiffy and *vibrates* when something hits the blade. It lights up too! :)
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Left to Right: with robe and without robe
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To see the reference images used to make this costume,
check out my Star Wars Jedi Research.