What You’ll Need
Yellow Letterman Jacket
White Iron On Letters
Green Fabric Paint
Navy Blue Fabric Paint
Green Pleated Golf Dress
Choker Necklace
White Belt
Green and White Wristbands
Dark Blue Wig
Green Gem Hair Pins
Green and White High Tops
Navy Fingerless Gloves
Kaoru Matsubara’s transformed look as Powered Buttercup in Demashita! Powerpuff Girls Z merges an athletic tennis-style uniform with superhero accents. Her outfit centers on a vibrant green pleated dress worn under an open yellow letterman vest, accompanied by high-top sneakers, arm accessories, and choppy dark hair secured with gem pins.
Because ready-made costume sets for this anime adaptation are difficult to find, assembling the pieces from athletic sportswear yields a clean, durable result. With minor fabric painting and deliberate styling, standard sports garments transition directly into her signature combat uniform.
Modifying the Dress and Jacket
The base of the costume relies on a Green Pleated Golf Dress. A sleeveless athletic dress provides the structured collar, zipper neckline, and sharp skirt pleats required for Buttercup’s silhouette, while the flexible athletic fabric offers comfortable range of motion.
Over the dress, Kaoru wears an unfastened yellow jacket with white ribbing. A Yellow Letterman Jacket works as the base garment; you can remove the sleeves at the shoulder seams to create her cropped vest cut or leave them pushed up. Use White Iron On Letters on the left chest to recreate the bold white letter P seen on her superhero uniform.
To add the dark graphic bands to the dress hem and collar, use Green Fabric Paint and Navy Blue Fabric Paint. Masking off your lines with blue painter’s tape prevents bleeding and keeps the painted borders crisp along the edges of the fabric.
Belt, Armwear, and Neckline
A wide White Belt cinches the waist directly over the dress, defining the boundary between the fitted bodice and the pleated skirt. Fasten it snugly around your natural waist so the yellow vest rests openly on either side without hiding the belt line.
Her arm styling pairs two distinct textures. Start by pulling on Navy Fingerless Gloves to cover the hands while leaving fingers free. Slide Green and White Wristbands over the wrists right above the glove cuffs to match her layered athletic look.
A simple black Choker Necklace sits snug against the base of the throat, completing the high-contrast neck details beneath the dress collar.
Styling the Wig and Hair Accessories
Kaoru’s hairstyle is a choppy, tomboyish bob cut with flared ends and pointed front bangs. Start with a short Dark Blue Wig, using shears to point-cut the bangs so they separate into uneven triangular locks across the forehead. Work a small amount of matte styling paste or hairspray through the back layers to flick the ends upward into defined spikes.
Once the wig holds its shape, slide two Green Gem Hair Pins into the bangs on the right side just above the temple. These clips hold the front sections back from the face while replicating her distinctive hair accents.
Footwear
For footwear, lace up a pair of Green and White High Tops. Basketball-style high tops match Kaoru’s skater-tomboy energy and provide dependable ankle support for long hours on convention center floors, rounding out the outfit with practical sports footwear.
