This is a post about cosplay

[sinnatious]

A hundred internet points to whoever can guess what this cosplay will be:

 

The entire thing is hand-sewn.  ;___;  I cry.  I really need to invest in a sewing machine, it would make this whole cosplay thing a great deal less labour-intensive (and a good deal less raggedy, too).  I still fail at fabrics, this was my first serious attempt at making everything for a cosplay.  (Previous ones were largely op-shopped or modded or held together with sticky tape and pins.)  It still needs to be ironed, so the zig-zaggy pattern won't be there.  I also kind of wish I'd thought to line it, or at least to do the hems a bit differently.  What I get for sewing and watching the tennis at the same time.  

 

Sometimes I feel bad spending time on cosplay at the expense of other more career-related things, but damn, you know, I learn a lot of weird stuff from cosplay!  It's taught me how (not) to dye fabric.  It's taught me how to wear a kimono, and about all the different types of traditional Japanese and Chinese clothing, from furisodes to cheongsams to geta to zori.  It's taught me more about sewing than I ever learned in home economics.  It's taught me about fabric and paint mediums and clay and varnish.  It's taught me more about makeup and hair-styling than I ever would have learned otherwise (though still have a long way to go on all of these things.)  It taught me how to use a glue gun.  Heck, before I got into cosplay, I didn't even know what a glue gun was.



It taught me how to make fake weapons!  Which I am not allowed to carry anywhere, which sort of defeats the point of making them.  Varnish bubbles, I hate them.  :|  Did not thin the varnish quite enough, but am afraid to go over it again in case of ruining everything.



This ought to be a pretty big freaking clue.  Ahaha, why do I keep choosing esoteric and largely forgotten characters to cosplay?   *Will be recognised by nobody*  ;__;  I have an event to wear this to now, but I actually started it around Christmas for no apparent reason, with no real planning, just the sudden inexplicable desire to fill a vital hole in my fandom experience.

Although, wow, that looks really weird without the wig.

Only the shoes and wig-styling left to do!  Looks like for once I'm going to be finished well in advance!