Cosplay crisis over
May. 20th, 2007 01:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ailsa_chanWas ready to give up yesterday. You know that stage every costume gets to where it stops being a collection of pieces of fabric and starts to take shape and you think "Yeah, this is going to work"? Well I hit the next stage which is discovering it doesn't fit and there's a problem that requires you to undo every single hem to fix (There is a lot of hemming on a trench coat.)
Threw the costume in a corner, had a sulk for a bit, then watched Lucky Star and ate rice crakers until I felt better. I think I've sorted the problem out and it should fit a lot better now, so I just need to finish off the trims. Just don't ask to look at the inside, as it's not all perfectly lined as it used to be. It would be nice not to fuck up a project once in a while, but there you go.
So, nearly one costume down, 5 to go. Alice is nearly done too, I don't envision Kyoko being much of an issue. Joe's corresponding costume will be more interesting. I'd like to get Matoko done, just so I have something very skimpy to wear. There's nothing like it for a confidence boost, and interestingly, it's girls I get the most respect from. I got lots of guys taking pictures of Fran, but it was girls who gave me the most "well done, that's amazing" comments. Which meant the costume went from more trouble than it was worth to worth the trouble I put in.
Off to play with pvc some more and then watch Death Note til my eyes bleed with Wessex. The second opening is all of the metal. All of it!
Threw the costume in a corner, had a sulk for a bit, then watched Lucky Star and ate rice crakers until I felt better. I think I've sorted the problem out and it should fit a lot better now, so I just need to finish off the trims. Just don't ask to look at the inside, as it's not all perfectly lined as it used to be. It would be nice not to fuck up a project once in a while, but there you go.
So, nearly one costume down, 5 to go. Alice is nearly done too, I don't envision Kyoko being much of an issue. Joe's corresponding costume will be more interesting. I'd like to get Matoko done, just so I have something very skimpy to wear. There's nothing like it for a confidence boost, and interestingly, it's girls I get the most respect from. I got lots of guys taking pictures of Fran, but it was girls who gave me the most "well done, that's amazing" comments. Which meant the costume went from more trouble than it was worth to worth the trouble I put in.
Off to play with pvc some more and then watch Death Note til my eyes bleed with Wessex. The second opening is all of the metal. All of it!