a cosplay thread that isn't by plutonis

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Raeve: Jul 25, 2013

Plutonis posted:

loving nailed it.

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Raeve: Jul 25, 2013

Vermain posted:

it's pretty well put-together in terms of details, but it looks frumpy and wrinkled in a lot of places,

This goes right back to material choice again. Thin cheap bullshit will always look like thin cheap bullshit, and probably means you can't really iron it either.

Some material will just never lay or fit right, and good luck fusing a collar. The Mikitaka just above looks like it was made with that metallicized spandex, which just makes the wrinkles look even worse when it's not something skin-tight (go figure the stuff is dirt cheap). Stretch materials are a great way to cheat a fit, but you always need non-stretch if you're trying to make a certain shape.

Another issue is overblowing a color just because of how it appears in the art. Olivier's and Mikitaka's uniforms would be navy blue, but closer to black, just like Sakamoto's. They use a lot of blue in the official colorations because you'd just have an amorphous black blob otherwise (also, black ink is expensive, which is why Dick Tracy wore yellow). It goes back to cerulean being the only seemingly useful blue in a box of Crayolas, because I know I was a dumbshit kid who didn't understand lighting or contrast.

If you're buying a China prefab costume, you're getting thin cheap bullshit in the most apparent overblown color, guaranteed.

Vermain posted:

consequence of not wanting to spend hundreds of dollars on custom-tailored stuff.

When you're spending <$10/yard, the tailoring isn't the problem.

What you run into is a sort of 'Practicality Uncanny Valley', where it looks okay but you know it'd never fit the real purpose or withstand day-to-day wear. Anime and manga just happen to be a source where practicality is already shaky.

Goddamn I miss sewing real things.

Raeve fucked around with this message at 05:51 on Jan 5, 2017

# ¿ Jan 5, 2017 05:48

Raeve: Jul 25, 2013

Yeah that was the part I wanted to throw in but forgot: Do at least have fun.

My ranting came mostly from that mention that cosplay is expensive because of tailoring, which is silly unless you've never sewn in your life and/or don't own a single machine. What might get expensive is materials that look, lay, and feel right, and cheap polyester that you can't even iron just makes everything harder.

Currently trying to find a pattern or basic idea for how to do that weird cavalry uniform/nehru collar for my Nephrite, which I've been promising to do for years now.

# ¿ Jan 5, 2017 11:18

Raeve: Jul 25, 2013

Vermain posted:

That's fair. I appreciate the insight from someone with vastly more experience in it than me.

Probably not vastly. I only did a little cosplay sewing on the side and have mostly made dresses. Attempted a corset exactly once. Getting things to fit right is just a matter of not rushing (plan to finish a week before an event, not the night before), not shorting your allowances (buy enough material, this is another "trying to go cheap makes things harder" thing), and pinning a fit before sewing (you're gonna get poked, deal with it).

# ¿ Jan 5, 2017 15:57