Ooh, cosplay!
I've only done a little bit myself. Can't really afford to go to too many cons, and cosplaying hasn't really caught on at FallCon at all. I've seen a little bit done, but the costumes weren't really that great, unfortunately.
The best cosplaying I've done was at Novi Con 2001, where I went as Zoisite from Sailormoon, but did the manga version since another gal already did the anime version(and that year, she got her hubby to go as Kunzite/Malachite...and I think I have a pic of that around here somewhere, lol...let's just say he really fit the part!). I didn't make the costume myself, since I can't sew worth a darn, at least where clothing's concerned, and my mother's not a very good seamstress, so we had a neighbor lady do it. Didn't cost too terribly much, so I managed to afford it.
The parts I did obtain myself were the belt(a bit of elastic that I spray painted- yes, spray painted- green), the gloves(believe it or not, these were snitched from my prom dress garb from my junior prom. Still have the dress, figured the gloves could get more than one use out of 'em
), and the boots(just bought 'em myself, cheap things from Kmart of someplace, I forget where).
The cape Mom did, actually, but the gray parts, the jacket and pants, the neighbor lady did. I took a bunch of pics when I was out there staying with Don Ivey(well, she took 'em, since I'm obviously posing in them
) in her backyard. I chose two of the best ones that I liked to share with you guys.
Yes, I know the hair isn't the right color.
I've got long enough hair to do the style, but there's nooooo way I'm going to bleach it all blonde, not when it took me 15 years to grow it that long.
That's my katana I'm holding, one I bought that year at one of the flea markets Don took me to. Did a bunch of goofball shots and various poses one afternoon for the heck of it, shot up nearly a whole roll of film, too.
If I could afford it more, and went to more cons, there's a lot more cosplay I'd like to do. I've wanted to do a Sailor Pluto, but I kinda shy at the idea of wearing a really short skirt for it.
Trying to recall if there were any other animes I wanted to cosplay to. Sailormoon's the one anime I've followed the most.
Non-anime, I have to say, I want to work on a suit of full Mandalorian armor and go as one of the two Fetts, but there's no way I can do that in a hurry. Earl's found recipes(lol, as it were) to make the costume, but they ain't cheap by a long shot, and it'll take a long time to do it. The worst of it will be the helmet part. There's two kinds of replicas one can get for costuming, and the best one is easily a grand, so we either have to save a looooong time for that, or we can go with the cheaper one(100-200, depending on where you get it) and fix the faceplate visor(it apparently comes with cheapy plastic that's not very good, but is apparently easily replaced).
Earl 'n I've talked about it(joking that he'd go as Jango 'cause he's taller, with me as a young Boba since I'm shorter
), but until we can afford it, it doesn't look like we'll be doing that anytime soon.
