Cosplay Options

[Saffy]

I really never thought I would make a topic like this, but going to conventions and dressing up is quite fun even though I've only done it once so far. On that note, this topic is not for making fun of cosplayers.

So, who here cosplays or has considered doing it? Who have you dressed up as? Would like to?

I may be going to Anime North this year and I'm quite hopeful I can dress up as Kurt :]

(IMG:http://www.bokumono.com/series/sugarmin/chara/img/shin_hayato.jpg)

I'm too lazy to crop the photo.

[Marley]

other then Lightning from Final Fantasy XIII
I plan on cosplaying

-Miku Hatsune (Vocaloid) because her wig looks like it would be fun to wear >.<

Ooooooooof. I dun think so. >> I cosplayed Yellow from Pokémon Special once, and she has one big giant ponytail on the back of her head. It kept getting tangled and caught in everything and it was heavy and weighed down my wig... the things I put up with for a costume. I can't imagine what it would be like having two of those super-long monsters. @_@ Very impractical. I don't know how all those Miku cosplayers do it.

The other cosplay I've done is Yuki Nagato... who wears the exact same thing as Haruhi. Except with a sweater and different socks. And a wig that was a pain to dye. What, ever-so-slightly-purplish grey isn't an industry standard color? Phlooey.
Anyway, yeah, as goombaguy said, most North High uniforms look waaay too bright. Most likely because almost all cosplayers use the same color fabric: brand-new bright frickin' turquoise. And that bugs me, so I went to painstaking measures to dye my fabric a more accurate color... it ended up being too light because those blasted dye packets never tell you how much water you need (also I was mixing brands of dyes, which is never a very good idea) but it was much closer than most alternatives.
And if you don't want to go through the bad news bears of dyeing... that turquoise is the closest color on the market.

So... yeah... cosplay...
I like cosplay.

I dream of coaxing my friend into cosplaying the Irises with me. owo She's into cosplay, RPG's, and Harvest Moon (though she hasn't played RFF), so... I don't think it should be too hard of a deal to make. And she's the only person I know who looks enough like me to pull it off. Of course, we're not biological twins... but makeup can do anything. >3
It's gonna be a difficult costume (trying to figure out how that cape works HAS kept me up at night), but we'll figure it out. They're just too cute to pass up~