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Look and feel - and a pee break ruining everything!
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ZeroEnna
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20 January 2011
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So, after 4 years of inner disunity, I finally made up my mind to do my first crossplay. Though Merle is still on my to do list (and actually on my "currently work in progress" list), I postponed it for a very good reason.
In the last week of the last year, I recieved a message that THE series for all crossplayers will be most likely re-broadcasted in my homecountry Germany in 2011. I'm talking about SAILOR MOON!
So as I had Sailor Uranus on my list already, I gave it a higher priority. Well, to be honest, I am not an experienced cosplayer after all, so I asked my girlfriend to help me.
Had I but known earlier....
First of all, we discussed about the way of building the costume. I preferred the most realistic way in both look and feel. Use a white bodysuit, sew the skirt to it, built a vest out of thicker material, such as neoprene, to give it a look as in the live-action series (like on this picture of Venus and Jupiter http://www.tv-box.or...jlor-mun-01.jpg), sew the front bow on it, and voilá you're done.
But my girlfriend was totally against it. First of all, a bodysuit would be toootaaallly uncomfortable for guys, because they have these nasty extra features around the crotch area. Second, if I must go to the bathroom, I would have to totally undress, which is way too complicated when it is veeeery urgent (sorry for those "vowel invasion", but I transcribe it the way my girlfriend stressed it). And small hooks in the crotch would be impossible, because they are soooo difficult to close, also I would rip the fabric sewing them on!
No, I HAVE to make it much easier! I have to take a tight fitting shirt, cut it in a V shape at the bottom and, and this would be my base. Then I would have to sew everything else to it, and when finished, this would be easier to handle in "urgent cases".
I objected that I wouldn't feel very comfortable when knowing that a rash stretch or a wrong move would show my pants, but she wiped it away. She said that we could fix the dress to the pants using safety pins, so nothing would get out of place.
I felt a little bit annoyed.
And while we're on it, she began, my plans for my Kohaku costumes would have to be revised as well, because I would have the same problems when using a full body suit for this!
At that point I cut the discussion. It was useless! Of course she was right with saying, it would be a problem to undress when going to the bathroom. But that is a risk I would take, and in the past ten conventions there was only ONE where I had to pee.
But what should I do? I know my girlfriend's meaning well, but if she gives me the whole nine yards, how could I keep up my defense in all seriousness?
I mean, she's a great person and I love her, but when arguing with her, I have serious problems to not give in. So I have two projects, that are going to become degraded! I hate it. I think I should take it Meat Loaf's way: I would do anything for love....but I won't do that....except you have big brown eyes making you feel that on one hand, she agrees and gives in, but on the other hand that she still insists on dissuade you from your plans.
In the last week of the last year, I recieved a message that THE series for all crossplayers will be most likely re-broadcasted in my homecountry Germany in 2011. I'm talking about SAILOR MOON!
So as I had Sailor Uranus on my list already, I gave it a higher priority. Well, to be honest, I am not an experienced cosplayer after all, so I asked my girlfriend to help me.
Had I but known earlier....
First of all, we discussed about the way of building the costume. I preferred the most realistic way in both look and feel. Use a white bodysuit, sew the skirt to it, built a vest out of thicker material, such as neoprene, to give it a look as in the live-action series (like on this picture of Venus and Jupiter http://www.tv-box.or...jlor-mun-01.jpg), sew the front bow on it, and voilá you're done.
But my girlfriend was totally against it. First of all, a bodysuit would be toootaaallly uncomfortable for guys, because they have these nasty extra features around the crotch area. Second, if I must go to the bathroom, I would have to totally undress, which is way too complicated when it is veeeery urgent (sorry for those "vowel invasion", but I transcribe it the way my girlfriend stressed it). And small hooks in the crotch would be impossible, because they are soooo difficult to close, also I would rip the fabric sewing them on!
No, I HAVE to make it much easier! I have to take a tight fitting shirt, cut it in a V shape at the bottom and, and this would be my base. Then I would have to sew everything else to it, and when finished, this would be easier to handle in "urgent cases".
I objected that I wouldn't feel very comfortable when knowing that a rash stretch or a wrong move would show my pants, but she wiped it away. She said that we could fix the dress to the pants using safety pins, so nothing would get out of place.
I felt a little bit annoyed.
And while we're on it, she began, my plans for my Kohaku costumes would have to be revised as well, because I would have the same problems when using a full body suit for this!
At that point I cut the discussion. It was useless! Of course she was right with saying, it would be a problem to undress when going to the bathroom. But that is a risk I would take, and in the past ten conventions there was only ONE where I had to pee.
But what should I do? I know my girlfriend's meaning well, but if she gives me the whole nine yards, how could I keep up my defense in all seriousness?
I mean, she's a great person and I love her, but when arguing with her, I have serious problems to not give in. So I have two projects, that are going to become degraded! I hate it. I think I should take it Meat Loaf's way: I would do anything for love....but I won't do that....except you have big brown eyes making you feel that on one hand, she agrees and gives in, but on the other hand that she still insists on dissuade you from your plans.
