First off, I would like to say that this is a very important costume to me. Like many female anime fans, I was a complete Sailor Moon freak as a child, and still enjoy it today. And my SM fan-ness all started with Sailor V, when I saw a commercial for the dolls and loved Venus/V's glasses so much that I rushed out and forced my parents to buy me the doll. So, essentially, Sailor V is the whole reason I'm into anime and manga. In order to honor my "roots", so to speak, I knew that I would someday cosplay as V. Plus she's still my favorite Sailor Soldier. CRESENT~O BE~AMU! x3
My cosplay-partner KaitouHotaru, who you're going to be hearing about a lot, made about 85% of this costume. Part of this is because at the time I didn't have the resources or skills to sew it myself, and part of it is that he's a HUGE Sailor Moon fan, and wanted to make this costume.
So almost all the sewing for this costume was done by him (I helped with the slip/petticoats, which you cannot see in this picture). I was in charge of creating the solid part of the armor (arg), the glasses and the shoes.
Another thing that isn't in this photo is my hand-made Artemis plushie, which Kaitou made for me as a birthday gift. He's big, soft and wonderful, and I love him. <333
This is definitely the cutest costume I've worn thus far, and I loved wearing it. A bunch of people told me how much they appreciated somebody cosplaying V, which just made it even better.
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