A new favorite! XD
lol I even got my hair cut for it. ^-^; I liked Toshiya's hair anyways though, so contrary to popular belief, I DIDN'T get my hair cut JUST for the cosplay. XD I would've done it anyways. Honest. :3
This outfit was fairly easy. It just took a lot of time. ^^; I traced a sleeveless shirt and extended the length of it at the bottom. Then I made the sleeves. I had a separate gauzey material that I used for all of the strips. For the strips that run along the shirt's trunk and sleeves, I cut out strips of the gauze (doubled it up though 'cause it's thin), sewed the two pieces together, then sewed them onto the shirt as so. For the sleeves though, I had to stitch them on by hand, as I didn't have any room to work with on the sewing machine. x.x;; It took me about an hour per "ring" on the sleeves, so...estimation of 8 hours total on the sleeves. ^^;; (I hated that part >>) Then for the dangling strips I used the same material and doubled the material up again. I sewed down the strips so they wouldn't unravel too much, and then I stitched them onto the gauze strips that were sewed onto the trunk. Lastly, I stitched the rings into the bottoms of the dangling strips, though I only had 4. lol ^^; I need to get more, as they're dangling from ALL of the strips. x_X Ugh.
For the text on the black splotch (used black fabric paint for that btw), I used left over Liquitex from my shoes (because I didn't feel like buying new white paint lol >_>). I got some stencils that were in Times New Roman style...in two sizes. But it turned out that the smaller of the two was too big for the small text...it was just right for the bigger letters though. ^^;; So for the bigger letters (P,A,S,T, m, and r) I used the stencils, and the rest of it I painted on with a safety pin. ^^;;; I had the advantage of having the shirt that has the text on it to look off of...the shirt's text is identical to the Yokan text even down to the positioning/spacing of the words and even the font type/size, I'm confident. So I had something to look off of. XD; (I imagine the scan of the shirt is hard to use. :/) That was pretty tedious, and it took 2-3 days to get right, but I'm proud of how it turned out. ^^
For the shoes, I used Liquitex paint to paint over the black PVC that was there before. I also painted the heel of the shoes, as it was black, and it bugged me. XD (Showed too much.) Then I got some white shoe laces, and whoo!
Bought items were: white gloves, tights, pinky ring (lol), dog collar (bought it and tried it on at a pet store! XDXD), necklace, earrings, make-up. o.o
Think that's it. XD
Favorite part: It's so comfortable! Even the shoes! And no wig!
Least favorite part: Construction-wise, stitching the strips onto the sleeves. For wearing, having to be careful how I stand up after I'm sitting...It's easy to step on the strips and potentially rip them out. >.o;
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