For a long time, the calendar illustration that this version of ed comes from was the background of the fma livejournal community. ^^ It's where I saw it first, and since I was looking for alternate ed costumes to do, I was like 'o.o hey, that'd work!'
[Thanks to Bobbi for the actual shot used in the icon, photo taken by her at IkasuCon 2005. ]

This costume took less than four hours to construct. I already had the suit jacket, pants, shirt and shoes, so all I had to do was create the chain (a couple hours with paint and Sculpey) and buy a red tie. Fairly simple, really.

Who says you need to know how to sew to cosplay Edward?