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  • KimGiancaterino Apr 22, 2009 @ 11:39 am | delete
    Wonderful dedication... I'm very impressed!
  • starlitparlit Nov 10, 2008 @ 9:04 am | delete
    I love the pictures. The work that you have done is exquisite! Can't wait to see the finished product
  • mulberry Sep 25, 2008 @ 9:40 pm | delete
    I'll be interested in seeing the photos. I guess the cost of the costume isn't so surprising based on your passion for the topic/character. It may seem outrageous to some but we all tend to "overspend" on at least one or two items that no one else "really gets". It's just a reflection of what we enjoy.
  • EelKat Sep 25, 2008 @ 12:09 am | delete
    OMG! OMG! OMG! I have a camera again! YES! My Sessho costume lenses will have pictures of my costume on them just as soon as I can figure out how this thing works =P
  • tdove Sep 18, 2008 @ 5:48 pm | delete
    Thanks for joining G Rated Lense Factory!
  • Wyzard Sep 2, 2008 @ 7:46 pm | delete
    My weak skills pale by comparison. I've only even used one pattern so far for my anime costumes. I should say those I make for my daughter, I just go as the watchful dad character since I'm not quite such an anime fan as she is. I've been trying to teach myself to sew going by one or 2 pics and draping the fabric over her, using pins to mark where to sew.
  • Rya Sep 1, 2008 @ 2:05 pm | delete
    Wow--your dedication is impressive
  • EelKat Aug 17, 2008 @ 1:05 am | delete
    and than again... there is a reason why other Sesshy fans refer to me as *The Bride of SesshoMaru*.... you really do got to like a character an awful lot to take a costume to these extremes.
  • EelKat Aug 17, 2008 @ 1:00 am | delete
    ...continuing from last post...

    A local guy asked me how I could spend so much on a costume and my answer to him was: a bride spend $5,000 - $20,000 on a dress she will wear at most 3 hours, so for me to spend $4,000 on something I'll wear daily for the next 5 or 6 years, really isn't that much when you compare it.

    I'm actually not too unusual... head to www.CosPlay.com and you'll find I'm only one of tens of thousands of folks who devote their lives to making (and wearing) character costumes. The average costume usually take 9 months and about $400 - $700 to make. Star Wars Storm Troopers average 4 years and $2,000 - $8,000 to make!

    When finished, this will make it debut at PortCon (an anime convention), and very likely to be seen at other conventions as well.

    Of course, I'm dressed as Naraku right now. :)
  • EelKat Aug 17, 2008 @ 12:54 am | delete
    @rwoman

    This actually is the first time I've ever spent more than $75 for the materials for one of my outfits. I'm generally *a buy at clearance* sewer. :)

    Actually interesting story behind all of this. I love theater, would like to be a fashion designer for stage, but never got into it for one reason or another, and so I threw out all my *street cloths* and sewed myself a stage wardrobe instead. I can't be on stage than I'll just turn the whole world into a stage instead.

    With my other outfits including: Uncle Scrooge, Darkwing Duck, Willy Wonka, Tom Baker's 4Th Doctor Who, the sisters of Sense and Sensibility, and several SCA-garb, I've never made anything to strict historically accurate methods before. I wanted to make something that I could enter into an SCA embroidery contest, and well, I really love Sessho Maru, I'm one of his more rabid fangirls, I'm afraid. ...running out of room here...
  • rwoman Aug 15, 2008 @ 7:10 pm | delete
    Wow. This is interesting and mildly disturbing. What is the driving force to spending so much money and time?
  • The_Homeopath Aug 14, 2008 @ 11:59 pm | delete
    Wow - score on the great wig!

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