Every time I see I am tagged on Facebook there is always a dread for what it may be. Especially when it is someone I don't talk to as much as I should. When I saw my friend who is in the Caribbean of course red flags went up. Turns out he just wanted a cosplay group for a manga called Magi. (The anime to this is now available on Crunchyroll here: http://www.crunchyroll.com/magi ) When I saw the character I thought to myself "Of course I am tagged as the one with the huge boobs." I then found out that Johnny had been tagged too. The characters we were tagged as supposedly have thing going on. I was a little more inclined to participate when I found that out. Since I had no plans for ALA at the time, and had not seen this guy in a long time, I decided why not?
Picture we were tagged in....
I looked at the character further and decided that it really was not too bad since it was mostly a robe and witch hat. Even though I had never made a witch had before, I just so happened to have have a pattern I had been wanting to use. From there everything on this costume seemed to just fall into place. The shells on her head I decided to outsource to the lovely Vensy (https://www.facebook.com/#!/VensyCosplay), who had a mold for them since she had made a pair for someone else already (convenient!). Randomly there was a costume shop going out of business and I managed to score a plastic sea shell bra for stupid cheap. All we did to the shells was spray them pink and glue them onto a bra that I was going to toss soon anyway. As for the fabric bits we got really lucky by scoring some nice linen from the LA Fashion district for $2.50 a yard. We bought 10 yards of it since I was going making 2 costumes (Mine and Johnny's).
So for the most part this costume came together fairly easily. The only real annoying thing on this costume was the TRIM! That stuff was the biggest pain in the butt! Because there were 3 of us that needed the same trim we had to make it all the same way. Johnny, Susan and I were sweat shopping on just the trim for at least a week. We cut ribbon into slivers, which we then fray checked both ends of, and then glued down on to a green fabric we had already cut into stripes. This took a long time. Thankfully Susan did hers, Johnny did his, which left me to do mine. After Johnny had his glued down and I had mine done I then went and actually sewed down the entire thing! I got very good at turning fabric in the sewing machine.
Even though we chose an annoying way to make this trim we ended up with a uniform trim among all 3 of us which is what we were trying to achieve. The over all effect was worth it. It was so much work just to make the trim I almost didn't want to sew it onto the actual costume. I love it when costumes come together in away one does not expect them to. I had a really good time working as a team on these costumes. I hope we can choose another project where we can do group work again soon!
Information on the staff can be found on Johnny's blog here: http://junkerscosplay.blogspot.com/2013/02/yamuraiha-magi-ala-2013.html
Ycy Susan, Sushi Monster, and I
Junkers Cosplay and myself
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