I made some costumes, I really did
Time the get off my ass and update a bit of the costumes I worked on for WCS! I'll write about the trip it self in some separate entries~
We ended up choosing to bring five costumes for the events. WCS only requires minimum of 3 costumes (finals + 2), but we felt more comfortable with several costumes in case one gets ruined or simply too gross&sweaty to wear. We chose one more intricate costume pair for the red carpet, and the rest based on what would be easy and comfortable to wear in the heat of Nagoya. One criteria was also that Yumi wasn't in a good position to make lots of new costumes, so we chose something she'd have at hand already. Those ended up being Mia Fey from Ace Attorney and Catherine from Catherine. To pair them I made Maya(Ace Attorney 6) and Trisha.
Lightning Returns was one of our options for the qualifiers last year, so it ended up being quite an easy thing to choose for the red carpet. Afterwards we also decided on Asuka's and Rei's school uniforms from Evangelion. They ended up being an excellent choice for the courtesy visits day.
Maya Fey - Ace Attorney 6
When we discussed me making an Ace Attorney costume so Yumi could bring Mia, Maya was probably the first character that caught my eye and fit the description of what to bring to Nagoya. I was planning to make her younger version, _until(!) AA6 was announced during the year with some concept art for an older Maya. That design was much more appealing to me.
The costume is fairly simple. The dress is a sleeveless kimono flared from the bottom so it opens a bit like in the concept art. Canonically it's probably meant to be a straight kimonodress, but I preferred the look of my reference, I'm pretty happy of the fabric I found for the purple jacket and how I managed to make it without sideseams. Also on the fact that I managed to match the two different whites like in the reference.
The shoes were some old flipflops I trimmed, painted and added the red ribbons. The pearls on the necklace and wig are just treated styrofoam balls, like the other hair trinkets.
Her golden mega-tama was probably my favorite thing to make in this costume. It's carved finnfoam with sanded airdryingclay on top.
Surprisingly this ended up being my hottest costume, with sweat running down my legs xD From the waist up I was pretty fine though.
Photo by Eetu Lampsijärvi |
Photo by Zweit |
photo by Eetu Lampsijärvi, extraedits by me |
Asuka - Neon Genesis Evangelion
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