Photos!
Luckily, the weather was decent today and we made it to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Met thedreamerworld there and she and my brother took lots of photos of my Count D artbook kimono. ^_^
The cherry trees are all in full bloom now so if anyone local wants to see them, you should go this week. Unfortunately, I think they’ll all be gone by the time Sakura Matsuri actually happens in a couple of weeks. ;_; Don’t know if I’ll cosplay for the festival now since the flowers will be gone and most of my costumes are too cumbersome to take the subway in. If I can find a Japanese print fabric I like, I might just make a cute dress to wear instead.
And my brother finished his Anime Boston pics the other night.
A few more pics in the general AB album:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fotofong/sets/72157623828002590/
Photoshoot of mostflogged as rock star Yoko:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fotofong/sets/72157623872782634/
Plus, I have stuff to post now! :-D
Here’s my Youko costume from The Twelve Kingdoms. The construction is much like the nyosen uniform I did a few years ago. Two kimono style tops, two skirts, a sash that closes with snaps in the back, and a panel that hangs from a belt hidden under the sash. They’re hard to see in these pics but I got green contacts for this. Still want to add something to that front panel but haven’t decided what.
And my other new costume for the con was Count D’s artbook kimono. I ended up with 96 appliqués on the finished costume and used up about 6 whole spools of the gold metallic thread (around 1,300 yards) stitching them down! The designs on the appliques are handpainted and all the embellishment probably took 45-50 hours between painting, cutting, and sewing.
I went much more in a fantasy direction so the construction is not like a real kimono. I made the tops and skirts separate so that it’s easier for me to get dressed since I have no experience with wearing real kimono. The skirts are based on a half circle skirt and the black one is basically a wrap skirt that buttons together with a bit of overlap. I kind of wish I’d allowed for more overlap since it falls farther apart when I wear it than it did on my dress form. I added an extra flap to the black skirt to fake the waist fold and the obi hides the waistband.
I was telling my brother when we were taking pics that Yuuko and her wish-granting shop from xxxHolic reminded me a bit of D and his pet shop. And since this was a kimono costume for D rather than the typical Chinese robes, I tried lounging around like Yuuko. XD;
The cherry trees are all in full bloom now so if anyone local wants to see them, you should go this week. Unfortunately, I think they’ll all be gone by the time Sakura Matsuri actually happens in a couple of weeks. ;_; Don’t know if I’ll cosplay for the festival now since the flowers will be gone and most of my costumes are too cumbersome to take the subway in. If I can find a Japanese print fabric I like, I might just make a cute dress to wear instead.
And my brother finished his Anime Boston pics the other night.
A few more pics in the general AB album:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fotofong/sets/72157623828002590/
Photoshoot of mostflogged as rock star Yoko:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fotofong/sets/72157623872782634/
Plus, I have stuff to post now! :-D
Here’s my Youko costume from The Twelve Kingdoms. The construction is much like the nyosen uniform I did a few years ago. Two kimono style tops, two skirts, a sash that closes with snaps in the back, and a panel that hangs from a belt hidden under the sash. They’re hard to see in these pics but I got green contacts for this. Still want to add something to that front panel but haven’t decided what.
And my other new costume for the con was Count D’s artbook kimono. I ended up with 96 appliqués on the finished costume and used up about 6 whole spools of the gold metallic thread (around 1,300 yards) stitching them down! The designs on the appliques are handpainted and all the embellishment probably took 45-50 hours between painting, cutting, and sewing.
I went much more in a fantasy direction so the construction is not like a real kimono. I made the tops and skirts separate so that it’s easier for me to get dressed since I have no experience with wearing real kimono. The skirts are based on a half circle skirt and the black one is basically a wrap skirt that buttons together with a bit of overlap. I kind of wish I’d allowed for more overlap since it falls farther apart when I wear it than it did on my dress form. I added an extra flap to the black skirt to fake the waist fold and the obi hides the waistband.
I was telling my brother when we were taking pics that Yuuko and her wish-granting shop from xxxHolic reminded me a bit of D and his pet shop. And since this was a kimono costume for D rather than the typical Chinese robes, I tried lounging around like Yuuko. XD;