Friday, March 30, 2012

Putting Together Your Costume Attire

By Louis Hampton


A lot of people find Costumes fun. The word "Costume" is a Japanese contraction for the term "costume play", where participants don costumes and outfits to look like characters from anime, from video and roleplaying games, from fantasy and science fiction stories, and sometimes from live action programs. In Japan, some people who engage in Costumes garment as a popular J-pop (Japanese pop) or J-rock (Japanese rock) artist.

Most anime and comics conventions have Costume events worked into their method to cater to people who love doing Costume. There is no genuine point to Costume; people dress up as their favorite characters merely for the sake of dressing up as them. When they gather at Costume events, they spend most of their period showing off in their detailed and intricate costumes, check out the costumes worn by the other participants, and to take pictures. Costume events are entertaining events, even if they are wacky, outrageous, and sometimes downright weird.

Deciding What Dress up to Wear to a Costume

So, if you are going to a Costume and it is your first period to attend one, how do you figure out what outfits you are going to wear? First of all, you need to discover what kind of Costume it is going to be. Is it going to be a purely anime or manga (the Japanese comic book) Costume? Is it a fantasy or science fiction convention? What is the theme of the Costume occurrence? Knowing this beforehand can definitely help you narrow down your preferences on what clothing to wear to the occasion. It will also save you from the embarrassment of showing up and being totally out of spot, like going to a Costume occurrence as a character from The Lord of the Rings at a Star Trek Costume celebration.

Once you have figured out the theme for the Costume event, you then have to decide which character you are going as to the affair. Do you have got a favorite character that you are only dying to impersonate, even for just this event? Choose a character and study his or the girl costume. You will certainly discover pictures on the Internet that will help you take in the aspect of this character's costume.

If the character of your option appears in different costumes, such as the character Sakura in the anime Card Captor Sakura, you ought to choose which costume is most recognized with this character. The fun in Costume is being known immediately whom you are dressed up as. What is the apply of going to a Costume if no one recognizes your character for the reason that the costume you have chosen is not that trendy?

Should You Purchase or Should You Produce Your Costume?

Would it not be nice whether you have the skills to be able to make your own costume for your Costume celebration? Some people are just handy with needles and threads and will use the sewing machine without many difficulties. Making your own costumes presents you the chance to grab all the element of your garments right, and it always feels good to indicate up at a Costume celebration decked in a attire that you worked on yourself.

Unfortunately, not everyone is gifted with the ability to work with needles, cloth and thread. In this case, you can go to a dressmaker with a picture or a sketch of the clothe you have in mind and ask the dressmaker to create it for you. A good dressmaker may come up with a satisfactory set that you may proudly wear to the Costume, but you cannot expect him or her to get all the element right.

Another alternative to making your own garments is to buy bits and parts of items that you might throw together and wear to the Costume. This is a fine option if the character you are showing up as is not a fantasy character with an elaborate costume. Japanese schoolgirls are very simple to Costume. You just want to get a short, pleated skirt; a blazer or jacket that matches the skirt; a blouse, preferably with a wide sailor collar; a necktie or a bow; legwarmers and loafers. The downside to ordering bits and pieces for a garments is that it's not always possible to be as elaborate and detailed as you would have wanted to be with your clothe.

Putting It All Together

Of course, the costume that you would put on for your Costume celebration is not limited to your clothes. You would also need a wig, especially if the character you are showing up as has an unusual hairstyle and hair color. It may too be necessary for you to wear makeup - you would not need to cut a lightning scar on your forehead just to make yourself look like Harry Potter, would you?

Props and accessories are as well in order in Costume events. A Harry Potter getup may not be complete without his spectacles and his magic wand. Knights in shining armor need swords. A princess cannot be a princess without her tiara.

Costumes are entertaining events for people who love going to them, all dressed up and dolled up for the party that Costumes often are. Putting together your dress for the occurrence is definitely half the exciting of it.




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