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Blood, Sweat, and Glitter

Blood, Sweat, and Glitter. Cosplaying for over 10 years. My First Costume.

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Blood, Sweat, and Glitter

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  1. Blood, Sweat, and Glitter Cosplaying for over 10 years

  2. My First Costume • I've always LOVED Halloween. And even as far back as the eighth grade, I wanted a Chun Li costume, but I had no idea how to go about it--I always thought I'd have to take my Street Fighter booklet (this is from the days before the internet!) to an old German seamstress somewhere in my neighborhood, and that it would cost a thousand dollars, and that it probably wouldn't come out right (it'd end up looking like a dress, because that's all most people know how to make), so it was a lost cause. • Then one day (spring of 1999, I think), my stepfather e-mailed me with a link to an eBay auction for a Sailor Mars fuku. I missed the end of the auction, but I was so disappointed, I took a chance and e-mailed the seller, who turned out to be Setsuna Kou. She made me one of my very own, and that was my first cosplay costume.

  3. Meeting the Cosplay Community • At that point, I didn't even know the term "cosplay"! I just wanted a Sailor Mars costume for...whatever. Whatever reason. So I hung on to it. • About the same time, my friend Trish (who was the person who got me into Sailor Moon in the first place) and I wanted to start "Teh best Sailor Moon page EVAR!" (we weren't really going to call it that, but that's pretty much how we thought of it in our minds), with images of EVERY Sailor Moon artbook image, screencaps of every episode, just...you know. Everything. To learn how, I decided to make a "trial" webpage. I still wanted it to be useful, though, and Sailor Moon related, so I decided, since most Sailor Moon images exist somewhere on the web already, I'd make an image gallery of people dressed up as Sailor Moon characters. My search for people dressed in Sailor Moon costumes led me to a Sailor Moon newsgroup, which led me to my first Sailor Moon cosplayers, which led me to a mailing list on Yahoo.gom called COSP, and that’s how I met other cosplayers, and learned of the first convention that would be in my area.

  4. My First Convention • Through the COSP mailing list, I learned of the Big Apple Anime Fest, held in the Marriott hotel in Times Square, October 26 – 28, 2001. It was my first time meeting other cosplayers in person, and I was overwhelmed by the amount of anime goods for sale in the Dealer’s Room, the variety of screenings that were available to watch, and the number of times I was stopped for my photograph. It was also the first time I would meet other cosplayers in person. In retrospect, it was a tiny gathering, compared to the size of conventions now!

  5. Where To Get Costumes • Commissioned • “Thrifted”/Altered • Licensed

  6. Commissioned Costumes

  7. “Thrifted”/Altered Costumes

  8. Licensed Costumes

  9. What To Expect At Cons

  10. Friends You’ll Make

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