Cosplay checklist

[tj_dragonblade]

Labcoat: Check. Needs some washing and rumpling, but check.

Shoes: Check. Not quite full-on Tenpou accurate, but they'll do.

Socks: ...Check.

Pants: Check. I'd forgotten how very un-flattering and not-quite-comfortable a fit men's pants have on my figure. Feh. And these leg creases have seriously got to go. Tenpou doesn't have neat crisp creases. Rumpled creases from days-on-end wearing, perhaps, or sleeping-among-the-books creases, but not standard white-collar button-down ironed-in creases. No.

Shirt: ...er. Check? Any tips on dingy-ing a bright white shirt? I hear tea has wonderful staining power...

Glasses: *goes cross-eyed to look* Check.

Cigarette: Check. Fake. Check.

Hair: ...Ah. Well. The length is right, and the color, and it straightens well enough. But as far as style? I'm still struggling with it, never mind that it follows the general lines perfectly when not-straight; I picked up a hair dryer at the thrift store as well in hopes that it might help with setting things before the gel/spray/what-have-you makes the hair curl again.

Tie: Check. *dopey grin* I never realized I had a tie fetish, but I spent far too long molesting admiring them all racked up at walmart. Silky and shiny and slithery and soo many lovely designs in eggplant and wine and sage and--

I actually already had my tie, a non-shiny dark...dark blue, I think it is, from the thrift store. But the New Shiny were very, very enticing...

And, as it turns out, my husband knows how to tie a tie!! I never even thought to ask him; I simply assumed he wouldn't. *hangs head in shame* I feel so bad, now. But he was very forgiving about it, so...heh. *^_^*

Elsewise. Mordred is pleased to be back in spacier quarters, and to have his plant back again. I'm just paranoid as f*ck that he's going to take sick too.

And my husband is idly singing 'Holy Diver' while he's hooking up the little bubble-diver guy in AJ's aquarium. Which somehow, at this moment, strikes me as remarkably funny. ^_^

Comments

[madame-maya.livejournal.com]

Wash the white shirt with a black one. It'll knock it down about three shades or so. Brown works, too. It's Ten-chan!

[kintail.livejournal.com]

When Tav and I were doing our research, we found that Tenpou's clothing is usually crumpled but never actually dirty, unless with blood. Everything is bright white and clean in Heaven until they rebel. And all the symbolism that goes with that. So you might want to reconsider making the white shirt less white; I think the clean white would work very well.

The crumpling instructions should work for the pants, too. If the fit is unflattering, leave the shirt untucked over it.

*very excited for you!*

[tj-dragonblade.livejournal.com]

Y'know, that actually makes perfect sense about the whites, especially with all the under-stated symbolism Minekura seems so fond of. I'd somehow always had in mind that Tenpou's shirt was more cream-colored/off-white than true white, but I could be influenced somewhat by that unbecoming yellowish shade they used in the anime. And as I'm looking at the Gaiden sake pic, the tiny bits of his shirt that are visible look black. Which it pretty clearly is not in the non-color manga pages. *shrugs*

But I think I may just leave it white-white, then, for the reasons you note as well as the fact that it saves me the effort of trying to make such an alteration this late in the game.

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[settiai]

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