Costume Tag

Original design

Let´s go! I had to find good shoes for the base, preferred comfortable and cheap. I wanted to have wedges with a medium heel for long convention days.  I found a pair on amazon, app. 18€. The back of the shoes was open, but I...

First of all, I searched for references. I wanted to stay as close as possible to the original She-Ra boot design as it was in my childhood, so I used this one: Now comes the main question, made a worbla boot myself or easily bought...

Last year at Epic con I had my first cosplay contest ever. The last stage performance was in the kindergarten or maybe primary school, it´s even so long ago, that I can´t remember.

The last weeks before the convention I watched out for some youtube videos, forum entries and blogs about the “cosplay contest topic”, but felt a bit overwhelmed and scared about it. There are so many different types of conventions, conditions and implementations with different rules and severity and the more I read or watch, the more uncertain I got. So I decided to stop doing this and also making myself crazy about the effort I´d be “meant to”.

Original design / Headpiece & Wings

XMen – Original Design