Syaoran (Flame) - Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE
Cost: $300
Time to Make: 30 hours
Timeline of Construction: April - May 2006
Award: Hall Costume Award - Anime North 2006
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This costume was a real labour of love and it will probably never be finished. Right now it's at
Sakura's place somewhere and is about 60% complete. We wanted to make these costumes when we saw
the beautiful colour illustration for them, but it turned out to be a very big challenge. It was hard to
find a nice white material to use so we ended up using a very heavy material meant for drapes.
We overbought paint for the costume because the craft store where Sakura found nice colour paint
was going out of business. The bulk of the cost of this costume came from buying tons of paint.
XD It think the bottles are still at Sakura's place somewhere. We had to make our own patterns
and I'm terrible at that so I struggled a lot with making this costume. We worked really hard to
get the painting done the week before con. I'm terrible at art but I like the patterns I managed
to come up with. Painting the fabric taught me a lot about the effect paint has on fabric. It got very stiff. XD By AN we were both nowhere near done our costumes (but Sakura's looked a lot better than mine). Parts of my costume needed to be pinned together so I didn't find wearing this outfit very enjoyable. It looks nice in the few photos I have of it. Parts of this costume still need to be fixed up. Detailing needs to be added to the boots, the obi needs to be properly made and the undershirt needs to be finished and painted. Despite the fact it wasn't finished, Sakura and I did receive hall costume awards at AN that year. I don't completely feel like I deserved the award, but it did take a lot of work to get these costumes even partially finished. If I ever have the drive I may one day finish this costume. It is based on a very pretty design and I would like to do it justice.
Events/Conventions this costume was worn to
Anime North 2006 (Saturday)
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