{"id":89,"date":"2014-04-17T20:42:52","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T00:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goofycaca.com\/?p=89"},"modified":"2014-04-17T20:42:52","modified_gmt":"2014-04-18T00:42:52","slug":"marco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goofycaca.com\/?p=89","title":{"rendered":"Marco!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Things have been a little slow, posting wise, since Emerald City Comic Con.\u00a0 You may not have noticed but it has.\u00a0\u00a0Have no fear,\u00a0there are still things that need to be touched on and tribulations to trial.<\/p>\n

One thing that I skipped but should have done well before con was a wear test.\u00a0 This is especially important for those of you wearing\u00a0armor type cosplays.\u00a0 The short and skinny of it is that you’re going to be wearing this outfit for an extended amount of time, in public, on a hot convention floor, where everybody will be bumping into you.\u00a0 When you are done with your build go ahead and schedule some time to wear it for several hours.\u00a0 You don’t have to do anything particularly strenuous like running a 5K or jacking up the heat to rival the center of the sun.\u00a0 Wear it long enough to get a feel for how it is going to feel on the convention floor.\u00a0 Can you see enough to avoid collisions or do you need a guide\/guard?\u00a0 Is it so hot that you’re at risk of passing out?\u00a0 If so, can you remove parts to cool down?\u00a0 Can you drink water to prevent dehydration?\u00a0 Yeah it may sound kinda far fetched, but trust me, heat stroke can hit you surprisingly fast and can be deadly.\u00a0 Nobody wants to see Batman pass out in the middle of posing for photographs.\u00a0 And they certainly don’t want to see him die because he couldn’t get the cowl off and cool down.<\/p>\n

Coupled with the heat is the movement.\u00a0 Make sure that you can move effectively.\u00a0 If you’re going to be one of those that stands out in one of the common photographing areas without hitting the con floor, this is not as relevant.\u00a0 For those that do plan on looking around it can be the difference between keeping your armor and throwing it away.\u00a0 If it is not durable to handle constant bumping and catching then you may want to rethink it.\u00a0 This has nothing to do with how careful you are, cons tend to be incredibly packed and most goers don’t really care about your cosplay.\u00a0 Their interest is getting from A to B and if that means bumping, brushing or busting your armor, so be it.\u00a0 When I was at NYCC ’13 I spoke with Nicole Marie Jean <\/a>while she was wearing her Namor armor.\u00a0 She used Worbla<\/a> to create the armor on the shoulders.\u00a0 I would never have believed it, apparently it is sturdy enough that all of the people bumping and brushing against the armor was enough to wrench her shoulders enough to be incredibly painful.\u00a0 Pretty impressive and terrifying at the same time.<\/p>\n

Another part of the movement test is the range of motion.\u00a0 While important for armor cosplays it is much more important for fabric\/latex type cosplays.\u00a0 Why do you ask?\u00a0 Well, let me tell you.\u00a0 Most of you, being geeks\/nerds, were probably picked on growing up.\u00a0 So you know what a wedgie feels like.\u00a0 Now imagine spending the entire day being hot and sweaty with an incredibly wedgie that you can’t really do anything about.\u00a0 Or, a camel toe bordering on moose paw.\u00a0 Men, this goes for you too, nobody wants another Tron Guy.\u00a0 Just to make things more interesting, let’s throw in some wardrobe malfunctions.\u00a0 If you don’t test those seams in a range of motion\/wear test there is always the possibility that you may pop one during the day.\u00a0 I was so concerned with this on the pants that I cut and sewed together that I covered the interior portion of all the seams with Dritz iron-on mending fabric.\u00a0 The idea was to stabilize the denim enough that the seams themselves would not be strained too much.\u00a0 And it worked like a charm!\u00a0 I am happy to say it survived standing, walking, sitting, squatting, sweating and pretty much everything else you can do legally at a convention.\u00a0 The draw back, which I learned after the convention, is that it may cause some binding of the fabric after washing.\u00a0 The seams on the pants held but it looks like the pants shrank a little while the mending fabric remained the same size, causing some stretching and binding at the interfacing.\u00a0 Which I guess is better than recreating a scene from So Fine;<\/p>\n

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This brings me around to another point, WASH YOUR COSTUME!\u00a0 Con Funk is a very real thing.\u00a0 Shower, use deodorant, wash your costume.\u00a0 If you plan on wearing the same thing the entire weekend and don’t have access to a washer (or it’s not washer ready) Fabreze it.\u00a0 This is a request on behalf of every fucking person attending the convention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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