6. Your favourite costume (that you have done)
Seriously tough.
But the one I am singularly most proud of would have to be my wool Cleves dress. It is as historically accurate as I could do it. The blue wool is a good weave and colour for the time and place. The silk it is lined with is a good lining grade. The pattern is based on all the information available publicly as well as by some fairly strong reasoning based on multiple sources (written as well as more than one form of artwork.)
Let's put it like this, I could collate the research I put in to that thing and publish it at a graduate level. But I still haven't because I have no rights to the artwork I used and I am not sure if I ever will. But it may be worthwhile given publications out there since.
Basically I worked out the engineering as well as evolution of a style that has been badly represented in Enhlish costume history because of silly theories about the famous Anne of Cleves portrait by Holbein.
Anyway, that one hits the theory and craft buttons for me 🙂 The only issues I have are I mixed the headdress styles around for an earlier more flattering look (but that is still within the realms of choosing personal variation on a theme. Let's not talk about the wider social stuff I learnt while figuring it out! But the linen one is based on several different possibilities seen in the portraits and Trachtenbuch as well as figuring out the evolution of the things (hint, not the same at all as the brodade and pearled ones. At all. Like no overlap except the silhouette.)
And my stripey Braunchweig gown. Super pretty and again worked out from some deep searching of images that show what is hidden in the inspiration portrait.
As for cosplay… I've already whittled my work down so I'm not going to be afraid of listing heaps: Mina, Shae, FemShep, Turian, Hannibal (and Elissa- the skirt looks like the real deal hanging up inside out XD).
1. Your first costume.
2. How many costumes have you done?
3. Your most recent costume.
4. Your costume communities, where do you go to talk about costuming?
5. Blatant self plug! Link us to your costume page, be it dA, ACP, Coscom, whatever!
6. Your favourite costume (that you have done)
7. The character you have costumed that is most similar to you (if none that you have costumed, then one that you will costume)
8. Your costume plans for the rest of the year (if you have no more for this year, then do next year!)
9. The dream costume that might just happen
10. The dream costume that will never happen
11. Something costume-related that you will never do (eg. crossplay, costume from a certain series)
12. Your costume idol.
13. Your costume specialty (ie. something that seems to apply to a large amount of your costumes, it could be a specific series, or a common feature in their appearance, such as glasses)
14. Your costume-making habits (eg. singing while working on costume)
15. Your least favourite thing about costuming
16. Do you belong to any costume groups? If so, what are they?
17. What events have you costumed to?
18. What is your best costume memory?
19. What is your worst costume memory?
20. Have you won any costume awards?
21. Show us your best costume derp photo!
22. Have you worn costumes in a regular situation? (eg. at school, to work)
23. Your most expensive costume
24. Your most comfortable costume and most uncomfortable costume
25. The costume you put the most effort into
26. Any unfinished costumes? Will you ever finish them?
27. How many wigs do you own? Which is your favourite?
28. Where do you work on your costumes and where do you store them when they’re done?
29. What is your favourite costume item? (eg. a pair of shoes, a wig)
30. Describe your costuming in three words. No more, no less.