costumes are usually bought on ebay

not many people make their own

>>5338991
we have lives you know

>>5338991
>>5338996

Well I don't know...when I was growing up I always spent Halloween with my best friend. My costumes were always bought and his were always made by his mom. Also, don't be silly, no one on 4chan has a life!

>How does everyone in your life react to your dressing up and stuff? Family, friends?
My family thinks I am strange but supports my hobby. And friends could care less they always try to help when I ask for it though. Both accepting.

>Have you ever dressed up somewhere with a friend who, although he/she isn't into this stuff, thought it would be fun to go with you? (I've considered this, but of course I've never been asked)
Besides to a convention I do not dress out in public in my cosplay's.

>Is it hard to get costumes? Are they usually bought or personally made? Either way, are they expensive?
I make my costumes. Depending on which character I am working on it can be extremely cheap or can be over 100$ (That would be the Big Sister cosplay I'm working on which has alot of armor.)

>Would you date someone who refused to go with you, even not dressed up, to anything like this?
I am dating someone that is like that. My boyfriend thinks its a waste of money to cosplay but he still accepts it and even sometimes buys me supplies if I don't have the money. He would go to the convention with me but I know he wouldn't have that much of a fun time because its not his thing so I don't make him come or anything.

>>5339002

>Besides to a convention I do not dress out in public in my cosplay's.

I meant, have you ever gone to a convention with a friend who normally isn't into that stuff, and they dressed up with you? That's what I said I might want to try.

Thanks for the answers. I can understand why someone would think it's strange, but they should support you if it makes you happy anyway. I grew up in a family that still never stops making fun of one another, and it made me afraid to truly be who I want to be, to this day.

As far as the money thing, I see it as no different from, say, something like playing golf. You have to pay a decently high amount of money just to play, plus a ton of money for clubs if they're new, plus money on balls, tees, clothes, etc. Lots of hobbies require money to keep afloat. Cosplaying is just as practical as playing golf. You do it for your happiness.

I don't usually tell anyone that I cosplay unless it comes up somehow in a conversation - so outside of my close friends and family (who hate it), most people end up never having to react to it at all. My "con life" so to speak is very separate to what I see as my more functional life (studies, work) since it's something people usually don't understand.

I have a friend who isn't really into anime, manga, games etc at all but has known me long enough to be curious about it. Sometimes she'll come to cons with me just because she finds it fascinating and likes "seeing all the cool costumes". She even mentioned wanting to get into it herself, but it is a fairly large time commitment, so understandably it never really happened.

I personally make my own costumes because I'm a crafter first and foremost - cosplay was just a nice outlet for that. Lots of people buy them though, and either way it can end up being a pretty expensive hobby. Even more time consuming if you make things yourself.

I've dated someone who thought most of my hobbies were ridiculous, and wouldn't set a foot near a convention. In the end, it did end up putting pressure on the relationship (amongst other things). I think that there's nothing wrong with having a partner who isn't into the same things you are, but they have to accept it. Especially if it's something that can take up a lot of space and effort like cosplay.

And it's really nice to hear that you're interested. If you ever do date someone who makes things - I hope you can stand the stress of them most likely finishing everything last minute before a con, because most cosplayers I know can be pretty cranky during that time, haha.

>>5339011

I would be pretty embarrassed if people knew I did that stuff...but if I were doing it with a girlfriend, one who was really into it and knew exactly what she was doing, then I would put up with the mockery because I'd be happy. I still get made fun of to this day by my brother because my friend called my house like 8 years ago and asked for me, using a fake name instead of my real name. My brother still calls me that name randomly. 8 years later. That's how bad my family is at making fun of each other.

I'd put up with the crankiness. :P I would either stay out of the way or try to help out, depending on what she wanted. Or just try to make her smile. But as far as the actual crafting part....yeah that's not really happening.

...is your board normally this nice? This seems unusual for 4chan.

>>5339010
Hmm oh sorry I didn't understand the question. Well for me no I haven't gone to a convention with someone who isn't into cosplay but I am used to it cause I have no friends in my area that is into cosplaying.

I grew up in a joking family too. My aunt has been calling me Hooters since age 13 cause of my chest. So I'm used to the jokes just got to give them right back but I know each one of my family members has something strange that they do so I can always give it back if they start messing with me about my hobby.

Everyone has a hobby that cost money from everything from collectibles, or playing sports, or working on cars. So I believe the money is never the issue cause most hobbies cost money. You just have to know where to use your money wisely. Once I started getting into cosplay I started using coupons and those suckers save me so much money~

>>5339028

I'm not really sure why but I legitimately laughed at that picture. Anyway, I don't understand why families think it's a good idea to make fun of their children while they're growing up, as if that won't have any effects at all.

I've never really had a solid hobby....I was going to try to learn the guitar at least. If you actually lived near me (not that anyone on the Internet ever does), I would be interested in going some time and trying it out. I'm not exactly sure why, but I imagine myself dressed up as a Rocket Grunt. Maybe it's because I don't watch anime and thus don't really have any characters to pick from there.

>>5339036
I have a ton of Roger pictures~
Yeah I used to cry to my mom that my aunt was calling me that but as I got older I realized she was jealous cause her's weren't big so I would always say she was just jealous. I knew she really didn't mean any harm with it~

I always used to jump with hobbies and I still do for a while I used to paint alot. Now I have moved to cosplay but I am sure I will move back and forth between those two hobbies.

I tend to lean more towards Video Games than with Anime because I know there is alot of Anime out there but I haven't watched much and liked even less than that.~

>>5339045

The thing is...how would I even find someone who not only is into this, but also wants to go with me, someone who knows nothing? You could just say, "Well you could always go to a con by yourself and try to meet people." That sounds horrible.

>>5339050
Well do you have any friends that like anime or video games? If so you can tell them all about these awesome conventions. tell them what kinda of things happen at them.
If not there is always meetups at conventions with different series so you could always go to one of those to start off smoothly with something you know quiet a bit about ya know~?
Ya it does sound horrible going alone so I tried to find alternate for you. By the way the cons I go to is New York Comic Con, Otakon, and Anime Boston.

>>5339058

I don't think any of my friends are into anime unless they keep it a secret, and the only video games I ever see them play/hear them talk about/play with them are "casual" stuff like Madden, Call of Duty, Rock Band. etc. I guess that's not really an option...but thank you for trying.

I guess you must be somewhere in the Northeast. I'm from New York.

>>5339069
Massachusetts here~
And your welcome I tried my best.

>>5339073

Much closer than most people usually are to me. Well shit...every time I try to do something interesting I get stuck like this..

My family thinks it's cool. I don't live with them any more but my brothers and cousins always wanted me to make costumes for them. I never did because of the usual "all of this should only cost five dollars" crap, except once I made my cousin a gijinka squirtle costume because it was easy and cheap and he seemed really excited. I modded a blue hoddie to put a brown "shell" patch on the front, made a stuffed shell backpack (that functioned, btw) and a squirtle tail he could pin to the back of his pants. He just wore blue jeans and white tennis shoes with it. I went as gijinka Ivysaur(modded green dress, functional flower bulb backpack), and my boyfriend was supposed to be Charizard (we were going for the Pokemon in smash) but I didn't finish his wings in time so he ended up as Charmander(but his tail did light up at the tip, I was proud of that.) My cousin had a really great time and people wanted his picture all over the place, so it turned into a really fun experience. My family was happy to see him included, and he still talks about it at get togethers and asks me when I'm going to other cons. Also I would not date someone who wouldn't even go with me. That boyfriend is now my husband, and we haven't cosplayed for a while (weddings are expensive) but we're planning some big stuff once everything is settled.

>>5339069
>>5339050
You should go to NYCC. If its anything like SDCC its more of a general entertainment con (covering things like movies and tv, too) and very normalfag friendly. You have to have at least one friend who would be interested.

>>5339078

I agree with >>5339083 You should go to NYCC.~
Yeah I am pretty close but dont worry I am in the same boat. I go to con's alone and meet up with people. If you go to new york comic con we could meet! than you wont be alone, hah.

>>5339081

See, that's the kind of thing that sounds fun to me. But no one ever even showed an interest in that stuff around me.

>>5339083

That actually sounds kinda cool, but if it's "normalfag friendly", doesn't that imply that most people there will have nothing to do with this stuff? I mean either way, what do I do? Go up to someone dressed up and say, "Teach me to be like you. Please responde."

>>5339092

You meet up, as in you meet people that you've never met before? I would be too anxious to come up to people like that. Meet up...I feel like this board has lulled me into such a sense of security. I would normally feel like this is setting myself up for something, but you all seem so nice. I can't believe this is on the same website as a place like /b/.

I would consider going and meeting up with you or something...but of course I have no idea when it is, and all we know about each other are our names on here.

Since the atmosphere is quite gentle at the moment, I might as well take this opportunity to ask a pointless question.

Are any of you from the eastern countries? Like say Asia?

>>5339113
Hey not all /cgl/ is gossip/hambeast/vendetta-chan's/crazy people. There is alot of helpful/nice people. You just have to sift through the silly threads.
If you google new york comic con they will give you the site with the dates and everything. It happens in October though.
And I have met with people I have only talked to on here. Like Jello and Moe. I am rooming with them at otakon. So It is not bad to meet up and hang with people you never met.
It's not a problem for me a guess cause I am very social and it is easy for me to start a conversation with someone I never met before.

>>5339100
I'm about eight years older then my cousins, so I was always the "cool" older one. Also I'm the oldest child, so my little brothers also looked up to me. Maybe that's why they didn't think it was weird. Also, I'm from a very liberal area and I've been into theater since I was two. Also I've always been really crafty, knitting, sewing dolls, painting and drawing. I got more shit for my goth phase then I ever got for sewing costumes.

No one I knew was into it, but my friends always really liked the idea, and often wanted to borrow my costumes. They would propose doing groups with me, but then never sew the costumes or make hilariously awful creations I couldn't in good conscience let them be photographed in. Like one time my best friend wanted to be Yugi from Yu-Gi-Oh. I thought the show was retarded, but she loved it, to each their own. I helped her sew belts onto a plain black outfit for that patented "bondage slave jailbait" look that show so enjoys. She said she could handle the rest.

Early in the morning in the hotel I was awoken to the potent, smothering smell of chemical fumes. My dear friend had decided to spray paint her cardboard Millenium Puzzle gold in the bathroom of our high rise room with no windows. It was so bad I had to run out the door or I thought I'd choke. She then drew the deigns on it in sharpie, and attempted to style her long sandy blond hair into the Yugi style with a combination of spray color and hair gel. I made her wash it out, but she still wore the black clothes and that "puzzle" abomination around the convention center.

>>5339113
The culture round here is very different, because within various pockets of cosplay communities, lolita, and whatever fashion (we get gal obviously and often threads of BJDs and such) people often know each other.
We all have hobbies that encourage going out of your way to meet new like-minded people and we're used to doing so at cons or meet-ups. Years ago I used to organise cosplay groups with people I'd never met online and we'd all meet up with finished costumes... That was usually the only way to find cosplayers from the same series as you unless you were really lucky.

Also, cons are a particular context. I'd arrange to meet with someone I didn't know there, but I wouldn't invite someone I didn't know back to my home. At a con you're surrounded by people in a similar situation, and if you're worried you can always talk to security or lose yourself in the crowd.

>I have a ton of Roger pictures~
Avatars annoys a lot of people and lands you in their filters. I hope this is just for this thread, because if you plan to use Roger as your thing then you will be effectively shunned by a lot of filter users. You have a name and that's enough to be identified by.

>>5339122

I actually knew nothing about /cgl/ as a board before this topic other than that it apparently has the highest percentage of girls on it. There was no positive or negative reputation to live up to.

Ack...October....I normally go to school out of state, but this upcoming semester I'm going local to find a new major, and then next semester I was going to go back to "real school", but I'm not sure where...hopefully I'm still close enough to go.

How did you guys exchange any sort of contact information on here? No one here cares if you do that?

>>5339135
I don't always use them. So I don't think I have anything to worry about. But thank you for letting me know.

>>5339139
Mostly we just go "Let's meet at X con at X time!" and any of the seagulls that want to can show up. Real cosplay groups don't get organized on here very often, if ever. Mostly just get togethers and room parties.

>>5339126

Ah...I'm the third youngest of four...I never would get away with that stuff. No one would follow me. Also that story sounds both hilarious and facepalm-inducing. How old was your friend?

>>5339142

How would you be able to identify each other at a meetup? I guess you could tell each other what you're going to be wearing, but wouldn't that be a little confusing at times? What if there's someone else wearing something similar?

I've asked way too many questions here.

>>5339149
Well when you go to a con you have to wear a badge so it could be easier identifying that because it will say their name or call tag or something.
Some people wear not so popular cosplays so it could be easy that way too.

>>5339100
>doesn't that imply that most people there will have nothing to do with this stuff?

What do you mean? I mean everyone in attendance has something to do with it just by being there lol. I guess there are varying degrees of fanboyism if that's what you mean?

>>5339156

A badge with your name on it or the character's? I mean let's just say I did end up going in October. That's in 9 months. I would probably forget if you and I didn't speak for that long.

>>5339161

No, I mean by "normalfags" I assumed it meant "people who just go, and don't dress up". In other words, I meant wouldn't most people not be the type to dress up? Either way, I'd be afraid to approach people I don't know.

>>5339164
No your badges have to have your actual name or an online name. Like mine I would put TraumaQueen.
And if by october you forget about this whole thread even than you can steal meet a whole bunch a new people.~

>>5339174

When did I drop my trip...oh well. I wrote that.

>>5339174

Ohh. Hehe. TraumaQueen. That's cute. Well the point is that I wouldn't want to go by myself in the first place, that's all. And I wouldn't be dressed up unless I had someone who knew what they were doing going with me. At this point I'm still a curious observer who is interested, but still has no experience or much knowledge, don't forget that.

Now I don't even know what to do. Do I go back to my board after this thread? Do I stay at both and try to meet people/pick up more info?

My family and friends who know about it know I'm a nerd/weirdo in the first place and it's not really a big deal, and if they don't know I cosplay I've probably told them I'm "really into sewing". Most of them either think it's really cool or (in the case of my closer friends) have done it themselves a few times.

Yep! I've brought a friend + my brother to their first con while I was cosplaying.

Really depends on the costume. Usually bought, sort of expensive? Like I said, it really depends. If you're crafty and you have friends who are into it already it can be pretty affordable.

Possibly. I think cons can be pretty fun even if you're not into anime/video games, so they'd have to have quite the compelling argument.

>>5339186
Add my deviant art if you have one.
http://mrtraumaqueen.deviantart.com/
Than maybe we could meet at the convention and you wont cosplay alone.
Well if you are still a curios observer I think you should still lurk around here, maybe even post. What board are your from by the way?
Just because you don't have knowledge doesn't mean you shouldn't try there are plenty of tutorials and people willing to help with any cosplay you would like to do. All you need to do is look around google or ask someone.

>>5339186
Not Trauma but you're welcome to stick around though, if you're going to an event and want to meet someone who's already in the scene, I'd recommend popping in as the event date is close so that you can check in with the related thread and familiarize yourself with who's going.

>>5339195
>>5339198
>>5339203

No one is this nice...I can't believe you guys. I don't think I've ever been in a community ANYWHERE, irl, online, whatever that was this friendly and helpful. I could try sticking around, but of course I won't really have much to contribute. Could always lurk for a while...

I'm originally from /sp/. I came here because of all the chaos with the 4chan Ball, where we were supposed to go with you or something...I wanted to see what the board was like. I'm just so used to that community. There plenty of "normal" people with a good sense of humor, but there are also a decent amount of asses...sometimes I can't tell who's pretending and who's real.

I used to have a deviantart but I deactivated it. If you can reactivate an account, and I manage to do it, I'll be sure to add ya. :)

>>5339211
Hey /sp/aniel~ I made that on the spot and its bad. sorry.
Well than when you activate your account again and I see I have a new watcher I'll know its you, hah.

Yeah every community has its share of jerks/nice people/crazies. It's just learning the language I guess.

Honestly I still have not ventured into /sp/.

>>5339211
Don't worry, you haven't seen the Drama threads yet.

>>5339221

As more and more people have come into /sp/ over the years it's become more and more like /b/....it's actually considered the best board on the site for off-topic posting. There are times when you actually have to search just to find a sports thread. It's kinda shitty nowadays...but it's been my home for a few years.

I just made a new Deviantart account since you can't re-activate old ones. I guess I'll lose my old friends and uploads...but I can just my stuff back up. :) I'll friend you...or watch you..I forgot if there's a difference. I haven't been on there in quite a while.

>>5339232

Now I'm afraid. I don't want to ruin this perfect bubble I'm in right now. lol

Please tell me you are going to dress up as Teller.