/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

Hey guys, working with a friend on pic related. She's the one who's experienced with cosplay, not me.
She thinks that making covers for my shoes out of vinyl will be enough to look like the boots in pic related, but I'm not convinced and I'm secretly worried that it'll look like shit if I try to do any poses that show my feet prominently. (It's my first cosplay as well as my first convention, and she assures me that there will be people who will want to photograph me).
What does /cgl/ think? Should I go rogue and attempt to thrift something that looks similar, buy actual boots that'll look like these, or just go with the boot-covers? If I do go rogue, what kind of boots should I be looking for? Thanks in advance for any advice.

Kind of a broad/weird question I guess, but I didn't want to make my own thread for it. Sorry if it's a bit much.

So, I have a friend who is into cosplay who has invited me to come along with her to a convention, and has offered to help me cosplay pic related. I have no idea if this is a good costume for a beginning cosplayer like me, though, even with help, but I really really really want to do it anyways because I loved this show so much.

Ahem. Anyways. For pic related, I showed her a couple images (not this one) of the guy's costume, and her first suggestion was that we could start out by dying a pair of khaki pants red. Is this a good idea? I can't help but feel that for a suit like this that it ought to be something like spandex or whatever those morphsuits are made out of.

I honestly don't know how good she is at cosplaying, but I don't want to call her skill into question because we're friends and I don't know what I'm talking about anyways. The only costume by her that I have seen was a big period dress for a ren-faire like thing she did, which seems to me like something else entirely.

Is this a good costume for a new cosplayer, with help? How do I tell if said helping-person knows what they're doing? And how the fuck am I going to get a belt like that? And is there a word for this kind of costume, like "Kamen Rider suit" or something? I can't keep referring to it as "a suit like this." I feel like an idiot.
Thanks in advance.

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LOL I dropped picture here. I was suppose to post that first.

If you need more files let me know.