/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

OnS has its deterrents, it’s not just the language barrier, but also that it’s a Japanese book you need to order online and ship to you (assuming these newbies don’t live near a Kinokuniya). If you can get that far you can figure out how to order secondhand brand off yja/lacemarket. These days most newbies just want to wear the dress, I agree with the other anon who says most of them want to cut corners, which means they’re going to wing whatever they can and not bother ordering OnS online.

If this company can get its shit together long enough to put out some decent basics then at least it’s a pattern that newbies will be able to throw in their cart when they/their mom buys their fabric, it’s one less hoop to jump through. So I’m rooting for them to get a grip and actually put out decent patterns we can direct young newbies to.

Honestly though I don’t get the over-designed shit. Why not just make the simplest jsk cut of all? You can easily mix it up a hundred different ways by adding lace/ruffles across the top or the bottom of the dress, add ribbons/bows to the shoulder straps/front/skirt, pintuck the bodice fabric before you sew it up, add lace down the front of anything and everything. It’s both the most versatile and easiest cut to modify into a hundred different dresses, not this funky ita stuff.

The headbow’s even worse. It’s super duper easy to make an Alice bow, is the staff just blind old people looking at Bodyline’s itas for inspiration?