/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>7309049
>getting the actual costume online if you can't sew.

A big part of me wishes this had never become a thing to do. It made it much easier for the bandwagoners to jump on in and be fake.

Another part of me wants everyone to be included and have fun even if they don't have any skills.

I miss knowing for a FACT that if someone was dressed up as Tamahome or Shayla Shayla we could talk up and down about the show. Then I could admire something they did on the costume and they would tell me about the crap they had to go through to make it.

It's hard to switch to the mindset that a lot of what I am looking at online wasn't even touched by the wearer until it arrived in the mail. That if I talk to them they'll just say "Oh I didn't know that happened in the show, I'm only 3 eps in, don't spoil me." And if I am curious how they got the collar to look perfect or I admire the fabric used they can't tell me jack shit about anything.