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Medicine Seller I

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Because I did not pre-register for the Hall Cosplay Contest at Otakon, I had to get up at 6am to get into line by 8am to wait around until 11am because if my judging slot was at noon I wouldn't be able to get into costume with only an hour.  So no box or claws in this photo, I saved those until right before judging so I wouldn't whack people in crowds/stab myself in the face/fumble pathetically at everything.

Robe is assembled from several different damaged old kimono, discharged and redyed: the white outlines are hand-couched satin cord, and the patterns across the shoulders are stencilled paint.  The collar and hems are silk charmeuse interfaced and flatlined to canvas.  The obi is dupioni with designs painted in Lumiere acrylics.  Obijime is vintage.  Sword is mostly Sintra + epoxy clay.  Mirror and red beads are Sculpey.  Headscarf is linen dyed to match my lipstick and nailpolish.  Hair tie is on the wrong side agh I am a terrible sleepy right-handed person forever ashamed charmeuse over cotton rope.  Red makeup is MAC Professional and horrifically allergenic.  The layers visible at the neck are a green juban, and a pink tsuke-eri.

Thanks to John Jiao for the beautiful photo!  He's posted over 500 other shots of cosplayers at Otakon on his Facebook page, go take a look~

I won Best in Show with this one *____*  I've never even won a Best of Divison before...
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Stunning work and congrats on the BiS!