Ghetto Cosplay Fabulous

We have two weeks until the March con. I don't know how all the costumes are coming, but Eve and I should be prepared for Touma (not the correct version, but it will do) and Noriko as long as we can get the purple wig next week and maybe some excercise. We can modify the shirt for you sakuraevolution, but Cesar's costume might be difficult to get together if you haven't started. Anyway, here's the con schedule:

March TAC
March 19 to 20
tickets: $25 for both days. No one day passes
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Anime North
May 27-29
tickets: $45 for the weekend ($30 if you preregister before March 18), $25 for Friday or Sunday, $30 for Saturday
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Garden City Anime
July 15-17
tickets: $35 for three days. $20 for one day
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CN Convention
August 26-28
tickets: usually the price of Anime North
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So when does everyone have reading week? I would be nice to at least finish our Gravitation costumes. My reading week starts on February 21th, so I'll be off from the 17th at 4 pm to exactly the 27th at 4 pm.

Hi everyone!

Just going through a bit of a OMG I have to clean the house! panic. hehehe

I was just wondering when I should be expecting everyone. I finish work at 1:30 so I'll be back home at around 2:30. If you could just give me your ETA (estimated time of arrival) that would be great.
Jen, will you be needing me to pick you up from the bus terminal?

Matthew, can you please bring the Eddie Izzard dvd?

See you tomorrow!

Please see the first poll for descriptions and instructions before filling this out.
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Because of the aforementioned shopping trip, I'm putting up this poll to see what people want us to buy. Please take a look at the painfully written descriptions to see what series you like. Remember that there will be three major three day conventions (Anime North, CNX, Garden City), Halloween, March (two day) and December (one day) TAC, and a few other small and not anime specific cons that we have the option to go to.

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The Poll: Those descriptions took way too long, so I'm doing the poll as a scale. Please vote using the following key:

1 - I haven't seen series and I'm not interested in cosplaying it, even if other people are. If I have seen the series, I don't like it. For some reason, I refuse to cosplay this. Do not get me fabric for it

2 - I'm not sure. I'd have to see more before I make a decision. Also use this option if you think the costumes will be too difficult/expensive to pull off. Do not get me fabric for it

3 - This series doesn't look too bad to cosplay. I'm not sure about it myself, but I'd cosplay it with the group.

4 - This series would be great for gcfab as a group. I'm in. Buy fabric

5 - I just love the costumes from this series. I would cosplay it by myself! Buy fabric
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Eve and I are going to the Fabricland Sale this Saturday. We will have to buy a membership, which we'd get a student discount on, so it's going to be $12.50. Split between all our current members, that's ridiculously cheap for the amount of deals we'll be getting.

Now for the important part, what fabrics should be pick up? Suggest any costume you're interested in making this year, and we'll see what's available. Please respond as quickly as you can, because I'm going to post a poll tomorrow to see what people are willing to wear, help make, and spend money on. Eve and I don't mind picking up a lot of fabric, as long as it won't go to waste and we don't end up paying for all the costumes ourselves.

If you're posting a character from a series, it would also be helpful to mention your ideas for other costumes in the series that others in gcfab could do. If you want, you can include Gaelan because he'll probably be going to at least one convention with us and he's willing to spend a little money on a costume.

Remember, list anything you want. We don't have to do it, but I just want to see where people's interests are, even if they're kind of infeasible. I'll put up a poll tomorrow night.

Glad to hear the first official GCFab "Super Ghetto Fabulous Slumber Party Cosplay Meeting" has been set in stone for this weekend... but there's a problem. If i take a Go Bus, the earliest i would arrive in Georgetown Market is 9:48PM or alternatively in Guleph at 10:35PM (marie_reve you can check my math if you'd like). It seems a little late so i was wondering if you guys might be willing to pick me up from work ( hereCollapse ) at 5:30PM... don't worry if you can't, but it would certainly save me both time and the money for a Go Bus ticket which i'd happily reimburse you for in gas marie_reve *^^*

I know we already have too many plans and its not really realistic to add another but I just wanted to suggest one more.

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marie_reve and I got together this weekend for some cosplay planning. We weren't very successful in terms of buying stuff, although we saw about 8 matching maid outfits at the K-W Value Village. We're probably going to have our first official GCFab "Super Ghetto Fabulous Slumber Party Cosplay Meeting" (or something) this coming weekend in Guelph. Preliminary plans include:

-watching the Gravitation concert scene and possibly doing karaoke
-Fruits Basket marathon
-cosplay workout
-food (in reasonable moderation as not to cancel out the previous point)
-midnight marguaritas
-shopping
-talk about cosplay

We've pretty much been shopping around Guelph and Kitchener-Waterloo, but we'll be taking a closer look next weekend, especially at fabric because we didn't want to do anything until plans were confirmed. Here's a list of some things to look out for though, since we'll definitely need them:

Gravitation
1.Noriko
-purple wig (with bangs, medium to long length, curly) - This is an option, but a little dark
-yellow shorts (possibly studded, not huge man swimming trunks)
-maybe the black belt

2.Tohma
-pinkish red dress shirt (preferably long)
-black ribbon tie
-black man pants
-long black dress blazer

3. Ryuchi
-tight blue pants
-necklace (apparently there is a replica at Le Chateau)

4. Shuichi
-Orange hoodie (large, plain hoodie) - possible options are here and here.
-medium wig (will have to be styled)
-cargo shorts
-fanboy attitude

Fruits Basket
Eve and I are really getting into this cosplay, so we're excited. We still haven't decided every character , but we're hoping to work that out on the weekend once we watch it for people who haven't seen the series. It's pretty much confirmed that I'm being Tohru though and Cesar would be Kyo. Ideally, we wanted to do the three friends seen here in those costumes or in their uniforms. Since vespera is now a member, maybe we could pull that off. I'm too lazy to compile a "what we need for Fruits Basket cosplay" list now, so we can talk about it at the aforementioned meeting.

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Fruits Basket would also be a popular costume (I've already read a thread about a Fruits Basket photoshoot for AN), so we'd have to do it right. If we're doing uniforms, there are a few up on ebay right now to let you know what they should look like:
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five (not really, but it would be cute

http://forums.cosplay.com/showthre…

Sounds like it would suit gcfab's material needs and budget just fine... only problem is that i work saturdays and the 15th is of course one of them. But if you guys are able to make it, i'm sure you could find the material for school uniforms etc rather cheaply!