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Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 6:32 pm
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Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 6:48 pm
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Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 11:51 am
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Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 2:45 am
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Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 2:21 pm
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Psycho Lee I want to cosplay as this mother effer: imgBeen having trouble finding a shirt I can use for his coat though. It has to be long and have pockets near the bottom. And it has to be dark blue... I see some people cosplay him with a black shirt.. the black is a LIE.. it's dark blue dammit. Also, haven't figured out how to make the green triangle thing either, but I have ideas.
Looks like a Nehru Jacket to me, which was popular in 60s I believe. The Beatles probably made it more popular with their uniforms like in Sgt. Pepper. Here's a few examples.
http://www.totalmedia.com/images/nehru.jpg (Rather larger image of a blue one.)
![User Image - Blocked by "Display Image" Settings. Click to show. User Image - Blocked by "Display Image" Settings. Click to show.](https://graphics.gaiaonline.com/images/s.gif) As you can see, they are popular in many Asian countries like India, but also in other areas of the East as well.
According to wikipedia, there are several variations/alternate names for this as well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherwani http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandarin_collar
Unfortunately, vintage men's clothing is rather hard to find, unless you have a lot of good clothing exchange types of stores. (I'm blanking on what they're called, but people often drop off old clothes there and they're cleaned and resold at a cheap price.) Most of these stores seem to carry a lot of women's clothing, but little men's.... I'd recommend Ebay, though you always take a risk on the quality of the garment with ebay.
Now if you want it to match more, there's several things you can do.
1. Buy a faded black turning grayish Nehru Jacket and then buy some blue fabric dye that's dark dark blue. Maybe even looks black, but is blue. I saw something on PBS about a natural dye that I believe came from Woad, and it could darken clothing very deeply with blue depending on how long you left it in the mix. Obviously, you don't need this plant, but just a dark blue dye. Test it on a swatch of fabric that matches the jacket first though. You may also need chemicals to make the coloring permanent. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woad If you're curious about it.
2. If that triangular piece is a zipper (and from the looks of it, it probably is though I can still be wrong), you'll have to do research on how those things are made. Alternatively, you could do some plastic work and glue it on to an existing zipper.
3. For the sleeves, you'll want to stitch in the parts around it instead of glue them on most likely. Otherwise, they'll look rather low quality and tacky if they don't hold or have glue marks coming out of the side of it.
It's probably more than you'd want to bother with, but this is the only way to do it outside of learning to sew and making your own clothing.
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Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 9:52 am
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Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 10:19 am
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Garek Maxwell Looks like a Nehru Jacket to me, which was popular in 60s I believe. The Beatles probably made it more popular with their uniforms like in Sgt. Pepper. Here's a few examples. Unfortunately, vintage men's clothing is rather hard to find, unless you have a lot of good clothing exchange types of stores. (I'm blanking on what they're called, but people often drop off old clothes there and they're cleaned and resold at a cheap price.) Most of these stores seem to carry a lot of women's clothing, but little men's.... I'd recommend Ebay, though you always take a risk on the quality of the garment with ebay. 2. If that triangular piece is a zipper (and from the looks of it, it probably is though I can still be wrong), you'll have to do research on how those things are made. Alternatively, you could do some plastic work and glue it on to an existing zipper.
Those Nehru jackets look a little long, this jacket's only supposed to be about to the top of the thighs.
There are thirft shops around here, I've been to a few, they do tend to have way more women's clothing than men (*insert bad joke about women shopping too much for clothing here*) but I haven't found anything yet, I plan to check a few more.
The zipper is actually affixed to his jacket, it's some sort of electronic zipper. you press the button and the jacket zips itself. same with the sleeves. kinda like the plug suits that are baggy and then you press the button and they zip up and form to your body.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8JoNhM2CIU ninja
You know, I need to stop being so lazy. I see people all the time with such elaborate costumes, like Gundam cosplay where the gundam is made of actual plastic or fiberglass and polished, or ones with fancy weaponry. It seems that either money, time, or skill is an object, and I can't sew worth crap. (Okay, so I can sew so-so, but not long seams)
But hell, if everyone else can do it, so can I.
Maybe I should do what two guys have done and do a Seele monolith.
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Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 9:33 pm
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