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CONSTRUCTION TIME: Only God Knows
DEBUT: Phoenix Comic Con 2014
Status: Retired // Remake
Thoughts: I love Bulma. Whooo doesn’t? She’s such a power house in Dragonball. At the time, I had gotten the first season of Dragonball on DVD and was powering through it on a nostalgia train. I realized I wanted to do something from the first series and ended up deciding on Bulmas bunny suit because I figured it would be easy.
NooOooOOooo. This has become one of my most complex cosplay’s and I think anyone who has tried to tackle the bunny suit can understand.
July 2017: There are plans to re-make this costume (for a third time).
2026: who said that???
NooOooOOooo. This has become one of my most complex cosplay’s and I think anyone who has tried to tackle the bunny suit can understand.
July 2017: There are plans to re-make this costume (for a third time).
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I’ve wanted to do Rain for years. G Gundam was the only gundam series I ever liked and thats because it was just so dumb.
This is Nether Gundam. It’s from the Neo Holland. It’s real. I don’t know why either.
I’d actually attempted to do Rain once before the final attempt but I hated everything about it. I picked the wrong fabric for the jacket so it was too blue and didn’t hold it’s shape right. The red was TOO red and also a size too small (what happened there?!) so I couldn’t actually wear it. I was disappointed in the outcome. When I attempted it a second time years later, I realized I had all the skills needed to re-do her properly.
This is Nether Gundam. It’s from the Neo Holland. It’s real. I don’t know why either.
I’d actually attempted to do Rain once before the final attempt but I hated everything about it. I picked the wrong fabric for the jacket so it was too blue and didn’t hold it’s shape right. The red was TOO red and also a size too small (what happened there?!) so I couldn’t actually wear it. I was disappointed in the outcome. When I attempted it a second time years later, I realized I had all the skills needed to re-do her properly.
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Trials for this costume were horrendous. I was honestly unsure of how to go about this since I was inexperienced with something so technical. At first, I ordered a generic bunny suit that I thought I could use as my base. The only thing I kept from that order was the tail, cuffs and ears. The suit idea itself was tossed out once I realized the fabric held no shape and I would need more fabric to even do my plan.
I then tried the duct tape method which produced okay results but I had again used a weak fabric so once the boning was in, it was just a mess. I ripped it up and tried a few more times before throwing that method out.
Then I picked up another tutorial but this time I was stuck on the breast cups. I would always make them too big or too small so it was driving me crazy. Eventually I settled on whatever was done and ended up wearing it to PCC (?????). I liked it but I also didn’t realize what a mess it was.
This time I was learning to be patient and mocking an entire cosplay versus just doing it in pieces.
With the jacket, I lined it with a light blue fabric, made a fake pocket for the front then worked on the jackets cuffs. This was one of the reasons the old jacket failed. The cuffs were awful and held no shape. This time, I used two pieces of interfacing for both cuffs and used an invisible stitch to attach the lower part of the jacket to the upper part of the cuff. Because of the invisible stitch, the cuff looks like it floats on its own and holds it’s shape perfectly!
I was again strapped for time. During the construction of Rain, I had moved apartments, gotten a new job and suddenly it was time for PCC. The only other thing left to do was make the collar and the pouch. I made the pouch using faux white leather and again alternated it so that the only thing it could honestly hold was my phone and business cards. I used a magnet to keep the pouch snapped closed at all times. Finally, I sloppily did the neck piece by creating it out of worbla. I have plans to re-do the piece since it’s pretty awful but overall, I’m incredibly happy with my remake of Rain!
I then tried the duct tape method which produced okay results but I had again used a weak fabric so once the boning was in, it was just a mess. I ripped it up and tried a few more times before throwing that method out.
Then I picked up another tutorial but this time I was stuck on the breast cups. I would always make them too big or too small so it was driving me crazy. Eventually I settled on whatever was done and ended up wearing it to PCC (?????). I liked it but I also didn’t realize what a mess it was.
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With the jacket, I lined it with a light blue fabric, made a fake pocket for the front then worked on the jackets cuffs. This was one of the reasons the old jacket failed. The cuffs were awful and held no shape. This time, I used two pieces of interfacing for both cuffs and used an invisible stitch to attach the lower part of the jacket to the upper part of the cuff. Because of the invisible stitch, the cuff looks like it floats on its own and holds it’s shape perfectly!
I was again strapped for time. During the construction of Rain, I had moved apartments, gotten a new job and suddenly it was time for PCC. The only other thing left to do was make the collar and the pouch. I made the pouch using faux white leather and again alternated it so that the only thing it could honestly hold was my phone and business cards. I used a magnet to keep the pouch snapped closed at all times. Finally, I sloppily did the neck piece by creating it out of worbla. I have plans to re-do the piece since it’s pretty awful but overall, I’m incredibly happy with my remake of Rain!