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My latest project, done for the Boston Cosplay picnic this weekend, and started, less than a week ago. I still have to do the obi tomorrow, so it's just a piece of black cloth I had laying around in the photos ^^







I'd make people guess what it is, only I think I've already told everybody who would know. Tatsumi from Yami no Matsuei 11, the sequence I've got illustrated in my blog layout ^^
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[identity profile] ext_25570 (from dreamwidth.org) 2004-05-31 07:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Heh, I see what you mean ;0. The obi should probably be just a little lower, though. And white yukata underneath would also be a suggestion for the next time you want to go out Japanese-style.

[identity profile] momijizukamori.dreamwidth.org 2004-05-31 07:17 pm (UTC)(link)
I could probably wear the white kimono from my shikifuku under it, although I was under the impression that yukata weren't worn with other layers save undergarments underneath.

And yeah, damn my hips ^^ I'll see how it looks with the obi lower, though, possibly when I actually make the obi ^^

[identity profile] ext_25570 (from dreamwidth.org) 2004-05-31 07:21 pm (UTC)(link)
It depends. Sometimes people do, sometimes they don't- if there are layers, it's generally only one underneath. I would imagine depending on how hot it was outside, really.

Heh. Well. Mostly it's your skinniness that is to be damned, actually, and I feel your pain on that one. Wearing the upper half pulled up a little rather than clinging would help immensely- this is how most Japanese men wear it anyway.

[identity profile] momijizukamori.dreamwidth.org 2004-05-31 07:29 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll see what the weather is like Saturday, then. Although unless it warms up a whole lot, I'd probably be okay with two layers - I managed to survive the full shikifuku in the middle of August, on a very hot, sunny day.

And you may be skinny too, but you are definately less curvy than me *pokes* ^^ I'll try fiddling around with the fit, though - I'm just afraid that making it any looser on top will make it fall open because of my chest. Maybe a discreet safety pin...

[identity profile] ext_25570 (from dreamwidth.org) 2004-05-31 07:42 pm (UTC)(link)
I have ice blood, myself. What is this 'hot' you speak of? ;P

Well, that's true. But I've been wearing men's clothes virtually my entire life, so I know a thing or two about how to wear them. One of the things I would do in summer camp when I was your age, when we played our token boys vs. girls Capture the Flag game, was tuck my hair up under a baseball cap and infiltrate enemy territory. Worked pretty damn good, too.

A discreet safety pin would be good- no fear of the yukata coming open at all!

[identity profile] momijizukamori.dreamwidth.org 2004-05-31 07:55 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm much the same. Hell, I've been freezing most of the last week, here. It's gotten kind of bad over the last few years - I used to at least go sledding and skating, but this past winter my main goal was to stay inside as much as possible. Which sucks, 'cause I actually do enjoy skating and such. And when I say 'hot', I'm talking like 90F ^^ (30C, I think.)

And I wear men's clothes too (Currently have stolen a pair of my brother's cargo shorts >.>) Just not fitted ones, in an attempt to actually pass as a guy ^^ Although I get mistaken for one anyway, which I don't really get (People to my mom: Oh, is that your son? Me: ....) But yeah, saftey pins = my friend ^^

[identity profile] ext_25570 (from dreamwidth.org) 2004-05-31 08:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, there're two ways to pass for a guy, really. One is in the face, the other is in the body. I think in your case, it's more that you have a boyish face, and in my case that I have a boyish body. Someone could take one look at you and go 'ah, a boy!' then look a little closer and realize their mistake. With me, it's more 'ah, a g- oh, wait, no it's not... or is it?'- since with all but the tightest of shirts, I have NO visible cleavage, they either have to assume a pretty man or a woman with no breasts. It's interesting to see which they choose.

[identity profile] momijizukamori.dreamwidth.org 2004-05-31 08:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, I suppose the fact that I'm less curvy than many of my peers helps a little bit, as well as my like of big t-shirts (I figure, if I'm going to be casual, I might as well be comfortable ^^). I'm built like the women on my granmother's side of the family, ie, _really_ thin, although my grandmother was a lot prettier than I am ^^ And you've got a bit of a boyish face...possibly more so than me, although that might be because you look a lot older.
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