I like to think of my Mimori Kishida cosplay as encapsulating an exact moment in the series: her performance of
Oogoe Diamond as a Senbatsu member while her succession fever starts to go into overdrive.
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Mimori performing despite her succession fever. |
After several shopping trips I finally gathered all the materials for this costume, which were kindly figured out by
Melvinopolis. We did quit a bit of searching for plaid patterns, and it turns out
Jo-Ann fabrics had a pretty decent one anyways.
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all ready to sew! |
All of the other accessories had previously arrived, so this week I mostly need to get on with the sewing of this costume. Luckily enough my dressform also arrived!!! So now my cosplay life is made 10x much swifter since I can pin fabrics and patterns on something other than myself!
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skirt progress! |
I spent an entire weekend working on the wig, but that's already packed and ready to go. I'll make a long post about it later since I think I figured out a useful process for adding volume to wigs, here's a sneak peak:
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Mimori's hair! |
Well then, onwards to my idoru destiny! XD