costumes

Walter Amos (amos@sedl.org)
Wed, 15 Apr 1998 09:25:30 -0500 (CDT) 

On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Hank Wong wrote:

> > Nah, but you can glom a look at me and my husband here:
> > 
> > http://www.midlink.com/khl/030198b.htm
 

Ha! Great!  I have been hoping to be able to get a look at these costumes
which I know Sue and Tom wore for some time.  Of course, I still hate them,
(a) for looking so good, and (b) for seeming to beat me to so many costume
ideas (see below...)

> Wow!  the costumes look really good!  It was a pleasant surprise to find
> a costume from such a classic series.  (Okay, so my friends bag on me all
> the time for it, but I actually sorta liked Rose of Versailles.)
 
Shoot them.  I find RoV and other older series so much more interesting and
engaging than 99% of the crap being produced in anime right now.  The same
goes for LoGH, another show most fen "bag" on.

 
> So what other kinds of costumes have you made? out of curiosity's sake,
> and since it is a logh mailing list, any imperial army uniforms?

Have they made any Imperial army costumes?!?!  HAH!  Do you know how I first
became aware of Sue's costuming?  It was right after Anime Con 91, I think,
and my friend Phil and I were buying Japanese anime mags from the SF
Kinokuniya books.  I looked through an issue of Newtype, I think it was, (I
believe it had Grandis from Nadia on the cover) and flipped around to the "fan
contributions" section, and there came across a picture of Sue's husband Tom
decked out in full Imperial dress regalia!  Ack!! The coolest costume in all
of anime-dom, and I was certain LoGH was not popular enough that anyone else
would want to do it, and here was already an absolutely gorgeous rendition of
it, and on a guy who even looks like Reinhard (Tom is blond).  I later got to
see this costume up close at Anime East 95, when I hosted the masquerade in my
Imperial dress uniform, and Sue and Tom brought theirs along.  Unfortunately
Tom was feeling too ill to wear the costume in the masquerade that night.  I
was looking forward to probably the only opportunity we'll ever have to see
the only Imperial costumes in existence in the US on stage at the same time.


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