Cosplay

[Pyromaniac]

Well honestly the best thing to do is to get a bunch of pictures of the character you want to cosplay from as many different angles as possible. Then just hit up your local thrift store(s) and start figuring out how you can alter things.

Some sewing skills are definitley important and a fair bit of planning has to go into the costume before you even start buying stuff.

And while you can get tailors to make things for you it can get pretty expensive. Also there are tons of cosplay websites out on the internet and lots of people offer tutorials. So if you're doing a Naruto cosplay chances are someone's done it already (since Naruto is both a mainstream and a popular manga/anime) and has a tutorial out on the internet with the best way to go about doing it.

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