I have a bunch of ideas, but I want everybody’s input before I make any decisions… (This was worded better before, but my internet decided to quit while I was typing, and I had to rewrite this whole thing... )

1. Matt and Tai’s hair- do we attempt the ridiculosity, or just go with something nice and ‘fluffy’? Kari and I had been looking at this: [link] for Yamato. Looking at a few examples,([link] & [link]) I’m thinking it might not be so bad.
But Taichi… IDK. Tai cosplay fails even more often than Matt, because of the hair. (And the goggles, but we have a plan for that. ) We could try making it a furry, I guess. Or we could just use a chicken. (I kid, I kid… If you’d ever seen the thing, you’d understand…)

2. I really want to order our fabric. It’s gonna be much easier if we do this all in one order. But there are a lot of things I need to know before we can.

a) I honestly cannot figure out what is up with Tai’s outfit!! (Tai’s just… difficult.) I’m thinking that the yellow stuff must be a shirt underneath, because the sleeves don’t have the yellow ends in the movie, but the neck would look stupid if we made it part of the undershirt, so I think we’ll just ignore that. Ne? Also, I’m pretty sure we can find dark blue and grey shirts for Izzy and Tai and just buy those, and Izzy’s normal shirt is the same there, but open.… so I guess I’m the only one who needs to worry about movie stuff. Which I found the PERFECT color for on the lyrca site, so I think we’re set, there.

b) OKAY, now that’s sorted out… The question remaining is one I’ve had for awhile: Do we or do we not make Mimi’s dress out of lyrca?? I’m inclined to say YES, because I really don’t want to try making that out of stiffer fabric… It’ll need to be a slightly redder pink than Kari’s 02 stuff was…

c) What about the gloves? I know Mimi was just planning to buy hers, but what about Tai and Sora? (Actually, Sora’s gloves are the same as Mimi’s dress, and Tai’s would be the same as the bottom of Sora’s shirt, and Kite’s base shirt as well.)

3. Anyone know someone who can knit? Otherwise, I guess I’ll just make Sora’s movie hat out of fleece… It looks like this: Screenshot from digimonspirit.net

4. Rin and Len’s belts (Vocaloid = Yaaay, Mimi won’t kill me!)
Do we just do fabric paint? There’s a ribbon material saw at Jo-Ann’s forever ago that might work…

5. ...For the shorts for everyone (back to Digimon, sorry) I vote we just make a list and take a huge group shopping trip.

And now I think I have to get off here- I’ve been online researching all this for about four hours now. I’m gonna go clean guestrooms for my and hopefully add to the cosplay fund! ^_^

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