Cosplay Patterns ( men's classic pants + vest)

By Елена - February 20, 2019

Cosplay (costume play) is a popular hobby, which consists in dressing up in costumes and acting out, body plastics and facial expressions of computer games, cinema, literature, comics, anime and manga characters. As a rule, this hobby includes the manufacture of a suit and elements of attributes of the selected character.

The term Cosplay, is thought, to have been coined by a Japanese journalist Takahashi in 1984 after visiting the Fiction World Science 1984 Worldcon convention in Los Angeles.

The main attribute of cosplay is a costume, personifying the character's image. As a rule, the costume is made by cosplayer independently from improvised or materials specialized in props, however, there are also purchased costumes.

The level and complexity of character creation can vary greatly and vary from simple themed clothing to costumes with a high degree of detail or complex technical implementation of the elements.

Depending on the complexity of the costume, making it requires sewing skills, working with paper and cardboard, dyeing, working with plastic, plexiglass, fabric, working with plumbing and turning tools, etc. Recently, in cosplay using a lot of artificial lighting and animation (pneumatic, electric) of costume elements.

There are also teams and individuals who specialize in processing a particular type of material, making a certain element of a suit, whose services can be used for free or for money. Such masters received the name "crafter".

Cosplayers often use additional accessories: wigs, makeup, contact lenses, temporary tattoos. For many characters, an important attribute of the image is their weapon or other accessories. In the case of weapons imitation, many festivals have strict rules on prohibiting the use of combat, traumatic, airsoft and any real weapons in cosplay.

The image chosen for cosplay can be taken from any source or coined by the author of cosplay as an original idea or as a synthesis of various famous characters and styles.

Over time, pop culture changed, and with it, the main trends that influenced cosplay changed. If in the 1970s – 1980s comics were the main engines of cosplay, in the 1980s – 1990s movies were added to them. In the 2000s, as the graphics capabilities of personal computers and video game consoles increased, cosplayers began to actively draw ideas from video games.

Classic Pants and Vest in Cosplay

Patterns and tutorials what you can use for costume making:

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"King Dice" Cosplay Costume ( pants + vest ), jacket pattern coming soon...

Vest Patterns:

Men's Vest Pattern

Women's Suit Vest

Free tutorial "How to sew a men's vest"

"Assassination Classroom" Cosplay Costume ( vest ( vest ) + pants)

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