my cosplay plans for this year's Doctor Who convention:

[newmoonstar]

1) Victoria Waterfield - The Evil of the Daleks

2) Victoria Waterfield - The Abominable Snowmen

3) Zoe Heriot - The Invasion

4) Barbara Wright - The Web Planet

5) Barbara Wright - Marco Polo

...and only Barbara's Web Planet outfit is off-the-rack! I've got to make the rest in a little under four weeks. Eeeeek! And I haven't even started cutting out the fabric yet! But it's all washed and ready to go, so I'd better get sewing. (Especially since Deborah Watling and Wendy Padbury are actually going to be there! SQUEEE!!! I really want to get Victoria and Zoe's outfits done for them to see, I'd love to hear their reactions. That'll probably be surreal, to meet the person you're dressed up as, but also really awesome I think. We do it out of love for the characters, so hopefully the actors will be happy to know people still love their characters enough to dress up as them after all this time.)

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[femme-slash-fan.livejournal.com]

Wendy would LOVE you for that! (I saw her at LFCC and apparently she's never seen anyone do it)

[newmoonstar]

Really??? That's so surprising, I've seen several Zoe cosplays at different cons just going through the Zoe tag on dw_cosplay and last year there were 3 sparkly catsuit Zoes at the con I'm going to. I've only ever seen one Invasion Zoe though, so I figured she'd be pretty surprised to see that one, and it's my favorite, with the bright red dress and that neon green feather boa! (Color pics make cosplay so much easier!)

Ugh, I'm even more excited now! XD

[femme-slash-fan.livejournal.com]

I guess she's just never been in the same room as them? (A lot of the cons she does are US based (apparently?) though so maybe that's why?) It was kind of cute though, she was so sad. I made me LOL by going 'Honey, people can't look as cute as you in a catsuit?' and I think one of my friends did the mini-skirt version so she's seen maybe 1 this year?

I want photos! LOTS of photos (I'll even do you a shoutout on my AllThingsGeeky page!)

[newmoonstar]

I'm in America, and we definitely cosplay the classic stuff a lot here, but most cosplayers do tend to do New Who stuff, and it seems like with Classic Who, the earlier the era, the less cosplay it inspires, so it's entirely possible she could miss seeing Zoe cosplayers, since there's usually only one, if any, it seems, at any given con. (I've actually been doing a series of inspiration posts at dw_classic_cos with ideas for patterns and fabrics to inspire people to do more 1st and 2nd Doctor era characters!)

I promised myself I'll get a flickr account and actually post some pics this year! I've been meaning to for years, and last year I put it off until I'm like, 'well, the con was 6 months ago, no one cares now so I won't bother, blah blah blah'. But if I get all the stuff done I'm planning, I will definitely need to show the world! I just can't decide if I should be in costume when I get pics with the actors. Part of me feels like it would be silly, but the other half of me feels like it would be really neat. Like it'd be like young Zoe and old Zoe in one pic, which would be kind of awesome. IDK what to do, I'm literally way too excited to think clearly. ;)

[femme-slash-fan.livejournal.com]

I keep meaning to do Polly, it's awkward though since I'm not exactly skinny. I think most of the classic people get kinda shy about approaching their people.

You so should! I keep doing the 'I won't do this' thing but yeah... I'm writing a blog now on 'All Things Geeky' on Tumblr and Facebook. DO IT IN COSTUME! They love when you do costume.

[newmoonstar]

Omigosh, please do Polly! I've never seen anyone cosplay Polly, it's one of my dearest fandom wishes to see a Polly somewhere! Go for it! Few of us are as skinny as Anneke Wills, but as long as you get the outfit right, no one will even think twice about that; they'll just be thrilled to see a Polly. I wasn't going to do Barbara because I'm way too short, but I just love her so much and I realized that it doesn't matter if I don't look like her, I just want to proclaim my love for her to everyone I meet, and cosplay is the least obnoxious way to do that. ;D

I think I kind of do want to do it in costume! I just got the preliminary schedule though, and I'm not sure how I'm going to be able to work it out, but I have a sneaking desire to recreate that photo of Jamie hugging Victoria from 'The Abominable Snowmen' with Frazer Hines! And my Abominable Snowmen Victoria outfit is almost done now! (And I met Frazer at last year's con, and he's totally willing to hug people, so he'd probably do it, too!)

What's your Tumblr url? I'll check out your blog! (I finally broke down and joined tumblr at last, mine's mostly Doctor Who fandom and historical fashion. I'm at http://stitching-in-time.tumblr.com )

[femme-slash-fan.livejournal.com]

I did a Barbara (lazy cosplay) this year... shirt and mini-skirt with a teacher's coat (she stole it from Ian) and DONE.

I might do next year if I can buy a decent mini-dress that I don't look stupid in.

Awwww!! Just do it, RUN everywhere and you can do it?

it's mrssgonnaeffyouup.tumblr.com or allthingsgeeky I think?