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CHISE
Series: Saikano
My friend Jordan was always ranting about Saikano so one day I picked up the manga and fell in love with it - it was so sad! I actually didn't think I'd ever cosplay Chise because of the difficulty level of th costume. Up until that point, I had never made a costume completely on my own and I knew it would be a huge challenge. Thankfully, the basic uniform was simple: the blazer is just a comfortable-fitting blazer I picked up at a thrift store, modified, and ripped. The patch was made from leftover fabric, interfacing, and yellow bias tape. The skirt was made using an online pattern and was my first of MANY pleated skirts. I had the shoes, wig, and socks. The wings and gun were more difficult but not nearly as complicated as I expected. The wings were made from cardboard packing boxes I shamelessly stole from my Mom's work. I then cut the boxes into random, jagged pieces (I wanted them to look chaotic) and slabbed them together with hot glue. Next, I used an especially strong piece of cardboard (a little longer than the size of my hand) as a base and screwed it onto the back of the jagged pieces. I also used two belts as straps. then, to mask the appearance of the cardboard's texture, I outlined all of the edges of the "feathers" in electrical tape and spraypainted them gray + gave them a topcoat of metallic spraypaint as well. The gun was made the same way but using cardboard tubes and poserboard. The tubes were simply poster tubes glued and taped together but finding a tube large enough to stick my arm through was much more difficult than I thought it would be. Instead, I used a triangular packing box and covered it in posterboard to give it a more tubular look. I then used masking tape to cover any of the openings of the tubes. I used a plastic bowl to shove over the three bottom-most tubes to make them more stable and just used 2 liter bottle caps for detailing along the side + the tip of the gun. The wing is a styrofoam model airplane wing my brother had sitting around the house and the wires are just old computer wires hot glued on. It was then spraypainted and glossed and I learned my first important lesson that styrofoam and paint DO NOT MIX and the wing sort of melted. Thankfully I liked the effect but still.. Unfortunately, this costume has been retired but, now that I have more knowledge of working with props, I'd love to remake it again one day!  
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