Cosplay and Doctor Who-related question

[gothic_hamlet]

An opinion question for the Doctor Who-inclined people. I'd been planning on cosplaying oldschool-style Sarah Jane for Otakon, modeled off of the cute little suit skirt she wears in Robot. But now I'm wondering if I should instead do her darker pants suit.

Skirt suit, plus hat, plus pearls, plus gloves: Here, here, herePants suit, plus

Comments

[fantomfox]

Skirt is too cute~! I vote that one! Whether you make or buy it, I think, should depend on how much work (looks like a lot) you have to do before the con. Good luck!
I'm so excited about Otakon omg. Anything I can do from here to help with anything just let me know, kay?

[gothic_hamlet]

Sounds good! >XP PS I don't know if you were planning on bringing Ten or not, but if you do we're going to have a loverly wedding dress!Donna in the group.

[fantomfox]

Ten was in the plan ^^ Yay all day for Donna! And officially, I'm not working the dealers room, so I should tag along with you all a lot. Hopefully, that's a good thing.

[erinfinnegan]

The brown pantsuit is more iconicly Sarah Jane, especially if you wear the little reporter bag she carries in her first episode, The Time Warrior.

Although personally, I think you should wear the 70's-tastic outfit she wears in The Hand of Fear. So '70's it hurts!! Also Planet of Spiders is one of my favorite Sarah Jane episodes.

[mizufae]

What, you are not announcing to the world that I will be making a fricking wedding dress? I bought a sewing machine today. and fabric. and patterns.
I have.... some questions.

[gothic_hamlet]

Oh you horface, I was waiting for you to get online like ALL DAY to see if you wanted to go to Joann's after work. And I totally mentioned it in the above comments XP

[mizufae]

just CALL ME omigawd.

I'm going to have to draw a rubric for you, aren't I?

Lady, tomorrow, assuming I'm not dead from hauling shit to the House, I will be talking to you. About a myriad of things! THINGS! [fun things maybe?]

[gothic_hamlet]

Well, the thing is that I don't know when you wake up. >XPPP I figured I'd wait until like afternoonish, but then it was four and I was like "oh, I'll just talk when I get home" XP

Also, one thing I thought of: did you buy a shitton of netting? I'm sure it wasn't in that pattern, but wedding dresses poof so because of all of the underlying stuffs.

[parasaur]

Do you have a list of people doing GG for Otakon? I don't mind doing another character if Nella really wants to do Zeetha (it would probably work better for a tall person, anyway), but I'm not sure what's taken. If you or Carrie have other suggestions I'm game. (though I'm not sure if I'm up for crazy skull corset of doom)

I'm still tentatively thinking about doing a Pompeiian preistess from the most recent season, so I can at least hang with the Dr Who crowd for a bit.

[mizufae]

Fingers on Lips! Eyes on Hands!

*insert other bodyparts on bodyparts jokes here*

[foenixfyre]

Here is the Girl Genius Cast List of Absolutely Everybody!
http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/info/cast/everybody.php

Maybe Pix or Dame Aedith?
Pix is a blond, sweetly manipulative cutie, and Aedith is a witch with an interesting personality.

[gothic_hamlet]

WELL. I told Nella that you have first dibs since you were first, so it's totally up to you who you want to go as! >XP But on the other hand I wasn't positive if you were going with Girl Genius-y things or the other cosplay.

As far as the list of who's who goes, the taken folks are Agatha, Gil, Oggie the Jagermonster, and Moxana. Aside from Carrie's suggestions, here's all of the non-ridiculous girl costumes that I can think of:

Tinka (Moxana's "sister")

Jenka the Jagermonster

The Countess

Pix

Bangladesh DuPree

Anevka (she has two other very different costumes as well)

[foenixfyre]

Go for the pantsuit. As much as I adore that little skirt and jacket, you've got a better chance of really pulling off the other outfit. You've got enough work to do without having to sew something like that!

(Wait, is this me? Am I actually telling someone to take the easy route? Check my forehead; I might have a fever.)

[gothic_hamlet]

*sigh* I knoooowwwww... but the jacket is just sooooo cute! I'm trying to estimate how much work it'd actually take, verses how much time I'd spend trying to shop the vintage stores. Surprisingly, I don't think I've ever made a suit jacket! How long did that lovely A-Chan coat take to do?

(*GASP* Shock surprise?!??!)

[foenixfyre]

Heeeehhhhh . . .

The A-Chan coat took, oh, well over 40 hours. I'd drop Greg at the train station, then come home and measure/cut/sew until it was time to pick him up! I was REALLY anal about everything being perfect. Of course, that was for a jacket that I can still wear around (and considering the rainstorms last week, I was glad to have it!).