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Thank God for Amazon customer reviews; the licensed costume is absolute trash. The fabric was thin, scratchy, and see-through; the neckline and sleeves were completely different from the product photo, and the embroidery was only on the front half of the dress! So, I went looking online--and this costume is, surprisingly, not sold by a lot of the online cosplay sellers. The few places I did find it, it was either the wrong color (usually an obnoxious robin's egg blue) or embroidery is completely wrong (usually a generic trim sewn on, rather than the animals.) There were some perfect ones on Etsy, of course, but they were all $500 and up, which is a little more than I was willing to spend. Finally I found a great dress on Duokings; the color is perfect, I love the sheer overlay, and the embroidery appears to be screen accurate. I bought the Grace Classic wig in Dark Ash Blonde from Arda Wigs, and immediately shipped it off to Patti and Steph to put pin curls in it, and then trimmed the bangs a little myself. I was even able to find her spat-like boots for sale on Cosplay House(they have the boots, but not the dress, how odd is that?)
And then when we got to the con some guy immediately recognized Skye as the Mad Hatter, but thought I was Elsa. Oh, well. |
