After seeing so many people in outfits that they'd created themselves at Ohayocon, we decided to make our own the for the next convention we attended. That ended up being Youmacon. It just happened to be that my friend and I decided to do the twins from one of our favorite manga and anime series, DNAngel, together to the convention that Vic Mignonga (Dark's voice actor in DNAngel) would be attending. Needless to say we were very excited to meet him, and he recognized us right away, calling out to us "Oh! It's my twins!"
Here are the anime versions of Riku (left) and Risa (right) in their school uniforms, followed by our finished outfits.
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| Riku Harada |
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| Risa Harada |
We bought fabric and made our own patterns for the jackets and used youtube videos for pleating the skirts, the shirts we bought at Goodwill for under $5 and tailored them to our size, and the shoes were lucky Payless BOGO buys. Due to starting these in early October, we didn't hem anything but the skirts simply because we didn't have time. I know both of us would like to go back and maybe redo the vests as their close up quality is rather poor with the rough edges. Still! I like to think it wasn't bad for a first try at making them on our own.
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