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Great Costume Place
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 2:24 am
by drcorey
Re: Great Costume Place
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 12:45 pm
by Odie
Holy Copyright Infringement, Batman. :batman:
Homemade costumes made for personal use and not for sale = Okay
A business where you take other people's characters and make unlicensed costumes and sell them = Not So Much
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong. But I don't think I am.
Also, the few costumes I looked at just show screenshots from the show/game/etc, not what the actual costumes look like...
Re: Great Costume Place
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 3:06 pm
by Darksin
*Whispers* Their stuff isn't that nice and their to highly priced for the cheap fabric they use.
You'd be surprised how often once people find out you can sew, demand Disney princess dresses. It can't be pattern, no those aren't right! It has to be the exact dress, looking exactly like the movie.
To which the normal response is: Do I LOOK like a seamstress? Go commission someone, I'm not THAT talented!
Re: Great Costume Place
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 3:35 pm
by Mayonnaise
The ones based on Japanese media are legit. They have differing copyright law over there, and Cosplay is pretty heavily encouraged by many Anime and Manga studios...
The X-Men, Avatar, etc tho is strictly speaking illegal.
Besides which, if you want a high quality cosplay, you don't go to one of these sites. You contact a seamstress who can, as Darksin mentioned, get everything just right... or you do it yourself. You can't enter the Cosplay Contest with a commissioned or bought costume.
8^)