Technically, Honda Tohru wasn't first time I cosplayed. In 2001--my freshman year in college (yes, I'm old, shut UP.)--my anime club had a Halloween cosplay contest and I dressed up as Shampoo from Ranma 1/2. My hair was long enough and I faked her hair buns with squares of cloth, scrunchies, and a pair of socks. I wore what I called my 'oriental hooker dress' which was a cheongsam in orange...It wasn't bad, for an afternoon's hectic attempt.
I didn't win though--one of the girls there in addition to being SUPER HOT had a fantastic Mireille from Noir. But it was a start.
It was thinking, "I can do better than this."
Looking back, I guess it was pretty gutsy to prance up to the front of a room of people I barely knew in nothing much and say, 'lookit me!!' but I was pretty impressed with myself at age barely 18.
To be fair, weird outfits and attention-whoring always came pretty natural to me, I just got subtler and better at it as I got older.
I'm going to blame my parents though. They started it. Well no, it may have been me, but they made it so much worse.
It started with skating--roller skating, but the competitive kind. How early '90s is that? Don't answer. Anyway, I wasn't too bad at it so for a good span of years every couple of months I got tarted up in some little sparkly spandex thing and smeared with stage make-up and sent out to have a rink full of people watch me try and hit my loops and axles. I did a mean shoot the duck too.
While the skating scene palled after a while (I wasn't dedicated enough to go state level) I had been stripped of something important--a fear of spandex and looking ridiculous in front of crowds. Have you seen a 7 year old girl in full stage make-up from the '90s? Ooh, tiny hooker, where has your tiny brothell gone?
It's really all downhill from there, I suppose.
~Raiphin
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