2016 & Wander

Hello everyone!
So it has been a long time since my last updates about nakigitsune, i know, my holiday is so quickly over right after i did my first cosplay at Utsuru! 2, and i went back to reality, college & tasks (i finally working on with my proposal for my final script) it has been a rough month these days, but it happen that i really enjoyed it

So how's your 2015 for you everyone?
Did you find new experience, things, journey?
2015 was so dramatic to me, but i also lost and found a new journey, i guess that's just how life works. We loss and we found, and without the moments, we are just plain. Afterall, how could we know joy without pain?

Looking back to 2015, i think that i took much big steps that takes me to another level of getting 'mature'. I found out that, one doesn't simply follow our heart without our logical mind, and vice versa. But then, i also found out that regretting something is actually a waste of time and forcing something will not turn any good for us. So just try to let it go, let go of what doesn't belong to you and try to take a step forward over it.

In the end of 2015, i realized that i need to change my perception. I need to change my focus, and i already set it in front of my eyes. If the year before i set my goal as 'result-oriented' now i will look more for 'process-oriented'. And also, to make little meaningful things that makes people happy. Because i believe that there's always a space for kindness in everything.

I actually cannot wait what 2016 have in mind, hopefully it's getting better and better than 2015. I know that it's predicted to be busier than before (specially because, college is near to the end) but i believe that every single steps that i take will take me to a better one.

So, Bon voyage! 

ToukenRanbu Cosplay Progress : Nakigitsune (Part 1 : Top )

Hello! so it has been a really long time since i wrote in this blog,
my summer holiday is nearly to an end, well i still got 1 month less left but hey finally i could find a new hobby & interest, and it is cosplay!
i really like cosplaying since a long time but due to my insecurity and so on, (and also money) i can't really did it. A few months ago, suddenly i found this unexpected courage and thought that "why not give it a try?" and bam, i got into this cosplay community xD

Cosplaying isn't cheap, nor expensive. It depends on what material you wanna use and how you treat it. I might be a newbie, but this last days i've tried so many materials from fabric, foam to glue. It really interesting how we can turn everyday things into something so creative. I'll explain this later, now let's get started!

I personally don't really like to play touken ranbu, since it's all in japanese, but i really like to watch their cosplay in the net, since the outfits are damn cool and interesting (it's quite complex and the medieval-japanese things are just so me) so i decided to make nakigitsune's costume.

 

There's not much reference of nakigitsune's costume from the official touken ranbu, so i decided to draw the details on the paper. The upper one is from cosfans in aliexpress, it's actually quite cheap if you buy it there, but i like it hand-made xD

 

nakigitsune cosplay

 I'll explain how to make nakigitsune's armor, swords, accessories later so now let's get started to the top!

A Guide to : Retro Vintage (Part II)

Hello!

So Bon Anniversaire to my Medical Faculty and congratulation for the successful gala dinner events! I'm thrilled started one month before the events just because i cannot wait for the gala dinner, and specially because the theme : retro vintage.

I always like retro fashion and i thought this is the time to show it off! I bought fabrics, blue and white, then black nets, fur, ribbons, and white gloves.

So what did i wear?

Here's the list : 

• Black Mary Jane shoes by Donatello
• Black Birdcage Hat
• Long White gloves
• Electric Blue retro sailor dress made by me! (yes, it's a handmade)

Black Mary Jane Shoes

Black Birdcage Hat & Gloves

The Sailor Dress

It took about total 10-14 days to finished the dress, specially to sew the white part, the other is easy to sew and quickly done in 5-6 days. But since i still got a lot of things to do, like school and etc, the total time is about one month haha.

the finished look, a photo with my besties~ ( i really like to twirl with this dress!)

 The gala dinner ended up very amazing, we took a lot of pics and i heard a lot of people said that my dress resembled sailor moon (like, i heard someone said i'm cosplaying about hundred times that day, but still, a good compliments) afterall, Modisco13, the gala dinner is such a huge success and a memorable one, i really hope in the future there will be another event with such an interesting and playful, unique theme like this!

A Guide to : Fashion History Timeline (part I)

Sorry for the super long hiatus!

Just about two days ago i got a super amazing gala dinner for my medical faculty birthday with the theme of Retro Vintage, so i just wanna share my experience in travelling, finding the right fashion for that!

So, basically Retro style is style that is consciously derivative or imitative of trends, modes, fashions, or attitudes of the recent past. The term of retro used since the 1940, so, retro fashion refers to fashion from 1940-1990. Retro fashion is a clothing style which consists in wearing clothes commonly used in the past. This way of clothing often includes garments and accessories that are characteristic of such times, and many people use them in an exaggerated way and in combination with current clothing.

Since, there's a lot of things going on in 1940-1990, i'll just make it shorter like this :

early 40's -

Most of the women's fashions during the 1940s were designed with the same squared shoulders, small waist, and skirt above the knee

late 40's - New Look

By 1947, after WWII was over, the "New Look" began to replace the wartime utility fashions. This new style embraced femininity, with rounded shoulders, shapely bust lines, closely-defined waistlines, slightly padded skirts, and full, billowing skirts that hung just below the calves.
early 50's - Dirndl & Poodle Skirt  
Christian Dior's "New Look" of 1947 continued to influence the fashions of the 1950s. The dirndl dress, either sleeveless or with small puff sleeves and having a billowy skirt, became an extremely popular style. This type of casual attire was the hallmark of 1950s fashions. Also, The poodle skirts is famous among teenagers.

late 50's -

By the late 1950s, the long, slim look had returned. Long skirts or dresses were popular, often worn with short jackets.

early 60's - Jackie Kennedy

 The first half of the sixties mimicked the late 50s with shirt-waist dresses , turtle necks , pencil skirts, blouses in pastel colors. The only notable difference is the hem-line shrunk an inch or so above the knee. Women in this era also mimicked Jacqueline Kennedy as their references style.

late 60's - Hippies & Mod 
Hippies and Mod were in 1964-1969. These famous styles were not fully welcomed in the streets until the mid sixties, (64-66). Woman sported box dresses, mini skirts , turtle necks, go-go boots and beehives brought on by the British Invasion in 1964

early 70's - All Bright
Early 1970s fashion was a fun era. It culminated some of the best elements of the 60s and perfected and/or exaggerated them. Some of the best clothing produced in the 1970s perfectly blended the mods with the hippies. There is one common theme throughout fashion in the 1970s: pants were tight fitting 

late 70's - Disco

Color almost completely disappeared by 1979. Earth tones, grays, whites and blacks were back in full force, as people had apparently tired of the super bright tones of the early 1970s. The Disco & sportwear clothes are also popular in this era.

early 80's - Minimalism
 The early 1980s were very different from the rest of the decade, with some carryovers from the late 1970s. The early 1980s saw a minimalist approach to fashion, with less emphasis on accessories, and practicality considered just as much as aesthetics. Clothing colors were subdued, quiet and basic; varying shades of brown, tan, and orange were common

late 80's - Aerobics
Women's apparel in the late 1980s included jackets (both cropped and long), coats (both cloth and fake fur), reversible inside-out coats (leather on one side, fake fur on the other), rugby sweatshirts, sweater dresses, tafetta and pouf dresses, baby doll dresses, jumpsuits, miniskirts, stretch pants, tapered pants, happy pants (homemade pants made in bold designs with bright colors), and opaque tights. The aerobics styled like leg warmers, bright stockings, also popular in this time. 
 

Phew, a lotta style in just 50 years, right?

My personal favourite is actually the 40's era, both for New look & Dirndl. So i decided to sew a little (actually, a dress) and trying to make some accessories for the 40's look. You can see the complete result the dress, accessories i made in :

Part II, A guide to : Retro Vintage

So since this is only a brief history, you can also look up on wikipedia, or retrowaste, or uvm.edu for further reading. I hope this help, thanks for reading!

20 at 20

Maybe you watch me, maybe you're not but we all know things got complicated these day (as usual) the wave might be fierce, but believe me, i'm alive. I'm still working on that wish you want me to do, in case you're wondering. I might be old-fashioned, but don't blame me if i always keep everyone promises on my mind.

Oh, and there's a little gift for you that keeps my memory as fresh as yesterday's memory. I know, i should maybe just forget them, but the thought of you having the 20th birthday, well it's actually kind of.. i don't know. Scars will always be scars, but that's not the point, isn't it?

Sorry for everything, happy birthday to you,
dear you.

'Sometimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them.' 

'Love is keeping the promise anyway.'

Impossibilities

I. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.  

II. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.  

III. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

- Arthur C. Clarke's Three Laws

What can we say about impossibilities? We believe some things, are not possible to happen or to do, but what do we know actually about impossibilities? Are they really not possible?

Recently i got a lot of things in my mind and i realized that, as we grow older, we tend to think something is easily misunderstood as impossible. We imagined, fantasized a lot of things back then, but then what happened when we're adult? I feel like sometimes i kind of lost. But then to realized that the thing i need to do is to re-think.

We know, as we grow older, things got complicated, but seriously if you think of it again, that's not the truth. The truth is everything is always complicated back then, and now. It's only a matter of how our perception sees them. As a kid, we didn't focus only on one thing, we saw things, but we saw whole-earthly.

We know as we grow older, we see things easily as impossible, but that's not the truth. To remind what Clarke's said in the three laws 'When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.' the question is, what makes them impossible? As myself, i often questioning myself, why did i kept stating something as impossible, but then we all know, the reason why we keep saying something impossible is because we're all scared.

We're all scared to something that we don't understand.

Maybe we're afraid to know the truth, or maybe we just too afraid to find the truth. Both of them are the same, but really, all we need is to keep aside of that thing in our mind. Even if you're afraid of it, just believe in the possibilities, even if you think it's not possible.

Maybe all you need is a little magic.

The Science of Interstellar

*contain spoiler*

I cannot say how fascinated i am by this movie, Interstellar but i can make sure that this movie probably is one of the greatest movie of this century. All the elements are just too great to be true, drama, graphic, special effect, story, and the most important is : the science behind it.

Since i was kid, i always fascinated by how amazing our universe is, and it is not rarely i have a lot of question about it, like : how does wormholes actually look alike? what happened if you entered the black holes? what is beyond the black holes? and so on. And Interstellar, answered it. I really cannot say how gratitude i am for this, specially when i found out that they use real equations.