#especially since the friend i was bothering doesn't even watch TOH so i got to be like 'OH. WAIT. YOU DON'T SAY'

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Trying to fend off some of the one-handed stir-craziness by at least doing some legwork for a couple projects I want to tackle soon, including starting to think about my Raine cosplay, but when I bothered my costume designer friend for his thoughts on their vest this evening, he mentioned that it feels like it’s supposed to be somewhat 18th-century inspired (as far as real-world analogs go) and suggested looking at Revolutionary War uniforms for some inspiration and now I can feel myself FULLY about to go off the deep end with that idea because:

Raine’s outfit is already Extremely Gender and I am so excited to wear it as a result but 18th century men’s fashion is ALSO Extremely Gender for me and combining the two is... hm. hm

ON A META LEVEL -- patterning their look off of real-world revolutionary aesthetics, especially ones that sit in direct, intentional contrast to the whole “Belos as (probably) LITERALLY representative of the early, still Very British, pre-Revolution American colonies” thing is absolutely inspired and now I think I have to do it

#similar energy to me realizing the most practical way to make hunter's golden guard outfit work was to steal inspiration from fencing gear #i'm obsessed with figuring out real-world analogs that may not match the cartoon perfectly but DO say something about the character #going to have to think on this on but. it's just too perfect #especially since the friend i was bothering doesn't even watch TOH so i got to be like 'OH. WAIT. YOU DON'T SAY' #raine cosplay tag #it's tiiiiime