/cgl/ is a board for the following:• Cosplay• Lolita• J-fashion• Conventions & gatherings• Sewing & prop-making• Craftsmanship tools/materials & tutorials• LARPing• Discussing accessories such as wigs/circle lenses/prosthetics/makeup (These must be within the context of the board-related topics listed above; weight loss threads should be kept in /fit/, beauty and fashion generals should be kept in /fa/)Our board rules are simple:• Thread content must be related to one of the categories covered in the list above. Off-topic threads and replies will be deleted.• Singling people out maliciously is not tolerated and will result in a ban. 4chan is not your personal army. The singling out rule applies to vendetta threads and replies being made to attack a specific person, as well as predatory behavior like doxing. Discussing an individual in general isn't against the rules as long as it's done within context of cosplay/lolita/j-fashion.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Because why notConnichi is around the corner - September 5 to 7 in Wiesbaden. Anyone going?Tell us about your con visits, your plans for the next months, cosplay struggles and everything else!Not sure where to go next? Consult this handy site which also lists smaller local cons:https://www.jam-cons.net/con-kalender
>>10972199The raves were so good Had an amazing time all 3 days. Met 4 people from /a/ by chance I hadn't spoken to in years at the rave. Kors K was amazing.
>>10972262I wonder what those raves are like, never been the type to go clubbing. Is it comparable?
>>10972217I require photos
So, Vienna, Aninite in August.Who coming?
Dokomi was a blast. Like always, highlight of the year. Planning my Japan trip next.
Post those seagull feels.My cosplay friend is 23 but looks about 12. We like to tease her, saying that all of her fans are pedos. Well, we might stop now... Her Discord mod didn't show up to Dragoncon. Guess what he was arrested for?And my Etsy order from the UK cancelled.Previous:>>10941913
>>10972556Friendships are an investment. And you may find that over time they don't exhaust you as much, especially if you experience friendships in places other than a marketplace/business setting. I see friends every week through a weekly anime club (online), game night (in person), and occasional arcade, movie theater, and rave/dance meets. Take back your weeknights - people may be hesitant at first, but if you consistently host clubs for a reasonable amount of hours, you'll strengthen friendships and your capacity to communicate. Shared activities are the key here - talking is fun but IMO shouldn't be the focal point unless you're meeting at a coffee shop.>>10972559If that's the jsk you've cooked up you're doing fantastic nonny. Happy for you and your sewing your own wardrobe journey!
>>10972559I love the JSK nonnie. The print and details are well balanced, construction looks good, and look I'm just a sucker for anything cute and punky.
A couple years ago I met a really nice girl at HDLA and made plans to go to another event in lolita with her, but I was severely mentally unwell and coming off my ADHD meds and broke a zipper on my atelier pierrot mini corset op while getting ready (not fat) and I gave up and flaked on the event while she was on the way. Now I am doing a lot better and I want to go to HDLA again, but I'm scared of doing the same thing to someone else again. If I see her again she probably won't want to talk to me but i'm so sorry
>>10972584Have you reached out to the original girl to apologize?
I got my momocon out in Georgia (oh yeah, shit)I get my anime expo from California (that's that shit)I took my chick up to the North for anime new york city, yeah (badass bitch)
>Anime Expo registrations opened today>no threadsDead Board? Did you guys manage to book any hotel rooms before they sold out? My friends and I managed to snag 2 at the Westin and 1 at the AC.
>>10971524Will do! I'm curious if there will be other Marriagetoxin cosplayers, but probably only other Mei's?
AX is my favorite con because I can sit in cool panels all day from sunup to 2am, walk back to my parking lot at work a block away to sleep and shower, then head back for 4 days and not even think about that im on the wrong side of 30 and none of my friends go to cons anymore.
>>10972002That's me with every large convention that has a light rail stop within a block or two and cheaper hotels along its route. Anything i have to buy an overpriced hotel or rideshare for is automatically a shit tier convention.
is there like, a proxy buying service for cons? there's a booth selling exclusive stuff at AX but I honestly don't want to buy a ticket and drive down to DTLA and find parking and all that shit for itI know there's chinese dudes that buy stuff for you at comiket but is there anything similar here?
>>10972576there's a guy on twitter that does it, but if the thing you want will sell out you're not gonna get it without paying scalper price anyway because of the opportunity cost and lines.
>Please read the FAQ before posting in the thread (always updating)https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PpDyjw2LDxbupdvHMNsBUOBVB66Lzwf44RM1You1GDA/edit?usp=sharing>Resourceshttps://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10uNmynwRn6CRc-OMqCeXmJwCNnEnd-vYi-7AQzSx74I/edit?usp=sharing>Artist Spreadsheethttps://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ESQ-1h4IRUivbGNaxJFxXyDU1lSv26xTmMdH0sDX7sU/edit?usp=sharing>How to order from Vograce (now with video on how to set up files)https://docs.google.com/document/d/18UxKnpgrmeb82NnW5e4YIEX-eZ3zHt178Mp6i0A5gME/edit?usp=sharing>Convention List (always WIP)https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13o7hD5xS3sDqVptnTVGUlRae3ovEE-vPPST_QOrQwtM/>IP taketowns (based on artists contribution, may or may not have been a one time thing, use as a guideline)https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1696MDhNPhrZ0ySZhXkoJnGxb7l1OjW4JsVhu1wKvaWE>AA Inspo (thanks anon!)https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1D19QV9nHwaY8AaNiEXZAAkEhkBTSsb01?usp=sharingFirst order of business what popular series are you drawing for?
How updated is this list? I think I see some dead links. I want to see what's considered best for book printing.
>>10967943Mostly umamusume because that's what I'm into. I don't even know what's cool anymore aside from vtubers. I try to thrive off of pokemon and oc art.>>10972471What kind of book?
>>10970648But anon 4chan Needed another porn board
>>10972513Comic or artbook.
>>10972573If sfw do japanese printing. It's cheap and good quality. Nsfw and uncensored, look into taiwan printing companies. If you need something more local (assuming US) MCE is cheap and fast, not too bad. Fireball is good quality but expensive. I would avoid mixam as I've had a bad experience with them.
She is low tier compared to some chineses and japaneses.But when compared to americans she is pretty good.Most of the female americans are fat and ugly.
Wait, Emiru as in "homeless Tifa"?
>>10965129Is he fat old and balding?
>>10965086Quality ? Are you retarded? That’s clearly an Amazon plug suit plus an unstyled wig straight from the bag. You just like her face.
>>10965755Hate to break it to you anon but she's 30 years old and has an active sex life. Aint nothing pure about that pussy no more.
>>10972464Noras cool if you're into boys
Thread for posting your cosplays, or asking advice on cosplaying. Stop making singular threads for your cosplays, newfags, this isnt reddit
>>10970552Anon just buy a green suit jacket and modify the lapels yourself you'll save thousands of dollars. Flannel suits aren't really a thing. Just find something with a matte colour.
>>10970553>just buy a green suit jacket and modify the lapels yourself you'll save thousands of dollarsI don't even know where to begin on lapel modification.>Flannel suits aren't really a thing.I don't really mind if it's a thing or not; I just want accuracy to the black and white fabric. Also I don't really see the difference between a suit jacket and suit blazer, but know both do come in flannel.
I just bought some wigs from ez cosplay Can anyone speak on their quality?How well do they fit?I need to measure my head but I'm a bigger guy so I want to see if I need to run and cancel the order
My galo sengen cosplay that'll be retired by this year's AX. A cosplayer told me to really feel my character so I'm proud of this photo for capturing that
Suicide bomber insurgency sandstorm
Texas thread died about a week ago or so... RIP, not OP of the previous Texas thread but the anon that had revived it briefly in October. Meant to revive it again this month in-time for it to reach 1-year-plus status, but had totally slipped my mind and was already too late by the time I had noticed... oh well, let's try this 1-year challenge all over again, shall we?UPCOMING NOTABLE EVENTS (for the next six months):Anime Frontier - Dec 12-14Ecchi Expo - Dec 12-14Ikkicon - Jan 9-11Ushicon / Komoricon - Feb 6-8 (both in Austin, Komoricon happening on Feb 7 only)AnimeVerse Houston - Feb 13-15WeebCon - Apr 3-5Anime Dallas - Apr 17-19Otaku Odyssey - May 8-10Riverwalk Anime - May 23-24A-Kon - Press X to Doubt (World Cup will be in town during Jun-Jul)Discuss topics about Texas cons here, including ones that have have happened recently such as Anime Impulse Dallas.
>>10972308>Afest hasn't been good since FLOWntayrt, but agree to disagree here, I thought AFest was peak in the several years after FLOW (2015-2019), before covid wrecked their World (Fandom lol). At least we can agree that AFest was overall at its best at the Sheraton?>>10972193In a post-AFest world, it's San Japan hands down. It wouldn't surprise me one bit if they somehow surpass A-Kon's peak atendance numbers in the next few years.
>>10972314They'll have no problem surpassing A-Kon's numbers since A-Kon's numbers from here onward will be 0.
Why is there an Animeverse Houston and an Animeverse Humble? Humble is practically Houston.
>>10972491Marketing to dumb people.
Who's going to furry siesta?Go as a cs terrorist>DO THIS
have you ever found the pics of you cosplaying that you posted online or that somebody else took posted on a pornographic site?
>>10972300how would that be any of your business? how did you even find out? unless he's doing it openly and harassing you then that's just something he's doing in his own free time, even if it makes you uncomfortable.
>>10972311he's raping me in his mind. I can't let this continue
At Ax 2024, although I wasn’t the one getting screenshotted, the girl I was getting a picture with at that exact time was. Saw it on GIF in a cos thread.
>>10972340lol you're uggo
>>10972300>>10972326I'm masturbating to you right now.
Meta thread. Let's discuss what the fuck has been happening to and within the culture of EGL.Some questions and thoughts that have been on my mind below, reply if you want or bring up your own ideas to discuss. -Why is ita mostly dying as an insult? Are we not using it enough, or is it past it's time?-Brand whore as a concept nearly disappearing in the west-gooning and its effects on our psychology, how it has stopped many of us from posting publicly-Ero is back, and becoming popular, but why? Male infiltration, or are we finally reclaiming ero as a community? -is Lolita even a community anymore?-is the jirai culture online our fault?Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>10972531I never said that. Please read "the cool trans" paragraph again, thanks.
>>10972545Oh wait lol I see what you mean from that last sentence. Yeah a lot of the EGL community is ND but I didn't mean to misspeak and indicate that everyone is.
>>10972531If you're on this board you are ND
>>10972315>(ouji and jirai ain't it)Jirai no, Ouji just doesn't have the same same exposure in media that EGL does, ergo it won't be as popular because men already inherently aren't particularly fashionable nor care about fashion.
>>10972315>>10972570Ouji was never really "for men" anyways. It's a masculine style, but it was always for women first.
To counteract all the moids here and the overwhelming spamming of slutty girls, here's a thread dedicated to the cuties who cosplay. Emphasis on the "cute" part. Bodybuilders cosplaying just to show off their abs are just as bad as the girls who only do it for onlyfans.
>>10879519Good. We need more of them.
what should i cosplay?can i post my body?
>>109724909S!ye.
>>10972492yeah ok i look liek this
New day badges, new website, same old bullshit.Location: David L Lawrence Convention Center, Pittsburgh, PADates: July 23-26 2026
Of course the one year I'm gonna arrive later Thursday is the year they make Thursday close to a full day of programming. Oh, well. Gonna be doing Touhou cos so say hi.
Wtf is going on with the fashion shit at this con? There's been very little social media content on it and I'm just confused. I heard the fashion department had a major turnover in leadership, anyone got milk?
>be non black person (not white) doing cosplay>high expectations to be accurate with correct wig for contests and photoshoots>be black>no need to use wig or accurate cosplay. it's called ethnic wigs instead
>>10964631I know I'm replying to an old post but fuck, that shit in that pic with EBK really pissed me off. I've known Al for almost 25 years and the idea that it was anything except him being an out of touch boomer who isn't good with social media and just mindlessly liked a comment on his post is fucking nuts. Even more ridiculous was all of the people dogpiling him assuming he's "white" when anybody in the West Coast cosplay scene knows he's Vietnamese.
Welp. After the Karmelo case of him being guilty, Dreamcon is going to be insufferable.
>>10972542Non-American here. What's going to happen?
>>10972550Dreamcon is a pro, majority black convention. Basically, all the niggas of the cosplay community come together in Houston to celebrate cosplay in the american african way as this thread highlights in detail. Karmelo was a black boy who went to a white neighborhood's track meet, went over to another team's tent to taunt them despite not suppose to be at the meet at all, didnt move when the team told him to move repeatedly. So when the team captain, a white boy, came over to move him, Karmelo took out a knife from his book bag and stabbed him to death.He got sentenced for 35 years for murder. The black community is saying it was self defense. Everyone else with common sense see it for what it is. Dreamcon is going to be chanting his name that weekend like the hooligans they are.
>>10972542>>10972550>>10972561Black umamusumers bouta rise up, boy did a Rice Shower "Black Assassin" and will get prison time for it.
Post EGL Coords you like, or Lolita Coords that you find stylish. Not limited to any specific substyle or category. Gothic, Classic, Sweet, Old-school, the world is your oyster!>Lolita Resources/Siteshttps://lolibrary.org/https://lolitafashion.fandom.com/wiki/Mainhttps://www.closetchildonlineshop.com/https://lolitasewingpatterns.storenvy.com/https://www.wunderwelt.jp/enhttps://angelicpretty-paris.com/gb/https://store.babyssb.co.jp/enhttps://shop.baby-aatp.com/collections/alice-and-the-pirateshttps://metamorphose.gr.jp/enhttps://egl.livejournal.com/https://egl-comm-sales.livejournal.com/https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://behind-the-bows.livejournal.com/
>>10972517Non-burando? Isn't that JSK like old AP?(if it's not and it's modern Taobao or something...link pls? Because damn)
>>10972538Here you go, anon. It's a little frumpy but I think it's pretty.https://42lolita.com/products/old-school-lolita-floral-print-jsk-dress-layered-skirt?variant=47697861345454
>>10972552I genuinely love it, thanks nonnie.I think attached is the AP I was thinking of (Romantic Scalloped JSK), but yeah that JSK definitely hits a lot of the same notes as early 2010s AP florals.
Not so much a coord but I love the kind of overdress style that can be found in this type of jsk, but I almost never see the overdress as an individual piece that can be paired with separate skirts and blouses. I will probably end up making one (or two) because I feel like they would be such an effective item to pair with the rest of my EGL wardrobe, plus I can add all the details I want to. Still, I think it's kind of weird that it doesn't exist as an item - most jsks on the market are full pieces that don't need pairing except for undergarments and blouses.
You need to learn how to vibe and talk to people at conventions. If you're underage that's one thing. If you're old enough you should budget for a hotel room so you can party and party with strangers and make new friends. The best part about conventions is meeting people and subsequently running into them at other cons in other years and it's all so fucking beautiful. It's the only time you don't have to suppress your powerlevel because guess what? They know all the dumb memes you do and have a lot of overlap in interests and other things you enjoy. You can ask someone why they're green and actually learn something about Startrek because they fucking love star trek so much they painted themselves green! SO WHEN I ASK THEM THEY ARE MORE THAN WILLING TO GUSH ABOUT THE SHIT THEY LOVE! I FUCKING LOVE NERD CONVENTION SHIT HOLY FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
>>10969232this is the one I always think of
>>10964082>3. Dealing with them getting bored of events after ten minutes and having to leave the area or look at stupid shit on their phones like kids grabbing for an iPadThis isn't unique to zoomers, if anything my mid-30s friends are even worse. They'll insist on leaving a fun party or whatever after 15 minutes to go smoke cigarettes/weed by themselves in a parking lot for an hour.
>>10964082Everyone lives online now so they are never taught their words and actions have consequences, nor are they taught how to properly fight back. They think they can just do whatever they want and at most block someone or just delete their accounts and start over the next day. They don't ever have to take accountability for anything they do and worse yet is that when it does start to effect them in real life them, or the abusers can just say "Lol the internet isn't real nerd!" and everyone will just shrug and let it go.
>>10908957I'm nearly 40 and I talked to someone half my age because he recognized my Legend of the Galactic Heroes OVA shirt, and then we dove into small indie Japanese wrestling promotion talk.It's only weird if you make it weird.
>>10969293Woe unto he who giveth the deranged foid a chance
