Aug 13-14, 2016
Today I spent a few hours sewing a piece in my Luffy costume. It isn't completely finished but you can see the results below. What needed to be sewn? The shirt was originally a tank top from American Apparel. While Luffy wearing a red tank top is absolutely acceptable in a pinch, it needs to be a 3 button vest to suit say Season 3 Episode 78 where they leave the island of the giants and Nami is sick, so they go to the winter island.
If you're incredibly lazy, sewing isn't necessary for this cosplay. If you don't intend to wash the shirt or wear it more than a handful of times (shame, shame!), then a cut shirt will actually look reasonably authentic. A really good reason to sew a cosplay is to reduce the likelihood of fraying. Many fabrics when cut will fray. The cotton from this shirt almost certainly will fray in the washer. If you've never sewn a garment, you probably didn't know that because a part of the professional sewing business is ensuring that doesn't happen. Exceptions exist, but Luffy's shirt is most certainly not frayed and you won't want yours to be either.
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Repair, Don't Replace
Open Letter to Jim McDermott and Congresspeople
Why Doesn't Money Make You Happy?
Control
New PGP Key
Plans for March 2014
Drums 2
Drums
Insecure by Design
Brasil and New York
Sometimes
Explanation Needed
Wealthy Vampires: The Prophets of Non-Profit
Counterfeiting Bytecoins for Fun and Profit
Territorial Instinct
Success
悪政
The Rule of Law and more
Man 1a
Singularity and You!
Misery
Uncopiable
Feline Philosophy of Mutual Self-Interest
Talk
Age or Timex's Change
An Open Letter to Deutscher Bundestag
RE: StGB § 202 aka Anti-hacking law
Planet of the Apes
On things that matter when you're plastered.
Research and Development into Artificial Intelligence
What is it Like [in Japan]? or Coolhunter Javantea
100 Thoughts Thought Tonight
The Watchmaker Argument or Infallible Design
Blogging Without a Computer
Money and Capitalism
Fountainhead
Negative Entropy aka. Extropy
Tyrrany in the USA
Core considerations of Anarchism
Superheroes
I like to shop around before making a purchase.
Free your mind
Shameless
Spam
Against Hedonism 2004-11-30
I thought I'd give you a short photoblog with a very important message. Okay, it's not that important. The lesson for today is: Never delete anything unless you have to for privacy or safety. The corollary, keep everything encrypted. The corollary to the corollary, remember the password as long as you keep that data encrypted.
Photoblog of Zürich, Switzerland from 2005
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