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super skinny jeans or…

leggings?

102 Questions (nicked from Cosplay Kobo)

(CHARLIE HERE SAW THIS ON COSPLAY.COM THOUGHT IT WOULD BE GOOD)
”100 Questions About Your Cosplay Lifestyle and Manners

There are no right answers to any of these questions. Quite a few can be answered with a simple “yes” or “no”, but there are at least three more ways to answer any one of them. Of course, every answer has its reason and every reason has a story. Our goal isn’t to pass judgement, but to get you thinking about these questions. If this questionairre starts a dialogue on manners, then we’ve done our job.

General Cosplay Questions

1) What’s the best part of cosplay for you?
2) Do you use the term “kameko” (“camera-kid”)?
3) Do you read event catalogs?
4) Do you rsvp to events?
5) Do you want to attend more events? Or are you content to remain in your local area?
6) Do you use color contacts?
7) Do you make your own costumes or do you buy them?
8) Do you stick to one genre?
9) Do you think that when cosplaying, one should stick to the genre of a given event?
10) Does it bother you when people break genre?
11) Does it bother you when people know nothing about the series they’re cosplaying?
12) Does it bother you if people only know a little about the series they’re cosplaying?
13) Does it bother you if people are familiar with the series, but have no affection for the character they’re cosplaying?
14) Does it bother you if someone else is cosplaying the same character you are?
15) Do you like posed shots?
16) Do you like candid shots?
17) Do you think cosplaying characters from adult games or pornographic material is in bad taste?
18) If there’s a problem at an event, do you jump to conclusions about the parties involved?
19) How many times do you cosplay in one month?
20) Do you go to photo shoots?
21) Have you ever been included in a cosplay CD-ROM?
22) Is casual cosplay okay?
23) Are you okay with your face appearing on the internet?
24) Do you find yourself thinking people are “too old” for cosplay? How old is too old?
25) Do people who walk around in gothic lolita fashion bug you?
26) Do you think Chinese dresses count as “cosplay”?
27) What bothers you the most about cosplay?
28) Do you think it’s important to be “in character”?
29) Does it make you nervous to be eyed by regular visitors at a public event?
30) Do pre-scheduled cosplay appearances by popular cosplayers annoy you?
31) Do you tell other people your best locations for shoots?
32) Do you put on your makeup before your wig or after?
33) Do you know a lot about the series’ you cosplay?
34) Do you wear costumes only once or many times?
35) When you’ve decided what costume to do next, do you share that information with other people?
36) Do you want to be in cosplay magazines?
37) What’s the most important part of cosplay for you?

Event Participation Questions

38) How active are you cosplaying in your own community?
39) What do you wear on the day of an event?
40) Do you eat lunch on event days?
41) Do you eat breakfast before attending events?
42) How long does it take you to change?
43) Do you think it looks geeky to attend an event with a big SLR camera?
44) What camera do you use? A compact? An SLR?
45) Are you afraid of cameramen? Are you cool with them?
46) Are you one of the first to line up to get inside?
47) Do you not mind showing up late?
48) Do you have a small after party or a huge get-together?
49) Do you like karaoke?
50) Are you tolerant of bad singers?
51) Do topics unrelated to animation and manga bug you? Or do you think it’s okay to talk about anything at all?
52) Do you eat lunch while inside event areas?
53) Can you handle the cold?
54) Do you buy doujinshi at events?
55) Do you make doujinshi to sell at events?
56) Do you have a group that participates in group events?
57) Are you a member of a cosplay circle/club?
58) When the event is over, how late do you stay out?
59) If a new face approaches you at an event and takes up a few minutes of your time, are you annoyed?
60) Do you go to cosplay dance parties?
61) Do you think your Layer status is higher than others if a lot of people want to take your picture? Does it bother you not to have your photo taken as much as you think you deserve?
62) Do you get jealous of other cosplayers having a lot of pictures taken of them?
63) You’re asked for a picture but have something else to do, do you refuse?
64) When you take pictures of people at events, do you give them all copies of the prints or data?

Photo Shoot Questions

65) (at a studio or shoot) Do you give a copy of each photo to all of the participants in it?
66) How do you approach photo shoots? As a chance to gather with friends and goof off or as a meeting to take nice pictures?
67) Are you particular about how you look in the test shots before the shoot? Do you mind how you look in general?
68) When you take photos, do you prefer shots from the front or odder angles?
69) Are you bothered by recieving lots of photos? Are you happy?
70) When you take photos, do you photograph only people you know personally and like? Or do you look for other people with great costumes to photograph too?
71) Do you wander around to meet people at events or do you keep to your own group?
72) How many photos do you usually take with your own camera?
73) How many photos do you usually take for others?
74) Do you mind if people resize or crop the pictures you’ve taken to make them look better?
75) Do you crop and resize pictures others have taken for you?
76) Have you ever set up a photo shoot by yourself?
77) Do you check shoot information beforehand?
78) Do you like it when there are a lot of people in the shoot area? Or do you prefer small events?
79) What size (how many people) is the best for a shoot?
80) What time of day do you like to take photos?
81) Do you prefer indoor or outdoor shots?
82) Which do you dislike more - hot weather or cold weather?
83) Do you know any cameramen?
84) Do you eat in the photo area?
85) Do you like taking parts-shots? Or do you dislike them?
86) Do you retouch your photos?
87) Are you annoyed by people who don’t retouch their photos?
88) Do you use reflectors?
89) Which is worse ~ breaking the rules and getting great pictures, or following them and getting poor ones?

Friend Questions

90) Why are your friends your friends?
91) If you hang out for one day, do you consider yourselves friends?
92) Do you give copies of your photos to others?
93) Do you want to make more friends?
94) Do you at least remember the names of people you meet at events?
95) Do you find yourself adjusting your behavior to that of the character you’re cosplaying when dealing with people dressed as characters your character knows?

Home Page/Websites

96) Do you recieve permission every time you post a photo of someone else online?
97) Do you get angry if a foreign site links to your page? Or are you flattered?
98) Are you happy to get mail from Layers overseas or does it scare you?
99) Do you try to increase your web sites’ contents/hits? Or doesn’t it matter to you?
100) Do you not particularly care who links to you? Or do you ask people not to link without permission?
101) Do you credit the location or studio when posting photo shoot images?

Final Question

What do you think people who have “good cosplay manners” are like?”

Which wig should I order for Jane?

Human!Lady Rainicorn Wig:

or

I still like the first one quite a bit but this is pretty too D:

HELP?!