It was incredibly cramped on Saturday as well; Sunday was more of a "relaxed" day. On Saturday, I cosplayed Princess Zelda from "Legend of Zelda:Skyward Sword". It´s a new game that is going to be released in november (I´m so excited!). It turned out pretty popular--my Birdie was a hit. If you´re curious about it, check out my cosplay blog, Phases of the Moon. I´ve updated it with progess and soon will with pictures as well.
On Saturday, S wore a samurai outfit: a Shinsengumi outfit from a series whose name I can´t remember. S, forgive me!! I know you told me many times!!
Sunday was more "bah". Besides showing up a lot later (we got to the con at 1:30PM vs Saturday´s 11AM), we wore more "casual" clothes--instead of cosplaying, my friend S and I dressed lolita. I dressed full-out and took Sir Rabbit of Bear (black Usakumya) with me, and she wore a casual outfit that was vaguely school-uniform-lolita in style.
You can´t really see her outfit very well in this picture, though. She was wearing this awesome white circle skirt with a black border and an applique of a diamond, heart, spade and...(what is the one that looks like a shamrock called in cards? Not treble or clover, right?) on the side. She sewed that skirt by herself. It´s wicked cool.
Oh, I used my fake bangs for this outfit--I thought straight looked good. I wore my Alice and Black Cat JSK since I was planning on dropping by the Baby stand.
I saw a lot of lolitas on both days, so I was excited about meeting the "lolita community" here in Madrid. I thought that since all of the lolis I´ve met online have been quite nice, surely Spanish lolitas would de the same! Sadly, not true.
They´re not mean, per se. No comments on my outfit, nothing at all. I´m a painfully shy person, especially when it comes to approaching people, so I took my Usakumya with me in the hope that it´d help "break the ice" somehow with other lolis. They´d approach me upon seeing the cuteness of my bunybear, right? Wrong. I was pretty much ignored...kinda looked at sideways and just sorta turned into...air. Where did I go wrong, I wonder? Besides my shyness, I really tried to look approchable. I mean, it must´ve been working because I got approched by tons of non-lolis and "regular people" to ask for outfit snaps and pics with my Usakumya.... I finally decided to give up. Apparently, lolis in Madrid and the surrounding area are a very close-knit community....to the exclusion of new people. *sigh* At least, I hope it wasn´t me.
In the end, though, I did get noticed by three "intended" people thanks to my Usakumya-chan. Two lolitas and a..."dandy" I believe they´re called? They wowed at how big Sir Bear was and absolutely freaked out (must´ve thought I was breaking him or something) when I demonstrated his rabbit-to-bear and bear-to-rabbit transforming abilities. They asked for a photo with him (and me, by default. Though I offered to let them just take a picture of him gettign held by them...but the dandy mentioned that that´d just be rude...which kinda flattered me. I love it when people are polite as they should.).
The blonde girl was wearing what appeared to be an offbrand JSK (and really cute shoes, as shame you can´t really see them here) and the other girl was wearing BTSSB´s Red Riding Hood Applique OP....Old-school and cute.
Our conversation pretty much ended after the Usakumya photo, but I still felt kinda happy anyway. I did get some nice conversation out of some Spanish lolis.
As for the BTSSB and AATP store.....I desperately desperately wanted to buy something from there. Really. Truly. I even searched for it first thing on Saturday, before I looked at any of the other stands.....and checked out two things that I though I might want to buy: a white BTSSB headbow, a cute head ornament and some wristcuffs. However, by the time I had made a "round" around the whole section the lolita stuff was in.....they were all gone!! Grah! On Sunday, they didn´t set out any new stuff, and it was mostly prints and printed bows....so sadly I couldn´t buy any.
I was severely tempted by the small Usakumya they had....but they were the pink version. I do want the smallest size Usakumya, but I´d rather it not be pink.....or at least so overpriced. 81 euros.....when even on the Tokyo Rebel site they´re going for little more than 50 dollars.... it still didn´t stop me from aching and aching for one, though...
I am obsessed....S literally rabbit-punched me to awareness (Via Usakumya-chan.....). When I really really think about it, the only things that were at a regular more decent (for brand!) price were the headbows and socks. A shame that the ones I wanted got sold and not replaced by more.....darnit, I should have bought them immediately.....it´s shocking that I was willing to pay 40 euros for a brand headbow, but being white, it´d have fit nearly half of my outfits....WHY U NO RESTOCK, BABY? In the end, I didn´t even find a decent artbook to buy. I feel a bit empty, it´s become a bit of a tradition for me to buy at least one artbook per con I go to. I ended up buying only two things, both for a steampunk outfit I want to try out with my AatP Chain Bouquet JSK in ivory....I just think that it´d totally rock a steampunk look. I probably wouldn´t even need a petti. So now I´m gathering materials. My haul:
Round "steampunk" glasses. I like them in black, but I´m debating looking for another color "glass" or "plastic" to replace the black.....maybe brown would look good too.
A clock necklace. I fell in love. It´s so original. More expensive than some I´ve seen in stores, but it´s an actual working watch....and it´s the "wind-up" type!! I love that!!! It´s a really nice aged gold sort of color.
I saw a rather nice brown-and-gold canotier as well....but I am SO not paying 50 euros for one that´s not even brand, and only matches one of my outfits.
I think that in the end I will still regret the fact that I didn´t buy that pink Usakumya...I was ticked pink (LoL, get it?) by the notion that I could have all Usakumya sizes and all Usakumya colors......but S saw the pricetag. (I should have hidden it...suggested she look somewhere else..)....it´s so sad to be ashamed of how much money you´ve spent on lolita brand fashion.....my friends and family have no idea how much it´s all cost me. I felt so guilty lusting after that Usakumya under the gaze of my friend S, who thinks that it´s excessive for a plushie....and it is....but it´s so cute! >.< I couldn´t buy it in front of her, though. I should have gone back after I dropped her off at the bus....but I was so tired....I´ll just have to ask around on EGL I guess.....or live with the regret.
I´m such an Usakumya whore.
I love every single second of it.
