Actual Cosplay, No. 26 S3E10 - Francis Dolarhyde: “Someday, if circumstances permit, I would like to meet you and watch you meld with the strength of the Dragon”
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So this was my costume for RDC5.
$$$ Francis’ boots: “The Ecco brand boots (size 43) are made of brown leather”
$$ My footwear: brown leather and canvas rolltop non-slip boots, Timberland via thrift store. These don’t have any mesh or metal in them which could conduct electricity, so these are what I wear in the Dangerous Woodwork Lab Of Sharp Power Tools And Sawdust.
$$ Dolarhyde’s trousers: “The Gap brand pants (size 34) are made of thick grey twill cotton”
$ My trousers: grey chinos, Topman via thrift store, as before.
Dolarhyde’s belt: not seen.
$ My belt: brown floral-embossed leather belt, thrifted, as before.
$ Dolarhyde’s hi-vis jacket: “The vest is made of orange polyester and includes various pockets beside the button-closure. Two reflective strips run down the left and right sides as well as around the waist.” “All three tops feature a logo reading `Sure Talk Telecom.’”
$ My hi-vis jacket: came in a pack of two from Amazon. The blank navy badge is also from Amazon with the SureTalk logo hastily drawn on in white fabric paint. I remember that I left this until the last minute so it didn’t even have time to dry properly :-(
$$ to $$$ Dolarhyde’s jacket: "The Denver Hayes brand jacket (size L) is made of dark blue cotton with a black polyester lining.”
$ My jacket: dark blue cotton/polyester jacket, Littlewoods via thrift store, borrowed from the Hyperfashionmum. I didn’t add a logo because it’s borrowed, but you wouldn’t see it under the hi-vis jacket anyway.
$$ Dolarhyde’s shirt: “The Dakota brand shirt is made of a dark blue cotton blend material”
$ My shirt: dark blue chambray shirt, Topshop via thrift store, as before.
$$ Dolarhyde’s gloves: yellow leather work gloves, Dakota.
My gloves: none. I would not have been able to work the button of the UV flashlight if I’d been wearing gloves.
$$ Dolarhyde’s hat: dark blue cotton adjustable baseball cap, Nu-Fit.
$ My hat: dark blue cotton adjustable baseball cap, generic via eBay.
To apply the invisible blacklight skull makeup, I followed this tutorial by Boy-Neon. He used Kryolan, but Kryolan had discontinued the invisible shade by the time I was doing this costume. I found an $$ alternative at MaskWorld in Berlin. (Back when Brits could just order stuff from neighbouring European countries T_T) Some have said their customer service is dicey, and in fact I didn’t get an ack email when I placed the order. I phoned the next day to check, and they were perfectly pleasant and efficient about it, and the makeup arrived in good time, so clearly they are legit traders.
Notice that Boy-Neon puts a UV bulb into his lamp and works continuously like that. All I had was the UV flashlight that I bought for the occasion, so I had to keep stopping and changing hands to see what I’d just painted, as I could not see the paint properly while I was applying it. Both Boy-Neon and I have very light skin, and I don’t know how well this would work on even slightly darker skintones. But on me, in normal lighting, you would only see the invisible paint if you knew it was there.
I taped the UV flashlight with red duct tape to the top of the receiver of a Fisher-Price Chatter Telephone so that when I “talked” on the phone, I could click the “on” button and activate the skull makeup. My chosen soundtrack was, of course, “Ring Ring” by ABBA.
PropStore Auction catalog entry
The Suits Are People version
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