>RE: BurdaStyle: Where do you find sewing inspiration?

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Well as is one of my usual habits, I was zipping around BurdaStyle checking out the new stuff, when I found THIS. Well, as not my usual style I decided to comment. I rarely ever say anything over there, so no one even knows I’m there half the time! LOL! Anyways, here is my answer:

***Where do you find sewing inspiration?***

EVERYWHERE! My mom was a seamstress, sew I was already sewing at age 6. I was 16 when I graduated from a fashion design college. In the 20+ years since, I have created tons of patterns and sew all my own fashions.

I not only create my own patterns, but I also design my own fabrics as well. I paint up watercolors and than get short runs of the fabric printed up. I get ideas for a lot og my designs from nature: birds, cats, the sky, waterfalls, trees – everything inspires me to paint. Than the fabric made from the paintings inspire the flow of the dress pattern as well.

http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=spacedock13-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=B002O88DXC&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr
Erte is my biggest inspiration. Much of my designs are reinterpretations of his designs. I just love his art deco and flapper styles.

Also, Japanese Kimono, esp those from the Momoyama period (1500′s). I love sewing kimono, because the lines are simple and allow for display of big bold fabric prints, which thus allows me to create huge print fabric designs as well.
http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=spacedock13-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=0300094078&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr
***What magazines, websites, books do you look at for project ideas?***

Dover Books are my #1 source of inspiration. You see, I’m a life actor, which I means I CosPlay 24/7/365 and have for years. My daily wear consists of recreations of garb from the 1500′s – 1800′s as well as the 1920′s. Dover reprints tons of French, fashion illustrations, vintage paper dolls, Goody Lady, etc. Of course they are the ones who reprint Etre’s fashion prints as well.

National Geographic and Smithsonian Museum books are huge sources of inspiration as well. I get lots of ideas from cultural photos and antique paintings. I enjoy creating ethnic and historic bases patterns.

And than of course there’s my #1 source of inspiration: comic books. Yep, you heard me: comic books! I’m a huge fan of comic books, manga, graphic novels, super heroes, etc, and well, like I said, I’m really big into CosPlay, so of course a lot of what I design was inspired by comic books. http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=spacedock13-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=B00112A12I&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

Obsessed? I’m Not Obsessed… REALLY, I’m not!

When Next You See Me I’ll Look Like This:

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If you liked reading this blog and want to read more stuff written by me, I have lots of websites, where you can read other things I write, here are a few of the ones I like the best:

All about Lord Sesshomaru’s garb & Making a Lord Sesshomaru Costume. Plus, Sesshomaru & Rin and making Rin’s Costume; and this is for anyone who needs help Creating Character Profiles for their stories or for their SCA persona.

Categories: About me · Anachronism · Anachronist · Business · CosPlay · Gothic · Life · Lifestyle · Maine · Old Orchard Beach · SCA · Wendy C. Allen · comic books · cosplay in public · costume making · costumer · costumes · creativity · cross dressing · crossplay · drag queen · dressmaking · fabric · fashion · fashion design · fun things to do · inspiration · interesting facts · life blogging · medieval · my thoughts on… · painting · pattern making · patterns · sewing · sewing a costume · sewing a kimono · sewing advice · theater

Tagged: About me, Anachronist, Black Bobcat Fashions, BurdaStyle, CosPlay, cosplay in public, dressmaking, EelKat, Erte, inspiration, Japan, kimono, pattern making, Purple Peacock Patterns, sewing, The Rabbit Hole, Wendy C. Allen

Waiting for Emmett to come.

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RE: BurdaStyle: Where do you find sewing inspiration?

Well as is one of my usual habits, I was zipping around BurdaStyle checking out the new stuff, when I found THIS. Well, as not my usual style I decided to comment. I rarely ever say anything over there, so no one even knows I’m there half the time! LOL! Anyways, here is my answer:

***Where do you find sewing inspiration?***

EVERYWHERE! My mom was a seamstress, sew I was already sewing at age 6. I was 16 when I graduated from a fashion design college. In the 20+ years since, I have created tons of patterns and sew all my own fashions.

I not only create my own patterns, but I also design my own fabrics as well. I paint up watercolors and than get short runs of the fabric printed up. I get ideas for a lot og my designs from nature: birds, cats, the sky, waterfalls, trees – everything inspires me to paint. Than the fabric made from the paintings inspire the flow of the dress pattern as well.

Erte is my biggest inspiration. Much of my designs are reinterpretations of his designs. I just love his art deco and flapper styles.

Also, Japanese Kimono, esp those from the Momoyama period (1500′s). I love sewing kimono, because the lines are simple and allow for display of big bold fabric prints, which thus allows me to create huge print fabric designs as well.

***What magazines, websites, books do you look at for project ideas?***

Dover Books are my #1 source of inspiration. You see, I’m a life actor, which I means I CosPlay 24/7/365 and have for years. My daily wear consists of recreations of garb from the 1500′s – 1800′s as well as the 1920′s. Dover reprints tons of French, fashion illustrations, vintage paper dolls, Goody Lady, etc. Of course they are the ones who reprint Etre’s fashion prints as well.

National Geographic and Smithsonian Museum books are huge sources of inspiration as well. I get lots of ideas from cultural photos and antique paintings. I enjoy creating ethnic and historic bases patterns.

And than of course there’s my #1 source of inspiration: comic books. Yep, you heard me: comic books! I’m a huge fan of comic books, manga, graphic novels, super heroes, etc, and well, like I said, I’m really big into CosPlay, so of course a lot of what I design was inspired by comic books.

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

Obsessed? I’m Not Obsessed… REALLY, I’m not!

When Next You See Me I’ll Look Like This:

————-
If you liked reading this blog and want to read more stuff written by me, I have lots of websites, where you can read other things I write, here are a few of the ones I like the best:

All about Lord Sesshomaru’s garb & Making a Lord Sesshomaru Costume. Plus, Sesshomaru & Rin and making Rin’s Costume; and this is for anyone who needs help Creating Character Profiles for their stories or for their SCA persona.

Categories: About me · Anachronism · Anachronist · Business · CosPlay · Gothic · Life · Lifestyle · Maine · Old Orchard Beach · SCA · Wendy C. Allen · comic books · cosplay in public · costume making · costumer · costumes · creativity · cross dressing · crossplay · drag queen · dressmaking · fabric · fashion · fashion design · fun things to do · inspiration · interesting facts · life blogging · medieval · my thoughts on… · painting · pattern making · patterns · sewing · sewing a costume · sewing a kimono · sewing advice · theater

Tagged: About me, Anachronist, Black Bobcat Fashions, BurdaStyle, CosPlay, cosplay in public, dressmaking, EelKat, Erte, inspiration, Japan, kimono, pattern making, Purple Peacock Patterns, sewing, The Rabbit Hole, Wendy C. Allen

Waiting for Emmett to come.

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http://www.scriptfrenzy.org/user/132659

RE: BurdaStyle: Where do you find sewing inspiration?

http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=spacedock13-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=B000SKWETM&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr

Well as is one of my usual habits, I was zipping around BurdaStyle checking out the new stuff, when I found THIS. Well, as not my usual style I decided to comment. I rarely ever say anything over there, so no one even knows I’m there half the time! LOL! Anyways, here is my answer:

***Where do you find sewing inspiration?***

EVERYWHERE! My mom was a seamstress, sew I was already sewing at age 6. I was 16 when I graduated from a fashion design college. In the 20+ years since, I have created tons of patterns and sew all my own fashions.

I not only create my own patterns, but I also design my own fabrics as well. I paint up watercolors and than get short runs of the fabric printed up. I get ideas for a lot og my designs from nature: birds, cats, the sky, waterfalls, trees – everything inspires me to paint. Than the fabric made from the paintings inspire the flow of the dress pattern as well.

http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=spacedock13-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=B002O88DXC&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr
Erte is my biggest inspiration. Much of my designs are reinterpretations of his designs. I just love his art deco and flapper styles.

Also, Japanese Kimono, esp those from the Momoyama period (1500′s). I love sewing kimono, because the lines are simple and allow for display of big bold fabric prints, which thus allows me to create huge print fabric designs as well.
http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=spacedock13-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=0300094078&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr
***What magazines, websites, books do you look at for project ideas?***

Dover Books are my #1 source of inspiration. You see, I’m a life actor, which I means I CosPlay 24/7/365 and have for years. My daily wear consists of recreations of garb from the 1500′s – 1800′s as well as the 1920′s. Dover reprints tons of French, fashion illustrations, vintage paper dolls, Goody Lady, etc. Of course they are the ones who reprint Etre’s fashion prints as well.

National Geographic and Smithsonian Museum books are huge sources of inspiration as well. I get lots of ideas from cultural photos and antique paintings. I enjoy creating ethnic and historic bases patterns.

And than of course there’s my #1 source of inspiration: comic books. Yep, you heard me: comic books! I’m a huge fan of comic books, manga, graphic novels, super heroes, etc, and well, like I said, I’m really big into CosPlay, so of course a lot of what I design was inspired by comic books. http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=spacedock13-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=B00112A12I&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

Obsessed? I’m Not Obsessed… REALLY, I’m not!

When Next You See Me I’ll Look Like This:

————-
If you liked reading this blog and want to read more stuff written by me, I have lots of websites, where you can read other things I write, here are a few of the ones I like the best:

All about Lord Sesshomaru’s garb & Making a Lord Sesshomaru Costume. Plus, Sesshomaru & Rin and making Rin’s Costume; and this is for anyone who needs help Creating Character Profiles for their stories or for their SCA persona.

Categories: About me · Anachronism · Anachronist · Business · CosPlay · Gothic · Life · Lifestyle · Maine · Old Orchard Beach · SCA · Wendy C. Allen · comic books · cosplay in public · costume making · costumer · costumes · creativity · cross dressing · crossplay · drag queen · dressmaking · fabric · fashion · fashion design · fun things to do · inspiration · interesting facts · life blogging · medieval · my thoughts on… · painting · pattern making · patterns · sewing · sewing a costume · sewing a kimono · sewing advice · theater

Tagged: About me, Anachronist, Black Bobcat Fashions, BurdaStyle, CosPlay, cosplay in public, dressmaking, EelKat, Erte, inspiration, Japan, kimono, pattern making, Purple Peacock Patterns, sewing, The Rabbit Hole, Wendy C. Allen

Waiting for Emmett to come.

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>It’s That Time of Year Again: NaNoWriMo Here I Come!

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Well, with NaNoWriMo coming up again soon, I’m in my planning stages. Two years ago I did aghast-horror-romance-fantasy set in old day America, last year it was adventure-romance-fantasy set in ancient Maya/Inca backdrop…. this year? Momoyama (Medieval) Japan! So I’m doing pretty good I think: 3 years running in fantasy and not a Euro style setting in sight! YAY!

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Before you publish your NaNoNovel be sure you read this:
Publishing Methods

Got suggestions for the best fictional men ever? I’m making a list and most of my choices got crossed off! I need ideas for more.

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

Obsessed? I’m Not Obsessed… REALLY, I’m not!

When Next You See Me I’ll Look Like This:

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If you liked reading this blog and want to read more stuff written by me, I have lots of websites, where you can read other things I write, here are a few of the ones I like the best:

Publishing Your Novel? Find out more about Publishing Methods and did you ever wonder How to Start a Publishing Company?

Want to join Squidoo? Than you need to read EelKat’s Secrets To Squidoo Success and What Can You Do With Squidoo?

Are you seeking an online debate to join and tell the world what you think about it? Than you need to check out this List of Active Debates that are waiting for you to speak out on them!

Here is where you can find out How To Start Your Own POD Business to sell your art online and How I Became An Artist and What Art Equipment I Use and where
My Art is For Sale Online.

It’s That Time of Year Again: NaNoWriMo Here I Come!

Well, with NaNoWriMo coming up again soon, I’m in my planning stages. Two years ago I did aghast-horror-romance-fantasy set in old day America, last year it was adventure-romance-fantasy set in ancient Maya/Inca backdrop…. this year? Momoyama (Medieval) Japan! So I’m doing pretty good I think: 3 years running in fantasy and not a Euro style setting in sight! YAY!

—————————
Before you publish your NaNoNovel be sure you read this:
Publishing Methods

Got suggestions for the best fictional men ever? I’m making a list and most of my choices got crossed off! I need ideas for more.

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

Obsessed? I’m Not Obsessed… REALLY, I’m not!

When Next You See Me I’ll Look Like This:

————-
If you liked reading this blog and want to read more stuff written by me, I have lots of websites, where you can read other things I write, here are a few of the ones I like the best:

Publishing Your Novel? Find out more about Publishing Methods and did you ever wonder How to Start a Publishing Company?

Want to join Squidoo? Than you need to read EelKat’s Secrets To Squidoo Success and What Can You Do With Squidoo?

Are you seeking an online debate to join and tell the world what you think about it? Than you need to check out this List of Active Debates that are waiting for you to speak out on them!

Here is where you can find out How To Start Your Own POD Business to sell your art online and How I Became An Artist and What Art Equipment I Use and where
My Art is For Sale Online.

It’s That Time of Year Again: NaNoWriMo Here I Come!

Well, with NaNoWriMo coming up again soon, I’m in my planning stages. Two years ago I did aghast-horror-romance-fantasy set in old day America, last year it was adventure-romance-fantasy set in ancient Maya/Inca backdrop…. this year? Momoyama (Medieval) Japan! So I’m doing pretty good I think: 3 years running in fantasy and not a Euro style setting in sight! YAY!

—————————
Before you publish your NaNoNovel be sure you read this:
Publishing Methods

Got suggestions for the best fictional men ever? I’m making a list and most of my choices got crossed off! I need ideas for more.

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

Obsessed? I’m Not Obsessed… REALLY, I’m not!

When Next You See Me I’ll Look Like This:

————-
If you liked reading this blog and want to read more stuff written by me, I have lots of websites, where you can read other things I write, here are a few of the ones I like the best:

Publishing Your Novel? Find out more about Publishing Methods and did you ever wonder How to Start a Publishing Company?

Want to join Squidoo? Than you need to read EelKat’s Secrets To Squidoo Success and What Can You Do With Squidoo?

Are you seeking an online debate to join and tell the world what you think about it? Than you need to check out this List of Active Debates that are waiting for you to speak out on them!

Here is where you can find out How To Start Your Own POD Business to sell your art online and How I Became An Artist and What Art Equipment I Use and where
My Art is For Sale Online.

Historical Accuracy VS Lord Sesshomaru

For those interested in making Lord Sesshomaru’s outfit historically accurate, it should be noted that, if you attempt to do so, you will be taking and already difficult and advanced costume, and turning it in an extremely advanced, and very difficult project. You must also keep in mind that as it is, Sesshomaru’s outfits are NOT historically accurate and an attempt to make them so, means a complete redesign of the costume, and an end result that will look a bit different from what is seen in the books and on he show.

One of the problems with making Lord Sesshomaru’s wardrobe historically accurate is his age, his history, and his lifestyle.

First off his exact age is unknown. To determine his age we have to look at the information we are told and make an educated guess. Early in the series, Rumiko indicates the Sesshomaru is 250 years old. Than a few years later, we are told that he fought in a war 700 years in the past, making him at least that old. Even later in the series we are told that Sesshomaru is not a normal demon, but is some sort of immortal being and has been around for a very long time, with the mention of “thousands of years” being thrown into the conversation.

Samurai armies that attack Sesshomaru, come at him with rifles. We know that rifles were invented in 1557, and that the series tells us they were just recently invented. The series follows a time span of approximately 3 years. This dates the InuYasha series at being from 1557 – 1559, most of which taking place in 1558.

So, if we use that information in order to find a date, we come to the conclusion that Lord Sesshomaru was born at some point prior to 800 A.D. How far prior is unknown, because we do not know for certain how old he is.

Why is this important? Well, if you want to go the historically accurate road, than you are going to need to research, who was wearing what, and when they wore it, and than change Sesshomaru’s outfit to match.

In researching the history of various elements of Lord Sesshomaru’s outfits, we find that each item comes from a different time period in history, and from a wide range of cultures. Items that in real life history would not have been worn together. This posses problems for someone bent on historical accuracy, and gives you one of two choices:

1) One you can instead study what a fuel lord of 1558 would have worn and make that outfit.

2) You can go with #1, but assume you are dealing with a well traveled and quite eccentric fuel lord, and make each item historically accurate to their time period and culture, and than wear them all at once. This would be more accurate to staying in keeping with Lord Sesshomaru, but less historically accurate.

When we look at what Sesshomaru wears, and consider each item and when and where it should have been worn, we are reminded, that Sesshomaru is very, very, very old. At some point in history the item was in fashion and he started wearing it, but with humans fashions die quickly and new fashions replace them. Sesshomaru, though a fashionable creature in his own right, does not stay current with human fashions and apparently once he starts wearing something he likes to wear, well continue to wear it for centuries, even after the rest of the world had stopped wearing them centuries ago.

In other words, what we see Sesshomaru wearing by the time we see him in 1558, is a mish-mash of items he collected up over a period of many centuries and during his travels across Asia, and the result is a very out-moded, old fashioned, and eccentric outfit, that screams bohemian.

While age posses a problem with Sesshomaru’s costume being historically accurate, his lifestyle posses an even bigger problem. In looking at his wardrobe, we can come to only one conclusion: Sesshomaru is an anachronist. He wears cloths out of time and out of culture.

The biggest problem for the costumer, is that they head into this project assuming that because Sesshomaru comes from a Japanese series, that he must therefore be wearing Japanese cloths. This is the farthest things from the truth, however. Sesshomaru wears a Japanese kimono or kosode, and pretty much nothing else of his wardrobe is Japanese. To find the reason for this we must look into his life.

Rumiko tells us that Lord Sesshomaru took over his father’s empire when his father died. She tells us that his father was the Ruler of the Western Lands, the title now belonging to Sesshomaru, and the reason we call him “Lord”.

At first we assume that The Western Lands are someplace in the Western side of Japan, but a closer study of the series, suggests otherwise.

Throughout the series, InuYasha battles a wide variety of demons. Every once in a while a demon will show up, wearing an outfit, oddly familiar to Sesshomaru’s. Each time a demon of this sort shows up they are greeted with discontent, and the question “You’re from the continent, aren’t you?”. Through out the series, we see that the Japanese demons do not take a liking to any demon that came to the island from the continent. To clarify this, we must remember that in the series, Japan is always referred to as “The Island” while China is always referred to as “The Continent”. Oddly such Chinese demons, are mentioned as coming from the Western Lands.

Ah-Huh! Now we are getting somewhere. Most of Sesshomaru’s outfit is Chinese not Japanese. He looks quite out of place among the other Japanese characters, however, taking into account that The Western Lands are in China and NOT Japan, makes his Chinese mode of dress, quite natural for him.
Another thing to consider is this: InuYasha a half breed, is outcast for being a half breed, which is unusual in the series as many other half breed demons are fairly well accepted. Most half breed demons are, half Japanese Demon and half Japanese Human. But looking at the general contempt for Chinese demons in the series, (who are always portrayed as being very evil, btw) we must ask the question: Is InuYasha not only half demon, but also half Japanese?

The Dog Demons Tribe, as we have already determined, are from China. We know that there was such a hatred for InuYasha, that the day of his birth, the empire revolted against their Dog Demon leader, stormed the palace, burnt it to the ground, and slaughtered everyone inside. Sesshomaru survived because he was not home when this happened, and InuYasha and his mother survived, because his father protected them so she could escape, but he died doing so. She took her only minutes old baby InuYasha and fled back to her homeland of Japan.

We must ask why she fled back to her homeland, and why, the empire rose up against their leader for taken a Japanese Human as his second wife. It seems therefore more accurate to assume that The revolt was caused not by a demon marrying a human, but by a Chinese Demon marrying a Japanese Human.

Another thing to note, is that in real mythology, the tales of dog demons come from Chinese mythology, not Japanese mythology, thus making it even more logical (and historically accurate) to assume that Sesshomaru is Chinese rather than Japanese.

We now have an answer as to why Lord Sesshhomaru’s outfits look so very Chinese. Now we must ask, how did he come to live in Japan, by the time of the InuYasha series?

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

————-
If you liked reading this blog and want to read more stuff written by me, I have lots of websites, where you can read other things I write, here are a few of the ones I like the best:

All about Lord Sesshomaru’s garb & Making a Lord Sesshomaru Costume. Plus, Sesshomaru & Rin and making Rin’s Costume; and this is for anyone who needs help Creating Character Profiles for their stories or for their SCA persona.

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Historical Accuracy VS Lord Sesshomaru

For those interested in making Lord Sesshomaru’s outfit historically accurate, it should be noted that, if you attempt to do so, you will be taking and already difficult and advanced costume, and turning it in an extremely advanced, and very difficult project. You must also keep in mind that as it is, Sesshomaru’s outfits are NOT historically accurate and an attempt to make them so, means a complete redesign of the costume, and an end result that will look a bit different from what is seen in the books and on he show.

One of the problems with making Lord Sesshomaru’s wardrobe historically accurate is his age, his history, and his lifestyle.

First off his exact age is unknown. To determine his age we have to look at the information we are told and make an educated guess. Early in the series, Rumiko indicates the Sesshomaru is 250 years old. Than a few years later, we are told that he fought in a war 700 years in the past, making him at least that old. Even later in the series we are told that Sesshomaru is not a normal demon, but is some sort of immortal being and has been around for a very long time, with the mention of “thousands of years” being thrown into the conversation.

Samurai armies that attack Sesshomaru, come at him with rifles. We know that rifles were invented in 1557, and that the series tells us they were just recently invented. The series follows a time span of approximately 3 years. This dates the InuYasha series at being from 1557 – 1559, most of which taking place in 1558.

So, if we use that information in order to find a date, we come to the conclusion that Lord Sesshomaru was born at some point prior to 800 A.D. How far prior is unknown, because we do not know for certain how old he is.

Why is this important? Well, if you want to go the historically accurate road, than you are going to need to research, who was wearing what, and when they wore it, and than change Sesshomaru’s outfit to match.

In researching the history of various elements of Lord Sesshomaru’s outfits, we find that each item comes from a different time period in history, and from a wide range of cultures. Items that in real life history would not have been worn together. This posses problems for someone bent on historical accuracy, and gives you one of two choices:

1) One you can instead study what a fuel lord of 1558 would have worn and make that outfit.

2) You can go with #1, but assume you are dealing with a well traveled and quite eccentric fuel lord, and make each item historically accurate to their time period and culture, and than wear them all at once. This would be more accurate to staying in keeping with Lord Sesshomaru, but less historically accurate.

When we look at what Sesshomaru wears, and consider each item and when and where it should have been worn, we are reminded, that Sesshomaru is very, very, very old. At some point in history the item was in fashion and he started wearing it, but with humans fashions die quickly and new fashions replace them. Sesshomaru, though a fashionable creature in his own right, does not stay current with human fashions and apparently once he starts wearing something he likes to wear, well continue to wear it for centuries, even after the rest of the world had stopped wearing them centuries ago.

In other words, what we see Sesshomaru wearing by the time we see him in 1558, is a mish-mash of items he collected up over a period of many centuries and during his travels across Asia, and the result is a very out-moded, old fashioned, and eccentric outfit, that screams bohemian.

While age posses a problem with Sesshomaru’s costume being historically accurate, his lifestyle posses an even bigger problem. In looking at his wardrobe, we can come to only one conclusion: Sesshomaru is an anachronist. He wears cloths out of time and out of culture.

The biggest problem for the costumer, is that they head into this project assuming that because Sesshomaru comes from a Japanese series, that he must therefore be wearing Japanese cloths. This is the farthest things from the truth, however. Sesshomaru wears a Japanese kimono or kosode, and pretty much nothing else of his wardrobe is Japanese. To find the reason for this we must look into his life.

Rumiko tells us that Lord Sesshomaru took over his father’s empire when his father died. She tells us that his father was the Ruler of the Western Lands, the title now belonging to Sesshomaru, and the reason we call him “Lord”.

At first we assume that The Western Lands are someplace in the Western side of Japan, but a closer study of the series, suggests otherwise.

Throughout the series, InuYasha battles a wide variety of demons. Every once in a while a demon will show up, wearing an outfit, oddly familiar to Sesshomaru’s. Each time a demon of this sort shows up they are greeted with discontent, and the question “You’re from the continent, aren’t you?”. Through out the series, we see that the Japanese demons do not take a liking to any demon that came to the island from the continent. To clarify this, we must remember that in the series, Japan is always referred to as “The Island” while China is always referred to as “The Continent”. Oddly such Chinese demons, are mentioned as coming from the Western Lands.

Ah-Huh! Now we are getting somewhere. Most of Sesshomaru’s outfit is Chinese not Japanese. He looks quite out of place among the other Japanese characters, however, taking into account that The Western Lands are in China and NOT Japan, makes his Chinese mode of dress, quite natural for him.
Another thing to consider is this: InuYasha a half breed, is outcast for being a half breed, which is unusual in the series as many other half breed demons are fairly well accepted. Most half breed demons are, half Japanese Demon and half Japanese Human. But looking at the general contempt for Chinese demons in the series, (who are always portrayed as being very evil, btw) we must ask the question: Is InuYasha not only half demon, but also half Japanese?

The Dog Demons Tribe, as we have already determined, are from China. We know that there was such a hatred for InuYasha, that the day of his birth, the empire revolted against their Dog Demon leader, stormed the palace, burnt it to the ground, and slaughtered everyone inside. Sesshomaru survived because he was not home when this happened, and InuYasha and his mother survived, because his father protected them so she could escape, but he died doing so. She took her only minutes old baby InuYasha and fled back to her homeland of Japan.

We must ask why she fled back to her homeland, and why, the empire rose up against their leader for taken a Japanese Human as his second wife. It seems therefore more accurate to assume that The revolt was caused not by a demon marrying a human, but by a Chinese Demon marrying a Japanese Human.

Another thing to note, is that in real mythology, the tales of dog demons come from Chinese mythology, not Japanese mythology, thus making it even more logical (and historically accurate) to assume that Sesshomaru is Chinese rather than Japanese.

We now have an answer as to why Lord Sesshhomaru’s outfits look so very Chinese. Now we must ask, how did he come to live in Japan, by the time of the InuYasha series?

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

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All about Lord Sesshomaru’s garb & Making a Lord Sesshomaru Costume. Plus, Sesshomaru & Rin and making Rin’s Costume; and this is for anyone who needs help Creating Character Profiles for their stories or for their SCA persona.

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Historical Accuracy VS Lord Sesshomaru

For those interested in making Lord Sesshomaru’s outfit historically accurate, it should be noted that, if you attempt to do so, you will be taking and already difficult and advanced costume, and turning it in an extremely advanced, and very difficult project. You must also keep in mind that as it is, Sesshomaru’s outfits are NOT historically accurate and an attempt to make them so, means a complete redesign of the costume, and an end result that will look a bit different from what is seen in the books and on he show.

One of the problems with making Lord Sesshomaru’s wardrobe historically accurate is his age, his history, and his lifestyle.

First off his exact age is unknown. To determine his age we have to look at the information we are told and make an educated guess. Early in the series, Rumiko indicates the Sesshomaru is 250 years old. Than a few years later, we are told that he fought in a war 700 years in the past, making him at least that old. Even later in the series we are told that Sesshomaru is not a normal demon, but is some sort of immortal being and has been around for a very long time, with the mention of “thousands of years” being thrown into the conversation.

Samurai armies that attack Sesshomaru, come at him with rifles. We know that rifles were invented in 1557, and that the series tells us they were just recently invented. The series follows a time span of approximately 3 years. This dates the InuYasha series at being from 1557 – 1559, most of which taking place in 1558.

So, if we use that information in order to find a date, we come to the conclusion that Lord Sesshomaru was born at some point prior to 800 A.D. How far prior is unknown, because we do not know for certain how old he is.

Why is this important? Well, if you want to go the historically accurate road, than you are going to need to research, who was wearing what, and when they wore it, and than change Sesshomaru’s outfit to match.

In researching the history of various elements of Lord Sesshomaru’s outfits, we find that each item comes from a different time period in history, and from a wide range of cultures. Items that in real life history would not have been worn together. This posses problems for someone bent on historical accuracy, and gives you one of two choices:

1) One you can instead study what a fuel lord of 1558 would have worn and make that outfit.

2) You can go with #1, but assume you are dealing with a well traveled and quite eccentric fuel lord, and make each item historically accurate to their time period and culture, and than wear them all at once. This would be more accurate to staying in keeping with Lord Sesshomaru, but less historically accurate.

When we look at what Sesshomaru wears, and consider each item and when and where it should have been worn, we are reminded, that Sesshomaru is very, very, very old. At some point in history the item was in fashion and he started wearing it, but with humans fashions die quickly and new fashions replace them. Sesshomaru, though a fashionable creature in his own right, does not stay current with human fashions and apparently once he starts wearing something he likes to wear, well continue to wear it for centuries, even after the rest of the world had stopped wearing them centuries ago.

In other words, what we see Sesshomaru wearing by the time we see him in 1558, is a mish-mash of items he collected up over a period of many centuries and during his travels across Asia, and the result is a very out-moded, old fashioned, and eccentric outfit, that screams bohemian.

While age posses a problem with Sesshomaru’s costume being historically accurate, his lifestyle posses an even bigger problem. In looking at his wardrobe, we can come to only one conclusion: Sesshomaru is an anachronist. He wears cloths out of time and out of culture.

The biggest problem for the costumer, is that they head into this project assuming that because Sesshomaru comes from a Japanese series, that he must therefore be wearing Japanese cloths. This is the farthest things from the truth, however. Sesshomaru wears a Japanese kimono or kosode, and pretty much nothing else of his wardrobe is Japanese. To find the reason for this we must look into his life.

Rumiko tells us that Lord Sesshomaru took over his father’s empire when his father died. She tells us that his father was the Ruler of the Western Lands, the title now belonging to Sesshomaru, and the reason we call him “Lord”.

At first we assume that The Western Lands are someplace in the Western side of Japan, but a closer study of the series, suggests otherwise.

Throughout the series, InuYasha battles a wide variety of demons. Every once in a while a demon will show up, wearing an outfit, oddly familiar to Sesshomaru’s. Each time a demon of this sort shows up they are greeted with discontent, and the question “You’re from the continent, aren’t you?”. Through out the series, we see that the Japanese demons do not take a liking to any demon that came to the island from the continent. To clarify this, we must remember that in the series, Japan is always referred to as “The Island” while China is always referred to as “The Continent”. Oddly such Chinese demons, are mentioned as coming from the Western Lands.

Ah-Huh! Now we are getting somewhere. Most of Sesshomaru’s outfit is Chinese not Japanese. He looks quite out of place among the other Japanese characters, however, taking into account that The Western Lands are in China and NOT Japan, makes his Chinese mode of dress, quite natural for him.
Another thing to consider is this: InuYasha a half breed, is outcast for being a half breed, which is unusual in the series as many other half breed demons are fairly well accepted. Most half breed demons are, half Japanese Demon and half Japanese Human. But looking at the general contempt for Chinese demons in the series, (who are always portrayed as being very evil, btw) we must ask the question: Is InuYasha not only half demon, but also half Japanese?

The Dog Demons Tribe, as we have already determined, are from China. We know that there was such a hatred for InuYasha, that the day of his birth, the empire revolted against their Dog Demon leader, stormed the palace, burnt it to the ground, and slaughtered everyone inside. Sesshomaru survived because he was not home when this happened, and InuYasha and his mother survived, because his father protected them so she could escape, but he died doing so. She took her only minutes old baby InuYasha and fled back to her homeland of Japan.

We must ask why she fled back to her homeland, and why, the empire rose up against their leader for taken a Japanese Human as his second wife. It seems therefore more accurate to assume that The revolt was caused not by a demon marrying a human, but by a Chinese Demon marrying a Japanese Human.

Another thing to note, is that in real mythology, the tales of dog demons come from Chinese mythology, not Japanese mythology, thus making it even more logical (and historically accurate) to assume that Sesshomaru is Chinese rather than Japanese.

We now have an answer as to why Lord Sesshhomaru’s outfits look so very Chinese. Now we must ask, how did he come to live in Japan, by the time of the InuYasha series?

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

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If you liked reading this blog and want to read more stuff written by me, I have lots of websites, where you can read other things I write, here are a few of the ones I like the best:

All about Lord Sesshomaru’s garb & Making a Lord Sesshomaru Costume. Plus, Sesshomaru & Rin and making Rin’s Costume; and this is for anyone who needs help Creating Character Profiles for their stories or for their SCA persona.

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On Making Samurai Armor

I had to come back and add another post here. Okay, for the past couple of weeks I’ve been mulling over what to do for the armor I’m going to make this summer, and yesterday I got out this book from the library:

Arms and Armor of the Samurai by I Bottomley

It doesn’t really tell you how to make armor per say, but it goes into great detail about the armor of ancient Japan, and there are loads of close ups and details about how is was made.

Anyways… the armor I wanted to make was scale armor, but when I looked on the internet for scale armor how to’s all I found was sites on hand forged metal scale armor, and I really don’t want to make metal armor. But than I found this Samurai book and it has a whole chapter on scale armor! OMG!

He shows all sorts of close up pictures of scale armor in Japan, and than shows drawings of what the scales looked like before they were assembled, and than shows how they laced the scales together. And get this, the whole thing was made out of 2″ pieces of suede leather laced together with silk! OMG! I can actually make that! All I have to do is cut out a bunch of suede leather squares, punch holes in them, and than lace them together with silk ribbon. I can have it finished in about 3 days.

Well, I don’t know if that of any help to you or not, but I thought I’d let you know what I found in case it might help you out anyone making armor.

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

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If you liked reading this blog and want to read more stuff written by me, I have lots of websites, where you can read other things I write, here are a few of the ones I like the best:

All about Lord Sesshomaru’s garb & Making a Lord Sesshomaru Costume. Plus, Sesshomaru & Rin and making Rin’s Costume; and this is for anyone who needs help Creating Character Profiles for their stories or for their SCA persona.

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On Making Samurai Armor

I had to come back and add another post here. Okay, for the past couple of weeks I’ve been mulling over what to do for the armor I’m going to make this summer, and yesterday I got out this book from the library:

Arms and Armor of the Samurai by I Bottomley

It doesn’t really tell you how to make armor per say, but it goes into great detail about the armor of ancient Japan, and there are loads of close ups and details about how is was made.

Anyways… the armor I wanted to make was scale armor, but when I looked on the internet for scale armor how to’s all I found was sites on hand forged metal scale armor, and I really don’t want to make metal armor. But than I found this Samurai book and it has a whole chapter on scale armor! OMG!

He shows all sorts of close up pictures of scale armor in Japan, and than shows drawings of what the scales looked like before they were assembled, and than shows how they laced the scales together. And get this, the whole thing was made out of 2″ pieces of suede leather laced together with silk! OMG! I can actually make that! All I have to do is cut out a bunch of suede leather squares, punch holes in them, and than lace them together with silk ribbon. I can have it finished in about 3 days.

Well, I don’t know if that of any help to you or not, but I thought I’d let you know what I found in case it might help you out anyone making armor.

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

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If you liked reading this blog and want to read more stuff written by me, I have lots of websites, where you can read other things I write, here are a few of the ones I like the best:

All about Lord Sesshomaru’s garb & Making a Lord Sesshomaru Costume. Plus, Sesshomaru & Rin and making Rin’s Costume; and this is for anyone who needs help Creating Character Profiles for their stories or for their SCA persona.

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On Making Samurai Armor

I had to come back and add another post here. Okay, for the past couple of weeks I’ve been mulling over what to do for the armor I’m going to make this summer, and yesterday I got out this book from the library:

Arms and Armor of the Samurai by I Bottomley
http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=spacedock13-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=0517644673&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=F9B6F8&f=ifr

It doesn’t really tell you how to make armor per say, but it goes into great detail about the armor of ancient Japan, and there are loads of close ups and details about how is was made.

Anyways… the armor I wanted to make was scale armor, but when I looked on the internet for scale armor how to’s all I found was sites on hand forged metal scale armor, and I really don’t want to make metal armor. But than I found this Samurai book and it has a whole chapter on scale armor! OMG!

He shows all sorts of close up pictures of scale armor in Japan, and than shows drawings of what the scales looked like before they were assembled, and than shows how they laced the scales together. And get this, the whole thing was made out of 2″ pieces of suede leather laced together with silk! OMG! I can actually make that! All I have to do is cut out a bunch of suede leather squares, punch holes in them, and than lace them together with silk ribbon. I can have it finished in about 3 days.

Well, I don’t know if that of any help to you or not, but I thought I’d let you know what I found in case it might help you out anyone making armor.

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

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If you liked reading this blog and want to read more stuff written by me, I have lots of websites, where you can read other things I write, here are a few of the ones I like the best:

All about Lord Sesshomaru’s garb & Making a Lord Sesshomaru Costume. Plus, Sesshomaru & Rin and making Rin’s Costume; and this is for anyone who needs help Creating Character Profiles for their stories or for their SCA persona.

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My Fabric Arrives From Japan and… is lost???

Okay. So you know by now that I’ve been waiting for my handwoven silk to arrive from Japan, right? Well, Saturday I get a slip in the mailbox, telling me that I have a registered parcel from Japan to pick up. Because of Sunday and Memorial Day on Monday, they tell me to pick it up on Tuesday (today), which I did. The guy goes out back to get my box, than comes back to tell me that not only is it not there, but they have no record of ever giving me this slip telling me it had arrived! So he gets the post master and he looks through their records and it just is not written down anywhere, so he goes on the website, and tracks it that way, and finds out, that yep, sure enough the box is here somewhere, they just don’t know where it went since it was on the truck, because who ever it was that was supposed to write the info on the charts did not write it down!

Nest the postmaster starts calling the local distribution centers to see if any of them had the box. None of them did, so he started calling the local Post Offices to see if somehow it had gotten sent to the wrong office. He called about 20 different offices. Nope, none of them had it. Next he starts calling the delivery men. One of them, thinks he has it on his truck, but is uncertain why he has it or how it got on his truck! I’m to go back tommorrow and see if it’s back at the office yet.

In the mean time while I was waiting 45 minutes for them to find out where they had lost my box too, there was a protest going on outside on the front steps of the Post Office, so I went out to see what they were protesting about… hey, you know me, any excuse to cause trouble, right? =P So I listened to what they had to say, and why they were saying it, and they made a good case, so I signed their petition sheets. Hope they win their cause, glad that the Post Office had given them permission to sit out front and hand out their info.

So, all I accomplished with that was to find out that the Post Office had yet again misplaced one of my packages (they lose about 3 each year, tells you how much stuff I get in the mail! 0.O) and I added my name to yet another protester’s petition list. (I should go around asking folks: “Hey you got a petition you want me to sign… give it here, let me sign it!”… boy do I sign an awful lot of them. Is it that we have a lot of petitioning going on around here or is it just because I’m nosy and have to find out why people are protesting whenever I see a group marching around with signs? Must be the fact that I live in a college community.

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

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All about Lord Sesshomaru’s garb & Making a Lord Sesshomaru Costume. Plus, Sesshomaru & Rin and making Rin’s Costume.

Do you think Lord Sesshomaru is a Cross dresser? Join the debate and tell the world what you think!

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My Fabric Arrives From Japan and… is lost???

Okay. So you know by now that I’ve been waiting for my handwoven silk to arrive from Japan, right? Well, Saturday I get a slip in the mailbox, telling me that I have a registered parcel from Japan to pick up. Because of Sunday and Memorial Day on Monday, they tell me to pick it up on Tuesday (today), which I did. The guy goes out back to get my box, than comes back to tell me that not only is it not there, but they have no record of ever giving me this slip telling me it had arrived! So he gets the post master and he looks through their records and it just is not written down anywhere, so he goes on the website, and tracks it that way, and finds out, that yep, sure enough the box is here somewhere, they just don’t know where it went since it was on the truck, because who ever it was that was supposed to write the info on the charts did not write it down!

Nest the postmaster starts calling the local distribution centers to see if any of them had the box. None of them did, so he started calling the local Post Offices to see if somehow it had gotten sent to the wrong office. He called about 20 different offices. Nope, none of them had it. Next he starts calling the delivery men. One of them, thinks he has it on his truck, but is uncertain why he has it or how it got on his truck! I’m to go back tommorrow and see if it’s back at the office yet.

In the mean time while I was waiting 45 minutes for them to find out where they had lost my box too, there was a protest going on outside on the front steps of the Post Office, so I went out to see what they were protesting about… hey, you know me, any excuse to cause trouble, right? =P So I listened to what they had to say, and why they were saying it, and they made a good case, so I signed their petition sheets. Hope they win their cause, glad that the Post Office had given them permission to sit out front and hand out their info.

So, all I accomplished with that was to find out that the Post Office had yet again misplaced one of my packages (they lose about 3 each year, tells you how much stuff I get in the mail! 0.O) and I added my name to yet another protester’s petition list. (I should go around asking folks: “Hey you got a petition you want me to sign… give it here, let me sign it!”… boy do I sign an awful lot of them. Is it that we have a lot of petitioning going on around here or is it just because I’m nosy and have to find out why people are protesting whenever I see a group marching around with signs? Must be the fact that I live in a college community.

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

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If you liked reading this blog and want to read more stuff written by me, I have lots of websites, where you can read other things I write, here are a few of the ones I like the best:

All about Lord Sesshomaru’s garb & Making a Lord Sesshomaru Costume. Plus, Sesshomaru & Rin and making Rin’s Costume.

Do you think Lord Sesshomaru is a Cross dresser? Join the debate and tell the world what you think!

Do you CosPlay? Here is A List of my CosPlay Aticles

This is for anyone who needs help Creating Character Profiles for their stories or for their SCA persona.

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My Fabric Arrives From Japan and… is lost???

Okay. So you know by now that I’ve been waiting for my handwoven silk to arrive from Japan, right? Well, Saturday I get a slip in the mailbox, telling me that I have a registered parcel from Japan to pick up. Because of Sunday and Memorial Day on Monday, they tell me to pick it up on Tuesday (today), which I did. The guy goes out back to get my box, than comes back to tell me that not only is it not there, but they have no record of ever giving me this slip telling me it had arrived! So he gets the post master and he looks through their records and it just is not written down anywhere, so he goes on the website, and tracks it that way, and finds out, that yep, sure enough the box is here somewhere, they just don’t know where it went since it was on the truck, because who ever it was that was supposed to write the info on the charts did not write it down!

Nest the postmaster starts calling the local distribution centers to see if any of them had the box. None of them did, so he started calling the local Post Offices to see if somehow it had gotten sent to the wrong office. He called about 20 different offices. Nope, none of them had it. Next he starts calling the delivery men. One of them, thinks he has it on his truck, but is uncertain why he has it or how it got on his truck! I’m to go back tommorrow and see if it’s back at the office yet.

In the mean time while I was waiting 45 minutes for them to find out where they had lost my box too, there was a protest going on outside on the front steps of the Post Office, so I went out to see what they were protesting about… hey, you know me, any excuse to cause trouble, right? =P So I listened to what they had to say, and why they were saying it, and they made a good case, so I signed their petition sheets. Hope they win their cause, glad that the Post Office had given them permission to sit out front and hand out their info.

So, all I accomplished with that was to find out that the Post Office had yet again misplaced one of my packages (they lose about 3 each year, tells you how much stuff I get in the mail! 0.O) and I added my name to yet another protester’s petition list. (I should go around asking folks: “Hey you got a petition you want me to sign… give it here, let me sign it!”… boy do I sign an awful lot of them. Is it that we have a lot of petitioning going on around here or is it just because I’m nosy and have to find out why people are protesting whenever I see a group marching around with signs? Must be the fact that I live in a college community.

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

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If you liked reading this blog and want to read more stuff written by me, I have lots of websites, where you can read other things I write, here are a few of the ones I like the best:

All about Lord Sesshomaru’s garb & Making a Lord Sesshomaru Costume. Plus, Sesshomaru & Rin and making Rin’s Costume.

Do you think Lord Sesshomaru is a Cross dresser? Join the debate and tell the world what you think!

Do you CosPlay? Here is A List of my CosPlay Aticles

This is for anyone who needs help Creating Character Profiles for their stories or for their SCA persona.

Want to join Squidoo? Than you need to read EelKat’s Secrets To Squidoo Success and What Can You Do With Squidoo?

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My Kimono Silk For My Japanese Personas

My silk mania continues while I wait for my silk to arrive. Since I’ve gone from sewing up a fantasy costume for a fictional character to re-creating a historically accurate outfit for what he would have worn had he been real, I now find myself hunting down info on how to sew historically accurate Japanese garb. In doing so I came across this question posted on a blog by yet another person doing a Japanese persona:

SCA Silk Road – To Those With Japanese Personas. What kind of silk do you use for your garb? I have a set of utility garb, consisting of linen kosode and hakama, but I haven’t yet made a nice set of silk kimono to wear to indoor events (the linen getup is mostly for camping in the summer).

And here is the comment I posted in responce to that question:

I make mine out of historically accurate 15″ wide hand woven silk, which I get imported from a dealer in Japan. It takes about 5 weeks for it to ship from Japan to Maine USA, so I have to plan for that amount of time too.

Japanese silk is utterly amazing: it’s very lightweight, very soft, very buttery, and it looks like a thin batiste cotton, very few people would even know it was silk, because it’s not what most folks think of when they think of silk! …. Japanese kimono silk, is not at all like the Indian or Italian silk which we are used to seeing here in the USA, which is shiny, slippery, and often too heavy to drape nicely. Also Indian and Italian silks are sold in 45″ to 62″ widths, while Japanese silks are sold in 13″ to 18″ widths (15″ being the average), and that makes a big difference in how you actually construct your garments too.

To make them historically accurate while using 45″ Indian silk, you’d first have to cut the silk into 15″ wide strips and hem the edges, before you could start cutting out your kimono or hakama. For me doing something like that just isn’t an option. I go all out when I want to be accurate. I know I can be a bit extreme at times too, because I also hand embroider my silk using ancient Japanese methods, and than hand sew my garb too! It takes my about 6 or 7 months just to make one kimono, because I get crazy over being all accurate about everything! LOL!

If I wasn’t so strict with myself, I could use silk I could buy locally and sew and embroider by machine, and be done in less than a week. YIKES! I’m torturing myself, but I love it! I have so much fun hunting down this super rare type of silk and than once I’ve found it, I buy several bolts of it all at once (cause it’s the same price to ship one bolt as it is to ship 5 bolts! and the shipping alone from Japan to USA is close to $100!) I figure, I’ve spent so much time locating the fabric, than dished out so many oodles and oodels of money to buy it (it’s very expensive! I have to use bargain fabrics for my non-Japanese garb, cause I go for broke with my kimono silk!), so I figure I’ve invested so much in this cloth already, I might as well take my historical accuracy the whole 9 yards, right?

Weird thing about all this is, when I make my European or Early American garb, I don’t give historical accuracy a thought! I just make whatever “looks accurate enough” out of whatever fabric I have on hand. I only go uber authentic when it comes to my Japanese garb. I guess I must like my Japanese persona better than my Euro or American ones!

Sorry for the long comment. I just got a bit excited being able to tell someone about my fabric hunting. I get so excited over buying fabric! I’m a fabric hoarder, btw! I’ll never use half of the fabric I buy, but I always, see new fabric and it’s like “Well, someday I could use it for something.” so I buy it and never use it. LOL!

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

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If you liked reading this blog and want to read more stuff written by me, I have lots of websites, where you can read other things I write, here are a few of the ones I like the best:

All about Lord Sesshomaru’s garb & Making a Lord Sesshomaru Costume. Plus, Sesshomaru & Rin and making Rin’s Costume.

Do you think Lord Sesshomaru is a Cross dresser? Join the debate and tell the world what you think!

Do you CosPlay? Here is A List of my CosPlay Aticles

This is for anyone who needs help Creating Character Profiles for their stories or for their SCA persona.

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My Kimono Silk For My Japanese Personas

My silk mania continues while I wait for my silk to arrive. Since I’ve gone from sewing up a fantasy costume for a fictional character to re-creating a historically accurate outfit for what he would have worn had he been real, I now find myself hunting down info on how to sew historically accurate Japanese garb. In doing so I came across this question posted on a blog by yet another person doing a Japanese persona:

SCA Silk Road – To Those With Japanese Personas. What kind of silk do you use for your garb? I have a set of utility garb, consisting of linen kosode and hakama, but I haven’t yet made a nice set of silk kimono to wear to indoor events (the linen getup is mostly for camping in the summer).

And here is the comment I posted in responce to that question:

I make mine out of historically accurate 15″ wide hand woven silk, which I get imported from a dealer in Japan. It takes about 5 weeks for it to ship from Japan to Maine USA, so I have to plan for that amount of time too.

Japanese silk is utterly amazing: it’s very lightweight, very soft, very buttery, and it looks like a thin batiste cotton, very few people would even know it was silk, because it’s not what most folks think of when they think of silk! …. Japanese kimono silk, is not at all like the Indian or Italian silk which we are used to seeing here in the USA, which is shiny, slippery, and often too heavy to drape nicely. Also Indian and Italian silks are sold in 45″ to 62″ widths, while Japanese silks are sold in 13″ to 18″ widths (15″ being the average), and that makes a big difference in how you actually construct your garments too.

To make them historically accurate while using 45″ Indian silk, you’d first have to cut the silk into 15″ wide strips and hem the edges, before you could start cutting out your kimono or hakama. For me doing something like that just isn’t an option. I go all out when I want to be accurate. I know I can be a bit extreme at times too, because I also hand embroider my silk using ancient Japanese methods, and than hand sew my garb too! It takes my about 6 or 7 months just to make one kimono, because I get crazy over being all accurate about everything! LOL!

If I wasn’t so strict with myself, I could use silk I could buy locally and sew and embroider by machine, and be done in less than a week. YIKES! I’m torturing myself, but I love it! I have so much fun hunting down this super rare type of silk and than once I’ve found it, I buy several bolts of it all at once (cause it’s the same price to ship one bolt as it is to ship 5 bolts! and the shipping alone from Japan to USA is close to $100!) I figure, I’ve spent so much time locating the fabric, than dished out so many oodles and oodels of money to buy it (it’s very expensive! I have to use bargain fabrics for my non-Japanese garb, cause I go for broke with my kimono silk!), so I figure I’ve invested so much in this cloth already, I might as well take my historical accuracy the whole 9 yards, right?

Weird thing about all this is, when I make my European or Early American garb, I don’t give historical accuracy a thought! I just make whatever “looks accurate enough” out of whatever fabric I have on hand. I only go uber authentic when it comes to my Japanese garb. I guess I must like my Japanese persona better than my Euro or American ones!

Sorry for the long comment. I just got a bit excited being able to tell someone about my fabric hunting. I get so excited over buying fabric! I’m a fabric hoarder, btw! I’ll never use half of the fabric I buy, but I always, see new fabric and it’s like “Well, someday I could use it for something.” so I buy it and never use it. LOL!

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

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If you liked reading this blog and want to read more stuff written by me, I have lots of websites, where you can read other things I write, here are a few of the ones I like the best:

All about Lord Sesshomaru’s garb & Making a Lord Sesshomaru Costume. Plus, Sesshomaru & Rin and making Rin’s Costume.

Do you think Lord Sesshomaru is a Cross dresser? Join the debate and tell the world what you think!

Do you CosPlay? Here is A List of my CosPlay Aticles

This is for anyone who needs help Creating Character Profiles for their stories or for their SCA persona.

Want to join Squidoo? Than you need to read EelKat’s Secrets To Squidoo Success and What Can You Do With Squidoo?

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Where
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My Kimono Silk For My Japanese Personas

My silk mania continues while I wait for my silk to arrive. Since I’ve gone from sewing up a fantasy costume for a fictional character to re-creating a historically accurate outfit for what he would have worn had he been real, I now find myself hunting down info on how to sew historically accurate Japanese garb. In doing so I came across this question posted on a blog by yet another person doing a Japanese persona:

SCA Silk Road – To Those With Japanese Personas. What kind of silk do you use for your garb? I have a set of utility garb, consisting of linen kosode and hakama, but I haven’t yet made a nice set of silk kimono to wear to indoor events (the linen getup is mostly for camping in the summer).

And here is the comment I posted in responce to that question:

I make mine out of historically accurate 15″ wide hand woven silk, which I get imported from a dealer in Japan. It takes about 5 weeks for it to ship from Japan to Maine USA, so I have to plan for that amount of time too.

Japanese silk is utterly amazing: it’s very lightweight, very soft, very buttery, and it looks like a thin batiste cotton, very few people would even know it was silk, because it’s not what most folks think of when they think of silk! …. Japanese kimono silk, is not at all like the Indian or Italian silk which we are used to seeing here in the USA, which is shiny, slippery, and often too heavy to drape nicely. Also Indian and Italian silks are sold in 45″ to 62″ widths, while Japanese silks are sold in 13″ to 18″ widths (15″ being the average), and that makes a big difference in how you actually construct your garments too.

To make them historically accurate while using 45″ Indian silk, you’d first have to cut the silk into 15″ wide strips and hem the edges, before you could start cutting out your kimono or hakama. For me doing something like that just isn’t an option. I go all out when I want to be accurate. I know I can be a bit extreme at times too, because I also hand embroider my silk using ancient Japanese methods, and than hand sew my garb too! It takes my about 6 or 7 months just to make one kimono, because I get crazy over being all accurate about everything! LOL!

If I wasn’t so strict with myself, I could use silk I could buy locally and sew and embroider by machine, and be done in less than a week. YIKES! I’m torturing myself, but I love it! I have so much fun hunting down this super rare type of silk and than once I’ve found it, I buy several bolts of it all at once (cause it’s the same price to ship one bolt as it is to ship 5 bolts! and the shipping alone from Japan to USA is close to $100!) I figure, I’ve spent so much time locating the fabric, than dished out so many oodles and oodels of money to buy it (it’s very expensive! I have to use bargain fabrics for my non-Japanese garb, cause I go for broke with my kimono silk!), so I figure I’ve invested so much in this cloth already, I might as well take my historical accuracy the whole 9 yards, right?

Weird thing about all this is, when I make my European or Early American garb, I don’t give historical accuracy a thought! I just make whatever “looks accurate enough” out of whatever fabric I have on hand. I only go uber authentic when it comes to my Japanese garb. I guess I must like my Japanese persona better than my Euro or American ones!

Sorry for the long comment. I just got a bit excited being able to tell someone about my fabric hunting. I get so excited over buying fabric! I’m a fabric hoarder, btw! I’ll never use half of the fabric I buy, but I always, see new fabric and it’s like “Well, someday I could use it for something.” so I buy it and never use it. LOL!

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

————-
If you liked reading this blog and want to read more stuff written by me, I have lots of websites, where you can read other things I write, here are a few of the ones I like the best:

All about Lord Sesshomaru’s garb & Making a Lord Sesshomaru Costume. Plus, Sesshomaru & Rin and making Rin’s Costume.

Do you think Lord Sesshomaru is a Cross dresser? Join the debate and tell the world what you think!

Do you CosPlay? Here is A List of my CosPlay Aticles

This is for anyone who needs help Creating Character Profiles for their stories or for their SCA persona.

Want to join Squidoo? Than you need to read EelKat’s Secrets To Squidoo Success and What Can You Do With Squidoo?

Are you seeking an online debate to join and tell the world what you think about it? Than you need to check out this List of Active Debates that are waiting for you to speak out on them!

Where
My Art is For Sale Online.

Thank You for reading my blog’s RSS feed. Don’t forget to come to my blog and check out the links in my blogroll too!

My Kimono Silk For My Japanese Personas

My silk mania continues while I wait for my silk to arrive. Since I’ve gone from sewing up a fantasy costume for a fictional character to re-creating a historically accurate outfit for what he would have worn had he been real, I now find myself hunting down info on how to sew historically accurate Japanese garb. In doing so I came across this question posted on a blog by yet another person doing a Japanese persona:

SCA Silk Road – To Those With Japanese Personas. What kind of silk do you use for your garb? I have a set of utility garb, consisting of linen kosode and hakama, but I haven’t yet made a nice set of silk kimono to wear to indoor events (the linen getup is mostly for camping in the summer).

And here is the comment I posted in responce to that question:

I make mine out of historically accurate 15″ wide hand woven silk, which I get imported from a dealer in Japan. It takes about 5 weeks for it to ship from Japan to Maine USA, so I have to plan for that amount of time too.

Japanese silk is utterly amazing: it’s very lightweight, very soft, very buttery, and it looks like a thin batiste cotton, very few people would even know it was silk, because it’s not what most folks think of when they think of silk! …. Japanese kimono silk, is not at all like the Indian or Italian silk which we are used to seeing here in the USA, which is shiny, slippery, and often too heavy to drape nicely. Also Indian and Italian silks are sold in 45″ to 62″ widths, while Japanese silks are sold in 13″ to 18″ widths (15″ being the average), and that makes a big difference in how you actually construct your garments too.

To make them historically accurate while using 45″ Indian silk, you’d first have to cut the silk into 15″ wide strips and hem the edges, before you could start cutting out your kimono or hakama. For me doing something like that just isn’t an option. I go all out when I want to be accurate. I know I can be a bit extreme at times too, because I also hand embroider my silk using ancient Japanese methods, and than hand sew my garb too! It takes my about 6 or 7 months just to make one kimono, because I get crazy over being all accurate about everything! LOL!

If I wasn’t so strict with myself, I could use silk I could buy locally and sew and embroider by machine, and be done in less than a week. YIKES! I’m torturing myself, but I love it! I have so much fun hunting down this super rare type of silk and than once I’ve found it, I buy several bolts of it all at once (cause it’s the same price to ship one bolt as it is to ship 5 bolts! and the shipping alone from Japan to USA is close to $100!) I figure, I’ve spent so much time locating the fabric, than dished out so many oodles and oodels of money to buy it (it’s very expensive! I have to use bargain fabrics for my non-Japanese garb, cause I go for broke with my kimono silk!), so I figure I’ve invested so much in this cloth already, I might as well take my historical accuracy the whole 9 yards, right?

Weird thing about all this is, when I make my European or Early American garb, I don’t give historical accuracy a thought! I just make whatever “looks accurate enough” out of whatever fabric I have on hand. I only go uber authentic when it comes to my Japanese garb. I guess I must like my Japanese persona better than my Euro or American ones!

Sorry for the long comment. I just got a bit excited being able to tell someone about my fabric hunting. I get so excited over buying fabric! I’m a fabric hoarder, btw! I’ll never use half of the fabric I buy, but I always, see new fabric and it’s like “Well, someday I could use it for something.” so I buy it and never use it. LOL!

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

————-
If you liked reading this blog and want to read more stuff written by me, I have lots of websites, where you can read other things I write, here are a few of the ones I like the best:

All about Lord Sesshomaru’s garb & Making a Lord Sesshomaru Costume. Plus, Sesshomaru & Rin and making Rin’s Costume.

Do you think Lord Sesshomaru is a Cross dresser? Join the debate and tell the world what you think!

Do you CosPlay? Here is A List of my CosPlay Aticles

This is for anyone who needs help Creating Character Profiles for their stories or for their SCA persona.

Want to join Squidoo? Than you need to read EelKat’s Secrets To Squidoo Success and What Can You Do With Squidoo?

Are you seeking an online debate to join and tell the world what you think about it? Than you need to check out this List of Active Debates that are waiting for you to speak out on them!

Where
My Art is For Sale Online.

Thank You for reading my blog’s RSS feed. Don’t forget to come to my blog and check out the links in my blogroll too!

My Kimono Silk For My Japanese Personas

My silk mania continues while I wait for my silk to arrive. Since I’ve gone from sewing up a fantasy costume for a fictional character to re-creating a historically accurate outfit for what he would have worn had he been real, I now find myself hunting down info on how to sew historically accurate Japanese garb. In doing so I came across this question posted on a blog by yet another person doing a Japanese persona:

SCA Silk Road – To Those With Japanese Personas. What kind of silk do you use for your garb? I have a set of utility garb, consisting of linen kosode and hakama, but I haven’t yet made a nice set of silk kimono to wear to indoor events (the linen getup is mostly for camping in the summer).

And here is the comment I posted in responce to that question:

I make mine out of historically accurate 15″ wide hand woven silk, which I get imported from a dealer in Japan. It takes about 5 weeks for it to ship from Japan to Maine USA, so I have to plan for that amount of time too.

Japanese silk is utterly amazing: it’s very lightweight, very soft, very buttery, and it looks like a thin batiste cotton, very few people would even know it was silk, because it’s not what most folks think of when they think of silk! …. Japanese kimono silk, is not at all like the Indian or Italian silk which we are used to seeing here in the USA, which is shiny, slippery, and often too heavy to drape nicely. Also Indian and Italian silks are sold in 45″ to 62″ widths, while Japanese silks are sold in 13″ to 18″ widths (15″ being the average), and that makes a big difference in how you actually construct your garments too.

To make them historically accurate while using 45″ Indian silk, you’d first have to cut the silk into 15″ wide strips and hem the edges, before you could start cutting out your kimono or hakama. For me doing something like that just isn’t an option. I go all out when I want to be accurate. I know I can be a bit extreme at times too, because I also hand embroider my silk using ancient Japanese methods, and than hand sew my garb too! It takes my about 6 or 7 months just to make one kimono, because I get crazy over being all accurate about everything! LOL!

If I wasn’t so strict with myself, I could use silk I could buy locally and sew and embroider by machine, and be done in less than a week. YIKES! I’m torturing myself, but I love it! I have so much fun hunting down this super rare type of silk and than once I’ve found it, I buy several bolts of it all at once (cause it’s the same price to ship one bolt as it is to ship 5 bolts! and the shipping alone from Japan to USA is close to $100!) I figure, I’ve spent so much time locating the fabric, than dished out so many oodles and oodels of money to buy it (it’s very expensive! I have to use bargain fabrics for my non-Japanese garb, cause I go for broke with my kimono silk!), so I figure I’ve invested so much in this cloth already, I might as well take my historical accuracy the whole 9 yards, right?

Weird thing about all this is, when I make my European or Early American garb, I don’t give historical accuracy a thought! I just make whatever “looks accurate enough” out of whatever fabric I have on hand. I only go uber authentic when it comes to my Japanese garb. I guess I must like my Japanese persona better than my Euro or American ones!

Sorry for the long comment. I just got a bit excited being able to tell someone about my fabric hunting. I get so excited over buying fabric! I’m a fabric hoarder, btw! I’ll never use half of the fabric I buy, but I always, see new fabric and it’s like “Well, someday I could use it for something.” so I buy it and never use it. LOL!

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

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What is the lowest amount of eBay seller feedback you buy from?

What is the lowest amount of eBay seller feedback you buy from? I love this question as I’m an avid eBayer…. known across the forums as the much feared: EK the Sniper. To date no one who has ever bid against me, has been able to win. My best snipe time to date was 3 seconds before auction end. I achieve my snipping success, by bidding low early, and than placing a bid high, while counting done the seconds to the end before hitting the confirm bid button. While this can be done with dail -up, it’s easier to do with cable. But anyways, I found that question on a forum and here is my answer:

What is the lowest amount of eBay seller feedback you buy from?

I stick with 99.7%, but I always read the feedback to find out why it got low. If it was for a “bad” reason than I won’t buy from them (say, non-shipment, wrong item shipped and no exchange offered, etc).

Also, I ALWAYS read the kind of feedback they left for others… if they are really rude and bitchy in their feedback left to others, than I won’t buy from them. Being a business minded woman, myself, I do not like to deal with sellers who do not treat their eBay store with professionalism. If they are acting childish in their comments, chances are good that they will act childish in their business skills too: sloppy packing, not insuring items, etc.

I have bought items from sellers with lower feedback 90% range, because after reading their feedback, found that the problem was the buyers and not the sellers fault…. such as [I]“left a neg because shipping was so high”[/I] Happens a lot, even though shipping was listed in the auction!

or [I]“left neg because you said it was purple but it looked blue on my screen and it arrived purple, but I wanted blue”[/I] Man! I see this one in fabric auctions all the time! If the seller says it’s purple, than you better believe it’s purple no matter what your screen color shows you! Why do people leave a neg for something like that!

If the negs are for stupid things like that, things that are the buyers own fault and had nothing to do with the seller, than I’ll buy from someone with lower feedback.

Proudly I can say I’ve been on eBay since 2004 and I have 100% feedback! YAY me! Of course I’m a buyer only, and don’t sell anything, so, it doesn’t do you any good to know that unless I’m buying something from you! LOL!

[QUOTE=EXsoldierSNAKE;2430564]When you are looking for costume parts on eBay(if you do) what is the lowest amount of seller feedback you buy from? I usually don’t trust anything lower than 99.0 percent, but theres a crucial part that I need and the only seller that has it has a feedback of 97.6%. I checked his detailed feedback and his last buyer complaint was 3 days ago, saying that the item was never received. This crap is driving me crazy! I need the part o so badly, I just don’t wanna be screwed over.

thanks:rockon:[/QUOTE]

If it was just three days ago, than the links are still clickable. Go take a look at the item in question. When did the bidding end? Where is it being shipped from? Where is it being shipped too? Did the buyer actually allow enough time for the item to arrive? It is a very common thing for buyers to not wait long enough.

eBay says to wait 30 days for an item to arrive, before leaving a neg. Did the buyer wait 30 days?

eBay says to try to talk to the seller and find out what happened. Often the comments between buyer and seller will show up on the auction listing, down at the bottom of the bidding page. Check out the item in question, scroll to the bottom of the page. Is there any conversation going on between buyer and seller? no? why not? If the buyer is complaining in with neg feedback, why didn’t they first send the seller a question about the item?

How was the item shipped? It usually says the shipping method on the auction page. If the buyer opted for a cheaper shipping method, than they can be expected to wait up to 3 weeks for in country and up to 6 weeks for overseas shipping! Did they choose the cheap shipping and if so did wait the full 6 weeks before complaining?

If the seller is overseas from the buyer, did the buyer take the customs laws into consideration? In some places, such as Italy, the government puts a hold on all packages going overseas, until the proper officials have had time to examine the contents of the package (and yes, that does mean they open the package to see what is inside!) If you are dealing with a country with laws like this, you could be looking at a 4 or 5 month wait before they get around to checking your package! (this happened to me, more than once, but it hasn’t stopped me from buying items from Italy. I do however, plan for this to happen now, and bid on items knowing that it could be 6 months or more before I see them.)

I live in Maine, USA.

I’ve been a member on eBay since 2004. In that time I have bought more than 300 items, about 65% of which I bought from overseas.

I’ve bought stuff from Canada, UK, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Australia, Japan, and Papua New Guinea.

The fastest was from Canada (Quebec) took 5 days. Longest was Italy, took 3 months.

I have had the best experiences with items coming from Quebec and France, rarely do items take more than 10 days to arrive from either country, and as such I tend to buy from these 2 countries more often than the others because I know they get shipped out quickly.

If you really really want an item, but are not sure about the feedback at a first glance, than it’s time to do some heavy duty, looking into the feedback of both buyer and seller and all the reasons why and how the bad feedback came about. If you find that the bad feedback was simply a misunderstanding or was the fault of the buyer and not the seller, than go ahead and place your bid; but if you find that this seller has a history of bad feedback for the same reason over and over again, and they show no signs of correcting the problem, than you should probably wait for someone else to be selling the same item.

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

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If you liked reading this blog and want to read more stuff written by me, I have lots of websites, where you can read other things I write, here are a few of the ones I like the best:

All about Lord Sesshomaru’s garb & Making a Lord Sesshomaru Costume. Plus, Sesshomaru & Rin and making Rin’s Costume.

Do you think Lord Sesshomaru is a Cross dresser? Join the debate and tell the world what you think!

Do you CosPlay? Here is A List of my CosPlay Aticles

This is for anyone who needs help Creating Character Profiles for their stories or for their SCA persona.

Want to join Squidoo? Than you need to read EelKat’s Secrets To Squidoo Success and What Can You Do With Squidoo?

Are you seeking an online debate to join and tell the world what you think about it? Than you need to check out this List of Active Debates that are waiting for you to speak out on them!

Where
My Art is For Sale Online.

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What is the lowest amount of eBay seller feedback you buy from?

What is the lowest amount of eBay seller feedback you buy from? I love this question as I’m an avid eBayer…. known across the forums as the much feared: EK the Sniper. To date no one who has ever bid against me, has been able to win. My best snipe time to date was 3 seconds before auction end. I achieve my snipping success, by bidding low early, and than placing a bid high, while counting done the seconds to the end before hitting the confirm bid button. While this can be done with dail -up, it’s easier to do with cable. But anyways, I found that question on a forum and here is my answer:

What is the lowest amount of eBay seller feedback you buy from?

I stick with 99.7%, but I always read the feedback to find out why it got low. If it was for a “bad” reason than I won’t buy from them (say, non-shipment, wrong item shipped and no exchange offered, etc).

Also, I ALWAYS read the kind of feedback they left for others… if they are really rude and bitchy in their feedback left to others, than I won’t buy from them. Being a business minded woman, myself, I do not like to deal with sellers who do not treat their eBay store with professionalism. If they are acting childish in their comments, chances are good that they will act childish in their business skills too: sloppy packing, not insuring items, etc.

I have bought items from sellers with lower feedback 90% range, because after reading their feedback, found that the problem was the buyers and not the sellers fault…. such as [I]“left a neg because shipping was so high”[/I] Happens a lot, even though shipping was listed in the auction!

or [I]“left neg because you said it was purple but it looked blue on my screen and it arrived purple, but I wanted blue”[/I] Man! I see this one in fabric auctions all the time! If the seller says it’s purple, than you better believe it’s purple no matter what your screen color shows you! Why do people leave a neg for something like that!

If the negs are for stupid things like that, things that are the buyers own fault and had nothing to do with the seller, than I’ll buy from someone with lower feedback.

Proudly I can say I’ve been on eBay since 2004 and I have 100% feedback! YAY me! Of course I’m a buyer only, and don’t sell anything, so, it doesn’t do you any good to know that unless I’m buying something from you! LOL!

[QUOTE=EXsoldierSNAKE;2430564]When you are looking for costume parts on eBay(if you do) what is the lowest amount of seller feedback you buy from? I usually don’t trust anything lower than 99.0 percent, but theres a crucial part that I need and the only seller that has it has a feedback of 97.6%. I checked his detailed feedback and his last buyer complaint was 3 days ago, saying that the item was never received. This crap is driving me crazy! I need the part o so badly, I just don’t wanna be screwed over.

thanks:rockon:[/QUOTE]

If it was just three days ago, than the links are still clickable. Go take a look at the item in question. When did the bidding end? Where is it being shipped from? Where is it being shipped too? Did the buyer actually allow enough time for the item to arrive? It is a very common thing for buyers to not wait long enough.

eBay says to wait 30 days for an item to arrive, before leaving a neg. Did the buyer wait 30 days?

eBay says to try to talk to the seller and find out what happened. Often the comments between buyer and seller will show up on the auction listing, down at the bottom of the bidding page. Check out the item in question, scroll to the bottom of the page. Is there any conversation going on between buyer and seller? no? why not? If the buyer is complaining in with neg feedback, why didn’t they first send the seller a question about the item?

How was the item shipped? It usually says the shipping method on the auction page. If the buyer opted for a cheaper shipping method, than they can be expected to wait up to 3 weeks for in country and up to 6 weeks for overseas shipping! Did they choose the cheap shipping and if so did wait the full 6 weeks before complaining?

If the seller is overseas from the buyer, did the buyer take the customs laws into consideration? In some places, such as Italy, the government puts a hold on all packages going overseas, until the proper officials have had time to examine the contents of the package (and yes, that does mean they open the package to see what is inside!) If you are dealing with a country with laws like this, you could be looking at a 4 or 5 month wait before they get around to checking your package! (this happened to me, more than once, but it hasn’t stopped me from buying items from Italy. I do however, plan for this to happen now, and bid on items knowing that it could be 6 months or more before I see them.)

I live in Maine, USA.

I’ve been a member on eBay since 2004. In that time I have bought more than 300 items, about 65% of which I bought from overseas.

I’ve bought stuff from Canada, UK, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Australia, Japan, and Papua New Guinea.

The fastest was from Canada (Quebec) took 5 days. Longest was Italy, took 3 months.

I have had the best experiences with items coming from Quebec and France, rarely do items take more than 10 days to arrive from either country, and as such I tend to buy from these 2 countries more often than the others because I know they get shipped out quickly.

If you really really want an item, but are not sure about the feedback at a first glance, than it’s time to do some heavy duty, looking into the feedback of both buyer and seller and all the reasons why and how the bad feedback came about. If you find that the bad feedback was simply a misunderstanding or was the fault of the buyer and not the seller, than go ahead and place your bid; but if you find that this seller has a history of bad feedback for the same reason over and over again, and they show no signs of correcting the problem, than you should probably wait for someone else to be selling the same item.

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

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What is the lowest amount of eBay seller feedback you buy from?

What is the lowest amount of eBay seller feedback you buy from? I love this question as I’m an avid eBayer…. known across the forums as the much feared: EK the Sniper. To date no one who has ever bid against me, has been able to win. My best snipe time to date was 3 seconds before auction end. I achieve my snipping success, by bidding low early, and than placing a bid high, while counting done the seconds to the end before hitting the confirm bid button. While this can be done with dail -up, it’s easier to do with cable. But anyways, I found that question on a forum and here is my answer:

What is the lowest amount of eBay seller feedback you buy from?

I stick with 99.7%, but I always read the feedback to find out why it got low. If it was for a “bad” reason than I won’t buy from them (say, non-shipment, wrong item shipped and no exchange offered, etc).

Also, I ALWAYS read the kind of feedback they left for others… if they are really rude and bitchy in their feedback left to others, than I won’t buy from them. Being a business minded woman, myself, I do not like to deal with sellers who do not treat their eBay store with professionalism. If they are acting childish in their comments, chances are good that they will act childish in their business skills too: sloppy packing, not insuring items, etc.

I have bought items from sellers with lower feedback 90% range, because after reading their feedback, found that the problem was the buyers and not the sellers fault…. such as [I]“left a neg because shipping was so high”[/I] Happens a lot, even though shipping was listed in the auction!

or [I]“left neg because you said it was purple but it looked blue on my screen and it arrived purple, but I wanted blue”[/I] Man! I see this one in fabric auctions all the time! If the seller says it’s purple, than you better believe it’s purple no matter what your screen color shows you! Why do people leave a neg for something like that!

If the negs are for stupid things like that, things that are the buyers own fault and had nothing to do with the seller, than I’ll buy from someone with lower feedback.

Proudly I can say I’ve been on eBay since 2004 and I have 100% feedback! YAY me! Of course I’m a buyer only, and don’t sell anything, so, it doesn’t do you any good to know that unless I’m buying something from you! LOL!

[QUOTE=EXsoldierSNAKE;2430564]When you are looking for costume parts on eBay(if you do) what is the lowest amount of seller feedback you buy from? I usually don’t trust anything lower than 99.0 percent, but theres a crucial part that I need and the only seller that has it has a feedback of 97.6%. I checked his detailed feedback and his last buyer complaint was 3 days ago, saying that the item was never received. This crap is driving me crazy! I need the part o so badly, I just don’t wanna be screwed over.

thanks:rockon:[/QUOTE]

If it was just three days ago, than the links are still clickable. Go take a look at the item in question. When did the bidding end? Where is it being shipped from? Where is it being shipped too? Did the buyer actually allow enough time for the item to arrive? It is a very common thing for buyers to not wait long enough.

eBay says to wait 30 days for an item to arrive, before leaving a neg. Did the buyer wait 30 days?

eBay says to try to talk to the seller and find out what happened. Often the comments between buyer and seller will show up on the auction listing, down at the bottom of the bidding page. Check out the item in question, scroll to the bottom of the page. Is there any conversation going on between buyer and seller? no? why not? If the buyer is complaining in with neg feedback, why didn’t they first send the seller a question about the item?

How was the item shipped? It usually says the shipping method on the auction page. If the buyer opted for a cheaper shipping method, than they can be expected to wait up to 3 weeks for in country and up to 6 weeks for overseas shipping! Did they choose the cheap shipping and if so did wait the full 6 weeks before complaining?

If the seller is overseas from the buyer, did the buyer take the customs laws into consideration? In some places, such as Italy, the government puts a hold on all packages going overseas, until the proper officials have had time to examine the contents of the package (and yes, that does mean they open the package to see what is inside!) If you are dealing with a country with laws like this, you could be looking at a 4 or 5 month wait before they get around to checking your package! (this happened to me, more than once, but it hasn’t stopped me from buying items from Italy. I do however, plan for this to happen now, and bid on items knowing that it could be 6 months or more before I see them.)

I live in Maine, USA.

I’ve been a member on eBay since 2004. In that time I have bought more than 300 items, about 65% of which I bought from overseas.

I’ve bought stuff from Canada, UK, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Australia, Japan, and Papua New Guinea.

The fastest was from Canada (Quebec) took 5 days. Longest was Italy, took 3 months.

I have had the best experiences with items coming from Quebec and France, rarely do items take more than 10 days to arrive from either country, and as such I tend to buy from these 2 countries more often than the others because I know they get shipped out quickly.

If you really really want an item, but are not sure about the feedback at a first glance, than it’s time to do some heavy duty, looking into the feedback of both buyer and seller and all the reasons why and how the bad feedback came about. If you find that the bad feedback was simply a misunderstanding or was the fault of the buyer and not the seller, than go ahead and place your bid; but if you find that this seller has a history of bad feedback for the same reason over and over again, and they show no signs of correcting the problem, than you should probably wait for someone else to be selling the same item.

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

————-
If you liked reading this blog and want to read more stuff written by me, I have lots of websites, where you can read other things I write, here are a few of the ones I like the best:

All about Lord Sesshomaru’s garb & Making a Lord Sesshomaru Costume. Plus, Sesshomaru & Rin and making Rin’s Costume.

Do you think Lord Sesshomaru is a Cross dresser? Join the debate and tell the world what you think!

Do you CosPlay? Here is A List of my CosPlay Aticles

This is for anyone who needs help Creating Character Profiles for their stories or for their SCA persona.

Want to join Squidoo? Than you need to read EelKat’s Secrets To Squidoo Success and What Can You Do With Squidoo?

Are you seeking an online debate to join and tell the world what you think about it? Than you need to check out this List of Active Debates that are waiting for you to speak out on them!

Where
My Art is For Sale Online.

Thank You for reading my blog’s RSS feed. Don’t forget to come to my blog and check out the links in my blogroll too!

What is the lowest amount of eBay seller feedback you buy from?

What is the lowest amount of eBay seller feedback you buy from? I love this question as I’m an avid eBayer…. known across the forums as the much feared: EK the Sniper. To date no one who has ever bid against me, has been able to win. My best snipe time to date was 3 seconds before auction end. I achieve my snipping success, by bidding low early, and than placing a bid high, while counting done the seconds to the end before hitting the confirm bid button. While this can be done with dail -up, it’s easier to do with cable. But anyways, I found that question on a forum and here is my answer:

What is the lowest amount of eBay seller feedback you buy from?

I stick with 99.7%, but I always read the feedback to find out why it got low. If it was for a “bad” reason than I won’t buy from them (say, non-shipment, wrong item shipped and no exchange offered, etc).

Also, I ALWAYS read the kind of feedback they left for others… if they are really rude and bitchy in their feedback left to others, than I won’t buy from them. Being a business minded woman, myself, I do not like to deal with sellers who do not treat their eBay store with professionalism. If they are acting childish in their comments, chances are good that they will act childish in their business skills too: sloppy packing, not insuring items, etc.

I have bought items from sellers with lower feedback 90% range, because after reading their feedback, found that the problem was the buyers and not the sellers fault…. such as [I]“left a neg because shipping was so high”[/I] Happens a lot, even though shipping was listed in the auction!

or [I]“left neg because you said it was purple but it looked blue on my screen and it arrived purple, but I wanted blue”[/I] Man! I see this one in fabric auctions all the time! If the seller says it’s purple, than you better believe it’s purple no matter what your screen color shows you! Why do people leave a neg for something like that!

If the negs are for stupid things like that, things that are the buyers own fault and had nothing to do with the seller, than I’ll buy from someone with lower feedback.

Proudly I can say I’ve been on eBay since 2004 and I have 100% feedback! YAY me! Of course I’m a buyer only, and don’t sell anything, so, it doesn’t do you any good to know that unless I’m buying something from you! LOL!

[QUOTE=EXsoldierSNAKE;2430564]When you are looking for costume parts on eBay(if you do) what is the lowest amount of seller feedback you buy from? I usually don’t trust anything lower than 99.0 percent, but theres a crucial part that I need and the only seller that has it has a feedback of 97.6%. I checked his detailed feedback and his last buyer complaint was 3 days ago, saying that the item was never received. This crap is driving me crazy! I need the part o so badly, I just don’t wanna be screwed over.

thanks:rockon:[/QUOTE]

If it was just three days ago, than the links are still clickable. Go take a look at the item in question. When did the bidding end? Where is it being shipped from? Where is it being shipped too? Did the buyer actually allow enough time for the item to arrive? It is a very common thing for buyers to not wait long enough.

eBay says to wait 30 days for an item to arrive, before leaving a neg. Did the buyer wait 30 days?

eBay says to try to talk to the seller and find out what happened. Often the comments between buyer and seller will show up on the auction listing, down at the bottom of the bidding page. Check out the item in question, scroll to the bottom of the page. Is there any conversation going on between buyer and seller? no? why not? If the buyer is complaining in with neg feedback, why didn’t they first send the seller a question about the item?

How was the item shipped? It usually says the shipping method on the auction page. If the buyer opted for a cheaper shipping method, than they can be expected to wait up to 3 weeks for in country and up to 6 weeks for overseas shipping! Did they choose the cheap shipping and if so did wait the full 6 weeks before complaining?

If the seller is overseas from the buyer, did the buyer take the customs laws into consideration? In some places, such as Italy, the government puts a hold on all packages going overseas, until the proper officials have had time to examine the contents of the package (and yes, that does mean they open the package to see what is inside!) If you are dealing with a country with laws like this, you could be looking at a 4 or 5 month wait before they get around to checking your package! (this happened to me, more than once, but it hasn’t stopped me from buying items from Italy. I do however, plan for this to happen now, and bid on items knowing that it could be 6 months or more before I see them.)

I live in Maine, USA.

I’ve been a member on eBay since 2004. In that time I have bought more than 300 items, about 65% of which I bought from overseas.

I’ve bought stuff from Canada, UK, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Australia, Japan, and Papua New Guinea.

The fastest was from Canada (Quebec) took 5 days. Longest was Italy, took 3 months.

I have had the best experiences with items coming from Quebec and France, rarely do items take more than 10 days to arrive from either country, and as such I tend to buy from these 2 countries more often than the others because I know they get shipped out quickly.

If you really really want an item, but are not sure about the feedback at a first glance, than it’s time to do some heavy duty, looking into the feedback of both buyer and seller and all the reasons why and how the bad feedback came about. If you find that the bad feedback was simply a misunderstanding or was the fault of the buyer and not the seller, than go ahead and place your bid; but if you find that this seller has a history of bad feedback for the same reason over and over again, and they show no signs of correcting the problem, than you should probably wait for someone else to be selling the same item.

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

————-
If you liked reading this blog and want to read more stuff written by me, I have lots of websites, where you can read other things I write, here are a few of the ones I like the best:

All about Lord Sesshomaru’s garb & Making a Lord Sesshomaru Costume. Plus, Sesshomaru & Rin and making Rin’s Costume.

Do you think Lord Sesshomaru is a Cross dresser? Join the debate and tell the world what you think!

Do you CosPlay? Here is A List of my CosPlay Aticles

This is for anyone who needs help Creating Character Profiles for their stories or for their SCA persona.

Want to join Squidoo? Than you need to read EelKat’s Secrets To Squidoo Success and What Can You Do With Squidoo?

Are you seeking an online debate to join and tell the world what you think about it? Than you need to check out this List of Active Debates that are waiting for you to speak out on them!

Where
My Art is For Sale Online.

Thank You for reading my blog’s RSS feed. Don’t forget to come to my blog and check out the links in my blogroll too!

>What is the lowest amount of eBay seller feedback you buy from?

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What is the lowest amount of eBay seller feedback you buy from? I love this question as I’m an avid eBayer…. known across the forums as the much feared: EK the Sniper. To date no one who has ever bid against me, has been able to win. My best snipe time to date was 3 seconds before auction end. I achieve my snipping success, by bidding low early, and than placing a bid high, while counting done the seconds to the end before hitting the confirm bid button. While this can be done with dail -up, it’s easier to do with cable. But anyways, I found that question on a forum and here is my answer:

What is the lowest amount of eBay seller feedback you buy from?

I stick with 99.7%, but I always read the feedback to find out why it got low. If it was for a “bad” reason than I won’t buy from them (say, non-shipment, wrong item shipped and no exchange offered, etc).

Also, I ALWAYS read the kind of feedback they left for others… if they are really rude and bitchy in their feedback left to others, than I won’t buy from them. Being a business minded woman, myself, I do not like to deal with sellers who do not treat their eBay store with professionalism. If they are acting childish in their comments, chances are good that they will act childish in their business skills too: sloppy packing, not insuring items, etc.

I have bought items from sellers with lower feedback 90% range, because after reading their feedback, found that the problem was the buyers and not the sellers fault…. such as [I]“left a neg because shipping was so high”[/I] Happens a lot, even though shipping was listed in the auction!

or [I]“left neg because you said it was purple but it looked blue on my screen and it arrived purple, but I wanted blue”[/I] Man! I see this one in fabric auctions all the time! If the seller says it’s purple, than you better believe it’s purple no matter what your screen color shows you! Why do people leave a neg for something like that!

If the negs are for stupid things like that, things that are the buyers own fault and had nothing to do with the seller, than I’ll buy from someone with lower feedback.

Proudly I can say I’ve been on eBay since 2004 and I have 100% feedback! YAY me! Of course I’m a buyer only, and don’t sell anything, so, it doesn’t do you any good to know that unless I’m buying something from you! LOL!

[QUOTE=EXsoldierSNAKE;2430564]When you are looking for costume parts on eBay(if you do) what is the lowest amount of seller feedback you buy from? I usually don’t trust anything lower than 99.0 percent, but theres a crucial part that I need and the only seller that has it has a feedback of 97.6%. I checked his detailed feedback and his last buyer complaint was 3 days ago, saying that the item was never received. This crap is driving me crazy! I need the part o so badly, I just don’t wanna be screwed over.

thanks:rockon:[/QUOTE]

If it was just three days ago, than the links are still clickable. Go take a look at the item in question. When did the bidding end? Where is it being shipped from? Where is it being shipped too? Did the buyer actually allow enough time for the item to arrive? It is a very common thing for buyers to not wait long enough.

eBay says to wait 30 days for an item to arrive, before leaving a neg. Did the buyer wait 30 days?

eBay says to try to talk to the seller and find out what happened. Often the comments between buyer and seller will show up on the auction listing, down at the bottom of the bidding page. Check out the item in question, scroll to the bottom of the page. Is there any conversation going on between buyer and seller? no? why not? If the buyer is complaining in with neg feedback, why didn’t they first send the seller a question about the item?

How was the item shipped? It usually says the shipping method on the auction page. If the buyer opted for a cheaper shipping method, than they can be expected to wait up to 3 weeks for in country and up to 6 weeks for overseas shipping! Did they choose the cheap shipping and if so did wait the full 6 weeks before complaining?

If the seller is overseas from the buyer, did the buyer take the customs laws into consideration? In some places, such as Italy, the government puts a hold on all packages going overseas, until the proper officials have had time to examine the contents of the package (and yes, that does mean they open the package to see what is inside!) If you are dealing with a country with laws like this, you could be looking at a 4 or 5 month wait before they get around to checking your package! (this happened to me, more than once, but it hasn’t stopped me from buying items from Italy. I do however, plan for this to happen now, and bid on items knowing that it could be 6 months or more before I see them.)

I live in Maine, USA.

I’ve been a member on eBay since 2004. In that time I have bought more than 300 items, about 65% of which I bought from overseas.

I’ve bought stuff from Canada, UK, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Australia, Japan, and Papua New Guinea.

The fastest was from Canada (Quebec) took 5 days. Longest was Italy, took 3 months.

I have had the best experiences with items coming from Quebec and France, rarely do items take more than 10 days to arrive from either country, and as such I tend to buy from these 2 countries more often than the others because I know they get shipped out quickly.

If you really really want an item, but are not sure about the feedback at a first glance, than it’s time to do some heavy duty, looking into the feedback of both buyer and seller and all the reasons why and how the bad feedback came about. If you find that the bad feedback was simply a misunderstanding or was the fault of the buyer and not the seller, than go ahead and place your bid; but if you find that this seller has a history of bad feedback for the same reason over and over again, and they show no signs of correcting the problem, than you should probably wait for someone else to be selling the same item.

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

————-
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