Fun Post | Contest | Create Your Own Cosplay Character Through Paul Frederick
10:15 AM
It’s
always a pleasure whenever someone contacts me to participate in their contests
because there are more deserving people. In this case, Valerie from Paul Frederick emailed me asking if I can join
their contest entitled “New York Comic-Con: Cosplay Style Challenge”. I’m
always up for a challenge, so I said yes.
The challenge is a way to celebrate New York Comic-Con and its amazing
cosplayers. The rule is simple: create as many cosplay outfits as you can based
on the collections of Paul Frederick.
Just design a styleboard or collage that will showcase your fashion sense and
show how their collection can create a great cosplay. For those who don’t
know, Paul Frederick is a “contract
shirt manufacturer that supplied dress shirts to upscale specialty stores for
over fifty years. It was then that we learned the craft of making the finest
cotton dress shirts. Today we offer an entire collection of polished
head-to-toe choices for men."
After
days of planning and thinking, I decided to create collages of my four favorite
fictional characters and did my best to get outfits that would match their
costumes. So I won’t linger any further. Here are my entries for the “New York
Comic-Con: Cosplay Style Challenge”:
1.
Richard Castle from “Castle”
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Richard
Castle have different outfits throughout the seven seasons of “Castle”. But their
common denominator is they have the rugged yet business look that makes him
handsome and stylish. As a best-selling author of detective novels, he has to
dress well without looking too formal for his book tours and autograph
signings. As you see, I chose a dress shirt, blue blazer, and black pants that
has a demin look, which I think suits Castle very well.
2.
Castiel from “Supernatural”
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Castiel
is known more for this long, brown trench coat, so that should never disappear.
I completed his look by getting the following from Paul Frederick’s
collections: black suit and pants, white collared dress shirt, and a dark blue
tie. This is one of the simple cosplays around, but if done well, people will
surely love it.
3.
Kiritsugu Emiya from “Fate/Zero”
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Kiritsugu
Emiya is known for his dark/grey ensemble that almost represents his
personality and the situation he’s in. I picked black vest, pants, tie, and a
grey dress shirt from Paul Frederick’s collection. Add a normal long, black
coat and the cosplay is complete.
4. Tieria
Erde from “Gundam 00”
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Tieria is
more casual compared to the first three characters above and has a more lighter
outfit. No ties for this guy here so I dressed him up with a simple yellow
dress shirt, solid grey pants, and brown loafers/shoes. I can’t find a pink
cardigan, so I opted for a pink sweatshirt which is similar to his original
oufit. I just added the shoulder-length purple wig and frameless, oblong
glasses and the Tieria Erde cosplay is complete.
I encourage my readers to take this cosplay challenge using Paul Frederick's collection. If you don't know where to start though, I highly suggest to start browsing in their dress shirts collection. When I was doing my collage, I started look there because most of my four favorite characters were wearing dress shirts/polos. I am sure you will find what you are looking for when you start doing this challenge. Have fun! :)
I encourage my readers to take this cosplay challenge using Paul Frederick's collection. If you don't know where to start though, I highly suggest to start browsing in their dress shirts collection. When I was doing my collage, I started look there because most of my four favorite characters were wearing dress shirts/polos. I am sure you will find what you are looking for when you start doing this challenge. Have fun! :)
So, those
are my entries and I hope you will be able to get ideas from them so you can bring
these characters to life. It just shows that you can create great and wonderful
cosplays with high-quality yet affordable outfits from Paul Frederick. Don’t
forget to check out their site. :)
~Hainrihi
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