Summer/Hatter Blog

So my summer vacation officially starts at 3:00 today and I'm totally stoked. Do you know what summer means? CHECK THIS PICTURE!!!!!!!!

YES, IT MEANS I CAN DRESS LIKE A TOTAL HO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lol, no that's not what I meant, although, yes I could, if I wanted, just if you wondering. What it really means is that I'm going to Colossalcon Tomorrow to kick off this summer and the outfit above was my costme. I am going with my beautiful friend Rily, we are going as Alice and the Mad Hatter, and as you can tell from my outfit, I am course the Mad Hatter.

Those of you who know me are probably all shocked, as I have been comparing myself to Alice in Wonderland for years now, that I did not insist on being Alice for this one. To shock you more, it was my idea that Rily be Alice... and here's why:

1. I had an Alice dress that I bought from Hot Topic, and you know what that means..... if I wear it I look slutty and if Rily wears it, she's freaking adorable. Let's face it, Alice was adorable, not a slut, so Alice Point goes to Rily.

2. English accent. When I talk with an english accent it's bad, you can tell I'm faking. Rily on the other hand.... not so much. Lewis Carroll was English, the story takes place in England.... and let's face it: If between the Mad Hatter and Alice one was english and one was faking, Alice would be the real English one. Mad Hatter would be faking. Alice Point Rily.

3. Now, we actually had the idea of cosplaying together before we knew what we were doing for sure (we did our costumes in less than a week) and we chose Alice because it was the only thing we could do on such short notice. The Alice dress as I mentioned before, is mine. So one of us got to be Alice, and one of us got to scroung for a costume, and Rily had less time. She actually has a life.... This brings us to a set of sub points...... and here they are....

                                No time to find another costume: Sub-point Rily

                                Knows slightly less about the vital characters: Sub-point Rily

                                Freaking Adorable and fits the dress better: Sub-point Rily

4. I know a lot about Alice in Wonderland. I know the books, I know the movies, I know the plays, I know the spin offs, games and adaptations. Going from the butchered Disney movie to American mcGee's warped insane asylum approach. I've got it down. You think that would be Alice point Cat, but it's actually not. When you think about it, Alice is the one in just about every adaptation that doesn't know everything about Wonderland. It actually makes more sense that the Wonderland enthusiast be someone who actually comes from Wonderland :Alice point Rily. 

So that's pretty much an Alice is Rily Scenario. I did get one point though, in that Alice did not have brown hair (Okay... there are a few versions where she did actually) but the most Iconic Wonderlanders where not Brunetter. (They also didn't have blue hair... but w/e) I got the "Wouldn't  it be a whole lot easier for someone with brown hair to pull off being another character than what it would someone with bright blue hair to do" point.  But that's kind of pathetic.

We didn't actually tally points out loud when we were on the phone discussing the AiW cosplay idea, but it just made a mutual kind of sense that Rily go as Alice and I find something else.

So what made me land on Hatter? Chance.

My original idea was to go as the Red Queen, I already have the dress (lol.... I have an AiW themed dress collecting problem I think) but there were two problems with that....

1. What kind of Red Queen has Blue hair? None that I can think of. And I absolutely refuse to dye it back.

2. Rily actually likes the idea of being the Red Queen as much as I like the idea of being Alice, if we were each others characters that would just be sort of mean.

Rily actually thought it would be best if I were to be the Cheshire Cat. (Which I was all for) It makes sense, the Cheshire Cat knows all the mythos, is a cat, and kind of cryptic. Right down my alley.

While I was looking for a cheshire cat costume I came across the green bodice for a great deal (meaning free) I already had the green skirt, the green socks and the jacket which I was actually wearing at the time and it just clicked. I guess it's because when I see green I think of the Hatter, but something about it just made sense.

So, for those of you who were wondering what the Mad Hatter would look like if he were a girl and incredibly sexy, the answer is me on St. Patricks day. Lol.

I have a few more pictures for those of you who aren't convinced that the outfit looks very Hattery.

So... there we go. If you would like to see me in full make-up and wearing this awesome if slightly revealing Mad Hatter costume, stay tuned.