Darranged
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Note to self: Never do a Stormtrooper costume, based on these numerous horror stories.
So it's my first time doing a costume in a public convention. I'm ready to get suited up as the dark knight, I've worked until the eleventh hour on my costume and I'm confident that it'll survive the Johannesburg heat of around 35 outside, and 45 on the inside. My glue is good, it's bonded to the mesh undersuit and it fits me like a glove.
I'm smiling on the outside, but I'm screaming on the inside thanks to the Itchy and Scratchy show.
Only I didn't account for how my under-undersuit, wasn't thick enough. Which meant that my mesh was notoriously itchy. Bugger the fact that I was sweating buckets for hours. Screw the fact that my shoulders were aching thanks to that heavy urethane chest piece. The damn itchiness man. Everytime I took a step, it felt like I a hundred mosquito bites flaring up.
And thanks to the limited movement of the suit, I could't reach around for a quick bat-scratch. My experience may not have been physically damaging, but being trapped inside a batsuit for hours and being unable to scratch anywhere almost drove me mad.
So it's my first time doing a costume in a public convention. I'm ready to get suited up as the dark knight, I've worked until the eleventh hour on my costume and I'm confident that it'll survive the Johannesburg heat of around 35 outside, and 45 on the inside. My glue is good, it's bonded to the mesh undersuit and it fits me like a glove.
I'm smiling on the outside, but I'm screaming on the inside thanks to the Itchy and Scratchy show.
Only I didn't account for how my under-undersuit, wasn't thick enough. Which meant that my mesh was notoriously itchy. Bugger the fact that I was sweating buckets for hours. Screw the fact that my shoulders were aching thanks to that heavy urethane chest piece. The damn itchiness man. Everytime I took a step, it felt like I a hundred mosquito bites flaring up.
And thanks to the limited movement of the suit, I could't reach around for a quick bat-scratch. My experience may not have been physically damaging, but being trapped inside a batsuit for hours and being unable to scratch anywhere almost drove me mad.