_________Random Anbu
_________Costume Stats
Character Name: Random Anbu
_________Reference
Series: Naruto
Specifics: random background Anbu ninja
Cost: $75-100
Time: 45 hours
Started: June 2005
Completed: June 2005
Worn: Naruto Photoshoot @ High Park Summer 2005
_________Information
Blue Rose, Sakura, Becky and I wanted to do Anbu Team 7 for CN Anime, and to get ourselves ready for it, made random Anbu costumes during the summer.
_________Misc
Sakura, Becky and I made our costumes together. I made most of the patterns, so I used Becky as the guinea pig. I made the pattern for her vest first. After we made it, we cut it out of leftover foam from Chapel's "Floreda" costume. Actually, most of our costume was made out of that foam. Sakura likes to joke that "Hurricane PBS" attacked his costume (PBS meaning "Pan Becky Sakura", not the Practically Broke Station X3).
The white fabric we used was found at a store on Queen. We ended up buying their entire roll by the time we were done. ^^; Anyway, we put seams into the fabric, and then carefully glued two layers of it to the foam. This sounds simple, but it took close to three days to complete.
There was some question on whether or not we should put a band of fabric at the top of the vest, and the more we looked at images, the more we realized that the bands at the top of the vest suggested the vest was supposed to be stuffed. Since our vests are made with foam, we decided not to put anything along the top of them. We did put a band of fabric along the bottom of them though.
The "pockets" and details on the vest were made from carefully gluing fabric to thin pieces of cardboard so there would be no seams. The arm straps were made the same way as the vest, and are carefully covered pieces of foam.
The armor on the arms is made from carefully covered foam with cardboard as extra support. We used velcro to attach it via bands of white fabric.
Sakura picked us up long black gloves that we altered until they fit snuggly. All of us chopped the sleeves off of black turtlenecks to make the base shirts, and for my pants, I hemmed up a pair of black pants to looks like Naruto's.
The scarves were ghetto and are simply pieces of patterned fabric sewed in a loop. Sakura wanted blue scarves and I wanted red one's, so we compromised. As for the bandages, they're strips of white fabric treated with a polymer to keep them from fraying.
I made my shoes by making a pair of covers for some black sandals I own. I used some more foam to give it a little more shape above the ankle.
I know it doesn't sound like it, but these costumes took us forever to do. Probably because we were being super careful so we'd re-do anything that didn't meet our expectations the first time. At least they're done now. And they turned out really nicely, if I don't say so myself. ^^
For the Naurto photoshoot, I borrowed a short white wig off of Becky, and Sakura and Becky borrowed wigs off of me. Becky bought a parasol the morning of the photoshoot, and since we didn't have any actual Naruto weapons, we used first season Power Rangers weapons that Super Uber Nice Anime Guy gave me. ^^
_________Images
Besides being paranoid about getting the white of the costume dirty, wearing these costumes was a ton of fun. All I have to say is that dressing up as ninjas in public is more than awesome. X3
High Park was great for photos. A big thank you to Sakura and ChibiK3ro for taking such awesome photos. ^^
Naruto Photoshoot @ High Park Summer 2005
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