Cosplay Culture &Nbsp; Promoting The Individualization Of Mainland Costumes.

Xiao Hua's imagination studio, in an old district in Shijingshan, is not very easy to find by seven turns around, but only when entering the door is it found that more than thirty flat houses are filled with various kinds of cloth and clothing accessories, and the Cosplay clothing with high wall hanging on the wall is highly colourful and eye-catching.

There was just a student in the room who was trying on the blue skirt that had just been done. The silence in the room and the particularly messy environment because of the long casual display were not so harmonious.

"The tailors are in the workshop. There are seven or eight of them.

Little Hua Jie said with embarrassed smile, the work in his hands did not stop.

In Beijing, many of them are like this.

It is difficult to produce products.

Cosplay was first introduced from Japan to China, and began widespread since 2004.

Beijing animation City, the six level of Chongwenmen search show, was once one of the places where Coser (Cosplay enthusiasts) often visit and exchange their feelings. However, a recent reporter's visit found that the animation city had already been less prosperous than before. Maybe because it was not a two-day weekend or school hours, there were only a few shoppers, and the most concerned Cosplay clothing shop was only left alone in the six corner.

The owner of the "bad cat" is Hana, a small celebrity in the Cosplay clothing industry.

Little girl Crow is looking after her business while she is doing some small work on hand.

"There's no way. We need to rush the goods and send them in the afternoon."

For Cosplay clothing difficult to mass production problem, Crow gave reporters such a reply: "playing Cosplay friends in the choice of characters is very diverse, just animation, game thousands of characters are not more than, this is not Cosplay fans like movie and TV image, so, mass production is impossible."

Not only mass production, but even small-scale production of popular clothing nowadays is a taboo in the Cosplay industry.

"Cosplay pays attention to tailoring and tailoring, mass production is bound to not be suitable for the size of Coser, it will have problems when it is dressed, and it will be a pleasure for Coser people to choose their favorite characters, find pictures, communicate with tailors, measure their bodies, and look at their own clothes and gradually turn them into their favorite clothes from scattered cloth."

Little sister in her speech can hardly conceal her love for her career.

According to the reporter, in Beijing, there is no more concentrated Cosplay clothing production and sales place, more practitioners will choose the online shop business mode, and have their own tailor or entity studio.

Like Xiao Hua Jie, who registered in an individual capacity, she almost witnessed the development of Cosplay in China. She said with regret that she had been trying to make her career bigger, but the difficulty was that she could not break through the limitations of mass production. Therefore, more tailors could only be asked to increase the quantity of orders and speed up shipments so as to achieve more substantial benefits.

When it comes to competition, Miss Hua doesn't take this into account.

"Every day's life is full, and we can't finish it. We must not think too much. The market in Beijing is very good now. We should all earn some money."

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Purely manual, limited edition is not expensive.

Cosplay's clothes are all out of print, hand-made, and now they are becoming more and more valuable in their hands. They illustrate their "value" with the price.

Due to the new world business circle in Chongwenmen, the rent of the "bad cat" must be allocated to the main item Cosplay clothing.

The clothes hanging in the store are also 300 yuan up and down, and it costs more than a thousand yuan. According to Crow, the most expensive clothes they have ever done is the Zhao Yun's outfit in the Three Kingdoms of the game. The set comes down to more than 2000 yuan, which is only the price of clothing, not including more expensive items.

Because of the relatively low rent in the residential areas of Shijingshan, the price of clothing is also lower.

"Basically more than 200 pieces. If the material has special requirements or the style is very complicated, it may add some money."

For a long time, there are some animation shops and wholesalers coming to invite Xiao Hua to make clothes.

"The farthest agents in Taiwan, they usually mail order, the kind of business is better to do, they pass me pictures, and the size of the customer, pay the full amount of money, I do it, generally not urgent, a month or so to do well, because they also want to increase the price to sell to customers, so I will give them a higher price, the money to make money together."

Little sister has her own little abacus in mind.

Seeing the colorful lace and buttons and ribbons on the wall of the wall, the reporter suddenly became interested.

Small Chinese elder sister introduced, "those accessories are very expensive, sometimes it is more expensive to make cloth than a garment, and Cosplay clothes are very concerned about details, even if the color of a button is not correct, it will affect the overall effect of Cosplay".

According to a senior Coser, because at the very beginning, when playing Cosplay, it was still a student who didn't have much money to customize clothes, and at that time, Beijing did not have many Cosplay clothes, so many clothes were made by themselves.

Once I saw a material that was perfect in my mind at that time, but the price of 200 yuan per meter could not bear the price. Eventually, it turned to a cheaper cloth which was less effective but not so good.

It can be seen that in addition to the cost of manual labor, the high price of raw materials is also one of the important reasons for the high price of Cosplay clothing.

Lovers, they are not afraid to spend money on pleasure.

Reporters have been holding the heart of the question is what kind of group playing Cosplay, the answers from the younger sister and Crow mouth is really surprising.

Originally thought that some middle school students and university students enjoy themselves together, the original age range is much wider than imagined.

According to Xiao Hua Jie, the smallest Cosplay costume ever made was made by the siblings of Fujian. The elder sister is 4 years old and her younger brother is only 3 years old. This is probably the smallest Coser in China.

Crow also told reporters that a mother often took her son to pick up clothes in her shop. Mother was very supportive not only of her son playing Cosplay, but also about Cosplay himself.

Every year, there are several Cosplay competitions in Beijing. The performances of the Cosplay community organized by universities and communities are brilliant.

On every eve of the competition and performance, there will be a large number of orders going to the Cosplay clothing workshop in the capital city.

Because for Cosplay lovers, why not give up some money to make their hobbies better?

In recent years, the influence of Japanese anime in the world has gradually expanded, and Cosplay has also moved to the whole world.

According to the reporter, because of the low cost of labor and the same quality of foreign fabrics in China, many foreign Cosplay enthusiasts are starting to order Cosplay clothing from the mainland. In this case, the postage will usually be higher than the price of the garment itself.

For example, a set of clothing of about 200 yuan, if shipped to the United States, light freight costs more than 300 yuan, but even so, every year there will be many orders to and from all over the world and Cosplay enthusiasts throughout the world.

After all, having fun is not about spending money.