14 to a king suite, cons and cosplay

Nurse Angie: Ho

Trauma center (Wii version)

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Where does it go?

It was spring of '07 and CKY and Beth came to visit the large and growing Tech portion of Nostalg*a. We were playing Drunken Trauma Center (the best kind) and CKY was on the stage where you have to reassemble the bone fragments of a shattered arm. He was having trouble with one of the pieces and suddenly busted out "WHERE does it GO?" in time with the operation music. It quickly evolved to include "I do not know" and, most importantly, "Angie's a HO."

materials

*pink fabric
*more pink fabric
*dark mauve fabric tape
*pink flip flops
*white tights
*black tights
*paper
*hot glue everywhere

The great love for that last line, fueled by how annoying Angie is, led to the creation of Nostalg*a's Ikkicon 2 Skit:
Phoenix Wright: Trauma Center
Nurse Angie

The version linked above is the one we did in the hallway outside our rooms as everyone was screaming so loud at the competition that you couldn't hear half of it, including the essential "Angie's a Ho." line.

I am, of course, said ho.

Construction

Angie was one of those costumes where we had a store-bought pattern but it was merely a suggestion. There was so much altering. Luckily we didn't have to worry about messing up too bad because, for reasons we can't figure out, we decided we needed twice as much fabric as necessary for both Angie and Dr. Stiles. I don't know what I'm going to do with 3+ yards of pink cheapo fabric.

Nurse Angie

Once the base pinkness was sewn together all activity on the sewing machine ceased. All the hemming was done by fabric tape and all the fabric tape was attatched with the hot glue gun, half of it at con the night before and day of, like a proper costume. There was also some almost forgetting of the Caduceus symbol iron ons but we got them there in the end.

Nurse Angie

The only part that posed any real issue was her hat. We didn't remember interfacing at the store so I was scrambling to find something that would make it stand up properly. I ended up taking a couple pages out of one of Joss's sketchbooks and using that. It works surprisingly well, actually. Then there was the 'how do I make it stay' question, easily solved in the end by attatching it to my headset via more hot glue.

The shoes were easy to make but hard to wear. I tore the straps out of some pink flip flops and attatched fabric tape with hot glue (we use a metric ton of that per con, I swear).

Last was the 3/4 length black shirt she wears under her scrubs. Since con = hot I was hesitant to wear an actual long sleeve shirt under the layers of pink. Luckily a solution was found in the sock aisle. I just cut up a pair of black tights and glued them into the insides of the scrub sleeves. Presto! Sleeves that don't add to my body temp.

What is Wrong with my Face >_<

Hey, I look like a legit nurse here. Whoops, out of character.

Nurse Angie

FXT

Seriously, I don't know what was wrong with me this con. I'm never making a good face for pictures but it was really bad. I think the pink overwhelmed me.

The Future for The Ho

I think I'll be wearing Angie in the future on a Friday, but she's not cool enough and had too many hot glue seams to be a Saturday cosplay. Also the skirt is REALLY short so I don't want to wear it for too long. Sitting is no.

However, I did have fun as Angie in the skit, including being caned in the face (watch it).

Nurse Angie

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