this is genuinely kind of revolutionary for me, it's exactly what I was looking for from pinterest! it's going to come so in handy for so much both personal and college related stuff, thank you for talking about it
Fashion would indeed go totally haywire in a world like that. There's no point in dressing for the weather when 12 year olds can summon thunderstorms. You can't even dress for the season cos you never know when a elementally themed gang will accidently uncover a primordial sky god.
Would it not just emphasize very practical stuff? Layers for example to adapt as much as possible. Bags and accessories to help prepare for lots of different situations. Washability since clearly the weather will result in lots of water and washing lol.
@eliontheinternet3298 I mean, you can still make an educated guest and hope for the best. Or teach your Pokémon a move that alters the weather, and dress based on that
@@eliontheinternet3298 Well the early gens definitely emphasise that. Everyone you meet on a route is either in sports uniforms, activewear, or hiking clothing. It pretty much predicted gorpcore 20 years early.
i find it hilarious how you say that pokemon genders are super binary because whenever i want to look the most extremely nonbinary i dress like a pokemon player character dressed by an eight year okd
yes!! this is EXACTLY why it's so funny that the game design for player characters is so wildly gendered (boys can only wear pants and girls can only wear above the knee skirts or shorts) when I feel like the actual aesthetic of pokémon is way more flexible.
For years I've said that that the secret to dressing like a Pokemon trainer is at least one major piece that cannot be described using clothing words that the average dad would know. "Pants", "shirt" and "skirt" are too easy. Show me a sleeveless jacket with suspender straps hanging from the bottom. Biker shorts that are also a unitard. Make a shirt that goes over too many sections of the body to clearly categorize, make the colors high constrast, and then cut the shoulders out and you're good to go.
I think “flamboyance creep” is more accurate than “flamboyance drift”. Drift (ie linguistic drift) means something slowly morphs into something else for no reason. Creep (ie power creep) is when something gets bigger & stronger in an endless loop of one-upping.
you're using "ie" (in effect) to mean "eg" (exempli gratia). the former means "this one thing, specifically, is all i mean", while the latter means "here, have one inexhaustive example of the kind of thing i mean".
Since I've cosplayed Cynthia before, I can confirm that the 'why' of her hair baubles is "the absolute whimsy of it bouncing when you move your head". It's a fun acessory to fidget with when you sit down or something. Only con is that it was SUCH an ordeal to find out how to attach it. I came up with a whole plan to attach them to hair clips, only for them to be too heavy. Eventually I just sewed them into my wig. I also think they actually defy the design expectation with that choice, because many people have thought 'she must have an umbreon' when seeing Cynthia, so that's a fun misdirect.
@@HeyLizardLeigh Oh I can definitely imagine that an Elesa cosplay would be quite the challenge too! But then the satisfaction of figuring out a way to make it work... *chef's kiss*
Isn't it referencing her lucario? EDIT: I've just noticed the accessories have gold rings on them. Genuinely feels like a Mandela effect, I thought they were completely black all this time.
@@hbic7367 Actually, you make a good point about how they look like Lucario's "mane", if it weren't for the yellow stripes. I never made that connection! That's a neat observation :)
@@marliesd5830 I'm certain they are meant to reference Lucario, who is treated like a mythical mon, you get it as a gift and it even got a movie. In the game it's treated as a special cool pokemon. But the colors look exactly like Umbreon lol!
I speak pretty much no French at all, but I read so I do know that he never said quoi means a certain something? I think. So yup this makes perfect sense to me as well😂❤✨
@@cmaden78 the literal translation for je ne said quoi is 'i dont know what' but in english we use it to mean something like an 'x factor', so to having to 'sais quoi' is 'i need to know what the x factor is', in this case, what makes pokemon fashion that
Ohh the advent of ORAS redesigns hit me at the same time I discovered Drag Race and I like to think they both equally sewed the seeds for my current flamboyantly dressed self.
AHH the gen 6 girl player design was an absolute obsession for my budding fashion designer brain, she's so perfectly on trend and polished for SPECIFICALLY the early 2010s. I desperately wanted to make her skirt. The entire thing of trainers being forced to always wear hats until gen 8 I think was also one of the defining traits of the Pokemon aesthetic, because maybe I just wasn't very sporty, but I knew no one who would ever wear a hat if they werent forced to at school. Yet the game said absolutely not, find a hat you like and wear it! Then gen 9...personally I actually really ended up liking gen 9 but ooof the uniforms are almost exactly like the ones I grew up with and hated, and kind of drained the outfit potential from all student characters/trainer npcs, luckily absolutely carried by Team Star and the gym leaders. Even Arven and Nemona, don't quite get to express with clothing that you don't just get to wear an exact duplicate of immediately. What is their taste in outfits outside of school? Is Nemona into sportswear with bright and cheery motifs? Did Arven have any space to develop a sense of fashion between a lot of depression and speedrunning survival skill development? (I like to think he's a socks and birkenstocks type, a combo strictly banned at school)
This! The fashion is one of the things that keeps me playing the games, I’m literally motivated by knowing where the next clothing shop is. Gen 9 was rough for me (even though I did enjoy the Team Star storyline and open world) because I got so burnt out on not having a fun little fashion break every few towns. I really hope they bring it back for the next game, it just feels weird without it!
I do love the team start outfits, I realized as I was editing that I don't think I underlined enough the fact that like while I do think they are WILD I also DO LIKE THEM A LOT, especially atticus tbh
I like the team star outfits mostly because I think they reflect something in the narrative. Team Star was created by a bunch of social outcasts who got bullied for being their own varieties of weird, and so when they became the bosses of Team Star they embraced it by having their team's tailor make absolutely ridiculous outfits.
The way the poke balls are attached to the hip makes me think of a chatelaine! Basically a woman’s keychain on the hip with chains that hold all the things she’s use for her trade like scissors or other tools. I don’t know if you’d take suggestions for this cosplay and I don’t want to change the way it is but it would be a beautiful design detail and maybe you’d add other lavender witch trinkets!
I can imagine this cos play being an antagonists in a future game where she specialises in Halloween pokémon and her having a noibat/pumpkaboo as a starter
Have her be a dual type Grass/Ghost type Gym Leader, who also shows up throughout the story, and her Gym is just a Grey Gardens style mouldering manor - with a giant haunted garden maze! You could even wrap the whole thing in a Past/Present gimmick, and have the Past be when the manor was in active use! And you'd have to swap back and forth to solve the puzzles
I appreciate how you did the sponsorship part of the video. Doesn’t feel forced, it’s something you actually use and tied into the video so it’s wholly relevant, and after a while it didn’t even feel like an ad, but a tutorial on how you used it for your project
this means so much to me!! I was so excited when Milanote reached out because I knew it would actually very genuinely help me in these projects. and i had SO much fun making the boards themselves, I think they turned out SO cool and helpful!
Seeing this cosplay come together over such an extended timeframe is weirdly reassuring to me. Like we all know making costumes takes a ton of time, but sometimes professional cosplay content makes me feel discouraged over the lack of time I can dedicate to my projects bc of my life and full-time non-cosplay job. The way you present your process feels so relatable, right down to the late night, last minute “I really should be packing” final touches. Like cosplay is not a slickly-edited 30-50 minute video, it’s months or years of creating and long breaks and creating some more. Great job on the video! Can’t wait for the next one! 🖤
thank you!! tbh I think a big part of it is that I cosplayed for so long with absolutely NO social media following, and then even longer after that while not being a "content creator"! it means that while I'm very much focusing on my video production as a job, it's so important to me to keep my crafting the same way it's always been. Which is also how a lot of other people craft too!
when you talked about being a lawful instead of chaotic sewer when cutting it out i IMMEDIATELY thought of nicole rudolph who is so precise with the stuff she makes, and then was jumpscared when you brought her up in the very next section 😂😂❤
Inventing my own Pokémon was my gateway into doing character design. (Also, I swear I drew Azumarill a year before it existed: I was making fake chocolate wrappers where each of the flavours had its own creature, and the bubble chocolate was represented by a round boi with rabbit ears, a similar wavy/spotty pattern to the Pokémon and a gumball tail.)
39:41- the shawl you chose definitely still makes sense! it is always more possible that people still wore something outdated than someone wearing something that hadn’t been popularized yet!! i think you made a great choice!
Love how consistent the quality of your content is while maintaining these run times, and my adhd brain appreciates the noticeable play speed increase.
One thing that I find occurring often in Pokemon design is an interesting head. Either a hat, facial accessory, or a unique hairstyle. The vast majority of Pokemon characters have something interesting going on at their face/head.
"Checkmate atheists" really had me out here choking on my breakfast ramen, thanks uncle lizard On another note, I love how much you detail the process of upgrading and reiterating your cosplay pieces, it makes me feel like just because I "finish" a piece doesn't mean I can't push it further later, even much later if I want.
I actually like the Team Star bosses' crazy outfits. They are homemade by one of the bosses, and he is wonderfully extra. I'm not sure if the creators made this intentional, but my head cannon is that the amateur fashion designer went all out on his friends' outfits because he had too many ideas and fit them all in at once....which I totally did at that age!
I didn't get a chance to get into it enough with trying to keep the script length down but i DO ALSO love the team star bosses- Atticus is one of my fave poison designs in the whole franchise, and I think it's sooo smart to have multiple enemy bosses so you can get more 'typed' trainers in each game without splitting them between versions. Like I was soo sad to miss out on some of the galar gym leaders because I was playing sword and not shield you know? 😭
@@HeyLizardLeigh 100% with you on Galar and Atticus! If you haven't been able to do end game dialogue with characters (sorry, new to your channel so I haven't seen much YET😂), I would even just look up the scenes as a compilation because Atticus is fun to talk to post game.
Man, you really do just steal hours of my life at a time without me noticing smh. Jokes aside, I have been *addicted* to this little series of yours, I watched the last one twice! Dropping my like and comment to help push this into the algo for those like me who love this shit! On a separate note, you definitely sold me on trying Milanote. I'm currently working on a very large crafting project myself and i think this is exactly what I need for my organization! Signed up with your link. Have a good week Lizard!
ahh thank you so much, i'm glad you're enjoying the series!! and YAY milanote was genuinely such a treat to use for this video, I can't recommend it enough!!
I'm a MilleniElder, so the 90s series was what the kids I was babysitting when I was a teenager were watching. So I immediately identified with and adored Team Rocket, the flamboyant duo. I (theater kid, gay Dad) loved repeating their chant and then having the kids repeatedly fight me with their Pokémon stuffies until I dramatically fled. Very fun times.
In series merch is one of my favorite things. That's why I'm obsessed with the random kid in one peice wearing a Kuma shirt. Like yeah....either his mom made it for him because he loves kuma....or Kuma has merch....and I love both ideas
Even with the generations' professors, their designs tell you what their personality is like from the first look you have of them. Oak is classic, he's the baseline. You don't find out much about him but he's professional and put together, without being too rigid Elm looks a bit more erratic, which makes sense as baby Pokémon were introduced in that gen, so he has to keep up with all the baby Pokémon in his lab, like a tired parent Birch, in both the original RSE and ORAS, you can tell he's pretty laid back when he's not being attacked by a wild poochyena just by the cargo shorts Rowan is the first one to not wear a white lab coat. He's well dressed and put together, but there's something about him that makes you curious every time he's talking to your character. Juniper has the same vibes as Birch, while also maintaining her absolute girlboss nature with that pencil skirt Sycamore (my beloved) looks like he's been through some stuff. His hair is wild and fluffy, his shirt's slightly undone, but it's tasteful. He's a cafe-loving goofball; but depending on sources he's simultaneously a workaholic with a coffee addiction. Kukui is even MORE laid back than Birch or Juniper. No shirt at all. But despite that he still knows what has to get done since he makes himself your final challenge to become Alola's first champion (honorable mention to Burnett, another athletic girlboss) Magnolia has this wise lady look to her, she's been at this for a long time- and her look reflects that, with her lab coat reaching her ankles with her dress. Sonia on the other hand, she JUST finally became the regional professor in place of Magnolia, so she's still wearing what she is when we first see her. She's a well known researcher in galar, but when it comes to being a professor, she's still got things left to learn. Sada and Turo are.... obvious. They got so absorbed into their respective time periods (past and future respectively) that they lost sight over everything else in their lives. Their AIs wearing what the humans that built them thought was appropriate for whatever time they were researching. I just think that's fun ^-^ Some more honorable mentions: Laventon; like our player character, isn't from hisui. But unlike us he's still from that time period, and his clothes reflect that. They also look well worn, since he follows the player to every galaxy base camp while they help him complete the first ever Pokédex. Director Clavell, our stand in professor since Sada and Turo are absent, also wears the same color palette as the students. He doesn't have to wear the uniform like them but seeing him with it makes him seem approachable. Though the fur collar around his neck (similar to a certain trauma inducing champion from Sinnoh 😆) tells us that he's probably hiding something, but we won't find out until later. Bonus points for his glasses doing the Anime Thing. Lemme know if I missed anyone!!
I love this analysis, and may I ask; I consider Jacq the true professor role of gen 9; he introduces and guides the player and evaluates your Pokedex, and he even follows the tree name tradition. But honestly, all I get from his design is "quirky purple man, got a lotta books!"
@@lilpetz500 i was kinda thinking that the professor role is split pretty evenly between Clavell and Jacq, mostly since Clavell is the one you get your starter from. (But if you really wanna push it then you could say that about Leon in SWSH and Tierno and Trevor in XY too so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ grey area, I guess 😆)
@@HeyLizardLeigh Now imagining "I LIKE SHORTS" emblazoned on the back of shorts in the style of Juicy. Maybe a bit wordy but this feels workshoppable 😂 On a less silly note, I would totally consider buying shorts as merch with understated/tiny embroidery with the phrase. Coincidentally going tiny would also make it less rude to shorts to put it on a shirt, and it would be pretty neat if you were able to offer a set 👀
This series is hands down my favorite thing to watch rn! As an English literature and linguistics student and someone new to cosplay, it's the perfect mesh of media analysis and really cool crafting! Love all the insight in your thought process, ans your willingness to change, shift and go back to already finished pieces to make them better. That takes some of the pressure off making more complicated pieces. Genuinely, thank you for all you do!
Whopper popper is also the term for large snaps in theater costume design too, the woman I worked under when did my work placement in a regional theater called them that and for the longest time I thought that was here own silly little name for them and it is very heartwarming to hear other people use that term
i played gen 5 but heard it was easy, so gave myself the challenge of "never use the pokemon center" ... and that challeng genuinely made it one of my favorite games. so i highly recommend that
Personally, my method of adding challenge to pokemon games is to run them where I only use what I call “gift pokemon” - that is, pokemon that game practically hands to you. So yes, your starter and any other pokemon that are literally given to the player, but also things like trades, fossils, and set encounters (such as the Snorlax that like to block your path, or the Gimmighoul that sit on top of the watchtowers in Paldea). I also try to rely on found items as much as possible, rather than buying them, though that’s not exactly a new concept to pokemon challenges. I find it very fun, as it forces me to not only use pokemon I normally wouldn’t (see: Snorlax!), but also to just deal with type disadvantages and lack of coverage that, on my own, I would have never let be an issue. For example, I’m in the early part of my scarlet run rn, and my only three pokemon are Sprigatito, Snom, and the aforementioned Gimmighoul. The fire/flying struggle is REAL, I actually lost to the bug gym on my first attempt, and Gimmighoul is frankly a struggle to make work at the moment. I’m having a lot of fun! :D
I love the different ways these videos wander around. It's like going through an exhibit that has connected but distinct parts and that the transitions between the individual exhibits have been carefully chosen and arranged.
I love how your videos never feel like they drag on, despite how long they are! You do a really great job of pacing and transitioning topics. Also, I highly recommend ORAS, I think it does a really great job of keeping the best parts of the original games while also adding a lot of fun content. Looking forward to the next one!
Yesss it’s so good! It follows the timeline of Emerald rather than the original two Ruby and Sapphire too! Most of the fandom hardcore ships Wallace and Steven and playing the game will quickly show why lol
i also am pokémon naive and all these videos are so accessible and interesting! i'm honestly kicking my past child self for being so unnecessarily contrarian that i missed out on such a cool franchise but very happy i can learn about it now from someone who so clearly has so much love for it!
honestly, the little details you considered when choosing certain aspects like square patterns and tying back to the Silph Scope.... that's so insane. it's so cool. those details are what truly make the design not only shine but link it strongly to the Pokemon world it's supposed to be coming from and i was floored by your choices there (also thank you for the shoutout to us pkmn gijinka creators)
Have you looked into the Pokémon conquest game designs? I love how the warlords evolve with their signature Pokémon (yes they literally evolve and get more fancy outfits) and there is a lot of incorporation of Pokémon within their outfits
I unironically can and do dress like a Pokémon trainer every day. I only ask myself what Pokémon type I want to evoke with my apparel and the fashion demon delivers every time. Today is Grass/Dark Type.
This cosplay is EVERYTHING. I can't even pick a favorite part, because it's all my favorite! And I love your style of mixing "making" videos with analytical essays!
absolutely wild seeing you say that was your second ever crochet project. watching you make that little piece for your stardew valley cosplay was the push i needed to learn crochet and i got fully obsessed immediately. i finished crocheting a giant blanket to this video !!
You just explained perfectly why I love Sword and Shield Gym Leader designs so much, when even I didn't even know how to put it into words. That outfit you made is absolutely stunning and I'll be looking forward to seeing that staff~
I love pokemon's human design so much. I aspired to be able to design nonsensical but believable fashion that exist to look cool just like them one day
I'm watching the long form videos on this project way out of order and I've seen your reels in passing for ages but in the past couple of days I've finally watched several of your long videos while working on my own little craft project and it's been a real pleasure. The time spent on the video subjects (e.g. the primary: sewing/project work and the secondary: movie analysis/convention stories/etc) is incredibly well balanced, the transitions between subjects is smooth and allows for you to build your discussion in a way that's dynamic and engaging but not disruptive, and your vibes are just immaculate. I love cosplay, I never broached it to the extent you have, but we come from the same late '00s/early '10s cosplay era and your approach to the craft resonates with me deeply. I remember doing a somewhat thrown together Cowgirl Trainer cosplay at Colossalcon way back in 2013 and unfortunately it didn't read as Pokemon so much as a MLP character 🥲 This video lowkey makes me want to reimagine that cosplay because I stand-by that it was a great idea for a low-key, final-con-day, cosplay LOL Anyway, thank you for sharing your creation/development process through these videos. They're really cool and it's very fun to follow along while exploring topics like The First Movie or the unhinged fashion of the Pokemon world!!
Your videos are so high quality and satisfying to watch. I know NOTHING about fashion and honestly, don't really care much for it -- but you make learning about it enjoyable! keep up the great work :-)
i love this long-term commitment to a project series, as a testament to how it's okay if things take time. it's okay to give yourself a little break. big thoughts take big time. it's not about churning out "content" - it's about figuring things out and being kind to yourself and allowing space for designs to change and grow as you do (and the occasionally very chaotic late-night rush when the inspiration hits). that's what makes your videos so wholesome to watch! 💖
Oh my gosh I am dying to go make things from this but I am needing a infodump about your son Sableye so badly ALSO THE REVEAL IS STUNNING I'm dying, its SO good I'm dying, I wanna make a trainer fit so badly, 2003 is coming back to haunt me, I can feel it 🤣
I will ALWAYS have a sableye on my team in game, and irl if pokémon were real I would 100% just be a sableye trainer and struggle with getting them to not eat my rhinestone collection in my craft room 😭 I love them so much
This video was AMAZING!!! I had seen bits of your cosplay process on TikTok but a beefy video that weaves the cosplay construction w the Pokemon design analysis was so nice!!! I’m so excited now to binge your other videos!!!
!!!!!!! i think i've been seeing shorts from you for a long time, but youtube finally placed one of your videos in front of my eyes and i think i sat still for an hour with my mouth wide open - you are both so talented and also so, so interesting to listen to!!!! i'm in awe of your hand stitching and delighted by so much pokemon lore i have extremely little context for - thank you so much for sharing! genuinely can't wait to catch up on the journey and see more!
I love your sewing vlog/video essay videos so much! I’m always so excited to see the notification! It’s also very encouraging to see you putting so much thought and time into each piece when there can be a lot of pressure to rush as a maker.
thank you!!! and yeah man I FEEL that pressure, I very much still feel like I’m trying to figure out the balance. which is why it means so much to hear from people that it’s nice to see this pace of crafting actually represented in content, cause it’s just not that common !!!
Lizard I just wanted to hop on here and say you are one of my biggest cosplay inspirations and something you said in a previous video really stuck with me. It was about first getting into cosplay and not letting the idea of perfectionism or what you think cosplay is supposed to look like stop you from actually cosplaying. You just have to do it and learn as you go. The idea of being good at it first try was something I really struggled with and I really needed someone to tell me to just try it and not be so worried about that quote unquote perfect end product. Long story short, after 10 or so years of wanting to cosplay I finally did my first cosplay. I cosplayed mothman lol. I even made the antennae! Thank you for being a huge inspiration and for showing me (and others i’m sure) that there is a space in the cosplay community for everyone and all it takes to start is to actually start! Lots of love from a fellow trans masc and a budding cosplayer 💛🏳️⚧️
I do know what a Pince Nez is... but it's a word that I encountered for the first time while reading "Treasure Island" when I was 7, and I'm now horrified to discover just how incorrectly I've been pronouncing it for 23 years
I loved this whole video, and the fact you mentioned Plasma's outfits being ridiculous made me laugh, because they're literally dressed like Pokémon crusaders due to the nature of their evil team. Pokémon Black was my first game and holds a special spot in my heart even though a lot of people Muk on Gen V. They had a thought-provoking (although of course ill-intentioned) goal and the character development you see in N and his interactions with you as a Trainer makes for a beautifully crafted story that always hits me in the feels. I think all of the games have had the ability to create stories like this, but BW actually did a lot better than people give it credit for. I literally tell anyone who asks me that even though it's nearly five generations ago by now, it still holds up. It actually led me to write up my _own_ character based off of the adventures I had in game, especially involving the Entralink and its interdimensional properties 'cause I really enjoyed that game function. Also, this video has inspired me to someday make the outfit I wrote up for him. I took a lot of time designing it, including his bag and accessories. It feels very put together and it's an outfit I would actually wear if I were a Trainer, so it fits. If you really take the time to explore any of these games, there's often many details that will resonate heavily with each individual. BW being set in a region inspired mainly by the New York area was nostalgic for me, as I was born there but moved away when I was young. That whole game felt like home to me and it will always be my favorite installation in the series.
you're so inspiring to me!!! as another crafty nonbinary creator i love to see your point of view on fashion and how you tackle your projects with an analytical eye ❤
Loved this dive into the fashion design of the pokemon world! So excited to see more and more of this cosplay coming together, each piece is so artfully crafted! Your lawful good style of sewing pays off spectacularly!
i just wanted to stop as i watch thru this video with two videos left in the playlist currently and share how inspiring it is to watch and hear about your thought process, and over the past few hours watching these in order all in one go has got the gears in my head turning as I'm working on redesigning my own pokemon OC, and this video did wonders to help me figure out what's still missing from their design, so your videos are definitely doing an amazing job inspiring other people and I'm personally also enjoying watching the care and thought going into each piece you make as someone whose sewing abilities are nowhere close to this yet :'3 your work is incredible and the amount of time you spend deep diving is also so fun to watch as someone using these videos as 'second monitor' content to watch as I'm working on my own projects
I know the video is 6 months old at this point, but it's so fascinating to watch you go through this process. It's so inspiring and honestly educational to see you go from a concept to making the thing!! It's been really lovely to come along with this journey. The combination of the history and the fashion of the games really makes this content super fascinating. I really hope that you keep doing stuff like this ✨💛
I had no idea that the world had gotten so big. To be truthful I stopped paying attention long before the kids stopped watching. It's funny that the grandson found all the old dvds and vhs to start following. The next gen is hooked! Your take on things makes me think and I love the care and attention you put into your creations!
When youtube put this video in front of me I was expecting just a video essay but now I NEED to see the rest of this cosplay come together A video essay about pokemon fashion is also something I need but oh well
I never before heard about you, I have about 0 interest in fashion and my pokemon days have been long ago. But was I glued to the screen for this entire video? Heck yeah I was. Your energy is amazing and your skill is *chef's kiss*. I will now proceed to watch the video on that skirt, because these pokeball details are such great desing work, I need to know how they came to be and if there is more great details in this that I am missing.
Tbh one of my favourite fashion compliments I've received was "you look ready to bully me into a Pokemon battle" 😂 Eclectic yes but I never thought of it as unhinged 😅
im a casual pokemon fan, ive only played one of the games (pokemon X), but the charcter design has been the thing that keeps me interested in every generation. i feel the same way about the gen 8 gym leaders, they are just so incredibly well designed!! im SO excited to see the gengar staff build!!! just from the bits and pieces you showed, i know its going to look incredible!!!
I've never played Pokemon, only watched a couple eps of the cartoon.... But I still super love this deep dive and the costume emerging from it. Thanks!
I just wanted to say I adore this saga so much and get so excited when your notifications pop up! Thank you for sharing you talent and loves with this world 💜
I have never played a Pokémon game, but I love the energy and fun that I see from other people, also the cute little guys! Thank you for making these videos so that we can learn a little about both the game and the history!!
sdfghjhjkk i loved pokemon fashion when i was younger, and making up trainer inspired outfits, which almost always involved stealing my mom's fanny pack. EDIT: SHORTS 🙌
Absolutely adore this! Love seeing your process. I am most of the way through making my 'Steampunk Pokémon Trainer' cosplay,. I've been making it on and off for 5 years 😆 but i'll get there eventually!
1. I love the sponsorship ;u; I think I might use it for d&d organization in the future after playing around with it a bit. 2. I'm currently planning my own original take on Jirachi and it was definitely inspired by watching you make this whole costume so this keeps feeding my brain worms so thank you.
This is the first video I’ve seen of yours, and I am completely floored! You are an amazing designer and I love the way your brain works. I love Pokemon and art and creativity and this was such a captivating video! Beautiful work and I’m looking forward to seeing more ❤
i just found your channel for the second time in a few months, and watching just feels so... natural? its like youre a channel i regularly watch even though youre nowhere close, lol. I love how you talk to the audience like youre a friend whos giving an extended life update. im not gonna forget to subscribe this time :)
I'm so glad I'm not the only one who says narsty :P 💖 Edit: I also wanted to say that I appreciate you being lawful about some of the process, that's why I like watching you! In addition to you talking about your failures, or like, how you have to relearn crochet stitches. It's humanizing and its genuine. I feel like less of an idiot because I know I'm not the only one who's going through those situations. I love this project so much! The thought process behind the choices and process and just everything is just so satisfying for me! I'm so glad I came across you 💖
aw man! Im so glad someone else remembers the General Cowslip designs!! I made the Pikachu design back in 2023 as my first comeback to cosplay and cons since taking a break cira 2017 0:020:02 . Great video, cannot wait to see more 👋
I've been bindge-watching all your Lavender Town Witch videos this week, so I was so excited to see this one drop. It's honestly such a great series of videos essays about Pokemon, historical fashion, and cosplay, and this was an amazing finale!
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this is genuinely kind of revolutionary for me, it's exactly what I was looking for from pinterest! it's going to come so in handy for so much both personal and college related stuff, thank you for talking about it
I just want you to know i saw your video first and was interested but i didn't click until your tiktok pulled me back in
World's best sponsored ad integration honestly, I'm genuinely hooked and this seems like something really useful for novel planning as well
It was Agatha all along! 🎵🎶
Fashion would indeed go totally haywire in a world like that. There's no point in dressing for the weather when 12 year olds can summon thunderstorms. You can't even dress for the season cos you never know when a elementally themed gang will accidently uncover a primordial sky god.
this made me cackle, you're right and you should say it
Would it not just emphasize very practical stuff? Layers for example to adapt as much as possible. Bags and accessories to help prepare for lots of different situations. Washability since clearly the weather will result in lots of water and washing lol.
@@eliontheinternet3298it seems a lot of people took that approach too
@eliontheinternet3298 I mean, you can still make an educated guest and hope for the best. Or teach your Pokémon a move that alters the weather, and dress based on that
@@eliontheinternet3298 Well the early gens definitely emphasise that. Everyone you meet on a route is either in sports uniforms, activewear, or hiking clothing. It pretty much predicted gorpcore 20 years early.
i find it hilarious how you say that pokemon genders are super binary because whenever i want to look the most extremely nonbinary i dress like a pokemon player character dressed by an eight year okd
Or how it's a meme that Pokémon trainers from scarlet and violet sometimes look like the opposite gender they identify as
yes!! this is EXACTLY why it's so funny that the game design for player characters is so wildly gendered (boys can only wear pants and girls can only wear above the knee skirts or shorts) when I feel like the actual aesthetic of pokémon is way more flexible.
Lol
We laugh at Prof. Oak for being so dementia ridden that he can't see if we're a boy or a girl, but honestly... I don't blame him,
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For years I've said that that the secret to dressing like a Pokemon trainer is at least one major piece that cannot be described using clothing words that the average dad would know. "Pants", "shirt" and "skirt" are too easy. Show me a sleeveless jacket with suspender straps hanging from the bottom. Biker shorts that are also a unitard. Make a shirt that goes over too many sections of the body to clearly categorize, make the colors high constrast, and then cut the shoulders out and you're good to go.
this i SUCH a good way to think of it lmao
ACCURATE
"There are over 250 trainer classes, and that wouldn't be a very fun video to watch"
Clearly you haven't seen my TH-cam history.
I think “flamboyance creep” is more accurate than “flamboyance drift”. Drift (ie linguistic drift) means something slowly morphs into something else for no reason. Creep (ie power creep) is when something gets bigger & stronger in an endless loop of one-upping.
I can see that!
you're using "ie" (in effect) to mean "eg" (exempli gratia). the former means "this one thing, specifically, is all i mean", while the latter means "here, have one inexhaustive example of the kind of thing i mean".
@@hemoglobin3751 Good to know. Thanks! :)
"Paldea is unequivocably the worst decision the franchise has made by making school uniforms we can only accessorize"
*PREACH*
Galar really missed out on a great chance… KILTS!
I wanted to play a Scottish boy being the most incompetence possible.
I didn't think of that before but yeah! Give the boys kilts and the girls sweatpants! It's sad that they didn't make it as costumizable as they could
I’m surprised that they didn’t give the male player character a kilt considering a garment like that could’ve easily elevated the design we have now
Since I've cosplayed Cynthia before, I can confirm that the 'why' of her hair baubles is "the absolute whimsy of it bouncing when you move your head".
It's a fun acessory to fidget with when you sit down or something.
Only con is that it was SUCH an ordeal to find out how to attach it. I came up with a whole plan to attach them to hair clips, only for them to be too heavy. Eventually I just sewed them into my wig.
I also think they actually defy the design expectation with that choice, because many people have thought 'she must have an umbreon' when seeing Cynthia, so that's a fun misdirect.
I remember having friends who cosplayed Elesa back in the day and that was a WILD undertaking!! and yes, I thought she had an umbreon for soo long!
@@HeyLizardLeigh Oh I can definitely imagine that an Elesa cosplay would be quite the challenge too! But then the satisfaction of figuring out a way to make it work... *chef's kiss*
Isn't it referencing her lucario?
EDIT: I've just noticed the accessories have gold rings on them. Genuinely feels like a Mandela effect, I thought they were completely black all this time.
@@hbic7367 Actually, you make a good point about how they look like Lucario's "mane", if it weren't for the yellow stripes. I never made that connection! That's a neat observation :)
@@marliesd5830 I'm certain they are meant to reference Lucario, who is treated like a mythical mon, you get it as a gift and it even got a movie. In the game it's treated as a special cool pokemon. But the colors look exactly like Umbreon lol!
"This bad boy can fit so many historical eras in it" is my entire design aesthetic
Same
"I can't just 'je ne sais quoi' I have to 'sais quoi' " has to be one of the best sentences I've ever heard
I speak pretty much no French at all, but I read so I do know that he never said quoi means a certain something? I think. So yup this makes perfect sense to me as well😂❤✨
@@cmaden78 the literal translation for je ne said quoi is 'i dont know what' but in english we use it to mean something like an 'x factor', so to having to 'sais quoi' is 'i need to know what the x factor is', in this case, what makes pokemon fashion that
ORAS Wallace with Trixie/Katya's "Hi gay!" Took me out good lord 😅
sometimes I laugh so hard at my own jokes when I’m editing and I can never tell if it’s a good or bad thing, but that one got me a few times😭
Ohh the advent of ORAS redesigns hit me at the same time I discovered Drag Race and I like to think they both equally sewed the seeds for my current flamboyantly dressed self.
Oh my god, me too! I had to take a moment to recover!
I literally have the Wallace Pokemon card in my hand....
@@HeyLizardLeigh
AHH the gen 6 girl player design was an absolute obsession for my budding fashion designer brain, she's so perfectly on trend and polished for SPECIFICALLY the early 2010s. I desperately wanted to make her skirt.
The entire thing of trainers being forced to always wear hats until gen 8 I think was also one of the defining traits of the Pokemon aesthetic, because maybe I just wasn't very sporty, but I knew no one who would ever wear a hat if they werent forced to at school. Yet the game said absolutely not, find a hat you like and wear it!
Then gen 9...personally I actually really ended up liking gen 9 but ooof the uniforms are almost exactly like the ones I grew up with and hated, and kind of drained the outfit potential from all student characters/trainer npcs, luckily absolutely carried by Team Star and the gym leaders. Even Arven and Nemona, don't quite get to express with clothing that you don't just get to wear an exact duplicate of immediately. What is their taste in outfits outside of school? Is Nemona into sportswear with bright and cheery motifs? Did Arven have any space to develop a sense of fashion between a lot of depression and speedrunning survival skill development? (I like to think he's a socks and birkenstocks type, a combo strictly banned at school)
This! The fashion is one of the things that keeps me playing the games, I’m literally motivated by knowing where the next clothing shop is. Gen 9 was rough for me (even though I did enjoy the Team Star storyline and open world) because I got so burnt out on not having a fun little fashion break every few towns. I really hope they bring it back for the next game, it just feels weird without it!
perhaps a hot take but I actually kinda love team stars outfits. They’re so completely ridiculous and kind of stupid I find it very charming and fun
The team star leader outfits absolutely *rule*. They're designed by a chuuni obsessed with ninjas, of course they're over the top
I mean designed by a bunch of kids with unlimited money I expected the crazy to come through
I do love the team start outfits, I realized as I was editing that I don't think I underlined enough the fact that like while I do think they are WILD I also DO LIKE THEM A LOT, especially atticus tbh
fr like they are sooo camp and i love it
I like the team star outfits mostly because I think they reflect something in the narrative. Team Star was created by a bunch of social outcasts who got bullied for being their own varieties of weird, and so when they became the bosses of Team Star they embraced it by having their team's tailor make absolutely ridiculous outfits.
An entomologist trying to develop a clownsona makes me feel a little called out
The way the poke balls are attached to the hip makes me think of a chatelaine! Basically a woman’s keychain on the hip with chains that hold all the things she’s use for her trade like scissors or other tools. I don’t know if you’d take suggestions for this cosplay and I don’t want to change the way it is but it would be a beautiful design detail and maybe you’d add other lavender witch trinkets!
I can imagine this cos play being an antagonists in a future game where she specialises in Halloween pokémon and her having a noibat/pumpkaboo as a starter
Have her be a dual type Grass/Ghost type Gym Leader, who also shows up throughout the story, and her Gym is just a Grey Gardens style mouldering manor - with a giant haunted garden maze!
You could even wrap the whole thing in a Past/Present gimmick, and have the Past be when the manor was in active use!
And you'd have to swap back and forth to solve the puzzles
Ngl she looks like Agatha in her prime as a gym leader or main character
I appreciate how you did the sponsorship part of the video. Doesn’t feel forced, it’s something you actually use and tied into the video so it’s wholly relevant, and after a while it didn’t even feel like an ad, but a tutorial on how you used it for your project
this means so much to me!! I was so excited when Milanote reached out because I knew it would actually very genuinely help me in these projects. and i had SO much fun making the boards themselves, I think they turned out SO cool and helpful!
I absolutely love you profile pic!
Pokemon villain design is just the "Male? Female? I identify as a threat!" Meme.
Seeing this cosplay come together over such an extended timeframe is weirdly reassuring to me. Like we all know making costumes takes a ton of time, but sometimes professional cosplay content makes me feel discouraged over the lack of time I can dedicate to my projects bc of my life and full-time non-cosplay job. The way you present your process feels so relatable, right down to the late night, last minute “I really should be packing” final touches. Like cosplay is not a slickly-edited 30-50 minute video, it’s months or years of creating and long breaks and creating some more.
Great job on the video! Can’t wait for the next one! 🖤
thank you!! tbh I think a big part of it is that I cosplayed for so long with absolutely NO social media following, and then even longer after that while not being a "content creator"! it means that while I'm very much focusing on my video production as a job, it's so important to me to keep my crafting the same way it's always been. Which is also how a lot of other people craft too!
when you talked about being a lawful instead of chaotic sewer when cutting it out i IMMEDIATELY thought of nicole rudolph who is so precise with the stuff she makes, and then was jumpscared when you brought her up in the very next section 😂😂❤
LOVE her stuff!!
Inventing my own Pokémon was my gateway into doing character design.
(Also, I swear I drew Azumarill a year before it existed: I was making fake chocolate wrappers where each of the flavours had its own creature, and the bubble chocolate was represented by a round boi with rabbit ears, a similar wavy/spotty pattern to the Pokémon and a gumball tail.)
oh that's so CUTE
39:41- the shawl you chose definitely still makes sense! it is always more possible that people still wore something outdated than someone wearing something that hadn’t been popularized yet!! i think you made a great choice!
Love how consistent the quality of your content is while maintaining these run times, and my adhd brain appreciates the noticeable play speed increase.
honored to get this feedback from my number one supporter 💯
One thing that I find occurring often in Pokemon design is an interesting head. Either a hat, facial accessory, or a unique hairstyle. The vast majority of Pokemon characters have something interesting going on at their face/head.
I want "i need to sais quoi" on a shirt fr
"Checkmate atheists" really had me out here choking on my breakfast ramen, thanks uncle lizard
On another note, I love how much you detail the process of upgrading and reiterating your cosplay pieces, it makes me feel like just because I "finish" a piece doesn't mean I can't push it further later, even much later if I want.
I actually like the Team Star bosses' crazy outfits. They are homemade by one of the bosses, and he is wonderfully extra. I'm not sure if the creators made this intentional, but my head cannon is that the amateur fashion designer went all out on his friends' outfits because he had too many ideas and fit them all in at once....which I totally did at that age!
I didn't get a chance to get into it enough with trying to keep the script length down but i DO ALSO love the team star bosses- Atticus is one of my fave poison designs in the whole franchise, and I think it's sooo smart to have multiple enemy bosses so you can get more 'typed' trainers in each game without splitting them between versions. Like I was soo sad to miss out on some of the galar gym leaders because I was playing sword and not shield you know? 😭
@@HeyLizardLeigh 100% with you on Galar and Atticus! If you haven't been able to do end game dialogue with characters (sorry, new to your channel so I haven't seen much YET😂), I would even just look up the scenes as a compilation because Atticus is fun to talk to post game.
Man, you really do just steal hours of my life at a time without me noticing smh. Jokes aside, I have been *addicted* to this little series of yours, I watched the last one twice! Dropping my like and comment to help push this into the algo for those like me who love this shit!
On a separate note, you definitely sold me on trying Milanote. I'm currently working on a very large crafting project myself and i think this is exactly what I need for my organization! Signed up with your link.
Have a good week Lizard!
ahh thank you so much, i'm glad you're enjoying the series!! and YAY milanote was genuinely such a treat to use for this video, I can't recommend it enough!!
Working on a fairy type elite four cosplay! This video was super helpful with the design!
I'm a MilleniElder, so the 90s series was what the kids I was babysitting when I was a teenager were watching. So I immediately identified with and adored Team Rocket, the flamboyant duo. I (theater kid, gay Dad) loved repeating their chant and then having the kids repeatedly fight me with their Pokémon stuffies until I dramatically fled. Very fun times.
I also find it cool that not only did you reference the tile graphics from red& blue but you also created a tie that looked like gengars tounge.
SO TRUE !!!!!
In series merch is one of my favorite things. That's why I'm obsessed with the random kid in one peice wearing a Kuma shirt. Like yeah....either his mom made it for him because he loves kuma....or Kuma has merch....and I love both ideas
Even with the generations' professors, their designs tell you what their personality is like from the first look you have of them.
Oak is classic, he's the baseline. You don't find out much about him but he's professional and put together, without being too rigid
Elm looks a bit more erratic, which makes sense as baby Pokémon were introduced in that gen, so he has to keep up with all the baby Pokémon in his lab, like a tired parent
Birch, in both the original RSE and ORAS, you can tell he's pretty laid back when he's not being attacked by a wild poochyena just by the cargo shorts
Rowan is the first one to not wear a white lab coat. He's well dressed and put together, but there's something about him that makes you curious every time he's talking to your character.
Juniper has the same vibes as Birch, while also maintaining her absolute girlboss nature with that pencil skirt
Sycamore (my beloved) looks like he's been through some stuff. His hair is wild and fluffy, his shirt's slightly undone, but it's tasteful. He's a cafe-loving goofball; but depending on sources he's simultaneously a workaholic with a coffee addiction.
Kukui is even MORE laid back than Birch or Juniper. No shirt at all. But despite that he still knows what has to get done since he makes himself your final challenge to become Alola's first champion (honorable mention to Burnett, another athletic girlboss)
Magnolia has this wise lady look to her, she's been at this for a long time- and her look reflects that, with her lab coat reaching her ankles with her dress.
Sonia on the other hand, she JUST finally became the regional professor in place of Magnolia, so she's still wearing what she is when we first see her. She's a well known researcher in galar, but when it comes to being a professor, she's still got things left to learn.
Sada and Turo are.... obvious. They got so absorbed into their respective time periods (past and future respectively) that they lost sight over everything else in their lives. Their AIs wearing what the humans that built them thought was appropriate for whatever time they were researching.
I just think that's fun ^-^
Some more honorable mentions:
Laventon; like our player character, isn't from hisui. But unlike us he's still from that time period, and his clothes reflect that. They also look well worn, since he follows the player to every galaxy base camp while they help him complete the first ever Pokédex.
Director Clavell, our stand in professor since Sada and Turo are absent, also wears the same color palette as the students. He doesn't have to wear the uniform like them but seeing him with it makes him seem approachable. Though the fur collar around his neck (similar to a certain trauma inducing champion from Sinnoh 😆) tells us that he's probably hiding something, but we won't find out until later. Bonus points for his glasses doing the Anime Thing.
Lemme know if I missed anyone!!
I love this analysis, and may I ask; I consider Jacq the true professor role of gen 9; he introduces and guides the player and evaluates your Pokedex, and he even follows the tree name tradition.
But honestly, all I get from his design is "quirky purple man, got a lotta books!"
@@lilpetz500 i was kinda thinking that the professor role is split pretty evenly between Clavell and Jacq, mostly since Clavell is the one you get your starter from. (But if you really wanna push it then you could say that about Leon in SWSH and Tierno and Trevor in XY too so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ grey area, I guess 😆)
@@lilpetz500Being a purple professor who made a pokédex helped Jacq make a new friend in Masters. Unfortunately that friend is Volo.
Kukui my beloved
“I like shorts” squad rise up
sometimes I think about how I want to make a shirt that says this but then I’m like, is that…. disrespectful to shorts ?
I like shorts! -that one npc
@@HeyLizardLeigh Now imagining "I LIKE SHORTS" emblazoned on the back of shorts in the style of Juicy. Maybe a bit wordy but this feels workshoppable 😂 On a less silly note, I would totally consider buying shorts as merch with understated/tiny embroidery with the phrase. Coincidentally going tiny would also make it less rude to shorts to put it on a shirt, and it would be pretty neat if you were able to offer a set 👀
35:59 You had the opportunity to say you want the cosplay to be the very best, like no one ever was, AND YOU DIDN’T TAKE IT?!
booboo the fool, truly 😭
This series is hands down my favorite thing to watch rn! As an English literature and linguistics student and someone new to cosplay, it's the perfect mesh of media analysis and really cool crafting!
Love all the insight in your thought process, ans your willingness to change, shift and go back to already finished pieces to make them better. That takes some of the pressure off making more complicated pieces. Genuinely, thank you for all you do!
Whopper popper is also the term for large snaps in theater costume design too, the woman I worked under when did my work placement in a regional theater called them that and for the longest time I thought that was here own silly little name for them and it is very heartwarming to hear other people use that term
i played gen 5 but heard it was easy, so gave myself the challenge of "never use the pokemon center"
... and that challeng genuinely made it one of my favorite games. so i highly recommend that
oh that’s FASCINATING that sounds like a wonderful way to add stakes to these games!!
Personally, my method of adding challenge to pokemon games is to run them where I only use what I call “gift pokemon” - that is, pokemon that game practically hands to you. So yes, your starter and any other pokemon that are literally given to the player, but also things like trades, fossils, and set encounters (such as the Snorlax that like to block your path, or the Gimmighoul that sit on top of the watchtowers in Paldea). I also try to rely on found items as much as possible, rather than buying them, though that’s not exactly a new concept to pokemon challenges. I find it very fun, as it forces me to not only use pokemon I normally wouldn’t (see: Snorlax!), but also to just deal with type disadvantages and lack of coverage that, on my own, I would have never let be an issue. For example, I’m in the early part of my scarlet run rn, and my only three pokemon are Sprigatito, Snom, and the aforementioned Gimmighoul. The fire/flying struggle is REAL, I actually lost to the bug gym on my first attempt, and Gimmighoul is frankly a struggle to make work at the moment. I’m having a lot of fun! :D
I love the different ways these videos wander around. It's like going through an exhibit that has connected but distinct parts and that the transitions between the individual exhibits have been carefully chosen and arranged.
This truly means so much to me 🥹 thank you
I love how your videos never feel like they drag on, despite how long they are! You do a really great job of pacing and transitioning topics. Also, I highly recommend ORAS, I think it does a really great job of keeping the best parts of the original games while also adding a lot of fun content. Looking forward to the next one!
Yesss it’s so good! It follows the timeline of Emerald rather than the original two Ruby and Sapphire too!
Most of the fandom hardcore ships Wallace and Steven and playing the game will quickly show why lol
I’ve never watched/played Pokémon but for some reason I get so excited for these Pokémon analysis videos
this makes me SO glad, i'm so consciously trying to make sure everyone will have fun watching these regardless of pokémon guy level
i also am pokémon naive and all these videos are so accessible and interesting! i'm honestly kicking my past child self for being so unnecessarily contrarian that i missed out on such a cool franchise but very happy i can learn about it now from someone who so clearly has so much love for it!
@@edoyle441No time like the present to get into it!
honestly, the little details you considered when choosing certain aspects like square patterns and tying back to the Silph Scope.... that's so insane. it's so cool. those details are what truly make the design not only shine but link it strongly to the Pokemon world it's supposed to be coming from and i was floored by your choices there (also thank you for the shoutout to us pkmn gijinka creators)
26:48 when you steam crochet make sure not to touch it to the iron! It crushes the stitches down and if you use acrylic it could melt the yarn
1:19 omg wait is that a galway shawl?? i don't think i've seen one on a character design aside from my own like ever
These videos have honestly pushed me to want to start creating again, for myself, taking time to make things just because it makes me happy
💜💜💜
Have you looked into the Pokémon conquest game designs? I love how the warlords evolve with their signature Pokémon (yes they literally evolve and get more fancy outfits) and there is a lot of incorporation of Pokémon within their outfits
I unironically can and do dress like a Pokémon trainer every day. I only ask myself what Pokémon type I want to evoke with my apparel and the fashion demon delivers every time. Today is Grass/Dark Type.
This cosplay is EVERYTHING. I can't even pick a favorite part, because it's all my favorite!
And I love your style of mixing "making" videos with analytical essays!
absolutely wild seeing you say that was your second ever crochet project. watching you make that little piece for your stardew valley cosplay was the push i needed to learn crochet and i got fully obsessed immediately. i finished crocheting a giant blanket to this video !!
ahhhh that makes me so glad!!! it's SUCH a lovely hobby/skill to have!
You just explained perfectly why I love Sword and Shield Gym Leader designs so much, when even I didn't even know how to put it into words. That outfit you made is absolutely stunning and I'll be looking forward to seeing that staff~
I love pokemon's human design so much. I aspired to be able to design nonsensical but believable fashion that exist to look cool just like them one day
I'm watching the long form videos on this project way out of order and I've seen your reels in passing for ages but in the past couple of days I've finally watched several of your long videos while working on my own little craft project and it's been a real pleasure. The time spent on the video subjects (e.g. the primary: sewing/project work and the secondary: movie analysis/convention stories/etc) is incredibly well balanced, the transitions between subjects is smooth and allows for you to build your discussion in a way that's dynamic and engaging but not disruptive, and your vibes are just immaculate. I love cosplay, I never broached it to the extent you have, but we come from the same late '00s/early '10s cosplay era and your approach to the craft resonates with me deeply. I remember doing a somewhat thrown together Cowgirl Trainer cosplay at Colossalcon way back in 2013 and unfortunately it didn't read as Pokemon so much as a MLP character 🥲 This video lowkey makes me want to reimagine that cosplay because I stand-by that it was a great idea for a low-key, final-con-day, cosplay LOL Anyway, thank you for sharing your creation/development process through these videos. They're really cool and it's very fun to follow along while exploring topics like The First Movie or the unhinged fashion of the Pokemon world!!
surprised you didnt mention pokemon conquest when the flamboyance drift in those designs is utterly NUCLEAR
Your videos are so high quality and satisfying to watch. I know NOTHING about fashion and honestly, don't really care much for it -- but you make learning about it enjoyable! keep up the great work :-)
i love this long-term commitment to a project series, as a testament to how it's okay if things take time. it's okay to give yourself a little break. big thoughts take big time. it's not about churning out "content" - it's about figuring things out and being kind to yourself and allowing space for designs to change and grow as you do (and the occasionally very chaotic late-night rush when the inspiration hits). that's what makes your videos so wholesome to watch! 💖
wahhhh this makes me so glad to read!!! thank you!!
Heck yes, the newest installment of this saga! Very excited to watch 💜
Oh my gosh I am dying to go make things from this but I am needing a infodump about your son Sableye so badly
ALSO THE REVEAL IS STUNNING I'm dying, its SO good I'm dying, I wanna make a trainer fit so badly, 2003 is coming back to haunt me, I can feel it 🤣
I will ALWAYS have a sableye on my team in game, and irl if pokémon were real I would 100% just be a sableye trainer and struggle with getting them to not eat my rhinestone collection in my craft room 😭 I love them so much
Your writing and wit feels almost as amazing as your costumes and fashion design! This was a really fun and funny video
As soon as I saw the Short of your cosplay, I knew I had to watch this video. Was not disappointed and will be watching your other videos now
This video was AMAZING!!! I had seen bits of your cosplay process on TikTok but a beefy video that weaves the cosplay construction w the Pokemon design analysis was so nice!!! I’m so excited now to binge your other videos!!!
1:15
You can't run that by me without me noticing it's Trixie and Katya 💅💅💅✨
!!!!!!! i think i've been seeing shorts from you for a long time, but youtube finally placed one of your videos in front of my eyes and i think i sat still for an hour with my mouth wide open - you are both so talented and also so, so interesting to listen to!!!! i'm in awe of your hand stitching and delighted by so much pokemon lore i have extremely little context for - thank you so much for sharing! genuinely can't wait to catch up on the journey and see more!
ahh thank you so much!!
I love your sewing vlog/video essay videos so much! I’m always so excited to see the notification!
It’s also very encouraging to see you putting so much thought and time into each piece when there can be a lot of pressure to rush as a maker.
thank you!!! and yeah man I FEEL that pressure, I very much still feel like I’m trying to figure out the balance. which is why it means so much to hear from people that it’s nice to see this pace of crafting actually represented in content, cause it’s just not that common !!!
This was amazing, everything looks so good! And I am soooooo excited for the props/rest of the build AND a Team Rocket video?????
Lizard I just wanted to hop on here and say you are one of my biggest cosplay inspirations and something you said in a previous video really stuck with me. It was about first getting into cosplay and not letting the idea of perfectionism or what you think cosplay is supposed to look like stop you from actually cosplaying. You just have to do it and learn as you go. The idea of being good at it first try was something I really struggled with and I really needed someone to tell me to just try it and not be so worried about that quote unquote perfect end product. Long story short, after 10 or so years of wanting to cosplay I finally did my first cosplay. I cosplayed mothman lol. I even made the antennae! Thank you for being a huge inspiration and for showing me (and others i’m sure) that there is a space in the cosplay community for everyone and all it takes to start is to actually start! Lots of love from a fellow trans masc and a budding cosplayer 💛🏳️⚧️
!!!! this means so much to me, thank you for taking the time to let me know!!! I hope you had so much fun being mothman!!
@@HeyLizardLeigh It was so much fun, totally worth the effort. I am already working on plans to revamp it for the next con! :)
I do know what a Pince Nez is... but it's a word that I encountered for the first time while reading "Treasure Island" when I was 7, and I'm now horrified to discover just how incorrectly I've been pronouncing it for 23 years
"Never shame someone for pronouncing a word wrong, it means they learned it from reading" is advice my parents always say!
I loved this whole video, and the fact you mentioned Plasma's outfits being ridiculous made me laugh, because they're literally dressed like Pokémon crusaders due to the nature of their evil team. Pokémon Black was my first game and holds a special spot in my heart even though a lot of people Muk on Gen V. They had a thought-provoking (although of course ill-intentioned) goal and the character development you see in N and his interactions with you as a Trainer makes for a beautifully crafted story that always hits me in the feels.
I think all of the games have had the ability to create stories like this, but BW actually did a lot better than people give it credit for. I literally tell anyone who asks me that even though it's nearly five generations ago by now, it still holds up. It actually led me to write up my _own_ character based off of the adventures I had in game, especially involving the Entralink and its interdimensional properties 'cause I really enjoyed that game function. Also, this video has inspired me to someday make the outfit I wrote up for him. I took a lot of time designing it, including his bag and accessories. It feels very put together and it's an outfit I would actually wear if I were a Trainer, so it fits.
If you really take the time to explore any of these games, there's often many details that will resonate heavily with each individual. BW being set in a region inspired mainly by the New York area was nostalgic for me, as I was born there but moved away when I was young. That whole game felt like home to me and it will always be my favorite installation in the series.
you're so inspiring to me!!! as another crafty nonbinary creator i love to see your point of view on fashion and how you tackle your projects with an analytical eye ❤
Loved this dive into the fashion design of the pokemon world! So excited to see more and more of this cosplay coming together, each piece is so artfully crafted! Your lawful good style of sewing pays off spectacularly!
i just wanted to stop as i watch thru this video with two videos left in the playlist currently and share how inspiring it is to watch and hear about your thought process, and over the past few hours watching these in order all in one go has got the gears in my head turning as I'm working on redesigning my own pokemon OC, and this video did wonders to help me figure out what's still missing from their design, so your videos are definitely doing an amazing job inspiring other people and I'm personally also enjoying watching the care and thought going into each piece you make as someone whose sewing abilities are nowhere close to this yet :'3 your work is incredible and the amount of time you spend deep diving is also so fun to watch as someone using these videos as 'second monitor' content to watch as I'm working on my own projects
I know the video is 6 months old at this point, but it's so fascinating to watch you go through this process. It's so inspiring and honestly educational to see you go from a concept to making the thing!! It's been really lovely to come along with this journey. The combination of the history and the fashion of the games really makes this content super fascinating. I really hope that you keep doing stuff like this ✨💛
Wow what a transformation from the last video's ending result! Very hype for the Team Rocket gender journey next episode!
I had no idea that the world had gotten so big. To be truthful I stopped paying attention long before the kids stopped watching. It's funny that the grandson found all the old dvds and vhs to start following. The next gen is hooked!
Your take on things makes me think and I love the care and attention you put into your creations!
When youtube put this video in front of me I was expecting just a video essay but now I NEED to see the rest of this cosplay come together
A video essay about pokemon fashion is also something I need but oh well
I never before heard about you, I have about 0 interest in fashion and my pokemon days have been long ago. But was I glued to the screen for this entire video? Heck yeah I was. Your energy is amazing and your skill is *chef's kiss*. I will now proceed to watch the video on that skirt, because these pokeball details are such great desing work, I need to know how they came to be and if there is more great details in this that I am missing.
This is my first time seeing anything from this channel and I really need to know:
Who are you?
Why are you iconic?
Tbh one of my favourite fashion compliments I've received was "you look ready to bully me into a Pokemon battle" 😂 Eclectic yes but I never thought of it as unhinged 😅
im a casual pokemon fan, ive only played one of the games (pokemon X), but the charcter design has been the thing that keeps me interested in every generation. i feel the same way about the gen 8 gym leaders, they are just so incredibly well designed!!
im SO excited to see the gengar staff build!!! just from the bits and pieces you showed, i know its going to look incredible!!!
I didn't know how much I was going to love an hour long deep dive into pokemon fashion, but here I am, in love lol
Sableye love
I've never played Pokemon, only watched a couple eps of the cartoon.... But I still super love this deep dive and the costume emerging from it. Thanks!
I just wanted to say I adore this saga so much and get so excited when your notifications pop up! Thank you for sharing you talent and loves with this world 💜
The variety of textures in the kislux pack is impressive. From smooth leather to textured suede, there's something for everyone.
I watched this while working on a vest... and you were the angel/devil on my shoulder that made me handstitch a lot :)
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Found your content through shorts and Im glad I did! I really enjoy your videos! :D
i'm a simple enby, i see yuri & victor figures, i stick around for the full video essay.
I have never played a Pokémon game, but I love the energy and fun that I see from other people, also the cute little guys! Thank you for making these videos so that we can learn a little about both the game and the history!!
sdfghjhjkk i loved pokemon fashion when i was younger, and making up trainer inspired outfits, which almost always involved stealing my mom's fanny pack.
EDIT: SHORTS 🙌
WAIT THAT'S SO PRECIOUS, the mom fannypack vibes are KEY for the pokésona 😭
Your dedication to this build and your creations makes me want to go create and indulge my creativity so much - so inspiring, I am obsessed :)
Absolutely adore this! Love seeing your process. I am most of the way through making my 'Steampunk Pokémon Trainer' cosplay,. I've been making it on and off for 5 years 😆 but i'll get there eventually!
1. I love the sponsorship ;u; I think I might use it for d&d organization in the future after playing around with it a bit.
2. I'm currently planning my own original take on Jirachi and it was definitely inspired by watching you make this whole costume so this keeps feeding my brain worms so thank you.
This is the first video I’ve seen of yours, and I am completely floored! You are an amazing designer and I love the way your brain works. I love Pokemon and art and creativity and this was such a captivating video! Beautiful work and I’m looking forward to seeing more ❤
i just found your channel for the second time in a few months, and watching just feels so... natural? its like youre a channel i regularly watch even though youre nowhere close, lol. I love how you talk to the audience like youre a friend whos giving an extended life update. im not gonna forget to subscribe this time :)
This means so much to me thank you ;;
I really love this style of work vlog, makes me want to dive down a research hole and design some costumes
I'm so glad I'm not the only one who says narsty :P 💖
Edit: I also wanted to say that I appreciate you being lawful about some of the process, that's why I like watching you! In addition to you talking about your failures, or like, how you have to relearn crochet stitches. It's humanizing and its genuine. I feel like less of an idiot because I know I'm not the only one who's going through those situations.
I love this project so much! The thought process behind the choices and process and just everything is just so satisfying for me! I'm so glad I came across you 💖
aw man! Im so glad someone else remembers the General Cowslip designs!! I made the Pikachu design back in 2023 as my first comeback to cosplay and cons since taking a break cira 2017 0:02 0:02 .
Great video, cannot wait to see more 👋
This channel is so fierce thank you for creating and letting me find you on here
I've been bindge-watching all your Lavender Town Witch videos this week, so I was so excited to see this one drop. It's honestly such a great series of videos essays about Pokemon, historical fashion, and cosplay, and this was an amazing finale!
this makes me so glad to read, thank you!!
I'm so happy I've found a new quality TH-camr