San Francisco Comic Con 2017
Saturday in the Shindig Dress. Photo courtesy of Ashely Soucar (Pictured here as Rey)
San Francisco Comic Con has come and gone and it was another successful weekend!
It was unusually hot (106F at my house; 108F at Moscone Center West), so I shook up my initial cosplay plans to try to accommodate that. I went with Rey for Friday, since it's the most comfortable and most breathable cosplay I own, Kaylee for Saturday, since I would have a car to accommodate the cage crinoline, and I was on the fence for Sunday, but ultimately went with Elsa. It was still more than a little unpleasant and I was insanely grateful for the AC in the Moscone Center.
A Skeksis! He won the masquerade.
This was my first year at SFCC and I was very impressed. There weren't quite as many panels I was interested in as I'd hoped, but there was an excellent range of local artists and illustrators in the vendor's hall and Moscone West is well laid out for people watching and photos.
SFCC was a much larger con than Wizard World Sac and the diversity of cosplays was awesome! Of course, there was still a strong showing of Deadpools and Harley Quinns and more than a few Wonder Women and Reys (myself included), but so many underrepresented fandoms too! Not only did I encounter three other Kaylees (all Jumpsuit Kaylees, but still awesome), but three different Malcolm Reynolds and a Wash! I also saw three different Battlestar cosplayers (a Starbuck, a Boomer, and a general Viper pilot), some fantastic Moanas (plus a Te Ka and a Sharkhead Maui!), and an Eggs from Boxtrolls! I was so impressed with everyone (particularly the eight year old Wonder Woman and the seven year old Sabine from Star Wars Rebels who'd made their own armor!) and I had a fantastic time seeing what everyone had come up with. I even skipped out on several panels to just watch all the amazing costumes come and go.
There were quite a few Beetlejuice cosplayers, but this one was my favorite!
I did enter the costume contest on Saturday (in the Shindig dress again) - I'm getting better about being in front of a crowd, but it's slow going. This masquerade was larger than the last one and included a prejudging session, where you were able to actually speak to the judges about the work you put into the cosplay and they could see it up close. It also ultimately streamlined there main event, for which everyone was grateful. Someone must have misjudged a bit in the setup, because the backstage area was very tight and we all end up packed in like sardines and roasting hot. I was fortunate enough to meet some amazing creators and awesome humans in the contest line up regardless and it was a very positive experience overall.
My cosplays did fairly well throughout the weekend, for the most part. Rey held up fine, but I was stepped on pretty severely in my Shindig dress and I'll ultimately want to replace the bottom ruffle. The Elsa dress has a few loose seams in the train (another unfortunate side effect of being stepped on) that will need to be addressed and I did forget a wig cap for my Elsa wig. I ended up abandoning the wig halfway through the day - it looked dreadful and just wasn't worth it. Much to my displeasure, it looks as though I'm going to need a new Elsa wig - the fibers on my current one don't hold a style well and tangle terribly.
And that's it for summer cons this year! Hope everyone had as excellent a summer as I did!