This one's easy to explain. The girls of Outer Power, Inner Beauty agreed to limit ourselves to three group costumes this year, which makes sense when you consider there are three days of Otakon. We knew we had to do a Sailor Moon group, because that's the underlying foundation of our group (to say nothing of our name!) and we agreed pretty quickly that we'd want to do Magic Knight Rayearth again, because Reinii and Avian missed out last year. But what to do for the third day?
We all made lists of our favorite anime series, and Oh My Goddess! turned up on all of our lists. But what really got us to decide on it in the end was the fact that one of our favorite photographers, David Ng, counts the series as one of, if not the, his all-time favorites. In fact, all of his cameras are named after the three goddesses. After that, it was easy to see who I'd have to be...I have the perfect, um, assets to be Urd.
Avi made this for me pretty early into her costume-making-schedule for Otakon, and it came out wonderfully--I still stipulate that I must not know how to take my own measurements, because my costumes always seem to come out a little bit big. Luckily Avi was able to take it in for me Saturday night. My favorite aspect has to be the armbands she made for me somehow, they're just perfect and I can't help but wonder if I can't figure out a way to wear them in a non-cosplay setting...
The beauty of the costume aside, I think I make a pretty awful Urd. Heh. I'm way too pale. Still, it was fun to try something different for a change, and taking photos with the other goddesses made it all worthwhile.
