Griffith (Berserk)/18th Century Aristocratic Men's Costume (France)
Griffith was created
because I love
Berserk. One of my friends got me hooked on it because she thought
that it was the best thing ever. I resisted. I pushed. I eventually watched it.
And found it to be one of the more interesting fantasy animes I have ever seen.
Sadly the character that I looked most like
was Griffith. And he is just evil. Fascinating, but evil. (OK, probably my favorite
character, but do I really want to cosplay satan, no matter how interesting he is?
So I resisted. I did everything that I could to avoid being him.
But then I got into this phase where my prefered
way of dealing with stress was to make costumes. So I made an Imperial Officer costume.
And then decided to make Griffith. Obstensibly, it was for Yaoi-Con, because I wanted to
do a bishonen. But really it was because I liked the character, look sort of like him,
and had yet to see him done well. So I figured that it wouldn't be hard to have a great (if not
the best, at least one of the better) Griffith.
Griffith also led to one of my favorite "silly" skits.
Which I did at Yaoi-con, of course. There I managed to rope my friends Melissa and Devin into
being my Guts and Caska and sang I Don't Know How to Love Him from Jesus Christ Superstar to Devin.
While harassing him, of course. As Melissa, as Caska cried in the corner. It was very funny. If only more people had gotten it!
Incidentally, I owe this idea to my fantastic brother Chris, who originally did it for a drama class. He apparently had to sing a song to someone,
and so picked his best friend and sang "I Don't Know How to Love Him" to his friend. He coached me on getting the right fake tenor and doing moves including
a fake lowering of a head for "Should I bring him down?" followed by a hip thrust. My lovely, wacky family...
Incidentally, the coat is a lot harder than it looks.
Hurrah! It's my first actual advanced pattern. Griffith, in fact, was a fairly challenging costume, harder
than anything I'd done other than Armitage and Lord Golden. (I get so little credit...) I had a lot of fun with the details.
The pockets are actually functional. And the buttons on the coats all have Hawks on them (an in joke for fans of the series).
Because I loved the coat (the hard part of the costume) so well, I posed in only it. Tee he.
Incidentally, the costume is also an 18th century upper class male's costume. So sooner or later I'll have to pose it with my Rose of Versailles costume.
Incidentally, I also made the Caska costume for this skit. Her ballroom gown should be listed in the Anime and Fantasy sections of this page.
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