I forgot how this costume came about, since I will admit to anyone who mentions it that I simply loathe the Angel Sanctuary OAVs. Bad art, plot discrepancy with the manga, lack of background which assumes you know the story before it even starts... and a colorblind Rosiel with outfits his manga counterpart would have been ashamed to be seen in public wearing. (Case in point: the beige tent.)

When the oufit originally planned for Otakon fell through due to good sense (and torture at Anime Expo earlier that month wearing other vinyl Rosiel contraptions) I ended up with this OAV outfit, which is seen in only one frame (recreated in the photograph at right), but looked pretty and, more importantly, not too warm, a must in Baltimore summers.

This costume was made between Anime Expo and Otakon, at mach 2, with fabric from the remnants pile, which makes it one of my cheapest costumes ever. Unfortunately, I had to be very careful with my fabric since the remnants were too small to begin with and the fabric itself was very cheap and bunched unattratively at the seams.

Two boxes of 200 gray eyeholes were consumed in the making of this costume, each painstaikingly hammered in by hand, on my kitchen floor, which still bears the scars of this indignity. To keep the side of the legs open while having them loose, I used stiff plastic ribbon for the black ropes. As a little trivia, each pant leg took over 5 hours to make, most of them spent on the phone with Nicole who was working on her own costume.

To match my costume, Nicole made an OAV Katan (even grudgingly adding the green lining she despised) and Kendra made an OAV Alexiel, from the same scene. In a rather interesting coincidence, after never seeing OAV Alexiel at any convention, another girl had the same idea for Otakon. Her costume did not look finished though. Have a look at the first picture below for our small OAV group.