why is pokémon fashion SO unhinged?

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"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

"Paldea is unequivocably the worst decision the franchise has made by making school uniforms we can only accessorize" PREACH

"There are over 250 trainer classes, and that wouldn't be a very fun video to watch" Clearly you haven't seen my Youtube history.

"This bad boy can fit so many historical eras in it" is my entire design aesthetic

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 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

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! 🖤

Love how consistent the quality of your content is while maintaining these run times, and my adhd brain appreciates the noticeable play speed increase.

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.

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.

Galar really missed out on a great chance… KILTS! I wanted to play a Scottish boy being the most incompetence possible.

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 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

An entomologist trying to develop a clownsona makes me feel a little called out

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.

ORAS Wallace with Trixie/Katya's "Hi gay!" Took me out good lord 😅

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)

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

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