Not sure how this will be taken... (Topic is on Fursuits)

[fesworks]

But I was curious to know if anyone here uses fursuits, and as to where you get them?

[Aridas]

All I know about fursuits is that they're expensive.

[superluser]

All I know about fursuits is that they're expensive.

Well, I wouldn't know a fursuit from a hole in the ground, but I do remember my mother sewing a bunny costume (I think) for one of my siblings for Halloween lo these many years ago.  If you can get a copy of a pattern, you can get the fabric from your local crafts store, and probably resize it to fit you.  Shouldn't be more than $50, depending on the fabric and how elaborate you want to make it.

[Aridas]

it depends on the quality of the work too... and who you're going to... and if you're looking for something specific...

[Zedd]

I know a few good places to shop http://bladespark.topcities.com/costume/ and http://lacy.timduru.org/ GOod luck ^^

[Zorro]

http://www.fursuit.org/

Two basic methods.

#1 build it yourself.

#2 pay a big pile of money for a good one.

Or the other option.

#3 pay a few hundred dollars for a suck one.

[fesworks]

Wow, a better responce than I thought!

Yea, I think I'd suck too much to make a full suit on my own... well, with the amount of clothing I'd be wearing with it, I may be able to make the body.. but the head I would totally have to buy... though I doubt people do that seperatly?

anyway, thanks loads! I'll check out those sites!

-Fes

[fesworks]

wow, nice sites!

yea, I was totally figuring around $1,000... but looks like a Partial suit is what I'm looking at since I'd wear clothes.

Definetly will have to save up a bit

[Alan Garou]

Fursuits... They're cool, but they're infuriatingly cute. I mean, when's the last time you saw one that was actually scary? Somebody please show me one, because I'm drowning in the cute. 

[xHaZxMaTx]

That's actually a very good question.  I Googled 'scary fursuit' and got only 5 results, none of which were scary.

[fesworks]

I'm sure if you googled "werewolf suit" or costume you'd find it... a werefolf would still technically be a furry... wouldn't it?


Also, I think this guy was pretty scared:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCrDgm_H678

[xHaZxMaTx]

Well frick, you'd be scared, too.

[Blazehawk]

There was a wicked looking manticore fursuit at MFF...I think the picture Jouster got of it is in the MFF thread he made.

I want one, but if I got one I would want it to be kinda realistic looking...and I would probably go with a partial just because I wanna show off my figure by wearing a tight dress or something.   

[Zedd]

http://f.420chan.org/f/src/furries.swf DANCE!

[fesworks]

There was a wicked looking manticore fursuit at MFF...I think the picture Jouster got of it is in the MFF thread he made.

I want one, but if I got one I would want it to be kinda realistic looking...and I would probably go with a partial just because I wanna show off my figure by wearing a tight dress or something.   

I was thinking about that with a partial.. I mean, you don't want the the clothes too snug and the fur too... furry... otherwise it would look like the clothes are suffocating you... or that its obvious that its a partial Either baggy clothes and/or adding extra layers or your own fur-body portion (could be crapily done since it would be hidden.)

But I have no idea.. I'm just guessing.

[Tiger_T]

I'm sure if you googled "werewolf suit" or costume you'd find it... a werefolf would still technically be a furry... wouldn't it?


Also, I think this guy was pretty scared:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCrDgm_H678

Trigger Happy TV is plain evil.

[GabrielsThoughts]

well, since I live in Las Vegas, where the close to 130 degree summer heat will  " kill" anyone who wears a fursuit if the redneck living in the desert doesn't  first.   I've only heard second hand rumors of your body heat increasing the temperature of a bodysuit 130% so you'd be better off not wearing one at all. I suggest you go to your local "Micheal's" retailer and pick up a canine or feline mask. You could also hire a professional body painter to let you roam the street naked, I've seen at least one woman do this, and they showed something simmilar on Ripley's. I don't think guys could get away with it  without a loin cloth or something.

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

The question is...

.. is the naked body one that people turn to look at, or one they turn away from to throw up?

I've found the people who want to go naked tend to be from the latter, whereas the people you'd like to see go naked tend to prefer to remain clothed...

.... oddly disappointing, that...

[Gabi]

Well, I played a tortoise for a little play we did in primary school and I made myself a shell out of fine cardboard. I don't know if that counts as a fur suit. And before that, I went to a costume party wearing butterfly wings when I was 6, and I played a pigeon at 2 kindergarden acts when I was 3 and 5. In all those cases I wore wings my mother made for me. I've never worn anything remotely close to the fur suits I saw at AC, though.

I also played water and a table when I was in school. Those were funny costumes too. The table was easy, all I had to do was put a table cloth on my back.

[Zedd]

The only thing next to dress as an animal in life of me..Was the cow in jack in the beanstalk....One Line...Enter cow...And say..Moo...

[fesworks]

The only thing next to dress as an animal in life of me..Was the cow in jack in the beanstalk....One Line...Enter cow...And say..Moo...

As long as you delivered the line with heart


speaking of school plays, I was "Old Blue" in "Where the Red Fern Grows"... it was a terrible costume, expecially compared to the main kid's dogs' costumes... oh well.. I was also Bully #2 and sound effects (with my mouth).

[Zedd]

Did mention they used the yellow sticky tape on my fuzzy head and paper cups and color paper...Oh yeah...Real cow action

[fesworks]

Did mention they used the yellow sticky tape on my fuzzy head and paper cups and color paper...Oh yeah...Real cow action

Like I said, as long as you deliver... with heart



EDIT: By the way, does anyone have any other suggestions of people that can make suits? I got the two links above, plus the resource site, but I was wondering if anyone else can recommend creators, specifically.

[Zedd]

Jax the bat might help abit...

[GabrielsThoughts]

you might want to avoid costumes provided for mall employees, I remember one year this guy's bunny suit smelled like rotten eggs and popcorn...bleagh.

[Brunhidden]

ideological debate- fur suits made out of actual fur. loving the animal enough to dress like it yet wanting to skin them.

Save a tree, wipe your butt with an owl

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[superluser]

ideological debate- fur suits made out of actual fur. loving the animal enough to dress like it yet wanting to skin them.

Uh, why don't we debate something less prone to extreme opinions, like the Iraq War?

[Tapewolf]

ideological debate- fur suits made out of actual fur. loving the animal enough to dress like it yet wanting to skin them.

As long as the animal didn't die for its fur I don't see a problem.  There's a shop in Ambleside on the shores of Lake Windermere which sells stuffed animals, and (they claim) the animals all died of natural causes.

(Remembers the Gronks from 'Strontium Dog' in 2000AD, who believed that if they were skinned and turned into clothes when they died, that part of them would live on).

[xHaZxMaTx]

Just think of it as recycling.