The Turkey nurse costume~

[Wyu]

Thank you Turkey for the fantastic, and great fitting proper cotton nurse costume you sponsored. Don't forget to mention that it is actually the second costume as the first one didn't fit well. Had to find an ebay seller to custom make one to fit properly. I'll be taking more pictures in it later, meantime the pics are up on the main site for preview. Tell us your thoughts Turkey ;)

This is the original design for the costume


**Turkey is asleep when this thread was started, but has been notified to give a response. This comment will be removed later ^_^**

[mechataku]

hmm, is it just me, or does the IRL pics not match up with the anime pics? heck, i think just the hat and the 3 buttons at the collar are the only real similarities...


also, wouldn't this go under "showcase your pics", since you plan on showcasing pics wearing the outfit?

[Dan]

hmm, is it just me, or does the IRL pics not match up with the anime pics? heck, i think just the hat and the 3 buttons at the collar are the only real similarities...


also, wouldn't this go under "showcase your pics", since you plan on showcasing pics wearing the outfit?

I think the skirt in the drawing is a bit shorter than what they're supposed to be. Not to mention anime and manga style makes everything a bit more sharp and profound than the rounded look of the real life costume.

I think this is in the right spot, it's not showing off her own pictures, it's showing off a picture. Completely different. :P

[Wyu]

The real version of the nurse uniform looks like it is taken right out of the drawing.
Turkey was already very strict on the criteria when he looked for the costume, I think its rather incredible that an exact match can be found. Usually costumes need to be custom made because they don't exist.
Maybe the drawing was based on this style of uniform.

What isn't the same anyway, the skirt has been shortened in the preview pictures posted.
Please note that one is a drawing and one is a photograph.

[randle76]

What a great costume
Thanks for posting the pictures and big thanks to Turkey for sponsoring it.!

I just love all the little finishing touches like the name badge, the clipboard and the watch - they really set it off.
Nice shoes as well.

[turkey]

BACKGROUND OF THE ANIME NURSE COSTUME
In the late 1990s, a mobile telecoms provider in "Little-Red-Dot" Singapore — M1 — launched a SMS dating game where mobile phone users could woo any (or all) of four female, computer-controlled avatars. One of these personalities was a nurse called Angel. Angel the Nurse was unique among the four personalities because I had never seen any nurse with her style of uniform in "Little-Red-Dot" Singapore, or any other country for that matter.

By the early 2000s, I had become interested in the game due to the publicity it had been receiving in The Straits Times. I was not a M1 subscriber, but the Flash website at that time advertising the game was still accessible to non-subscribers. I was therefore able to take screenshots of Angel the Nurse for posterity. Without any further leads as to where her uniform came from, I gave up the ghost and relegated the matter to one of the unsolved mysteries of the universe.

Fast-forward to the mid-2000s, when I chanced upon the website for MedicalToys.COM. They sell, among other things, authentic nurse uniforms of the sort worn by American and British nurses in the old days. On a hunch, I e-mailed the proprietress, Nurse Practitioner Laural WOOD, the screenshot of Angel the Nurse taken so long ago, and asked if she was familiar with the style of nurse uniform featured in the picture. To my surprise, she responded that the style of uniform featured in the picture was very much remniscient of that in uniforms which were still worn by Japanese nurses today!

A search for Japanese medical uniforms led me to Costume City, which sold a myriad of costumes both medical and otherwise. I couldn't natively read any of the Japanese text on the website, but I did know how to click on pictures. Carefully perusing the medical uniform images, I could hardly believe my eyes when I found — in the ElenaCare / Yuki Torii catalogue — a near-exact, real-life version of the uniform worn by Angel the Nurse! A mystery of the universe had been solved!

Of course, it was not until the late-2000s that I realised M1 was actually a subsidiary company of Hutchinson, which was a company based in Hong Kong. In fact, the SMS dating game released by M1 in "Little-Red-Dot" Singapore was originally developed by Hutchinson and released in Hong Kong first. Therefore, this is not a case of "Little-Red-Dot" Singapore programmers incorporating a newly invented style of nurse uniform into their SMS dating game, but merely a case of Hong Kong programmers incorporating an existing style of nurse uniform into their SMS dating game.

[Wyu]

Hehe, thats a very nice story Turkey, looks like this nurse cosplay has a very deep meaning for you ^_^
You did chased after it for such a long time.
Has the seach ended for you? Or is your ultimate goal making the nurse your life partner~
I did hear of the dating game sometime ago, but I thought its only a gimmick to make subscribers spend their credit, like many other telco entertainment features so I didn't pay much attention to you.
I'm really amazed at how a game like this can grew into such an interesting story and eventually I became a part of it~^_^

Thanks for that Turkey,
You didn't gave any comments or things you will like to see about the costume.
Now that I know that it has a long history for you, I should try to look as much as Angel and name the nurse Angel afterall right?
Did you notice that the original skirt lenght is a lot longer than the one Angel is wearing? Apart from shortening it, the rest are quite similiar is it? The sleeves of the original costume is only past elbow. The one Angel is wearing looks sligjtly longer, but I guess its still "past elbow"... thats fine right?
So is everything ok? Need to change anything?

Btw, what is the name of the store your bought the costume again, the costume they make are sooo correct and communication was perfect. Did you gave them a positive rating yet?

[turkey]

Ha haah hah! What is the correct answer to a question like that?

Q: How do you make a cartoon nurse your life partner?

A: Marry a computer!

Yes, I suppose you could say that the search has ended for me...and the final stages of the search were quite punishing ones, as well. It is true that the dating game is a trick to make subscribers rack up their fees, but in this case, we have managed to subvert its purpose and make something out of it that the game developers didn't intend! Ha haah hah!

I'm not picky about the character name...Angel is very likely to be a Hong Kong style of name, so it doesn't really serve to identify the background of the cosplay, unless of course you came up with a really unwieldy name like Angel the Nurse M1 SMS Dating Game Costume! Just be yourself and the spirit of the character (if any) should automatically rub off on you.

The original skirt length of the nurse uniform is naturally longer since it is an actual hospital uniform. I guess you can play around with the length of the hem as much as you like since you have a sewing machine and actually know how to use it! The sleeve lengths are already to my liking — I have a feeling that the artists who drew the cartoon nurse weren't paying much attention to proportion of sleeve lengths when they were drawing her for the M1 SMS dating game. If there's anything I'd like to see, it's probably what the back view of the nurse uniform looks like. That's something that hasn't been shown in either the drawing or the real-life catalogue photos.

The User ID of the seller and name of the seller's store on e-Bay that you are looking for is as follows:-

Seller User ID: afreedog2005

Store: 129820

Oh yah, I can't give them a positive rating on e-Bay because the nurse uniform was actually ordered from them outside of the e-Bay system! From e-Bay's point-of-view, it's as if this transaction never happened!

[Wyu]

Hehe... so you didn't buy anything from ebay then.. its a pity, Couldn't have given them a positive feedback for such a good job.
This seller is definitely good.. followed my instructions and measurements perfectly. Will consider buying from them again.

I think calling this Angel Nurse costume is fine... its Angel inspired afterall. So you think the lenghts of the sleeves and skirt are ok now? I'll leave it as it is then~^_^
OOooh, so you want pictures of the baaack~
The scared baaaack... ^_^ Its an embarassing spot to see but... hehe okie.. I'll do it... just for you~<3
No monsters hiding back there^_^

[turkey]

Yeah, the idea is to have front, side and back profile pictures of the costume so that one can get maximum understanding of what it is like just by looking at flat, 2-D images. The sleeve length is okay, but the skirt length could be a little longer like what we discussed over MSN.

I know it will take time to alter the skirt length again, so you can do it according to your own schedule. In the meantime, I will be sponsoring special stockings (medical stockings for a medical nurse) and gloves (to make the costume look more cool) for you. The stockings come from places like BrightLifeDirect.COM and NewLook.COM.SG, but...where do the gloves come from?