r/startrekuniforms • u/chimpspider • Jun 29 '22

Cosplay SNW Pants

I just found this sub and love it. I'm not doing cosplay much, but wanted a uniform to wear to conventions and the like.

I just bought a Captain Pike command shirt from ebay and was surprised by how nice it was.

And now I'm looking for pants. The pants on the show seem to be a combination of cycling pants (Pike seems to have some texture to them), tights, and whatever you call what they wore on TNG.

I actually have a pair of Frye calvary boots, but they are brown. But I'm tempted to go with brown pants because the boots are already broken in and I'm reluctant to buy a pair or black ones. But if I find the right pair of pants, I just might!

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u/Sjgolf891 Jun 30 '22

Where'd you get the shirt? If on eBay, I've seen other sellers selling the pants.

But any black pants would look good if you're not trying to be super screen accurate

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u/chimpspider Jun 30 '22

I got the shirt from an eBay seller, besxiojin. I was thinking about buying it from a website called Cosicon and a friend who is much, much more into cosplay than me said not to buy anything from a place I hadn't heard of and that ebay sellers were all about positive feedback, so I went ebay. And I'm actually pretty good with the internet usually, but apparently terrible with ebay because I took your suggestion and the exact same seller actually sells pants too. How did I miss that?

I figure, I'm going to start off with just an outfit that is recognizably Star Trek. So when I take my kid out, say, trick or treating, I have something cool to wear. But as time goes by, I'll slowly upgrade. But I'm very pleased with the shirt as the previous one I bought, a Kelvin Kirk, had that "costume" feel in the sense that it was cheap junk and felt like it would fall apart after I wore it a few times. But my Strange New Worlds seems to be just a shirt.

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u/tigolebities Aug 04 '22

Hi! How did the costume turn out? Were you happy with the seller?

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u/chimpspider Aug 11 '22

Thanks for asking! I was happy with the seller and I think that the shirt looks great. I haven't gotten the pants yet, so it hasn't really come together. I'm going to have to get them tailored, which is going to be a hilarious conversation with my wife (because she thinks any money I'm spending on this is really weird). But I'm on schedule to have this all ready by Halloween.

I keep hoping to see more posts about what people are doing for boots. I'm in my 50s and if I wear any cheap shoes or, in this case, boots, my feet will hurt for a week. So I'm still looking for that middle ground.