Altering Clothes for Cosplay

If you are new to cosplay and don't know how to sew (or you just stink at sewing), you are going to love the idea of altering clothing. We all know that there are tons of wicked awesome characters to cosplay who have wicked awesome crazy outfits but there are also characters who have much simpler outfits--outifts that you can make either completely with everyday clothing or by altering everyday clothing--and are still wicked awesome. Just to start you off and show you what I mean, here are some examples of cosplays you can make by buying and/or altering everyday clothing:

• Androids 17 and 18 from Dragon Ball Z
• Many Death Note characters (Light, L, Near, etc.)
• Fate/Zero masters also generally have ordinary clothing (hold of on the servants however as they are much more difficult to make)
• Pokémon characters (especially from the earlier seasons if you don't want to deal with the ridiculous hair)
• Ouran High School Host Club (the casual outfits in that show are fairly simple)
• Homestuck 

Hope this helps! MadDog out!