We are out of the office until Tuesday, September 3, 2010 on business. We will have a nice big tracking post for you then, complete with some orders shipped earlier this week! Have a great weekend everyone!

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We have had a minor snafu in the past couple days with a virus attacking the crap out of our office computer! So outgoing emails have been a bit delayed as we now have to re-install. If you don’t hear back from us by tomorrow please re-submit your email to us just in case!

99% of the unanswered emails are safe and we are responding asap!

And NO customer information is gone. So don’t worry!

Just a quick heads up since we are not in the office majority of the weekend: All remaining AX orders are going out over the weekend so expect to hear from us by Monday with tracking info.

While you wait to hear back from us take a look at our new video!

Wow, It’s been a while since we did one of these!! Here are a TON of usps.com tracking numbers!

Morris CQ 006 331 898 US
A Luise LJ 643 009 873 US
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T Smith CQ 341 618 079 US
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Check out these incredible new store items!

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You can find our costumes, and petticoats, and all new findings here:
http://www.limebarbstores.com/cosplaydressup/
Our new “gloves” section is here:

http://www.limebarbstores.com/cosplaydressup/?page_id=667

Please take a moment and check it out!

Hey Everyone!

We cleaned out some of our information in our quote request form, because we reached our file storage limit!! Eek!! So if you had any trouble submitting a quote request in the past couple of days, we’re very sorry! The form is working fine now, so if your request did not go through, please feel free to re-submit it! ^-^ Sorry again for any inconvenience!

Alright, we are closing in with limited availability for Otakon orders!!
Don’t forget to place your order by June 20th if you want it in time for the con! ^-^

Hey Everyone! We hope you;re having an awesome Memorial Day! (Its suuuuper stormy here!) We just wanted to make a quick update to let you know we are adding tracking numbers to a lot of our paypal transactions, so if you receive an email about an order we shipped you already please do not be alarmed. Paypal’s system automatically sends a notification once tracking is included, even if its months later! So feel free to disregard it if you already have your order.

Have a great holiday! ^-^

We want to take a moment to celebrate the works of some of our favorite character designers in the industry. We hope you will do this with us by joining in on our poll about which is your fave!

Check back at a future time for other fave designers we plan on highlighting! ^_~

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Yoshitaka Amano has worked in the industry since the mid 1960s starting his career as an animator. … He is well known as the character designer for the early final fantasy games, and was brought back to design for final fantasy 9 to give it the nostalgic appeal of the classic Final fantasy games.  He is also well known as a fine artist and has had gallery showings in Japan and New York, among other locations. He takes a lot of influence from American super hero and fantasy work and is well known and highly celebrated for his flowy gestural style and love of vibrant patterns across epically draped clothing!

Selected Character Design Works: Gatchaman, Vampire Hunter D,  Final Fantasy I, II, III, IV, V, VI, IX
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Hyung-Tae Kim is a designer from Korea. He started his career in the video game industry working in background music, eventually switching to design. He work is created mostly on the computer but he is known for his beautiful use of oil-like coloring and shading techniques.  Kim describes his own style as ‘exaggerated’, choosing to ignore accurate anatomy to enhance the feel and flow of the character. A lot of his characters feature garments and headdresses inspired from traditional Korean clothing with a fantastical twist.

Selected Character Design Works: Magna Carta, War of Genesis: Tempest, War of Genesis III and War of Genesis III: Part 2, the upcoming Blade & Soul
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Tetsuya Nomura began his longstanding career with Squaresoft as a debugger for the Final Fantasy Series. He eventually moved to monster design, and eventually up the ranks to character designer.  Nomura perfers 3D renders to hand illustrations, and participates in the creation of the graphics in order to make sure his designs turn out how he wanted. He is known for being very stylish in real life, and his own love of fashion makes it way into his character designs. A lot of his characters have stylish hair styles and jewelry, and take influence from trendy urban street-wear.

Selected Character Design Works: Parasite Eve, The Bouncer, Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2, Final Fantasy VII,VIII,X, XI, XII
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The Project Soul Design Team has created designs for Soul Caliber that have always been quite complex and epic. The game is set in a fantastical version of Earth’s past, with characters from all around the world. Most character designs have an element of historical clothing from their country of origin, but bear sharply into the realm of fantasy … and skin showing! And we say that both for females and males, who can ignore Voldo’s notorious butt cleavage?

The team starts by deciding weapon, gender, and basic character details, and fills in from there. Once the details are in place the whole design is fleshed out by Aya Takemura or Takuji Kawano, the team’s concept artists. The 3D rendering for each character is a team effort, with a small group of people dedicated to working solely on the character.

Selected Character Design Works: Soul Edge and Soul Calibur Game Series

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We were featured in Chicago Scene for costuming a burlesque number for a charity event. We were hired by the Danny Clark Foundation to provide a set of 9 burlesque costumes for an epic dance performance, which was the main point of entertainment for the evening. We also attended, saw the show with our own eyes, and met foundation members. Danny Clark is a famous NFL star, who runs a charity in his off time. You can learn all about it here: http://www.dannyclarkfoundation.com/home.html

Group shot of all the great dancers in the performance along with Barb and FeFe

Barb and FeFe pose with Danny Clark on the red carpet!

The performers in action!

This event was featured in Chicago Scene Magazine