Personal Narrative: My Hairs From High School

Something that I am the most proud of is when I made my fist cosplay. All my friends from high school are into cosplay; some of them even won awards for it! I had thought I was too unskilled to join in, and procrastinated dabbling in the art. However, this Halloween I finally decided to try it out by dressing up as Professor Layton (from the Professor Layton video game series). The most important aspect of the Professor was his signature top hat, which I had to figure out how to replicate. I consulted some online sources, some of which cited places where one could buy similar hats, but in the end, I decided to make the hat myself. I found a few tutorials on how to do it, but I ran into a problem: both tutorials required sewing, and I didn’t