Fursuits
To get a bit closer to one's character, some Furries use a disguise that they either
have built themselves or was manufactured by someone else. I made such a fursuit
myself, too, and would like to introduce it to you. If you want to know more about
fursuits you should visit http://www.fursuit.de/.
There is plenty of information about fursuits and related topics.
The suit is built to be an anthropomorphic polar fox. However, it doesn't resemble
my own character, as you might have thought. Redfur has, as his name suggests, red
colored fur, except for the belly and tail tip, where it's white. But the suit is
completely white (except the lower arms and legs). Because it was my first fursuit
project I wanted to keep it simple to prevent running into great problems already
at the beginning. Right now I'm working on a second suit that will match my character
more closely.
In the background you can see a part of another fursuit. This is
Snowflox, a suit built by
Furvan .
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As I said before, the suit is built very simple. It mostly consists of 13 by 5 feet
of white and 3.5 by 5 feet of black fake fur that is separated in half of long and
short pelt. The head was built from a cheap face mask I glued white fur onto. I
fastened the lenses of a pair of old sunglasses behind the eye holes. This for one
causes the impression of real eyes and secondly prevents people from looking into
the suit through the holes.
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The front paws consist of a pair of cheap gloves, the top covered with fake fur,
too. Then I fastened plastic claws to the tips of the fingers. To make the hind
paws I used a pair of old slipper-socks. I cut away most of the fabric to half
an inch from the sole. Then I sewed the long black fake fur to the remainder of
the fabric and they were done. To prevent the fur on the legs from slipping up
out of the shoes I made some straps to run under the feet, that keep the fabric
in place.
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Finally, the tail is a simple fake fur tube, made from four parts, that is kept
upright by a wire construction. I had to take care to keep the weight of the tail
as low as possible, otherwise the wire would bend. In the meantime I improved the
construction to make it a lot stronger. Details about the improvements are in the
Tail Story.
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The suit is built to be an anthropomorphic polar fox. However, it doesn't resemble
my own character, as you might have thought. Redfur has, as his name suggests, red
colored fur, except for the belly and tail tip, where it's white. But the suit is
completely white (except the lower arms and legs). Because it was my first fursuit
project I wanted to keep it simple to prevent running into great problems already
at the beginning. Right now I'm working on a second suit that will match my character
more closely.
