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Questioner [PENDING REVIEW]

I've seen a lot of forum posts about the mistcloaks themselves. What is the standard wear underneath those? 

Brandon Sanderson [PENDING REVIEW]

So there isn't a lot of standardization, because Mistborn are rare and each Mistborn commissions their own cloak. Most of the time, I think you're going to find that they would wear a buttoning shirt with short sleeves. Probably something dark would be my guess, probably a dark gray. But it just really depends on the person.

Questioner [PENDING REVIEW]

Okay. I was thinking about working up a Mistborn cosplay...

Brandon Sanderson [PENDING REVIEW]

My theme for clothing other than the miscloaks was a look a little of... Dickensian London was my inspiration, so.

Questioner 1

I've been trying to figure out how to... make an Alethi dress with a safehound pouch without the hand being all bulky.

Questioner 2

Yeah, or looking like it's amputated.

Brandon Sanderson

There are people online who have done them and they look good.

Questioner 2

Yeah, I've looked them up. The problem is when you have the thing there, and because your putting things that are about the size of a marble, it ends up looking like there's a clump.

Brandon Sanderson

Oh yeah, it does. It does look-- it looks odd to our eyes. It's natural to them, if that makes any sense, but if you make it a little bit tighter, also we found that helps.

Questioner 2

But what it be unreasonable for it to go really long, because I was thinking that would be kind of pretty.

Brandon Sanderson

Yeah you could totally do a really long one.

Questioner [PENDING REVIEW]

How did you design the mistcloak cloaks?

Brandon Sanderson [PENDING REVIEW]

Because it looks cool, obviously!

Questioner [PENDING REVIEW]

It is highly impractical!

Brandon Sanderson [PENDING REVIEW]

Not if you're Mistborn! The only trouble we really had is stepping on the tassels. 

Questioner [PENDING REVIEW]

And getting tangled up in them.

Brandon Sanderson [PENDING REVIEW]

Well, a lot of the tassels, a lot of the ones for mistcloaks we've made, use thicker material in them, and they lie straighter, and they don't tangle nearly as much. As long as you don't make them too long, 'cause if you do, you step on them, particularly on stairs... We've got some costume persons that work-- you'll find, if you use a thicker, stronger material-- yeah.

Questioner

Is there any reference material for doing cosplay?

Brandon Sanderson

It depends on the costume that you want to make. We have lots for Stormlight Archive, less for other books. So if you want reference material for Stormlight costumes you can write us and we'll send you the concept art we are using.

Questioner

What was the best Steel Inquisitor cosplay that you've seen?

Brandon Sanderson

Probably, there was one I saw in Boston, where they had gone all out and done the spikes, with the reflective sunglasses on them. They actually looked down a spike at these sunglass things, and that looked really sharp.