Happy Throwback Thursday, y’all~ I’m back with another entry on my Cosplay Timeline series~ As always, if y’all have been keeping up with my blog, thank you so much for reading about my trips down memory lane. This entry covers cosplay #4, done back in the fall of 2005.
Character: Princess Peach, Nintendo
Age: 17~ A couple weeks into being 17~
-Senior in high schoolFirst Worn To: Halloween 2005
Also Worn To: None
Why Them?: My friends and I planned to do a Super Mario group of Mario, Luigi, Peach, and Bowser for Halloween at school.
Thoughts: I really loved being her! High school Java was super into being *~*~*KAWAII*~*~* and was also into Disney princesses/princess personas in general. In short, I was preeeetty jazzed about being a pretty princess for a day.
Status: Retired
Would I Cosplay Again?: She was fun, but I currently have no plans on revisiting her. If I were to, I would absolutely tackle her Smash Bros. dress, maybe in a different colorway though.
Halloween 2005 happened during my senior year of high school. Seeing as this would be our last Halloween together before we all broke off on our separate ways after graduation, my group of friends and I thought that we should absolutely go with a really awesome group costume. We settled on a Super Mario group of Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach, and Bowser. The roles were hella easy. Being into princesses at the time, I claimed Peach immediately.
Getting the costume together was super, super easy, since I had seen a cute Princess Peach costume being sold at Halloween stores. The costume I wound up getting was the Leg Avenue one. Lmao, my first and only ever “sexy Halloween costume”, but I didn’t even wear it to be sexy lol. The photo on the bag featured a petticoat to wear under the skirt, but I felt it wasn’t really necessary.
Peach is also the second costume I’ve ever had to wear a wig for. The wig I got was labeled as a “Peggy Sue” wig. It was actually the second choice. The first one I got was a “cheerleader” wig that had a built in headband sewn in. I did not like how it looked on me at all, so I went back to the Halloween store with my dad to return it. The store couldn’t do returns, but said that I could exchange it for another wig of equal price. And so I got the Peggy Sue one as it was the only one that was of similar price. The blonde shoulder-length bob wasn’t very accurate to Peach at all. If I recall, I wished I could have gotten a longer one, but I had to take what I could get. At that point, I was just satisfied that I had the blonde hair.
The rest of the costume came about super easily. I just followed the suggested image that came in the Leg Avenue bag. I already had white tights and black Mary Janes at home. Unlike the previous Halloween costumes, I (my mom actually) did not have to stay up late the night before I had to wear it do some last minute work on it. It was quite refreshing actually lol.
This is the exact photo that came with my Peggy Sue wig. Halloween stores nowadays have a new, updated photo for this wig though.
LOOK AT HOW FUCKING CUTE WE WERE. I specifically remember suggesting we reference a Fruits Basket manga illustration for our pose here.
Princess Peach in class~ This photo and the photo above were taken by the computer teacher/school photographer and I definitely took these photos from my high school website years ago lmao.
The morning of Halloween, I put on my costume and my mom did my makeup for me. I felt so prettyyyy~ As stated above, I was really into Disney princesses/princess personas then, so I was ecstatic to be in this costume. My last Halloween in high school wound up being really nice. My friends and I had SO much fun in our little Super Mario group. As opposed to anime, Mario is a lot more well-known to people, so others actually knew who were were. We were super recognizable when it was the three (our Bowser sadly didn’t work out) of us together, so we got a lot of compliments. When I was alone, people thought I was just a generic princess/not any particular princess, but that was fine. I loved Disney princesses, so I didn’t mind just looking cute and wearing a crown.
I don’t remember what we did after school that year. Knowing us, we probably just hung out together? Maybe got some dinner??? I truly don’t remember lmao.
Also, on a semi-related note, for this Halloween specifically, I remember my senior year all got together to do a mass group costume. Not everyone wanted to do it, but I’d say about maybe 75% of my senior class was a white sheet ghost that year lmao. It was a cute, funny idea and it was really amusing to see so many people just sitting wrapped up in white sheets in class.
I no longer have the Leg Avenue costume in my possession. Several years after I wore it, I wound up passing down the dress to a younger cousin, who actually ended up using it for a Princess Bubblegum Halloween costume. I kept the white gloves from the costume, just because you never know when you’ll need elbow length white gloves for another cosplay (👀 we’ll put a pin in this for now). I also kept the plastic crown from this set, mostly because I wanted to keep using it and I guess for nostalgia/as a souvenir (👀 we shall also put a pin in this for later). Uhhh, I don’t remember what happened to that Peggy Sue wig. I probably let it go really early though.
I had a lot of fun as Princess Peach and I loved recollecting the memories from this day. As much as I loved being her though, I don’t really see myself ever cosplaying her again. She doesn’t really fit into any of the types of characters I cosplay nowadays. Doing these past few entries made me realize that I did a pink-themed cosplay during my last three years of high school lol. My next entry shall commence my cosplay journey throughout my late high school/college years era, which I’m excited to cover. The next costume was a very formative one for me and I’m really looking forward to sharing it.