Carbon Costume

In the hit Netflix show Squid Game, a large group of contestants including Seong Gi-Hun and Kang Sae-Byeok are recruited to participant in a survival game show for a cash prize. As the contestants play creepy children’s games and suffer violent demises, the Squid Game staff keep silent watch. The guards wear uniforms made of red jump-suits and black mesh masks that conceal their faces and display mysterious circle, square, and triangle shapes.

Kang Sae-Byeok (Ho-Yeon Jung) is a main character in the Netflix South Korean survival drama, Squid Game. Having fled from North Korea, she is now in foster care with her little brother. Quiet yet clever, Sae-Byeok profits by pickpocketing, which she learned from the gangster Jang Deok-Su, who ends up being player 101. When she bumps into Gi-Hun, she pickpockets the money he won from gambling. She enters the Game as player 067 to afford a broker who can find and retrieve her parents from the north.

Seong Gi-Hun (Lee Jung-Jae) is the main character of the South Korean survival drama, Squid Game. He lives with his mother and works as a chauffeur. However, he owes many debts due to his gambling addiction, particularly betting on horse races. His daughter means the world to him, so when he learns she may be taken to the United States, Gi-Hun aims to get the money for custody. At the train station, he is approached man in a business suit, who asks him to play ddjaki. For each slap to the face, the man takes off one-hundred grand from his loss. When a bruised Gi-Hun finally wins, the man hands him a business card with a phone number. His desperation drives him to call and participate in the Game, where he becomes player 456.

GGK (voiced in Japanese by Misaki Kuno and in English by Mela Lee with singing vocals by Madison McFerrin) is a character in the anime series Carole and Tuesday.  GGK is an eccentric contestant on the Mars’ Brightest talent show, claiming to be a vessel through which the universe itself sings.  During her performances, her all black costume shimmers like it’s part of the fabric of the universe, while she claims the red dot on her forehead is actually her third eye.

Diana Barry (played by Dalila Bela) is the best friend of Anne Shirley Cuthbert and one of the main characters in the Netflix series Anne with an E.  Diana is a well-mannered, sweet person with a friendly personality.  Though less imaginative than her friend Anne, Diana appreciates Anne’s view of the world and enjoys their adventures together.  Diana has long dark hair she often adorns with a ribbon and is partial to shades of blue in her costuming.

What do you do when you’re nine years old and trying to make sense of the world after you lose your parents? You turn to stories. And what do you do when the chance to be like the heroes in your stories literally lands in your small town? You take up the challenge with your friends joining you along the way.

In Kid Cosmic, the Kid has an active imagination and a great sense of justice. He also, as it turns out, knows how to turn everyday clothes into a uniform fit for heroes. A shoulder length blonde wig give you the lanky locks Kid sports while yellow-tinted sunglasses and headphones with an antenna make up most of his accessories. A black cape and white baseball shirt with yellow sleeves pairs with black athletic shorts striped with white and blue sneakers to round out his uniform while a yellow leather holster and, of course, the green power stone are the final keys to the perfect Kid Cosmic cosplay.

Miles Wingrave (played by Benjamin Evan Ainsworth) is one of the children under the care of Dani Clayton in the Netflix horror series The Haunting of Bly Manor.  Miles and his sister Flora are orphans living under the care of their uncle, who spends as little time at their creepy country home as possible, relying instead on Dani and Mrs. Grose to care for the children in his absence.  Miles’ style includes a penchant for cozy-looking sweaters, which makes for a comfortable costume if you choose to emulate his wealthy country chic aesthetic.

Flora Wingrave (played by Amelie Smith) is the precious younger sister of Miles in the Netflix series The Haunting of Bly Manor.  Flora quickly befriends Dani Clayton when she arrives at Bly as the new governess.  She is a sweet child, though she can at times be rather off-putting and even a bit frightening.  Flora’s costumes often revolve around a sweet purple and pink palette, making for a “perfectly splendid” range of options to choose from when recreating her look.