Seraph Costume

My best friend could easily dress up as Seraph from the Matrix, because Seraph is our favorite Matrix character and mainly because my friend is Chinese. We both also think that my best friend could play the role quite well so he’s getting a Seraph costume this year. And I’ll go as one of the other Matrix characters!

To dress up in a Seraph costume for Halloween, he will go and get a pair of round black lens sunglasses, and get a hair cut to about the same length as the character in the movie. He then plans to go look for his attire in China town, because that is the only place that he knows he can go to get anything Chinese or Asian. But I also suggested that we look online too.

If it were me, I would look for a martial arts shop and buy. He should be able to get most of his costume from that place. It may not be of high quality but it should do for Halloween. Once I get to the store I would look for a white Chinese kung fu shirt similar to the one that the character wears in the movie, and then I would look for some black Kung Fu trousers to go with it as well and a maybe a white waist cloth to tie it together around the waist.

Then we will go look for some black slipper like shoes with dark soles. All of these should not cost too terribly much. I would then go get a black t-shirt from a cheaper shop to wear underneath the white kung fu shirt.

Next, I would then go look for two semi automatic pistols (unloaded of course). Of course he will not be stupid enough to try to get real fire arms – instead I would go online and look for some air soft or bb pellet guns or even toy guns if they were the right ones.

For a few additional extras for his Seraph costume I would also get two black semi automatic pistols (unloaded of course), which I would hide behind me, tucked away in his trousers with handles above the waist, so I can reach back and pull them out with ease.

However if you wanted a better costume, and you had the means, you could go to Hong Kong and get a tailored Chinese shirt, with the black cloth underneath, allowing you to wear it as a black shirt or a white shirt. I would also get the trousers tailored too, so that they will fit better, and the quality of the material would be higher too.

The second thing I would also get would be the shoes, which he wears which are white slipper like sandals, but black ones would work too. I would probably be able to find them somewhere in Hong Kong or maybe even online from a martial arts store.

The last item I would need to complete this Seraph costume is a large number of old keys, like Seraph had in the movie, where he opened the doors to the Oracle for Neo. After that we will have the complete get up for a truly perfect Seraph costume.

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