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Drying and airing out Suits
gwyndolium:
--- Quote from: Suran on 17.06.2009, 18:50:54 ---There is a hardware store about 20-30min by car.
They sell large fans. ;)
(Got mine there last year.)
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I'll see if I need one as my head doesn't for sure. Only my body needs to get some air but I can turn it inside out so it dries pretty quick when hanging on the closet. I'll find out with experience ^_^
First con, with suit, big surprise!
Lokosicek:
I apologise if this question has been asked before, but will this year's headless lounge be in the same room as last year? Given the increasing number of fursuiters, that is. However, the room sufficed last year, and as I remember correctly, the lounge itself was overcrouded only on three occasions. The two dances and the fursuit parade.
timduru:
If it's the same location, it might be a good idea for people to not leave their suits and boxes in the lounge when they are not active ;)
If fursuiters could be reasonable this year that would be good.
Having drying systems and hanger in the lounge might seems like a good idea, but it's not the case when there are not enough space and not enough fans.
It was a challenge to just be able to enter the lounge during peak times like dances last year, because of all the space eaten by the suits and gear left in the lounge by inactive suiters.
So this year with the increased number of suiters... yikes..
And when the lounge is full of old smelly and dried suit overnight,
it is not really nice when you are still active in fursuit and in need of a fan to find a full raw of hanged suits in front of fans and so on
or unable to use the head driers because there are constantly heads on them etc..
that is, heads from inactive suiters who went to bed and left their stuff in there, and that will simply stay there unatended...
So please try to be reasonable and get your suits / heads out of the drying systems as soon as they are dry !
Ideally it should be 2 separate rooms, one for drying/storage and one to use as the real fursuit lounge, that is when you are still in your fursuit and active.
Even with 2 rooms, if people leave their stuff in the storage room all the time, it'll be a problem,
but at least the real fursuit lounge could be used correctly ;)
On a side note, I think overall fursuiters leaving their stuff were very lucky,
because it already happened that there were stolen fursuit at other conventions.
Leaving your stuff unattended like that in the lounge which is on the ground floor with open windows/direct access, is just calling for trouble imho.
Lokosicek:
Tis true that the lounge was full of suit last year, but imagine what a bother it would be carrying your suits up to your room, and down to lounge, and up again, and down again, and up, down, up, down, etc. Sometimes is very usefull to be able to suit up very quickly, should there be opportunity to do fursuit fun of some kind.
As per leaving the heads on the dryers, you has teh truth. Most of them were left there unattended, even though they were already dry. As per thefts, yeah we were lucky...
timduru:
--- Quote from: Lokosicek on 02.07.2009, 22:50:01 ---Tis true that the lounge was full of suit last year, but imagine what a bother it would be carrying your suits up to your room, and down to lounge, and up again, and down again, and up, down, up, down, etc.
Sometimes is very usefull to be able to suit up very quickly, should there be opportunity to do fursuit fun of some kind.
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Well let's put it another way: imagine every fursuiter doing that.
I for example tend to bring 3 fursuits to EF.
What if, because I don't want to bother carrying my fursuit back to my room, I leave all my 3 suits in the lounge too?
I personally leave my suit to dry into my room, I don't leave them in the lounge,
but imagine if all 250+ suiters were leaving their suits in the lounge...
I would consider it kinda normal for fursuiters who are in the overflow hotel and don't have a friend's room in the main hotel to store their stuff, to have that kind of behaviour.
But come on, if you are in the main hotel, the EF hotel is not big, you can bring back your suit to your room
it's a matter of a few minutes !
You should not leave it in the lounge just because "you don't want to bother".
It's a lounge not a depot.
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