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INTEREST: Yaya Han Debuts Cosplay Fabric Line

I cannot stress any further that you should absolutely not buy, or even touch this fabric. The fabrics are low quality, high priced, and cause negative skin reactions and rashes just from coming into contact with them.

Other than an aversion to lotions (they make my skin feel greasy), I have never had a skin condition in my life. Handling these fabrics make my hands get an itchy/burning feeling, akin to an allergic reaction. I know someone else whose hands turned bright red, and he said they felt on fire. He put on clear plastic gloves, and handling the fabric turned the gloves brown, which indicates there are chemicals on them.

Furthermore, they're not even that great of quality. The spandex fabrics are basically the same as the performance fabrics, except with a $5-10 price increase.

Also, every single one of them is "hand wash only," many of them adding "separately" to the tag. I've heard reports of many of the metallic spandex having the metallic sections separate apart from the fabric upon washing (or even just unfolding it).

Question - is this fabric for all body types, or is she continuing her philosophy of body-shaming by not letting anyone larger than a size 0 purchase it?

However, I wonder why are people giving her heat for selling allegedly "low-quality" cosplay products? Perhaps she was simply unaware of them containing materials that could be harmful?

According to Yaya, all of the fabrics were chosen/inspected/etc. by her, so I am sure she's well aware they're low quality. She might not know about the allergic reactions (although I do know that people have brought it up on her fb page and some of those comments have been mysteriously deleted), but she's certainly well aware of the quality/price of them.

My goodness, that's not safe at all. How in the world is that fabric being sold?

What if we have no local tailors, and all we have are Joann and those super-Walmarts?

There's been a lot of hate for Heroes of Cosplay and YaYa Han long before this clothing line.

Also, there doesn't have to be harmful materials or chemicals in the fabric in order for people to have allergic reactions to them. Spandex isn't exactly a natural material. My wife is allergic to many dyes and other materials, that most people have no problem with.

As for the expense, well, as with all things branding you are paying for the name. It is up to the consumer whether the price and brand equates to quality. Nothing new there.

If YaYa Han is really doing something wrong, then the police need to be called. Otherwise I will just chalk this up to haters finding reasons to continue being haters.