Cosplay, or costume play, is a pasttime in which participants dress up and role enact like their favorite fantasy characters, whether they come from space epics like Star Wars or Star Trek, anime characters, Disney characters, popular fiction, or others. This is just a sampling of some of the more spectacular ones that might be encountered at Comic-Con or other gatherings where cosplayers might be in evidence.
Why cosplay? Well, it's a holiday from the dailyness of everyday life, where the rules of dress and decorum are relaxed to some degree. It's also a way of identifying with your favorite fantasy figures, be they astronautic, superheroine, mysterious, or even coyly sexy. It's a setting that is relatively permissve, without being or being seen as tawdry.
Next time you see something on cosplay, check out the imagination of the participants.
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| Royalty |
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| An appealing space costume |
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| Sailor Moon and Other Sailor Senshi |
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| Princess Lum |
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| Fran |
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| Nice costume |
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| Yoko |
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| Princess Leia |
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| Arita Shion |
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| Sailor Neptune and Sailor Uranus |
There is a group of cosplayers (if that's a word) that dresses amazingly here in Huntsville.
ReplyDeleteFrench Maid cosplay has been around for a long time.
ReplyDeleteThe three wearing bikini costumes are mighty easy on the eyes.
ReplyDeleteSailor Moon must be really big still.
ReplyDeleteStill popular by far.
DeleteIt looks like cosplay is an outlet for mild exhibitionistic tendencies.
ReplyDeleteYou might be right.
DeleteI play Princess Lum sometimes.
I'd do any of them.
ReplyDeleteI'm going to dress like Donna Noble...
ReplyDeleteI think anything that stretches the imagination and brings out the creative side within us is a great thing
ReplyDeletethese costumes are fantastic!
Thank you!
DeleteI agree. THese are fantastic costumes.
ReplyDeleteWhat would be appropriate costumes for members of Congress? I have some suggestions, but would like to keep this civil.
ReplyDeleteFartman, possibly? Or one of the Inferior Four?
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