Lovely ball-gown this woman has on, right?
Notice anything. . . peculiar about it?
You go, Angry Birds girl.
As you can see, the "stealth cosplay," as its titled on tumblr, can be very, well, stealthy. There's this girl who goes by "HollySocks" on tumblr and she specializes in cosplay and stealthy cosplay. Here are some examples. . .
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| Joker |
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| Hellboy |
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Cool Super-Girl Fire-Lady |
With these super-stealth costumes, do you think you'd be able to spot someone cosplaying? These pictures make me doubt that I could.
So what is it that might drive people to want to dress up as their favorite characters? Maybe they're just lonely weirdos that have nothing else to do. Maybe they find this as their only way to make friends. Maybe, hey
WAIT A SECOND. . .
Hmmm. . .
This is not a foreign concept to us. Clearly, cosplay is encouraged in critical developmental years when parents gladly buy their children outfits to make them look like their favorite characters. These "dress-up" clothes allow the child to become a character he/she aspires to be and pretend that they have all the magical powers, good-looks, and friends of that character once they put the costume on. Therefore, haven't we all cosplayed at some time in our lives?
Yep, that's me. Halloween 2010.
Cosplaying
TOMB RAIDER.
Great post! I love your writing style. It's true, people cosplay all the time, and we don't even consider that there are less-extreme ways to cosplay. Even copying your favorite celebrity's style could be considered cosplaying to an extent. It's important for children to dress up, because it allows their imaginations to run wild with possibilities, and it can even be a huge confidence boost for kids. They can imagine they can fly, have super strength, can save the world from evil, etc. Cosplay is a great way for people to live out their desires and express their passion without being too extreme.
ReplyDeleteIt's interesting you approached the act of cosplaying in such a way because I too had always perceived cosplayers as people who dress up and go to conventions as comic book heroes or sci-fi characters. After seeing the "stealthy cosplay" and Halloween examples I'm curious about the fan statistics who regularly participate in or at least have participated in the act of cosplaying at some point.
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