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    Concept » Cosplay appears in 66 issues.

    Better known as "Cosplay", Costumed Roleplaying is a custom of dressing like fictional characters.

    How far has cosplay come?

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    I found an interesting picture this morning:

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    To put this in context, this is a picture from the 1970s of an officially sanctioned by Marvel group of people that could be hired to bring heroes to public events (and presumably birthday parties for reall rich kids.) The problem is that these costumes look pretty much ... horrible (rumour is that Jonathan Frakes play Captain America.) This was not even cosplay, as they were not doing this for fun, they were getting paid (coswork?) Take a look at a more recent picture (chosen out of the CV cosplay gallery, because it also has Spider Woman in it):

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    Granted we are almost 40 years on now, and makeup and fabric have increased, but it seems as though there has been a substantial improvement in real life costumes. The point of this blog was more just to show the contrast, but I suppose that the improvements also have to do with the genre becoming more mainstream nd fans wanting to interact with the medium in a different way.

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    @renchamp: True but even the regular characters look kind of bad.

    Too bad about a concussion, I hope you heal fast ... :)

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