How Does Cosplaying Affect Society

First you have your normal, casual cosplayers. You’ll see them in what looks like a discounted Halloween costume with a couple of additionally accessories. They just want to become their favorite superhero or anime character for a day and don’t care how screen accurate it looks. Just being able to represent one of their favorite characters is more than enough for them.

Society as a whole has been immensely effected by the social realm. In the fashion world, it is media that creates the trends and genres of different types of clothes. This is seen as an identity. The fashion world markets their clothes to society thru the media. Using various sources such as, television, internet, newspaper and magazines. However there is a dark side to this industry. Today's society faces controversy about women's body figured. Size zero has become a behemoth fad in the modeling world. The size zero topic has caused a revolution, women around the world trying to enter the modeling industry are now harming their bodies in countless ways in order to achieve the "ideal" body. Women today face a lot of criticism about their appearances due to the superficial ideology created by the media.

Over 45 million people in the United States have at least one tattoo on their body. Many don’t realize how a tattoo can affect their lifestyle. Leeanne Padowski who wrote “Think Before You Ink” article has made a very interesting point on how it affects people’s lives. Tattoos can affect you on the job marketing, your appearance and your health.

One might even notice that this whole “clothing epidemic” is going on right in front of their own eyes. Girls these days especially are prone to being sucked in by the way they dress. They believe that how they dress affects their popularity status. I myself have gone through this being a young girl at one point! I wonder where they could have gotten this idea from? Oh, that is right, this idea has been going on since the ancient times!

Everyone is special and unique in their own way. No one can change the way someone looks and acts. So why let the modeling industry change the way someone should look like. People can not let the modeling industry have an affect on them to where they have eating

Cosplay which is short for “costume play” allows an individual to basically be someone else, typically an anime, cartoon, or even video game characters to name a few. Along with the costume they take on that character’s personality and role play as them. Some will make the costumes themselves while others will buy pre-made ones. There is quite the amount of work and dedication that goes into doing this, not just for the sake of the costume looking accurate but the

We tend to pay attention to trends and that affects society as stated in an interview by Ray Williams he talks to Charles Pierce, author of Idiot America, “[t]he rise of idiot America today represents for profit mainly” (Anti-Intellectualism and the "Dumbing Down" of America). When focusing on trends we spend money to try to stay fashionable or to fit in, and this results in profit for corporations. As stated by Luciana Zegheanu, “Fashion itself is a reflection of social, economic, political and cultural changes. It expresses modernity, symbolizing the spirit of the times”

It gives people judgment on others and also has an impact on a career level as well. But if we teach people as well as the industry to change their perception and depiction regarding fashion harmful effect on either may be avoided.

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Dress up was one of my favorite activities as a kid. You could pretend to be anything. I would often choose to put on these fancy heels and a really poofy dress. Then run to my mom asking her to put makeup on me. She would promptly tell me to “stop growing up so fast.” And of course all I wished was to be older. I wanted to wear fancy clothes and apply tons of makeup.

When I was in 11th grade I was given an assignment to choose and discuss something that I believed was a counter-culture. What I chose to discuss were cosplay and the cosplay community. Cosplay is something that I hold very near and dear to my heart, and so when I was able to write about it in a manner that had a lot of freedom I enjoyed writing the essay it was the first and probably only essay that I've genuinely anticipated. There are times even now, that I think back on the essay and I remember it fondly. I believe that I'm able to do this because I was able to choose a topic of my own well and I was given very fake instructions on what to do. All we were told to do was discuss how as a counter-culture, a counter-culture being something

Statement: Cosplay’s popularity growth is fast and there are lot of questions in the mind of people about cosplay. It’s meaning and reason varies from person to person and there are negativities to it.

Well, “cosplay” is a type of performance art, where participants will outfit themselves with usually elaborate costumes and accessories from a specific character. The word cosplay come from the words “costume” and “play” merged together. These costumes can range from being extremely articulate, hand-made masterpieces (Figure 3) to simpler costumes that you could find off of the internet for a significantly lower cost. They are very different from Halloween costumes because the premise of cosplay is to essentially become the character you are cosplaying as. The level of cosplay differs between people depending on how much effort one wants to put in. From there, there are two types of cosplay that branch off from the broad explanation; basic cosplay and masquerading. Basic cosplay is quite literally how it sounds, and usually only involves a person attempting to look like the character they have chosen. Masquerading, however, takes this process one step further. Masquerading entails one person not only dressing up as a character, but to talk, act and speak as that character as well. People who masquerade literally try to become the character they have chosen for themselves. This adds another layer of complexity and enjoyment to the process, and many others in the community enjoy that extra bit of work. In some cases now, another subculture has formed, where people will try

This paper will be discussing the cosplay, or costume play, subculture. In this paper, it will also go over who makes up this particular subculture, what it takes to be a cosplayer, what this subculture does for society, how society sees those who participate in it, how and when it came to be, most famous cosplay costumes, and what this subculture provides for those who take part in it.

To gain knowledge of how we communicate to others through the way we dress, we have to first understand what identity is. Identity is what we choose to represent ourselves as, be that a gender identity, a sexual identity; it is completely up to the individual as a person to make that choice. Identity forms the basis of one’s pride and being accepted socially only adds to that ego and integrity. The psychology of the matter is the way we dress is more or less based on our moods, habits, inspirations, past, present and future. The character of a person is reflected in the way that they dress, Clothing can act as a simple glance into someone’s life, as we are already know that different clothing can represent different means of culture; Clothes are used a language to communicate with society and to commonly let them know what you want to be viewed as.