Cosplay - Fetish or Fun?

[Like Ra]

This will be my birthday present to myself,

Swarovski?

Probably a local variant 😊

I had no idea how many variants of this outfit Cher has until I was checking how accurate it was.

   

Probably a local variant 😊

I had no idea how many variants of this outfit Cher has until I was checking how accurate it was.

Wow! I'd never noticed that the outfits differed at all... my mind must have been elsewhere 

Those images are not the most flattering of 'Cher through the ages' - time creeps up on us all (mind you, she was in her 40's when she first wore that style of outfit, so much kudos for that!)

MJ

...time creeps up on us all

And lockdown inactivity. I decided I needed to wear a corset before measuring myself for the costume...
😟

I need to do some of this:

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Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uR_h2ePmjM
&t=336s]CHER FITNESS - Hot dance - YouTube[/url]

Boots and wig ordered this morning, I aeady have a suitable jacket and ear rings.

I've been researching this costume over the last couple of days and I'm getting ever more and more into it. I've decided my existing accessories just won't do and I'm going to make all new ones I've been Ebaying like a mad eejit. Heck, I've even downloaded Karaoke tracks and thought about the 'Drag Karaoke' nights I saw advertised before lockdown. 

But I don't think what I'm doing is cosplay as such so I'm going to commit necromancy and resurrect the Cher drag (likera.com) thread.

[Like Ra]

I'm going to commit necromancy and resurrect the

We do not have old threads 😉

This is apparently 'Panther' from 'Persona', not a character I recognised but an impressive crossplay.

       

This was tagged as a crossplay - if it's a truly a guy I can only say I'm astonished! 

   

Yet another Velma 😊

   

I've just seen a discussion on a crossplay site about whether a costume counts as crossplay. The argument is that because the character crossdresses in the costume in the game you wearing a copy of it means you're not crossplaying. You're cosplaying a man in a harem costume, not a woman and so it's not crossplay  🤔