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How is Cosplay a Fashion trend?
Unlike other major fashion trends such as minimalism, vintage, or artsy fashion trends, cosplay fashion isn’t characterized by a specific set of clothes or clothes with special features. It is instead known for its association with the popular characters of anime, manga, comics, and movies that the cosplayers try to represent through their costumes.
It, therefore, encompasses a far wider range of clothes and styles that are not only made to be worn at an anime or science convention and can be worn at home or work as well. After all, the characters that one can embody with their costumes can have a variety of trademark clothes and styles ranging from simple-themed casual and formal ones to completely artistic and highly-themed ones that are not suitable to be worn outside conventions.
3 Positive Aspects of Cosplay Fashion
Cosplay fashion has made a major impact on both the fashion world and anime culture as a whole. Although there are numerous reasons for this influence, it is primarily due to the positive elements of the cosplay fashion that make it popular. These elements are:
Creativity
Cosplaying allows one to explore their creative side and design the most fitting outfits for themselves. This Do-It-Yourself(DIY) attitude sparks ingenuity in design and makes room for innovations in the fashion industry. At times, cosplay enthusiasts of a particular movie or anime might create a brand new trend by exploring the designs for highly-themed garments of specific characters.
This attracts others to express their creative sides through fashion and design while appreciating the unique aspects of non-western forms of art and fashion.
Charity
Since it is pretty easy to grab others’ attention when you’re wearing colorful and creative costumes, cosplayers are known to work with charity foundations to raise awareness about certain issues or acquire funds and goods for a positive cause.
Culture
Although cosplay fashion has itself integrated into popular culture, it is only through the emergence of specific communities that developed around popular anime, manga, and movie series. These communities are known as subcultures and different anime and films have different subcultures devoted to them.
This allows a group of people with similar interests to come into form, devoted to creatively express themselves through characters that they love. This entire process also attracts others to the cosplay culture and propagates the fashion trend as a whole.
