It's Morphin Time!

My Lady Friend is going to a convention next week as well as a convention we both plan to go to together a few weeks from now, and something we've noticed while planning weather we should try our hand at cosplay is the dichotomy in how revealing the costumes are.

On one hand we have the die-had cosplayers who make 1:1 replica costumes of their character, if the costume is revealing so be it, they live for the thrill of people recognizing their character and asking for photos. Then we have the casual cosplayers, the ones who didn't have enough time/experience/effort to make a completely accurate costume and have gone for a interpretation of the character, they generally have the same drive, wanting to be recognized and get photos, feeling comradely in the people who recognize them.

Then there's people like this: NSFW Cosplay Here and Here, who have to have some other factor driving them to dress in such costumes. Maybe voyeurism, they might get excited from being so exposed in public and at anime/sci-fi conventions they see the ability to dress scantily with a large group and not be judged negatively, in fact often be applauded for their daring and talent in getting the costume accurate. Some people also have a habit of acting differently depending on their clothing, they might have found to act more confidently when not wearing much and like the chance to bee confident around other people.
 The last reason I can think of is people who are mildly obsessed with a character and will dress (and maybe act) like them irregardless of the costume.

I have a few problems with females who are forced in their choice of costume if they want to dress up. Taking a quick look at e-bay's female costume listings everything looks, for lack of a better word, slutty. Why does a Tinker Bell costume consists entirely of underwear? Did they not actually watch Peter Pan? I've never seen Halloween or other costume appropriate events as an occasion for showing off sexual appeal by finding creative excuses for wearing naught but under garments. I don't have a solution, I just don't like it, but that's just me.

In short Why can't we all just dress up as Power Rangers? Imagine a whole convention room of people all dressed as guys from various Sentai teams. Then someone outside tries to mug a passer by.

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I'm not weird, that would be AWESOME!