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You know, I read a thread in here that discusses different cosplay ideas that were centered around size. It got me thinking... what is so inappropriate about cosplaying as your favorite characters? I mean I adore Integra from Hellsing or Chii from Chobits, Momo Adachi from Peach Girl, and Utena from Utena Revolutionary girl. So... what keeps people from cosplaying as what they want? I broke out google in my quest with keywords such as fat and cosplay. I couldn't believe the nasty things people were saying! These ladies who had put a good deal of effort into making their costumes only to ridiculed. Not to mention all the negative sites that talk about how fat women shouldn't even bother cosplaying at all. Examples of this?
How many folks don't know Faye Valentine from cowboy bebop?

I personally wouldn't be comfortable showing that much skin but...

I think that's a little over the top. I see nothing wrong with the way she looks. I don't even think she's all that big to begin with.

Another example
Lots of discssion about how fat chicks like to ruin the whole Yuna thing


I thought this was pretty well done. This, however, is used to cite how it's ruined. I think she looks fine.

I think one thread even talked about a large girl cosplaying as belldandy and instead called her whaledandy. I see absoutely no problem in being belldandy whatsoever, no skin is even shown in that cosplay! So why is it so wrong?

I guess as far as discussion, do these kinds of things affect how you cosplay? Do you shy away from many characters that you might want to dress up like simple because of size? Should you shy away from cosplays because of size?

In my personal opinion, I don't think anyone should.

I can believe it smile

Well, the Faye cosplayer looks..well....terrible. Maybe it's just me and neonish colors and material, but yeah, as a fat girl and a fashion girl, I'd ridicule her.

The FF girl just looks tacky. The animated character just looks tacky. confused

I would probably never wear something that shows off my mid section. Honestly... I never would want to not even if I were thin. I'd also get a nice supporting bra and or under garment in wearing things with small straps or no straps simply because mine are too large to let flop. There are soooooooooo few very thin women with large honkin boobs, well... at least not naturally, lol.

I agree that she needs to get hersself a better supporting bra but beyond that I see nothing wrong with her outfit. Little more support in the shelf area and I think she would look quite nice.

How about the fat chii's or the fat belldandy I talked about or the Sakuras? How about Kagome that's another one I see talked about alot.

I guess what upsets me a tad is this...

"That said, cosplay is kind of considered to be a bit of a dorky hobby. With the rise in popularity of videogames (mainly RPGS) and anime in America, cosplay-mania has spread here. In some cases, this can be pretty ******** sweet as there are plenty of hot chicks like the one you see below However in most cases some of the results can be disastrous as since cosplay is sort of a dorky hobby you can bet that tons of fat chicks do it as well. It's kinda of sad because Yuna's character is pretty generic but also very hot in her simplicity. We don't know what it is about Yuna that makes her so appealing for fat chicks to dress up as; if fat chicks want to cosplay you'd think the middle Magus Sister would be a much more fitting costume"

Maybe I picked a poor example of what I'm trying to talk about.
http://www.jasonrivera.com/images/articles/20050216_2_237/coolestkidsever.jpg
That Yuna has the caption
"Where's Yuna with this picture, but she's so fat you can't miss her. I guess she's hoping no one will notice she's fat and ugly as long as there's some dork dressed like a Red Mage in the room."

Oh well... I don't see a problem, maybe I'm blind. I just hate to think that I'm limited or that anyone should be limited in choice. That I can't cosplay as something considered the slightest bit sexually desirable because I'm fat. That I should cover every inch and cosplay as something that is older, animalistic, or asexual looking. I'd probably not be as daring or show as much skin but I rather like to think I have the prowress to pull off something a little more sexy than kaede from Inuyasha. No mainstream anime character meant to be desirable is going to be drawn heavy. At least not yet. Doesn't mean I or anyone else who's heavy couldn't make it look good and proudly sport said outfit in fandom wink

I have no idea who any of those ppl are you listed in your repsonse to me so I can't say. All I can tell you is those two girls looked like crap. Especially the first one.

You looked cute in your picture. There is a big difference between telling osmeone to "cover up or GTFO" and thinking that someone should dress to make the most of what they have, skinny or fat. A person can be rail thin and if they don't have tits, wearing a halter top is kind of pointless. If you have rolls...midriff shorts just aren't going to be flattering. But maybe the girl with rolls has great legs and can work a killer skirt.

It goes both ways, skinny and fat.

The examples you just gave are all pretty good, the worst is the Sakura cosplay--and it's still nicely done. I honestly feel like I understand what you're going for, myself... it's just like you don't like or understand the response you're recieving. I've not ever been to a convention, I've not ever hung out or gone deep into cos-play culture, but I have never gotten the impression that fatgirls shouldn't cosplay if they can choose a character they can pull off. Skinny girls are the same way, they can't pull off every anime character they try--this isn't limited to just fat girls, it goes to everyone.

If anybody is complaining about those, they're not somebody you need to listen to.

You're going to run into hateful people, not just against fat people, you'll find them when talking about bone-thin people and average weighted people. You seem more fixated on the fact that it's against fat girls, rather than the fact that the women are wearing something unflattering and as such being ridiculed for it by some immature assholes. So what if it's online? You can find ridicule of almost anybody on here, if you look for it. I know Cosplayers who look forward to seeing girls cosplay, but I don't hear them complain about fat-girls or skinny girls in flattering outfits... They complain about unattractive girls or girls who could be perfectly fine if they just accepted what they can and cannot wear and played up their best features.

My friends tell me all the time "You're so cute. I wish I could dress cute." they accept the fact their looks don't play well into cute, and they don't try it so much... although I honestly think if they'd allow me to take them shopping they'd see they're wrong, they just have to find the right way to play up their cute-ness.

What I run into a lot is plus-sized people get so focused on only seeing ridicule against themselves. People in general think they're the only ones out there with problems--the grass is always greener on the other side. We're told every day in every way by the media we're not pretty unless we fit into a specific mold that the vast majority of the world doesn't and will never fit into, weather or not we're fat, skinny, young, old, purple, blue or green.