Stealth Cosplay!

[alwaystheocean]

tellitslant asked me about stealth cosplay!

Stealth cosplay is not really my invention, just to be totally clear, some fannish friends in London put me onto the idea, as did cosmic_llin. Like I know Cathryn told me about how she used to dress up as Sarah Jane but somehow it didn't twig that it could be a thing *I* could do until Laura told me about her various stealth cosplay outfits.

I must admit, I'm not a very stealthy person so MY attempts at stealth cosplay are...not that stealthy.

Like to me it means 'stuff I can leave the house wearing and not look like I'm playing dress up', and given I tend to dress quite colorfully and work somewhere with a VERY casual dress-code that bar is slightly higher (or lower?!) for me than a lot of people.

I only started stealth cosplaying this year, with the Avengers. My first was Iron Man, consisting of a red dress, yellow tights, cardi and sash, and a chunky heart-shaped pendant on a long chain. I can actually now do all the Avengers, though Hawkeye and Black Widow still need some work, plus Wonder Woman and Merida. cosmic_llin thinks I should make a tumblr of all my attempts. Wonder Woman is obv my favourite, (blue skirt with white polka dots, red jumper) and I really need a less ratty red jumper for it. My Hulk one is pretty good too. (Purple dress, with a green jumper and green tights underneath.)

I like doing it because it cheers me up and helps me out when work is crappy. I'm not sure I've ever had anyone realise what I was doing without me dropping a hint, but it may yet happen. ;D

Comments

[sophia_gratia]

OBVIOUSLY fuckyeahcleostealthcosplaying.tumblr.com needs to be a thing, like, yesterday.

This is so delightful. I don't think I'm nearly adventuresome/creative enough for it, but maybe now I have a new goal for 2014...

[tellitslant]

Hee hee, yes, perhaps it is not super-stealth :D

I know you've posted some of these to twitter, but I'd love to see more of them! I don't think I've seen your Hawkeye? So totally you should tumblr them.

My version of this tends to just be makeup - I have a Black Widow eyeshadow look, and a Hulk eyeshadow look (which is honestly one of my day-to-day looks, heh), and I dod Effie Trinket makeup for Catching Fire. I am not super creative with outfits.

[spiderwolves]

THIS IS SUCH AN AWESOME IDEA. I would read the hell out of such a tumblr (also, steal many ideas, I'm sure.) I love cosplay in general as a thing because of the whole emphasis on, like, think about looking fabulous and accurate and doing clever things with a thing you love, as opposed to emphasis on being pretty/decorative (and both can be cool, and pretty can be cool, but, y'know, compulsory pretty, less cool.) And this sounds like such a lovely happy thing, to take that emphasis on looking awesome and put it everywhere, all the time. SO GREAT. <3