Dress, Drag, Dragon*Con

Yeah, yeah, yeah…yet another cutesy title. Nonetheless, for those of you who don’t know what Dragon*Con is let me explain. Imagine over 30,000 geeks taking over four hotels for four days of total sci-fi and fantasy immersion. It’s pretty intense and the fans at this convention never disappoint…well…some of them don’t.

Holy SHIT the immense amount of time and money that HAD to have gone into this!

One essential part of Dragon*Con is the costuming. Some people work countless hours & a good deal of cash to perfect their costumes of their favorite characters and make some amazing recreations! Then there are others that don’t spend any time or wear things they REALLY shouldn’t.

Now look, I’m not some holier than thou athletic or skinny guy ranting about fat people. I’m fat myself, but I also know I can’t pull off Aragorn or He-Man so there’s no way I’d try. Me? I could do Mario or a Ghostbuster, something of that nature.

Here’s a couple of things you shouldn’t do:

Corsets should fit. If you're fat, don't pull them so tight that they're the Hoover Dam up top, or avalanching. There is a proper way to wear this! These are MINOR violators, it gets exponentially worse. --Photo by Meggrs (CC)

YOU ARE NEITHER SCI-FI, NOR ARE YOU FANTASY!

Just, for the love of God, put some thought into WHO you’re going to dress as before you actually do. Sure, everyone wants to be the hot sexy woman or the badass guy, but some of us just are NOT built for that. This is just a public service announcement for 2010…

For the rest of my Dragon*Con photos go here.