Next time you gear up for a photoshoot in your sexy gender-swapped cosplay, just remember it’s all been done before. As long as there have been costumes,. there have been sexy variants of characters and uniforms. Back in the 1890s, burlesque dancers were dressing up as fairies, magical creatures, and gender-swapped versions of pirates, crusaders and gentlemen adventurers.
Kirk Demarais of the Secret Fun Blog looks into the series of space monster plastic figurines from the late ’70s known as the Galaxy Laser Team.
Here are a couple of amazing They Live cosplayers from this year’s San Diego Comic-Con — the shirts and bags really make the outfits.
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A hot spot called Hell’s Café lured 19th-century Parisians to the city’s Montmartre neighborhood—like the Marais—on the Right Bank of the Seine. With plaster lost souls writhing on its walls and a bug-eyed devil’s head for a front door, le Café de l’Enfer may have been one of the world’s first theme restaurants.
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