Fairy Godmother Cosplay

I went to an Anime convention this past weekend with my daughter and some of her friends, along with one of my friends. It was mostly anime but there were some costumes from other IP's, such as Disney. I met several adult cosplayers who cosplay Disney character pretty often and enjoyed my conversations with them.

It got me thinking about my days as an older teen and twenty something and my favorite cosplayers back in the day. I also did some cosplay back then and was feeling nostalgic. As an 50+, plus sized adult, I generally do very generalized, non-specific cosplays. But in recent years I have a dream cosplay of being Fairy Godmother from the original Cinderella animation from 1950. I just adore her. I started discussing it with my friend and wondering how my con experience would be different if I went in recognizable cosplay. My friend and I sometimes get treated as "less than" at cons. It feels ageist. I am wondering how if that would change.

Talking to these older female cosplayers (although younger than me), I decided to go for it. I'm not sure when I will attend the next con, but I have decided to work on this cosplay. I would also like to do a Disney parks version of Fairy Godmother, as the costumes are very different. I would also like to cosplay as the evil queen in her hag form, and as Ursula. I think I would also like to do a gender bent Hades too. All Disney movie characters. Seems to be a theme.

So, I did change the name of my Disney IG and my twitter to Fairy Godmother Cosplay. I am not going to change the name of this blog since I will continue to post many Disney (and Universal) related topics, but I will start a label for Fairy Godmother Cosplay.

So, I need to finish painting my living room and work on the kitchen remodel, but I do plan on also working on cosplay and posting about it here.

Bippidy-Boppity Boo!

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