social motivations of ko-su-pu-re (costume play)
2005.11.14 - 00:11
(ok, i dont bother to find out the right way to spell this in english- correction welcome!)
within the short time period i was passing by, i saw many people asking to take pictures with these ‘actors’. They seemed happy to follow suit and that’s the moment when the inanimate character could show the action. Disguising to be someone else without revealing their own identity, i guess its an overstatement to say this is driven by social motivation. Rather, it enables a different social experience. I thought kosupure was a bygone trend but definitely not (like those goth kids in finland).