Long-winded, I swear I didn't plan it this way!

So the whole anime thing sort of stopped for me a few years ago, but every now and then I find (or go looking for) cosplay pictures. There are some really amazing costumes out there, as well as some really horrible ones. Many people dress without consideration for their body type -- and I'm not saying you have to be stick-thin to play a stick-thin character, but if you're going to take the time to make a costume, why not make it fit you properly? Anyway, that's neither here nor there. What I'd really like to know, the thing that might keep me up at night if I cared more, is why the obsession with shiny, shiny, satiny fabrics?! I don't get it. Sure, you're adapting two-dimensional, animated images, so it's kind of up to you to choose an appropriate fabric, but why that one? Do people often dress head-to-toe in satin, cheap polyester stuff at that, unless they're wearing an evening gown? Think about it, people. Yes, the whole point is that a lot of the costumes defy gravity, practicality and many other things we're forced to live with in our daily lives, but it just ends up seeming tacky most of the time. Also, wrinkles show up a lot more.

For no particular reason, I now feel like ( exposing my cosplay to the world. )

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All right, this is stupid. I meant for my cosplay pictures to be pictures and not links, why am I not able to do this? Obviously some part of my brain wasn't working last night, so I went to bed, but it still isn't working now; I can't seem to get a picture posted!

Help?

ETA: Never mind, my brain apparently switched on again and I got them working. Also, I just wanted to mention that for my Nuriko costume, I was wearing a tenser bandage around my chest. I was rather flat, but not that flat!