" No offense to anyone who enjoys cosplaying..."  Proceeds to offend everyone who enjoys cosplaying  As someone who has a father and real family, puts gym shorts and hits the weights 4x a week (no treadmill though), and goes to crowded places to wear the costumes I carefully crafted around like-minded people, I don't really think your comment is accurate. Unless of course you're talking about fat cosplayers, which make all the effort on costumes go to waste because they still look like shit even if they managed to put together decent costumes, and ruin the hobby for everybody else. As /u/fattycake said, it's an art form and a craft just like any DIY-type stuff. Humans in well-made costumes look amazing, and put the necessary effort and time to not only make their costume look good, but make themselves look good in them.