Let me start by saying the closest I've ever come was wearing spandex out in public as part of a costume...but is anybody here brave to the point of making a Halloween costume that has serious inflatable meaning to you but is seen as a joke costume by the rest of the world?
In other words, have you ever gone out for Halloween in an inflatable outfit of some kind and gotten away with it? :) And do you have any ideas for the rest of us?
Off-topic: even guys cosplay as female anime characters, hence "Man Faye" or "Man Selphie".
On-topic: a friend of mine is making an inflation suit for me, hopefully with the blue fabric color and I've been told as a joke to use that as a costume.
Well they do have those inflatable sumo suits and stuff now, not quite on par but still might be worth it....
There's always the 'go as a diver' excuse and wear a dry suit that you can actually inflate.
I had inflation themed costumes two years in a row when I was younger! Ive always had the fetish, but when I was younger I think I realized it as something that wouldnt be seen as that, so I did it! Both years I got my Czech au pair to make really great costumes for me! When I was six I was a Goodyear blimp (even though I told her I wanted to be a Hot Air balloon!) It was basically a sewn up super padded sweatsuit with crappy yellow felt letters cut out into Goodyear on it, but I loved being called a blimp at every house I went to! The next year when I was seven I got her to make the best costume ive ever had in my whole life, she worked on it for two months to my every whim (I had planned it out way ahead of time!) I was a Danni Balloon (I made sure to clarify with everyone that it wasnt just a human balloon, but I was me blown up like a balloon!) The costume was utterly amazing, It was blue fabric that she had sewn to look like pants and a button shirt (with ovals of flesh colored lycra sewn between the buttons on the top half to make it look like the buttons were ready to burst, and another piece of adequately shaped flesh colored lycra across the middle with my bellybutton drawn on in sharpie), it was sewn on the inside with a snug place for me to slide my hands and feet out from the well concealed snaps in the back and TONS AND TONS of stuffing! I didnt care that walking and moving in it was a huge challenge, when I put it on I was completely round! I loved it soooo much, it made me feel really embarassed (which I love!) When I wore it to school, all the other kids, pat and poked and prodded at me and tell me how I was so big and round! The best part for me was the adult humoring children bit which I took advantage of as much as possible by saying stuff like "help me, im blowing up like a balloon!" so I could hear them say "oh my, your getting so big and round!"etc.
That was it, after that I was afraid that people might catch on.
However, my girlfriend (who knows about my fetish!) became excited about the theme as a costume out of nowhere! She thought of the holiday as a great excuse to have some fun with my fetish without anyone knowing! She came up with a bunch of ideas that she got really into! The ones she thought of were Her as a basketball player and me as the ball, her as a little girl and me as a balloon, her as lifeguard and me as a beach ball.
But my favorite is her as Wilma Wonka, and me as a blueberry boy!
Of course, all of these ideas would take alot of time and work and im not as gutsy to do any of them now.
When I was younger that was how I drew inflation in my cartoons, to me as a fetish and to the rest of the world as a "gag." But I seriously don't think I'd have the courage to dress up in a blaitenltly obvious costume, unless it was something like Willy Wonka. Although being a guy that would be weird going as violet eh?