# Going to a video game music concert...what should I wear? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 29, 2010, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/going-to-a-video-game-music-concert-what-should-i-wear/537773 "2010-04-29T19:23:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![KennerTheGreat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a8b319/32.png) [@KennerTheGreat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KennerTheGreat)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2010, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/going-to-a-video-game-music-concert-what-should-i-wear/537773/1 "2010-04-29T19:23:30Z")
It looks like my wife and I will be going to the Distant Worlds: Music from Final Fantasy concert in Toronto at the end of November. Anybody ever attend something like this? What kind of dress is typical? Is it cosplay heavy? ---
**Author:** ![Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2010, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/going-to-a-video-game-music-concert-what-should-i-wear/537773/2 "2010-04-29T19:44:28Z")
Wear my jealousy and envy like a green cloak about your loins. ---
**Author:** ![Trion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2010, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/going-to-a-video-game-music-concert-what-should-i-wear/537773/3 "2010-04-29T19:54:22Z")
You are expected to make your own clothing out of the pelt of dead avatars. Or jealousy. Jealousy works. Seriously, I’d guess that you can cosplay if you want, but the majority of people will be in normal casual atire. ---
**Author:** ![Kingspades](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecae2f/32.png) [@Kingspades](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kingspades)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2010, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/going-to-a-video-game-music-concert-what-should-i-wear/537773/4 "2010-04-29T20:14:05Z")
I was lucky enough to find out about the “Dear Friends” concert when it came to Atlanta back in 2005. By and large dress was casual, particularly since the concert was in June. I don’t really remember people showing up in costume, but perhaps I’m misrembering. I’d say you’d likely be in the minority if you decided to dress up, but you’d have a lot of people thinking they’d wished they’d come in costume as well. ---
**Author:** ![KennerTheGreat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a8b319/32.png) [@KennerTheGreat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KennerTheGreat)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2010, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/going-to-a-video-game-music-concert-what-should-i-wear/537773/5 "2010-04-30T03:44:01Z")
Thanks for the info. A few people (well, two, anyway that I remember) on the concert’s Facebook page are saying they’ll be going in cosplay. Which is fine, I guess, except my wife and I are going to be driving down from Northern Ontario, parking at one of the subway stations, taking the subway downtown, then after the concert taking the subway back to our car, and driving home. I guess an alternative is to get myself a funeral suit and wear that, and if it turns out being cosplay heavy, I can always say that I’m a Turk. ---
**Author:** ![amaguri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@amaguri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amaguri)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2010, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/going-to-a-video-game-music-concert-what-should-i-wear/537773/6 "2010-04-30T06:01:19Z")
What’s the venue? I saw something like this a few years back at the LA Philharmonic, and people dressed up for it like they would for a normal orchestra concert. Most people were very nicely attired, and while there may have been a few cosplayers here and there, it was definitely not the norm. ---
**Author:** ![Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f08c70/32.png) [@Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crowbar_of_Irony_3)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2010, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/going-to-a-video-game-music-concert-what-should-i-wear/537773/7 "2010-04-30T06:25:17Z")
I attend Video Game Live once before; I just worn normally as if I am going to a normal concert. ---
**Author:** ![KennerTheGreat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a8b319/32.png) [@KennerTheGreat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KennerTheGreat)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2010, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/going-to-a-video-game-music-concert-what-should-i-wear/537773/8 "2010-04-30T13:33:45Z")
> [@amaguri](#): > > What’s the venue? I saw something like this a few years back at the LA Philharmonic, and people dressed up for it like they would for a normal orchestra concert. Most people were very nicely attired, and while there may have been a few cosplayers here and there, it was definitely not the norm. The venue is the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, formerly the O’Keefe Centre. The [event website](http://www.ffdistantworlds.com/), and the [Facebook page of the Toronto event.](http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/event.php?eid=336718085779&ref=ts) ---
**Author:** ![kushiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@kushiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kushiel)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2010, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/going-to-a-video-game-music-concert-what-should-i-wear/537773/9 "2010-04-30T18:47:02Z")
Depends on if you want attention or not. Video Games Live in Saskatoon had a fair amount of cosplayers (and this is Saskatoon we’re talking about!) who showed up early and had a lot of pics taken of them. But you won’t be the odd man out if you don’t cosplay or anything. ---
**Author:** ![Serronaulta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Serronaulta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serronaulta)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2010, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/going-to-a-video-game-music-concert-what-should-i-wear/537773/10 "2010-04-30T20:56:07Z")
When I attended Distant Worlds in Baltimore, there were a few cosplayers, but most people wore business casual or cocktail attire. ---
**Author:** ![Aeris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a183cd/32.png) [@Aeris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeris)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2010, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/going-to-a-video-game-music-concert-what-should-i-wear/537773/11 "2010-05-07T20:29:32Z")
I attended the concert version of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowhip of the Rings at Wolf Trap. Twas awesome. Wolf Trap is an outdoor venue, but it was the National Symphony so I wasn’t sure what to wear. I ended up wearing my Lord of the Rings tee shirt over a button down with some nice jeans. I was surprised that no one was dressed in costume, but the dress code did vary a lot. It seemed to me that the closer you were to the stage the more dressed up you were, there were few people sitting in the lawn seats with khakis on. I’d say nice jeans with a button down and you’re golden. BTW, I also plan on attending the Final Fantasy concert, when it comes to Wolf Trap this summer. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2010, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/going-to-a-video-game-music-concert-what-should-i-wear/537773/12 "2010-05-07T21:16:49Z")
One of [these.](http://www.cosplay.com/costume/143285/)