The Chill of Costume

David Thompson, over at, er, David Thompson, has a nice piece on the work of Steve Schofield and his photographs of British Science Fiction fans who like to dress up in the costumes of their favourite characters. There’s a bittersweet technicolor Diane Arbus quality about them, though, like Thompson, I’m not convinced about the spin Schofield puts on them. Frankly, I don’t care if they do dress up as American cultural SF icons. It’s also quite clear that some Americans simply don’t understand our own home-grown ones. And they never will, ha ha ha.