The Original Cosplay Motorcycle Umbrella Girls

The Original Cosplay Motorcycle Umbrella Girls

©by Richard D. Fisher

sunracer2@hotmail.com

For 30 years I have been photographing native girls and women in Tibet, China, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam with umbrellas for sun protection, and for beauty as well as style. I never knew that there was a defined race and culture of "Umbrella Girls" who work at motorcycle competitions. Now here is a new race of "Cosplay Motocycle Umbrella Girls" according to me, anyway!  Let's see where it goes and how fast and far these rare adventurously costumed girls go! As defined by Wikipedia, umbrella girls is a term that has been used in professional motorcycle racing for many years. It refers to (scantily clad) young women employed to hold umbrellas above racers to protect them from the sun.

Cosplay Umbrella Girl on a Honda Wave in an abandoned French Villa garden.

Cosplay Umbrella Girl fending off to much attention on her Motocycle Attila.

Cosplay on Red and Yellow Attila's, Umbrella Girls

Attila Yellow Umbrella Girl

Cosplay Motorcycle proud and beautiful Yellow Umbrella Girl. She wins 100% of her Cosplay drama space and attention!

Antique ​Honda Chaly Cosplay Umbrella Girl. The Chaly is from the 1980's and was very popular in Vietnam as one of the origional swarm of

bikes in the country and so many are being restored and put back into use by todays youth!.

Honda Motocycle Umbrella Diva at the Kings restored Villa Office.

Cosplay Motocycle Girls at the almost fully restored formal south door entry way to the Kings Villa Office.

Two Divas and Umbrella Motocycle Girls at the east facing entertainment elevated patio doorways.

What is Cosplay Indochina?

© Richard D. Fisher

sunracer2@hotmail.com

In Cosplay Indochina we focus on the highest quality photography in extremely challenging lighting conditions in a travel and nature setting using almost entirely traditional fairy's, elves, gelflings, fashion angels and umbrella girls characters. In addition to Cosplay in Nature, we feature the Cosplay game in authentic ancient buildings  as at Angkor Wat temple complex in Cambodia and abandoned French Villas in Vietnam. Cosplay has been very creative in Japan and South Korea but is now spreading throughout southeast Asia and well beyond as a youth culture as a wildly popular creative costume game. Our web art presentation also features many diverse areas such as Fairy Canyon Mui Ne and abandoned ancient wild gardens and Crazy House in Dalat, sunflowers and waterfalls  of Vietnam and waterfalls and Palace jungle forest of Siem Reap Cambodia. We have just added a Motorcycle Cosplay Umbrella Girls to our costume game line up a with restored as well as ultra modern bikes that are so popular in Vietnam and southeast Asia. Umbrella Girls have been a fashion fixture at Motorcycle Races for decades but as far as we know this is the first take off on the Motorcycle Umbrella Girls theme in Cosplay internatonal.

Cosplay actually started at the 1st World Science Fiction convention in New York, 1939 in the USA but the name was coined by Japanese in 1984 at a sci fi convention in Los Angeles!  From those historical roots the costume game took off and has become a world wide phenomenon.

Cosplay is becoming the Hollywood of Asia and one of the most popular youth games along with computer games and anime comics from where many Cosplay themes emerge.

It has been said that no matter what your age, race, culture, height or weight, skill level, you can cosplay who ever you want and look amazing doing it! I especially like the part about what ever your age as an ancient cosplay photographer.

Cosplay Indochina does not do conventions and avoids magna content. While our models, costumes and settings are exceptionally beautiful and might be described even as "sexy" by some, we stay strictly within all international and local legal and fashion norms for all age groups.

We make most of our costumes from scratch and mostly follow the fairy and elf  theme. Lucky for us the fairy, Âu Có, was the mother of the Vietnamese people and we see her daughters all over Vietnam today!