Lollipop Chainsaw Cosplayer Asked to Change at PAX East

<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;lollipop-chainsaw-cosplayer-asked-change-pax-east&sol;cosplay&sol;" rel&equals;"attachment wp-att-10760"><img class&equals;"aligncenter wp-image-10760" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2012&sol;04&sol;06221904&sol;Cosplay&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"345" height&equals;"203" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Cosplayer Jessica Nigri was hired to portray the protagonist of Lollipop chainsaw at PAX East&period; She was also asked to leave the convention because her pink outfit with a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;neckline” went all the way down to her crotch&period; She returned the next day wearing a cheerleader outfit with her <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;abracadabranyc&period;com&sol;collections&sol;cosplay-wigs">Cosplay Wigs<&sol;a> &lpar;which she had worn the day before the pink outfit without issue&rpar;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Nigri <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;&num;&excl;&sol;OJessicaNigri&sol;status&sol;188986181235642369&sol;photo&sol;1">tweeted<&sol;a> &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Haha guys&excl; I just had to tone down the costume&excl;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Robert Khoo&comma; president of business development for Penny Arcade&comma; verified that Nigri was asked to change&comma; or leave&comma; due to the numerous complaints expo staff received about her attire&comma; or lack thereof&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Khoo said expo staff &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;notified the WB booth on Friday of our concerns regarding the costumes&comma; and although there was some confusion initially about which outfit was appropriate…they understood the situation&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Penny Arcade has a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;no booth babe” policy at its expos because they do not want to be known for having models in skimpy cloths pushing products&comma; which happens at other game show conventions&period; This policy was put to a community vote&comma; which received a positive vote&period; If a company does decide to employ cosplayers&comma; they are required to know something about the product&period; There is to be &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;no messaging that specifically calls out body parts&comma;” while &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;cosplayed characters are allowed to wear revealing outfits&comma; assuming it is true to the source game&comma;” although there is no specific ban on &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;partial nudity&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Although the policies regarding appropriate attire are clearly laid out in our exhibitor rules&comma; there are times when edge cases like <em>Lollipop Chainsaw<&sol;em>&comma; which technically is allowed since it&&num;8217&semi;s the main character in the game&comma; pop up&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Khoo said &&num;8220&semi;For scenarios like that&comma; we need to make a judgment call&comma; and a big factor for this one was looking at the number of complaints we had received&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Ultimately the costume policy is designed to keep the show family friendly&comma; as we see a good number of parents being their young children to the show&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Khoo said&period; &&num;8220&semi;No one&comma; including WB&comma; wants to upset their fans&comma; so I&&num;8217&semi;m perfectly fine standing behind the decision and policy&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lbrack;Via <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;kotaku&period;com&sol;5900134&sol;skimpy-outfit-gets-lollipop-chainsaw-cosplayer-asked-to-leave-pax">Kotaku<&sol;a>&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;