1. The document discusses the concept of "dress-up play", which is a significant pattern of play for both children and adults, especially females, that involves roleplaying and assuming different identities through costumes. 2. Dress-up play has been largely ignored in traditional game studies but can involve both structured and unstructured forms of play. It is becoming more prominent in digital games through features like avatar customization. 3. Dress-up play serves important social and self-expressive functions for both children and adults, allowing people to explore different aspects of their identity and personality through performance and imagination.

1. Playing Dress-Up: Costumes, roleplay and imagination Janine Fron (art)n Tracy Fullerton USC School of Cinematic Arts Jacquelyn Ford Morie USC Institute for Creative Technologies Celia Pearce Georgia Institute of Technology Ludica

10. Dress-Up Mechanics

17. Childhood & Adult Play/Ritual

18. To be myself…I need the illumination of other people’s eyes, and therefore cannot be entirely sure what is my self. -- Bernard from Virginia Woolf’s The Waves

21. Real-World Costume Play

23. Reenactment Renaissance Faire denizens (Courtesy of Pendragon Costumes)

25. Fantastic Socialization The Labyrinth of Jareth, Fantasy Masquerade Ball, Los Angeles, June 2006

27. Ritual Burning Man

28. Digital Dress-Up

30. Playing with (and Against) Gender

31. Trouble with Gender Representation Examples of “Kombat Lingerie”

36. Women in Games Newport Wales April 2007 [email_address]