Maid costume today
One of the most popular outfits of Japanese Cosplay is the maid costume known as "maid fuku (fuku=clothes)".
Cosplay, or rather, costume playing, dressing up in a variety of costumes in public or private, is a very popular pastime for many young people in Japan. There are variety of cosplay styles from manga, anime, and video games, etc. Among all, the maid costume has been warmly embraced in the young person termed as "Otaku", who loves Moe characters featured in anime relatives.
Today, both Cosplay and Otaku culture are becoming a important defining feature of Japanese maid costumes, because the typical real-live maids no longer exist in the reality community but only in the imaginary world such as in amimes, manga, and video games.
