Cosplay is now a mainstream phenomenon, appearing in major TV and film projects like The Big Bang Theory, Ms. Marvel, and Taco Bell commercials. Ever since the release of Star Wars in 1977, fans have clamored to dress up as its characters, and have gone on to form major, international fan costuming organizations that help to spread the love of Star Wars. This panel will look over the broad history of Star Wars fan costuming and cosplay, looking at the early makers who replicated the costumes, to the technological changes that make the most recent costumes possible, to the ways that fan costumers influence the very properties that they’re inspired by.