Even during the halcyon 50s — when men sported buzz cuts and Ward Cleaver was emulated as a national role model — geeks tended to congregate. Not just geeks, but sci-fi luminaries: Arthur C. Clarke, Brian Aldiss, Michael Moorcock and Forest J. Ackerman. And when they congregated? As this excellent gallery of photographs from the 1957 London World Con Sci-Fi convention makes clear, where there are nerds, there is cosplay. The call of the sci-fi geek is timeless indeed.
London WorldCon 1957 [eFanzines]
