User blog comment:Jkphantom9/NYCC 2015 in One Week/@comment-25555436-20151002133352/@comment-4010415-20151002212925

...... Most bronies cosplay as human versions of the ponies, and if a male brony wants to cosplay a female pony, he just cosplays a male version of a human version of the pony.

It's actually kind of cool because you can pick one character, and the people cosplaying that character will all look different (unless they cosplay the Equestria Girls version). They make up an outfit that they think that pony would wear if they were human, get a wig, get any accessories that pony usually wears, maybe get a prop of some kind, and bam, they're cosplaying the pony. Some even get pony ears to wear, maybe even a unicorn horn and/or pegasus/alicorn wings. But overall, they're human versions.

Liiiike... here's a woman cosplaying as Rainbow Dash. Here's a woman cosplaying Rarity. Here's a man cosplaying Big Macintosh, Applejack's older brother.