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I did a search on comic con women's costumes, and I'm shocked, shocked I say, that something a social justice warrior would interpret as harassment would occur:

“...ComicCon womens’ costumes...”

And those you pictured are among the more modest outfits!

Back in the day, before ComicCons and TrekCons and other media based fantasy conventions and ‘cosplay,’ we had the same kind of problems with costuming at Science Fiction conventions. Basically, attractive young women would create costumes to show off their ...ahem...assets. (see if you can locate pictures of ‘Animal X’, Heidi, Angelique Tournove, and others, from the 1970’s) The costume call organizers had to make a rule: No costume is not a costume!
But that did not apply to hall costumes, which were not entered in the Masquerades.

I recall one incident at an EveCon, which was held over the New Year’s Eve weekend at a hotel, which was holding its own New Year’s Eve Party at their bar and restaurant. The hotel’s Security Chief was talking to the EveCon organizer (Bruce Evry) about keeping the two very different crowds apart. “And especially,” he told Bruce, “ I don’t want to see any of your girls wandering around the public areas of the hotel half naked.” Just at that moment, a rather attractive teen aged girl wandered past wearing nothing above the waist but strategically placed decals of seashells. Stunned silence for a couple of seconds. “I must be getting old,” said the security chief, “and my eyes are going bad,” pinching the bridge of his nose, “because I didn’t see that.” “I’m going blind, too,” said Bruce, “ ‘cause I didn’t see it either!” And he hurried off to intercept the young woman and get her to cover up. I saw her a little later; her idea of covering up was a loose, completely sheer blouse worn over the appealing but disturbing decals. Unbuttoned, of course.