self cosplay

A character's variant wearing the clothes of another variant of their own, such as a magical girl's civilian identity wearing her magical girl identity's clothes. The Precure franchise has an unofficial term for this, which is "midform".

It's usually one of the following scenarios:

• The outfit doesn't match with the wearer's current hairstyle
• The outfit doesn't match with the wearer current hair color, eye color, scars, personality, etc.
• The outfit belongs to a younger version but the wearer has an older body, or vice versa

Similar to fusion and split theme, but instead of merging, the character looks more like they simply changed clothes.

If instead, the hairstyle doesn't match the state of the body, it might be a self-borrowed hairstyle.