Your Fantasy Costume

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Faire Lady is a store that has bits of many items you might need for a Ren Fair, from Civil war versatile skirts, to cinchers,  ren corsets and bodices, pirate coats and chemises, petal skirts, tribal dance turkish vests, veils tribal and belly dance wear. It also features several accesories as belts, vests,  hoop skirts [...]

Tim Burton’s “The nightmare before Christmas” is one of my favorite movies… This stop-motion animated jewel released early nineties when I was a teenager. I went to the cinema seven times in a row when it was released just to learn the songs by hear (in those times to find the soundtrack where I was [...]

Fairy Gothmother is a boutique  located in central  London. They design and manufacture a wide range of unique corsets in latest colours and fabrics using traditional methods of construction and stock fashion corsets , prom dresses, eveningwear , delicious lingerie and burlesque inspired fashions exuding  glamour and opulence, featuring corsets, lingerie and eveningwear brands handpicked [...]

To watch the video, click on the title for a full version of the article. As I recommended before MAC make up is great so just a reminder in case of need. Women’s long hair was replaced by very “boyish”  haircut style , skirts shorter, a cigarrete in the hand, and ready for the Charleston!. [...]

When it comes to the point to find the right shoes for a fantasy garment,  it’s often one of the weak points that often spoil the historical or rigor of it all. I just found this wonderful site Lady Oren’s medieval shoes with a lovely collection of shoes and boots. Most shoes can be [...]

Hairlooms features a lovely collection of headpieces and garlands that will suit perfectly not only a wedding dress but any nymph, dryad or fairy garment.  Full, detailed and rich in colours, it really shows the finery of the materials (with flowers, ribbons, leaves, branches, butterfly wings  and even feathers). Having seen these in person I [...]

I loved  GHOSTBUSTERS movie when a child (well the first part at least as I felt very dissapointed with the sequel) curiously after so long now that there are rumours of a new Ghostbusters movie on the making…  so somehow these days i’ve had the tune again in my head and one can imagine that [...]