Your Fantasy Costume

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 and even hats.  Below you’ll see a lovely pirate boned cincher:

You can opt from complete costumes or get the pieces separately. This lovely store based in Oregon features a wide collection of items that really stands out because of their sturdy aspect and fine quality. Chemises and ren bodices are offered in different colors and even all tapestry like this one. It seems to have also a nice push up effect…!  (aside of the gorgeous model I’m sure) Some are also reversible so you get two looks for the price of one!!

Petal skirts are delightful and offered in several colours,  there are
also chemises and skirts in plain colours so you can combine. particularly love this petal skirt  in purple and black , woudn’t mind to grab it!!

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 living was a complex task, but finally I found the little precious soundtrack of score that Danny Elfman scored for the movie)… “Oh somewhere deep inside of this bones….!” Yes, this film archieved what looked impossible, to make a charming prince to fall in love with out of a  thin  doll of a skeleton with such a great personality… the mighty Pumpkin King Jack Skellington. A gentle mix of genres, it even had some space for romance, and thus Jack and Sally became one of the most loveliest couple ever.. This movie also showed to the world the spirit of Halloween into countries like mine that have no tradition of it. Years later it started to become a cult movie and gain the recognition it initially deserved…

Let´s start with the heroine…. Sally Rag Doll!

There are cheap already made versions available, but you can opt for a fine hand-made version

Polishing details with this stitched glovettes (or you can opt for theatrical make up too. See attached video for Sally’s make up tutorial)

I think this might be more accurate to what the character is, just like the one below with wool hair juts like a doll:

Still due to aesthetics some prefer to wear a bright red fiber hair wig, the next one is suitable in hair  style:

Step by step Sally rag doll YOU TUBE tutorial (4 videos)

Pt 1: Face
Pt2: eyes
Pt3:Eyes and face
Pt4: Finished look

JACK Skellington

Jack’s mask alone

I don’t need to say that the very classical Halloween skeleton gloves are indeed great and useful for Jack’s costume.

Santa hat for turning Jack’s into Christmas mood!

Other characters in the movie

Zero (Jack’s dog)

Major Tom

Oogie Boogie

pumpkin prop “Halloween town”

Singing…. “This is halloween! This halloween! halloween! halloween!!”

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 reflect FairyGothMother’s decadent clientele. Some prom gowns would delight any “Cinderella” begging a fairy godmother to get them ready for the ball. They are indeed a bity pricy but also are of fine quality and many models suitable for waist reduction and training. In many ways it features a similar range of corsets and style to Bibian Blue (another wondrous shop located in Barcelona) that we previously covered, though of course the lines of  both designers are rather different and unique both in their art.

There are also a few other dresses more fairy o rmedieval inspired yet equally beautiful.

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!. A symbol of the woman liberation at the beginning of XX century… Then all you can do is to go the ” twenties flapper look” adding a short dress, the right shoes, a headband and string of pearls… so delightfully vintage now! And here also some suggested reading about women in those years. And here in detail  about 20’s make up.