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Arm Street Medieval Store: Historical costumes, armor, footwear, tents and more

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  Above: replica of XV garment     Arm Street is a huge store specialized in medieval things armor, helmets, combat gauntlets, medieval and renaissance costumes, dresses and tunics, authentic leather footwear and belts.Please add me to your list of favorite sellers and visit often. They also run a store in ebay, so you can also go there and check their listings at:    ARM STREET IN EBAY    Isolda: Limited edition Wedding Dress. I really love this one... It'd go great with my white wingsssss!! slightly resembling to the accolade it has that lovely preraphaelite romantic look!

 

Exclusive photoshoot for EL COSTURERO REAL featured in AUTUMN FAE MAGAZINE issue already available

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We are proud to announce that latest issue of FAE MAGAZINE (british publication devoted to fantasy and the fairy world (including fashion) has published an exclusive photoshoot where I have modeled for the spanish designer and costume maker El Costurero Real. I'm wearing a lovely and exclusive for the shoot  "moth dress" made by Alassie (El Costurero Real previously covered in yfc in this article) and fellow artist Lady Morte is wearing also another garment from El Costurero´s collection.

 

Ravenswood: amazing leather pirate coats

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Ravenswood leather is a wonderful site that features all sorts of costumes made of leather. Prices can look a bit high at the first sight, but we're talking about really fine quality. They also feature a section to teach you how to take care of the pieces you buy in the store. But it doesn't only feature the most amazing pirate (also ren and futuristic looking)  coats for men (and women too) I've seen so far, there you can find all sorts of accesories from belts, to gauntlets, bracers and pirate hats to become a real pirate.They feature the pieces in several colors from plain and classic black to several shades of brown, green and even white.

 

Alley cat scratch: a resource for the perfect lotr costume

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The next link has to be one of the most amazing fantasy costuming sites in the internet.  Alley Cat Scratch costume is a mega data base of movie costume documentations, studying and research in great detail from famous movies gowns models and designers, providing write-ups and will help you to create your own replica.

 

Halloween is just "The Nightmare before Christmas"

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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...

 

Thai Nails... a creepy tribal touch!

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Thai nails are used in traditional thai dance and rather well known among bellydancers. They are made of brass golden colour though can be easily customizable by painting them to give them another entirely and "creepy touch" giving the impression you have longer fingers and adding movement, eight in each set (not in the thumb). Unexpected and great looking I use them sometimes on stage, and can be easily found  here where in fact I purchased them.