Your Fantasy Costume

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.

If you’re intending to dress like ANY of the characters from The lord of the rings movie, or inspired by Tolkien works. We want you to recommend you to visit Alley. They’ve studied about the costumes from fabric to patterns to metalwork. From hobbits to elves, covering not only the gowns and garments, but also cloaks,  headresses, wigs, leather-work, shoes, belts and even make up tutorials to make you look a lotr character. They have a community to get feedback, keep you up to date with costume exhibits in different areas, and also cover dresses patterns, sewing tips  and tutorials of other movies, fantasy and sci-fi and futuristic, but being their pivotal focus in lord of the rings movies.

A must see… for those ones good at crafts, and also for those ones not so but in need of ideas, from very easy to be done to things that are for those with good hands…! Bookmark for reference, it’s an awesome site.

Pendragon shoes is one of the most amazing and strange shoe  exclusive handcrafted leather shoes. This company is a Queensland based duo of designer shoemakers Jacqueline Orme Ward and Adrian Lockwood that have worked for several projects in theater and cinema including the recent and successful film “Peter Pan” by Warner Bros (that by the way is a wonderful version with a pretty soundtrack from James Newton Howard to go along with)

The site also offer  some “ready to wear” and more affordable models from which I hightlight the following and pretty leaf sandals

You can also watch some haute couture and exclusive models with outstanding designs that you’ll be yearning for… (sigh!). From some really… excentric and unconvetional models to  burlesque boots and Marie Antoniette, Jester, or the wonderful and feeric models for Titania and Oberon.

I’ve received a trillion newsletters with the fancy “elf yourself” website that turns a picture of you into a christmas elf… honestly I think it takes a little effort to dress yourself like it and really we’re approaching this very special season…. It’s a good time to watch cartoon and familiar movies on tv and cinemas and I admit it’s one of my favourite moments of the year… despite the weather (coughs with a cold!!). Maybe it has to be with the sparkling lights and all those tiny sparkling things everywhere…  Like Jack Skellington said in “A Nightmare before Xmas” …”what’s this? what’s this? there’s colour everywhere….”, or if you are more fond of the classical and sweeter “Polar Express” which portrayed them so covered with sugar that could trigger diabetes. Still with measure and all in between you can do it for your children, or even turn it into a less naive thing combining different elements, and well, it’s the season, isn’t it? so here we go with a few recommendations: So yes anything RED, GREEN AND GOLDEN will suit… !!

First of all, in need of pointy ears… please check this other article we covered previously in your fantasy costume about elf and latex pointy ears

Not to say that striped tights are so useful for witches, goblins, pixies, Jesters, fairies and almost whatever elfin creature you might imagine. And on girls they look so hot! . There’s also some really nice elf lingerie out there if you want to “surprise” your partner privately, click below for some examples.

On the other hand tights themselves also work, for this or any other topic.

Of course green and red tights will always work, wether striped or jester-like.  Once you get that be imaginative and pick a proper pair of shoes.

I particularly liked this hat, i think it’s a nice “casual wear” touch for the holiday!! if you’re shy!

I also would pick this lovely yet simple dress for Santa helpers, It looks like very easy to be done!!

I also particularly like the “Gabriel Dress” from the Dark Angel clothing website, in red or green velvet to then customize it with christmas ornaments.

ahh AND MERRY XMAS EVERYONE!!

We´ve all seen drawings in old books of Irish fairy tales with those fancy to dance all night away with goblins and fairies… Ghillies are typical soft  leather shoes for irish and scottish dancing in fact and have a lovely ancient traditional historical look For an accurate definition read this wikipedia article about them (yes I know this term is also used for some camouflage material as we´ll cover in the future). Surfing the net I found the perfect site for them… Medieval moccasins shop make them in EVERY color, the color chart is rather complete and include even some shiny metallic finish options. If you don’t want your ghillies to be the standard black colour this is definately your shop, and aside from standard ghillies and sandals they also make lovely boots knee-high in ghillie style that are definetely very sexy and fitting for fairy costumes but also for men with their kilt in “Braveheart” of Highlander mood . I wish I could grab a pair in white and black for myself arg and red!! and purple!! (sigh!!). Another thing on my “wish list” of course. They are amazing!

If I were you I’d bookmark this site as a first option because it offers great quality and a wealth of possibilities. If you want a cheaper option you can also find simpler models in other stores like the following:

And of course there are some models in ebay in several shops of dance wear, you can check there clicking the picture below

Now Dance… Dance… Dance!!!!