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LRP STORE : Costumes, props and weapons for role players

Above: long vampire coat

LRP STORE is the Europe’s largest online retail shop dedicated to the world of Costume, Props and Role-Play. From vampires and pirates to viking and medieval and LOTR AND D&D armor, weapons, accessories and more and also proposals of the matching items to make the most common characters you would like to portray if you’re used to play live role play, or just for your freak fun self to party or impress with the right haloween prop.

And a note from some of our followers that e-mailed me asking for more “stuff for guys and less girlish..”!! ok, ok! got it, here you have some fun! At your command!

The really big highlight of the website are the armor (from pieces  like rings and D shaped scales for your “make your own”, bracers    and also complete already to ship  sets (leather, chainmail, roman…)

Oh and they have a small collection of accessories which include some lovely Belt pouches… Ohhh I JUST WANT this one! snif!

They an ever changing range of LARP weapons, swords  from basic knight blades to rapiers, cutlasses, samurai katana swords  and even Orc cleavers,axes,  bows, arrows and quivers, pirate pistols and even some steampunk-looking devices. They have stock  ready to ship in  several styles  in multiple lengths as well so you can have a short and long sword to match. Some examples below:

Above: examples of weapons (Left: steampunk vulcane gun ; right: pirate pistol). Below: Axe

LRP store has also a quite  big collection of costumes like shirts, coats, lady gowns and cloaks like the following:

If it wasn’t enough with all of these, the site  includes  also a  small section of most common used prostetics like elf ears, witches and devil  chins, fake noses and so forth as well as a selection of basic make up sets.

So even for surfing quite a while and open your mind to new ideas for your fantasy costume, LRP store offer quite a lot of time of entertainment by itself.

Alley cat scratch: a resource for the perfect lotr costume

alleyscratch

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.