Your Fantasy Costume

Above: “Lady of the lake” model

Alassie Angelines is a spanish designer that specializes in historical garments. She created her own company called “El Costurero Real” delivering accurate replicas of medieval garments of a very high quality, using materials, dyes, and jewelry but adding also her own interpretation of the characters she recreate.   She’s won several prizes and is making her  own way working for several cinema projects. Her blog offers also tutorials and articles of overall interest for any lover of fantasy or historical garments… so if you are going to attend a ren fair, you´d better have a look at it (so far it’s only in spanish) but illustrated enough to be easily read with an online translator.

Above: Queen  Guinevere

Above: Sir Mordred

She has just launched a collection called “Leyendas artúricas” (Legends of King Arthur) that has its own particular website, a collection of garments and gowns for the main characters of the Arthurian Romance around this well known character, from King Arthur self,  Lancelot, Morgen le Fay, Lady of Shalott and more…

Above: me wearing one of the garments of the collection designed by Alassie Angelines… for me it’s been an honour  to be chosen as one of the celebrities that endorse garments from this lovely designer. I think this is “Morgen le Fay” model.

All garments are made upon demand and can be ordered in different kind of fabrics taking one to two months to be completed. If you are foreign make the questions or request in english, a brand new website in both languages is on the making.

Aside of the gowns and dresses, a sister-site offers all kind of complements from headpieces (designed by El Costurero Real),  belts, cloaks, necklaces,  jewelry and all sort of goodies and ready to wear. I particularly love the crowns, handmade and lovely for a lotr elvish gown, without over-using the “Galadriel” model found elsewhere. I’m dying to grab one of these for my performances.

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 made in leather or suede  and you can add some motifs in certain models. I love these below, a with a leaf fairy design burnt on leather:

There are also many models inspired upon historical paintings:

up: Archer shoe model

And  the site features also some lovely pouches too.

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!!!!