Your Fantasy Costume

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.

Above: some examples of accesories

Among my favourites I’d mention the jerkins and saberist jerkins for men. I think every guy should have one of these.

There’s also a girl version, that i’d hightlight in its “dress version” as in the picture below. Some of the  women bodices look very “Hercules” or “Xena” like.

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.

Falconrose is a delightful collection of leather hand crafted masks, the site and the style of the masks themselves reminds us of ancient times and mediaeval tapestries…  The site is not only worth because of the wonderful masks they make, but also becuase of the throrough description of the creatures that makes it interesting enough even if just only for reading about the myths and legends that inspired them.

The Otherworld collection, featuring the Mythical creatures (unicorns, fauns and dragons) and Gods and Goddesses collection (some of which have references to greek, mediaeval and even

The Woods collection (feature feathered, furred and  the Green beings collection). Here we can find wolves, raven and corvids, some stunning owl masks  and all sort of dryad and green man masks, some of which are really amazing.

(up: Raven mask from “The Woods” collection)

The Court, it divides as well in two mini collections, The Unseelie court  featuring a darker side  of magical creatures not friendly for human eings like  goblins, the wood witch, or an absolutely gorgeous Medusa mask (see below), and other more faeric called The Seelie court featuring some beautiful butterfly inspired design as well.

(above: Medusa mask from the Court Unseelie collection)

Isn’t it an amazing corset? for fairies or dryads?

Goblin Road make wearable and made to measure leather corsets to guarantee a perfect fit and they’re the “must-have” for a forest nymph garment. The model shown above is called “wood elemental” and also air and fire elemental models are available on the site. I feel tempted to order thos model precisely as I love the cut and that “made of plants” look. The back of the corset is grommetted and cinches with a leather cord. You can also ask for some runes and ornaments to be engraved, and have it with or without the “leaves” edges though I think that’s precisely the trademark of Goblin Road tops.

They’ll have soon a new collection called “Mythagos” with dragon designs and designs of angel and celestial creatures. I cannot wait to see them! and we’ll update this article with them.

In the following weeks they’ll increase their catallogue with wings, masks, skirts and all sorts of things… so don’t forget to bookmark this site to check it all over again soon. Aside they’ll list other stuff like skirts, coats and masks.