Your Fantasy Costume

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.

If you want to go for a custom made dress, here’s a wonderful site that features the works of  Andralys: Angelique Stock french costume maker and designer. From  medieval to victorian and prerraphaelite (like out of a Waterhouse’ painting)  and even daring to feature some steampunk inspired models, it showcases some custom and one of a kind works and also post her sketches and ideas for her upcoming projects. You can order too bridal garments and just surf among the selected photographs that will expose the quality and versatility of this garments.

Above: stunning photography, so icy and angelic!

I’m absolutely in love with this fur coat (sigh)

The gown below is so beautiful and yet so dramatic, sometimes a simple pattern and combination of colors can render such striking results!

Moresca is a New York based company specialized in fairy-tale, fantasy and renaissance costumes. I had the chance to see the wonderful bodices, garments, gowns and accesories when I attended as performer to the faeriecon last 2009.

I fell in love with the seagull short bodice but I wasn’t fast enough! people grabbed them in one day… as lovely as they were. I’ll probably will be getting this one for a videoclip. I think it’s heavenly adorable. It belongs to the MORESCA  “seagull” collection, though I think of an “artic wolf” too and that’s the way I want to characterize myself with it.

Above: seagull short bodice (AW I want it)

For those bellydancers and girls with a body that can provide grace to this, there were absolutely stunning tribal pieces like the own below. A fellow performer used a red set and she was looking absolutely great.

In the fairy ball also the faery bodices (that you can actually order in different colors, brocades and  floral ornaments) were pretty popular and despite sharing design they were all different and certainly customized and unique…  This is on the ohhh wouldn’t mind list too.

Oh I just needed to share also  pouch like this one… they’re so faery. They have a wealth of wonderful bags, so pretty that I’d not been able to pick one!

Talking about bigger things, there are also some unique and one of a kind items… and they’re indeed showing they are…!!  From simple (yet very sexy) hooded velvet capes and dresses to fairytale luxurious models.

Above: The “Mega” model  made from a beautiful color range of jacquards.

Revealing, with monastic overtones. The one a man tends to get for his woman. The waistband laces firmly in the back, under the full length cape. Generous hood. Dry clean.

Moresca fairytale wedding dress

ahh and for men too!! tons of options for Prince charming and other Castle inhabitants…!!

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.