Fantasy authors fear the landsknecht and his drip

Shit ass “realistic” fantasy setting: *no color ever, everyone wears boring black and grey mail and leather* Real life medieval elite mercenaries:

Battles were decided by which side wielded the most drip effectively

Some of my fave Black Fae Day lewks:

Slays.bySarah on IG

Etoilesroses on IG

Phleshe on IG and maybe on here? 

Feycrafts on twitter

KSHAW_tv on Twitter

Kagoneko on twitter

Hotboybebop on Twitter 

Queer_Elf_Club on Twitter 

And Thorns_and_Flames who lives in  my head rent-free

A 20th century revue, as performed by Ivy Pepper.   The intended horizontal format is here. It’s got some flow that way. Reformatting for tumblr turned out to be a bit awkward. If anyone’s interested, I’ll add some notes to this post about the dances, art styles and fashions depicted here.  (The 60s are doubled up because they changed so much from one end to the other and I couldn’t decide what to focus on.) —————————— Lackadaisy is on Patreon - there’s extra stuff!

Galaxy Witch Hat, by Felt Wicked Art on Etsy

See our ‘witch’ tag

hi tumblr it’s been a while, i’m really into the adventure zone right now

GIVENCHY ESSENTIALS photoshoot (seen on)

This fusion has some great ideas. I really like how this hakama is worn with a western jacket:

I recently started following the zventenze blog because they’ve been posting a lot of Eastern European winter festivals and costumes, which introduced me to some of the stylin’est, greatest imagery I never knew about. SO GOOD. 

These remind me of my grandmother’s sets of unedited folklore from around the world, which captured my imagination as a child. The stories were always scarier, more surreal, and more beautiful than their post-Victorian retellings. My favorites – regardless of origin – gave me this same cozy-creepy feeling.

That second photo is what I want to be when I grow up.

Badly.

Costumes from European winter celebrations,  Charles Fréger

NO.S PROJECT

@unromancable

Found on Signum Pheonix’s Facebook page, a series of images showing the layers of clothing and armour on a knight.

A useful basic primer: compare and contrast with other sources and with photos of real armour. The difference in style between Gothic, Milanese, Maximilian and Greenwich is striking.

The proper name for the short gambeson with mail sewn ito it is an “arming doublet”.

Typoes; “braises” should be “braies”; “bevour” should be “bevor”; “lace holder” should be “lance holder”. I’ve been copy-editing all day and they jumped out at me. Also, knowing the proper spelling makes Googling easier… :-)

World War Something, A. Tamboly

I….. I….. ….. I AM ALIVE FOR THIS

K, the younger ladies are awesome but the older ladies absolutely steal the hell outta this show. (PS Nice to see the uniforms and decorations aren’t completely off the wall)

I’ve been studying the classic black tie dress code (mainly from here) so I thought I could share my notes. Maybe they can be helpful to someone else, too. If I made any mistakes or things are really confusing please tell me.  I also have some notes on white tie which I could share as well…

In honor of Mulan’s anniversary today Disney parks twitter released photos of Mulan as Ping.

Some of the steampunk’d Portal designs I cleaned up for my panel at Steamcon yesterday!

I have lots of thoughts on how to effectively reinterpret a character through another cultural lens- steampunk, post-apocalyptic, superhero, what have you- but a lot of it revolves around maintaining a costume’s character, functionality, and aesthetic.  I’m sure I can ramble on about that at some point when I’m not recovering from con crud. :)