Costume Links

[anotheranon]

...to start y'all out on Monday Tuesday:

Anime Expo Costumers

Winners of same

Some of these cross the line right over from costuming into engineering, take a look at some of the structure involved! And there are so many of them!

Disclaimer: not an Anime Expo attendee or affiliate, just impressed!

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[jlsjlsjls.livejournal.com]

I recall that you enjoyed the descriptions of "The Pyrates"' hero and anti-hero a while back Here's Sheba's entrance as another appetizer; she's sort of a cross between Grace Jones and Servalan:

And as they crouched for the assault, up from the rear came the fourth leader of that desperate enterprise, cat-footed and stately, and those hairy ruffians fell back, eyeing her askance with lustful respect as she stalked by, hips swaying, with a trace of Pierre Cardin lingering on the sultry air as she passed.
Six gorgeous feet she was, from the heels of her tight-fitting Italian thigh boots (from Gucci, undoubtedly) to the curling plume of her picture hat, breeched and shirted in crimson silk that clung to her like a skin, lithe and sleek and dangerous as a panther - Sheba, the black pirate queen, looking like something out of Marvel Comics with her lovely vicious face and voluptuous shape, her dark eyes flashing against her ebony skin, smouldering silently as she unsheathed her dainty rapier with its Cartier hilt, and posed with the contemptuous grace of a burlesque star, indifferent to the ecstatic sighs and groans of her besotted followers. She had that sort of effect on men - it was notorious that when, in boarding a galleon, her shirt had been ripped off by an enemy pike, her entire crew had had to go on bromide for a fortnight. She never walked, she prowled, exuding menace and sex-appeal at every step, but none was so hardy as to presume on her femininity, for Sheba was as cruel and deadly as she was beautiful, and her scorn for men was proverbial. (True, in the focsle they breathed rumours of sizzling orgies in her secret fortress on Octopus Rock, with prisoners who were afterwards done diabolically to death, but that's focsle gossip all over.) Born a Barbados slave, she had clawed her way to power in the Coast fraternity by a piratical genius and ruthless ferocity that had made her the toast of women's liberationists all along the Main. Her fellow sea-wolves respected her, had astonishing fantasies about her, and went in terror of her, and she despised them all with a curl of her shapely lip and a lift of her perfect Egyptian nose and a low-lidded glare from her smoky slanting eyes, fingering her one long silver earring the while. Only to Rackham did she show the respect due an equal, and the big man treated her as a brother. Three centuries later Sheba would have been on the cover of Vogue, or leading a soul group; she was a pirate because she hated the world for enslaving her, and took a sadistic pleasure in killing - men, for choice, but women given half a chance, and quite small animals.

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

Sounds like quite my cup of tea! Also, I could wear the Van Helsing boots with such a getup, right?

Re: Servalan - I've never seen much of Blake's 7 but she looks like the inspiration for Grayza in the last season of Farscape. Love the hair :)

[jlsjlsjls.livejournal.com]

OH YES!!!! First time I saw Grayza, I knew she was a relative of Servalan's. It wasn't just appearance either ... dear little Servie had a habit of "handling" goodlooking junior officers and they didn't dare protest for fear that she'd have 'em executed ***grin*** (B7 operated with some themes that weren't the usual late 70s prime time stuff ... besides Servalan's tendency towards sexual harassment in the workplace, the whole escaped convicts/rebels-on-the-run plot started with something you'd never see on Star Trek: the Federation chose to end Blake's potential as a focal point for rebellion by planting false memories in kids' minds and then using their testimony to convict him for child molesting).

Yes, you can wear the Van Helsing boots with that outfit ... you'll make Sheba green with jealousy. ;-)