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For Sale: 19th Century Handcolored Fashion Lithos

As you may recall, I recently scored a pretty sweet haul at Goodwill. Part of that haul was a set of four 19th-century handcolored fashion lithos from La Moda Elegante Ilustrada, a Spanish fashion magazine. It was basically Spain’s answer to Godey’s Lady’s Book (or perhaps Godey’s Lady’s Book was America’s answer to La [...]

My taffeta arriveth!

OMG, the 15 yards of taffeta I ordered for my World Fantasy dress came today, and it’s utterly gorgeous! The color is perfection. Remember I said I was going to go with black taffeta? Well, forget I ever said that. Black is my favorite color to wear, but if you do a dress like [...]

“-punk”? Or just “a punk”?

Back in college, I thought I was such a punk. I had the pink hair and the nose ring, I wore a leather jacket with studs on it, and I thought I was bad ass. I spray-painted an anarchy symbol on the old Dodge Econoline Van I inherited from my parents not because I [...]

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Bustlepunk haul from Goodwill

You know, even though they’ve become hideously overpriced in recent years, Goodwill does sometimes shake down with a few nice items. To wit, remember how I’ve been agonizing about whether or not to make a new costume for World Fantasy, and how I was going to be on the lookout for cheap fabric? Well, [...]