A self-described ElderGoth, Trystan has been haunting the internet since the early 1990s. Always passionate about costume, from everyday office wear to outrageous twisted historical creations, she has maintained some of the earliest online costuming-focused resources on the web. Her costuming adventures are chronicled on her website, TrystanCraft. She also ran a popular fashion blog, This Is CorpGoth, dedicated to her “office drag.”
In honor of the series ending this summer in the U.K. and last month in the U.S., here I'm trying to say something nice about it. Oh Poldark... Read more →
Elizabeth McGovern stretches out of her typecasting as Cora, Countess of Grantham, and returns to somewhat more complicated roles as the central... Read more →
Shout-out to my homies who love the ’70s British costume dramas! I hadn’t watched Lillie (1978) the first time around, but dayum, I sure did... Read more →
Often considered the greatest actor of his generation, renown for his Shakespearean work in theater and film, Laurence Olivier was quite a dashing... Read more →
I was all set to drool over Timothée Chalamet in The King (2019) because he's totally my type of prettyboy, despite him being younger than my... Read more →
When I saw Jodhi May in Gentleman Jack, I thought, hmm ... she's familiar. Then Kendra wrote a series of posts on Daniel Deronda, and I remembered... Read more →
René Hubert may not have the instant name recognition of Edith Head or Adrian or even Orry-Kelly among all the golden age of Hollywood costume... Read more →
When we talk about recycled costumes in frock flicks, that's usually because the outfits have come from one of the big rental houses. In Hollywood,... Read more →
The reviews of Harriet (2019) have been mixed, with major publications calling the film everything from 'dutiful' and 'contrived' to 'rousing and... Read more →
Sure, she's Phryne Fisher to everyone now, but Essie Davis has shown up in a fair number of historical costume movie and TV roles previous to those... Read more →
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