Trystan L. Bass

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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.”

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Harriet Tubman Gets Her Movie

By Trystan L. Bass on November 12, 2019

The reviews of Harriet (2019) have been mixed, with major publications calling the film everything from 'dutiful' and 'contrived' to 'rousing and... Read more →

Woman Crush Wednesday11

WCW: Essie Davis

By Trystan L. Bass on November 6, 2019

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 →

Six: Musical (2019), photo by Trystan L. Bass

Tangential but Interesting!19

Six: The Musical — A Theatrical Digression

By Trystan L. Bass on November 5, 2019

We usually stick to historical movies and TV because that's our charter. But occasionally we venture out of our West Coast domiciles and hit the... Read more →

Nineteenth CenturyThrowback Thursday14

TBT: Bram Stoker’s Dracula Deep Dive

By Trystan L. Bass on October 31, 2019

You love it or you hate it, and I love the hell out of it (and this is my blog!). We podcasted Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) but that didn't allow for... Read more →

Nineteenth CenturyTop 5 Friday21

Freaky Friday: Five Things About Lizzie (2018)

By Trystan L. Bass on October 25, 2019

In the last of my historical Halloween reviews, I'm looking at another version of the 19th century's famous unsolved murder. Lizzie (2018) has been... Read more →

Nineteenth Century9

Crappy Costumes, Sweet Story in The Scandalous Four (2011)

By Trystan L. Bass on October 24, 2019

Oh the things you find on Amazon Prime! No idea how I stumbled across The Scandalous Four (2011), but I guess because the subject matter is relevant... Read more →

Seventeenth Century8

Fanny Lye Deliver’d (2019)

By Trystan L. Bass on October 22, 2019

At the 2019 London Film Festival, one of the world premieres was Fanny Lye Deliver'd, a 'puritan western' about the social upheaval of the British... Read more →

Nineteenth CenturyTop 5 Friday11

Freaky Friday: Five Things About The Legend of Lizzie Borden (1975)

By Trystan L. Bass on October 18, 2019

Continuing my Halloween historical series, I'm going way back to a favorite from my youth The Legend of Lizzie Borden (1975). This is an actually... Read more →

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WCW: Christina Ricci

By Trystan L. Bass on October 16, 2019

She was our Wednesday Addams, and that's kind of typecast Christina Ricci as a horror movie queen. She's also shown up in a fair number of frock... Read more →

Man Candy Monday14

MCM: John Malkovich

By Trystan L. Bass on October 14, 2019

With a strong background in theater, John Malkovich comes across as studied and smart in whatever role he takes on, which makes him a natural for... Read more →