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.”
I left off at episode three of Becoming Elizabeth (2022), disgusted by the rapey storyline yet generally pleased by the costumes. Well, the rest of... Read more →
Looking for something light and historically adjacent? The BBC comedy series Ghosts (2019-) is good fun and currently available on HBO Max and... Read more →
The ruff may just be the most iconic part of a fashionable late 16th or early 17th-century costume. Rising from a simple frill on the neck of a shirt... Read more →
While it was only in theaters for a hot second, Mr. Malcolm's List (2022) is now available for online rental, making it a lot easier for me to... Read more →
The costume designers who worked with Italy's Tirelli Costumes are famous for both meticulous historical recreations and fabulous flights of fancy.... Read more →
As the literary purist here at Frock Flicks, I fell on the grenade that is the Netflix attempt at Persuasion (2022). I was supremely irritated at the... Read more →
We know how y’all love 1970s British miniseries around here, so sometimes we’ll oblige with a deep-dive! I was in the mood, so I gave Jennie:... Read more →
He was a Calvin Klein model and he made all those Fifty Shades of dreck movies, so he has Hollywood bona fides as a hottie. But for our purposes,... Read more →
June is LGBTQ Pride Month, so we're featuring fabulous queer frock flicks each Thursday. Queer folks have always been part of human history, long... Read more →
The resounding "meh" I felt when I previewed Becoming Elizabeth (2022) last year has not dissipated after watching the first three episodes of the... Read more →
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