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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Julian Fellowes has written an American version of Downton Abbey for HBO, so we're recapping this first season of The Gilded Age! Starting in 1882,... Read more →
Julian Fellowes has written an American version of Downton Abbey for HBO, so we're recapping this first season of The Gilded Age! Starting in 1882,... Read more →