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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Frock Flicks Free-for-All October

By Trystan L. Bass on October 7, 2022

You asked for it, so here’s an occasional open thread to bitch about anything tangentially related to history, costume, movies, or TV shows! Or... Read more →

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The Serpent Queen (2022) – Recap Episodes 3 & 4

By Trystan L. Bass on October 4, 2022

I'm a sucker for the 16th century, and Starz is delivering a slightly new topic with The Serpent Queen! Check in on Tuesdays for my thoughts on the... Read more →

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Top Five 18th-Century Men’s Outfits in Frock Flicks

By Trystan L. Bass on September 30, 2022

We tend not to analyze men's historical costumes as much here on Frock Flicks because we're less interested / knowledgable about the topic and... Read more →

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TBT: Brideshead Revisited (1981)

By Trystan L. Bass on September 29, 2022

I sometimes wonder WTFrock is wrong with me that I watched all these historical TV epic series when they first aired in the U.S. and I was just a kid... Read more →

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The Serpent Queen (2022) – Recap Episodes 1 & 2

By Trystan L. Bass on September 20, 2022

I'm a sucker for the 16th century, and Starz is delivering a slightly new topic with The Serpent Queen! Check in on Tuesdays for my thoughts on the... Read more →

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The Woman King (2022) Kicks Ass

By Trystan L. Bass on September 16, 2022

I caught an early show of The Woman King (2022), which opens in theaters this weekend, and OMG I am so incredibly impressed! This movie got rave... Read more →

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MCM: Tom Cullen

By Trystan L. Bass on September 12, 2022

Here's one I'm putting up for all y'all to decide: does Tom Cullen qualify for "why are the baddies always hot?" In frock flicks, he swings back and... Read more →

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WCW: Morfydd Clark

By Trystan L. Bass on August 31, 2022

Morfydd Clark is playing the iconic Galadriel in Amazon's The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, starting September 2, 2022. Of course, that's a... Read more →

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MCM: Ben Whishaw

By Trystan L. Bass on August 22, 2022

He's played gadget guru "Q" in the past three Bond movies, and he's been the voice of Paddington Bear including in the adorable QEII platinum jubilee... Read more →

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A League of Their Own (2022-)

By Trystan L. Bass on August 19, 2022

Most of us here at Frock Flicks have been on-record as hating the current trend of endless remakes and retreads of the same stories in movies and TV.... Read more →