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 GuideSci-Fi & Fantasy4

(Reboot) Doctor Who Historical Costumes, Part II

By Trystan L. Bass on November 25, 2014

To continue our review of historical costuming in new Doctor Who, let's move from the all-too-brief Christopher Eccleston era on to Doctor #10, David... Read more →

Doctor Who "The Empty Child" / "The Doctor Dances"

Frock Flicks GuideSci-Fi & Fantasy6

(Reboot) Doctor Who Historical Costumes, Part I

By Trystan L. Bass on November 24, 2014

Over 50 years ago, the beloved British science-fiction/fantasy TV show Doctor Who started out with a goal of teaching children about history and... Read more →

Throwback Thursday

TBT: Nicholas and Alexandra

By Trystan L. Bass on November 20, 2014

At just over three hours long, 1971's Nicholas and Alexandra is a movie that has the slow, inexorable melodramatic pacing of the Titanic treading... Read more →

Throwback ThursdayTwentieth Century2

TBT: Richard III (1995)

By Trystan L. Bass on November 13, 2014

Long before he was Gandalf or Magneto, Ian McKellen was a Shakespearean actor, frequently performing with the U.K.'s Royal Shakespeare Company in the... Read more →

Tangential but Interesting!6

Appreciating Those Who Served on This Veterans Day

By Trystan L. Bass on November 11, 2014

While I'm a die-hard pacifist, I also have a fair number of military folks in my family, including my father, grandfather, and their fathers several... Read more →

Nineteenth CenturyThrowback Thursday6

TBT: Angels & Insects (1995)

By Trystan L. Bass on November 6, 2014

Let's take Throwback Thursday to the happy go-lucky Victorian days via 1995. You know, when proper ladies wore hoopskirts and kindly gentlemen had... Read more →

Sixteenth Century

The Countess Is One Killer Lady

By Trystan L. Bass on October 31, 2014

Looking for something different on Halloween? How about "The Countess" from 2009, written, directed, and starring Julie Delpy. It's a psychological... Read more →

Nineteenth CenturyThrowback Thursday4

TBT: Interview With the Vampire

By Trystan L. Bass on October 30, 2014

It's a Throwback Thursday with Halloween, and thus vampires on the brain! What to say about 1994's Interview With the Vampire? If you're a fan of the... Read more →

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Happy Birthday, Edith Head!

By Trystan L. Bass on October 28, 2014

"What a costume designer does is a cross between magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of changing the actors into what they are not. We ask... Read more →

Nineteenth CenturyPodcast Resources1

Bram Stoker’s Dracula podcast resources

By Trystan L. Bass on October 24, 2014

Want to get behind the scenes of Bram Stoker's Dracula? Check out these books... Bram Stoker's Dracula: The Film and the Legend by Francis F.... Read more →