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I create historically inspired costumes, specialising in 18th century costume A singer by trade, I started creating costumes for my 18th century group Lady Georgianna. After much persuading from friends, I...
Welcome to Lady Allegra's weird and wonderful world of historically inspired costume!
Stripy dress getting there!
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Introducing…the humungous pocket skirt!!!
For an upcoming event, I’ve been asked to create a “pocket lady” character and costume. I had never heard of the Pocket Lady, but apparently she is a European tradition....
En Forreau….I’m scared!
My brother, after many years, has managed to persuade me to join him at one of his comic conventions (MCM Comicon). He does the whole cosplay thing, and so I...
Pill box hat
When I was in DC earlier this year, I found a really cute black vintage pillbox hat. Now I have a really lovely dress that I was hoping to wear...
new retro-inspired blouse
Some time ago I bought a beautiful green vintage velvet skirt suit from my favourite charity shop, which is great, but I don’t have an awful lot to wear with...
Led hat meets steampunk Monday at the coach and horses
A few weeks ago I was talking about an led hat inspired by the one worn by Kiera Knightley in Anna Karenina…The led hat had it’s first steampunk outing this...
And the eyepatch…
My River Song outfit couldn’t be complete without the creepy eyepatch! I went for my old failsafe…fimo. To get that convex shape that it has in the middle, I bent...
River song costume
To celebrate the return of Dr Who on the 30th March( my birthday), I am having a pub crawl with a Dr Who theme. The nice thing about that is,...
Elizabethan-oid coolness from Beyonce
My housemate and pal Will, just gave me a heads up on Beyonce’s new look for an O2 ad that she is appearing in. The outfit seems to be some...
Light-up hat idea
I really like the look of this hat, that Keira Knightley wears in Anna Karenina (now there is a costume-fest if ever I saw one) I think that it might...
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