Magic in Real Life: Making Elsa’s Spirit Dress, Part 1

Elsa, my major costume project of 2020, deserves a few blog posts of her own. This post is mainly about the planning and analysis of the dress.

Movie Costume Review: Wonder Woman

Let me be perfectly honest- when Wonder Woman first came out a couple weeks ago, I assumed that it was not the type of movie I would be interested in seeing. I assumed it would just be a postmodern feminist rant with lots of thoughtless blowing things up. But I heard such good things about …

Costume Analysis: Victoria (TV Show)

I discovered the most AWESOME show last night when I watched the premiere of Victoria on PBS! As you can probably guess, it is a show that pretty accurately follows the life of Queen Victoria. Not only did this show have plenty of court drama and fascinating characters, but also the costumes were EPIC. It …

Movie Costume Analysis: Brave

Today we're going to be analyzing the costumes of one of my favorite movies EVER- Brave! I always loved this movie because of the story, the characters, the music, the lovely medieval Scottish setting, and of course, the costumes. I'm not very familiar with traditional Scottish dress in real life, but I am quite familiar …