Oh yes, I wasn't kidding when I said cosplay was going to be included in this! But if there's one thing I love more than leaving Playboy magazines on the coffee table when guests are over to make them feel uncomfortable, it's making simple things needlessly complicated.
And while I will eventually get around to making all of
Shoomlah's Disney Princess dresses, I decided to do something a little bit differently...but just a little.
Indeed, Historical Adventure Time Princesses, each in their own time and place. So, in no particular order, my brainstorming:
Princess Bubblegum - Regency - 1810
PB is really the inspiration for this whole project. I noticed that her default dress isn't what most would call a 'princess dress.' It doesn't have a big puffy skirt and and giant crown. It's very simple. "Almost like a regency dress." I thought and DING DING DING, the idea was born.
But I digress.
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Left: Dress worn to the wedding of Napoleon Bonaparte and Marie-Louise, 1810
Right: Evening gown plate, 1810 |
Now, this project will obviously be less about correct colors, but I am not prepared to make a hot pink regency ball gown, I'm thinking soft and pale pinks with violet and gold trims and embroidery. I want the gown to have the long train of the gown on the left, but have that train be the net overlay of the gown on the right. I'll incorporate her crown (and earrings, too. Why not?) into some kind of jewelry or accessory on a turban or bandeau.
Marceline - Victorian - 1860
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Marcy's normal clothes were just too plain,
so her why-wolf dress will be transformed, instead. |
Of course, this dress is going to get 120% of my attention due to:
1) Marceline being my favorite character
and
B) The Victorian Era being the time everyone says I should have been born in.
I thought I was going to be putting her in a bustled evening gown, but I felt that the bodices wouldn't allow the fur at the top to pop as much as it should. So I went back a few years to the 1860s and decided an entire fur bertha would be adequate.
Black satin with red ribbon on the bodice(I've noticed all of Marceline's outfits include something red. I guess it's the vampire equivalent to trail mix.) and bows on the skirt in a pale purple/even paler purple striped pattern. The skirt may include a layered petticoat effect like in the gown on the left.
I was considering making her jewelry have an apple motif, but after the latest episode with her and the Ice King, I may switch it over to a diamond or pale blue crystal in honor of her once good friend.
-sniffle-
Flame Princess - Georgian - 1770~?
Flame Princess' designs jumped around a bit. She was going to be in a Tudor gown, then an Elizabethian, I even played with the idea of putting her in a Cranach gown and carrying around Finn's head. So, FP's dress was one of the last few to be decided. I stepped back and took a good look at Flame Princess and her story. The main point around her being that everyone thinks she's evil yet, really she's just young and naive. Much like another
monarch we all know.
Plus, look at that hair, she's gotta be put in a French court dress.
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Not sure were this picture is from as I saved it forever ago.
File says "18th century wedding dresses." |
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Using a movie costume as reference and inspiration. -gasp-
I may have lost my costuming cred before I even got it.
Screen from: Marie Antoinette(2006) |
A red taffeta petticoat under a dark orange coat in a robe a la francaise style. With the giant pocket panniers, of course. In place of the usual bows down the stomacher, the big red gems getting smaller as they go. Red and dark gold metallic trims. The trademark giant hair of the 18th century will be red, orange and decorated with the same trim and gems as the dress.
Lady Rainicorn - Joseon Dynasty/Modern Day - Hanbok
My original idea for Lady was going to be a Heian Era junihitoe from Japan with every coast being a different color.
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| Heian Era jūnihitoe with very colorful layers. |
But I scrapped that in favor of the more commonly known Korean hanbok...ya know, for obvious reasons.
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A modern day hanbok. I say modern day because my
research has led me to believe that they did not
always look like this. |
I think this is the only dress that I will make but won't cosplay in -Oh yea, did I forget to mention that I was going to go out and about with all of these dresses and accessories at one point?- I never really got into the Asian clothing that most people do at cons. It may be because my first costume experience was with a cosplay based of the very Heian costume I avoided earlier. But, that's another story for another time.
Ice Queen - Tudor/Elizabethian
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| Evil step-sisters? |
Natasha Allegri said that she had designed Ice Queen's dress to look like Anastasia and Drizella from Cinderella. My design is going to look like Queen Lizzie or Queen Anne. Not sure who yet. Mayhaps both?
This is the part were the project kinda fails a bit. I'm not good a looking at portraits and going 'I know exactly what that would look like in person!' Doubly so for portraits of Elizabeth I(not so much for her mother though). So, for things like this I usually go with movies set in that era.
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| Dresses from Elizabeth and Elizabeth 2: The Golden Age |
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| Dresses from The Other Boleyn Girl |
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| More dresses from the other Boleyn Girl. All a similar style. |
This dress may end up being a mixture of both styles as there are parts of both styles I like and parts of both that I don't. For example: For the Tudor style, I'm not a real fan of the French hood. I CANNOT STAND FRENCH HOODS THEY FILL ME WITH RAGE. Don't know why. They just look really silly. It's hard to look all regal n' junk when you have what looks like a cardboard box on your head. But then again I also think that velvet looks costume-ish so maybe I'm just dumb.
Doctor Princess - WWII Nurse
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| "Whoa nelly! Something...medical is happening!" |
I know, I know, The Doctor isn't a real princess, but who can say no to that face? Plus, it fits perfectly. I'm even gonna include a mini Scientific Parasite! I may even make a variation for SCIENCE WIZARD.
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| Various WWII uniforms |
Lumpy Space Princess - Post-Edwardian - 1912
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| Oh, My Glob! |
Yea no, I'm serious. I wanted to fit LSP somewhere in here. The Edwardian and Post-Edwardian eras' silhouettes are all about the lumps! Varying shades of purple in varying layers of sheer and opaque fabric with gold, star-themed trimmings. The jewelry and accessories will all be light shades of blue to match her beloved can of beans.
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Left: Two of Queen Maud of Norway's gowns. 1910-1913
Center: Evening gown. 1912. FIDM
Right top and bottom: Evening gowns. 1912 |
Well, that's all the princesses I have ideas for at the moment. More are sure to come of the princesses already there and the princesses that have yet to be introduced. But for the time being. The project has now officially...wait for it...stalling tactic...BEGUN.
