Little Goth-Elizabethan Girl
My new chicky-poo: Lady Alexis of Veron, 8x10"
Seriously, I never understood the whole goth aesthetic and Gothic Lolita thing where they take fashion leads from Victorian and Edwardian eras. I think Elizabethan era fashion is way more suited to the goth sensibility -- but that's just me.
I know a lot of Americans when asking about, or describing my work to others, always call it Victorian which is so not true; for some reason of all the British periods "Victorian" seems to be the only one they can remember or reference. Maybe I'm just lucky I always had good history teachers? I love it when people call the Georgian period "Marie Antoinette-ish". For the record I go from pre-Tudor War of the Roses on to Elizabethan, Stuart and then until the middle of the Georgian period. Victorian or Edwardian fashions and portraits just never interest me. Regency though, I could maybe dig that.
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Perhaps it's the pain inherent in the Victorian and earlier Edwardian styles that appeal to the Goth-ettes. Also, black was an extremely common color at Victoria's court - with so many relatives scattered across Europe, the court always was in morning for someone at some time. All ladies-in-waiting had to have a black dress with jet jewelry in her closet...just in case.
Regency styles, not so much so - pastels and classical white were popular, and diaphanous gowns were much too comfy (though they did wear the equivalent to practically a full length girdle/body stocking!)
'I guess it would be difficult to shadow dance in."
Oh, yes - it was the men who could kick and fly, while the women were stilted and merely looked away.