snark from a sea witch

AZIRAPHALE - Female-inspired

and most people didn’t even recognize the costume let alone want to hear my nerdy details about why I put it together the way I did so I thought I’d share with you, the Good Omens fandom, instead XD

I look terrible in waistcoats. TERRIBLE. So when hubs said he wanted to dress as Crowley and Aziraphale-- and he’s taller and skinny and I’m short and round so the assignments were clear --I had to start thinking about how to put together an Aziraphale look I was comfortable with.

So I thought, if Aziraphale fell in love with clothes in the Victorian era, what if he’d been presenting female at that time and had fallen for female Victorian clothes instead? So what if the look was still “Victorian-era clothes updated to moderately modern times (but still pretty old-fashioned looking)”...but starting with what’s popular in the Victorian era?

I managed to buy almost the entire thing on Amazon and fairly cheap!

- High-neck blouse with tie...and I lucked into some light brown and blue tartan fabric to replace the white tie it came with <3

- High-waist skirt selected to mimic a corselet skirt (more Edwardian than Victorian but SO WHAT). Color was originally a more russet brown but I used RIT dye remover to fade it into the cream color photographed

- COAT...this is the thing that took me the longest to find something I liked and that I could reasonably afford for a costume (cream/camel’s not my usual color). I wanted something that had a little more of a drapey/cape feel because in the Victorian era women wore CAPES. I woulda gone with an actual cape if I could have found one in the right color!

- Shoes - I wanted something with buttons that had a little bit of the right feel, I didn’t want to wear spats or faux-spats. I tried to find a French heel but didn’t find one I liked in the right color and price range so I went with these (which I will wear again).

- Shitty blonde wig. I hate wearing wigs because I always buy crappy cheap ones-- I took this off maybe a half hour or so into the party --but I don’t usually wear costumes that require wigs so there’s not usually a point buying good ones...oh well.

Crowley: What I like about you, Newt, is that I can tell you I invented the hamburger, and you'll believe it.

Newt: You invented the hamburger?

Crowley: Absolutely.

just busy and tired and wondering why i’m on this wonderful/rotten earth

Full-size/quality/un-Tumblrized GIFset here!

Not as much context needed for these as for the Late Night with Seth Meyers one. I was trying to take GIFs that we hadn’t otherwise seen before but I couldn’t resist capturing that cackling one, even though I think I’ve seen one around.