“You’ve changed your mind, master… it is master isn’t it?”
“Of course it is. Now tighten my corset, tie up this blouse, and help me put my tiara on or I’ll be late.”
Continuing our look at unusual attire, we come to the ladies…
Female Attire
She’s dressed as some sort of pantomime giant slug
She wears a gown of cunning and beautiful silks, held together with a hangman’s noose
It appears she’s wearing a gown made from giant spider’s legs
She’s wrapped in a blanket and has tied grass about her feet
She wears a gown made of rats’ tails
The buttons on her bodice are made of glass eyes
Her crimson corset is woven with pigtails of human hair
She wears a shawl made of sewn wolf pelts
She is wearing a velvet jacket set with hundreds of dead flower-heads
Her scarf is woven with images of you
She wears a brown knitted coverall that conceals every inch of her flesh
She wears a beautiful lace dress within which are scenes of people being eaten alive by giants
Her gown is a storm of long living rags that dance in an unseen gale
She’s dressed from head to toe in yellow
Her skirt is made of leaves and her gown of bark
Upon her shoulder are a trio of dead magpies, whilst her huge hat is made from a pelican
Her travellers’ witzchoura is partially composed of sewn bear paws and is bound by a rope made of sinews
Her magnificent purple dress is over twenty feet in length
There’s a bird nest in her hat
She’s dressed as a rook
She wears a mask depicting an appallingly disfigured female face
She wears a wedding dress behind which trail scores of inflated pigs bladders
She wears a tight-fitting steel breastplate arrayed with spikes and pictures of hedgehogs
She’s covered in the hide of a giant porcupine
Her frock is woven with depictions of a besieged city full of people starving to death
Though all her other clothing is incredibly bright, her headscarf is black and hung with dead squirrels
She wears a dress made from sewn pigs
She wears a gown made of sewn sheep, including their heads
Her sari is made up of a confusing mass of oranges, yellows and purples that somehow seem to swirl giddily
She’s naked but completely covered in henna tattoos
Her overfrock is soiled with hundreds of bloody chicken claw prints
A false halo hangs above her head, and her garb is made of silver
Her abaya is made up of long dark human hair and black silks
She wears a nun’s habit cunningly woven into which are runes and representations of stylized monstrosities
She has painted herself violet and wears only a loincloth and oily wrap about her chest
She has a black veil and her face is wrapped in black silk, her whole body is swathed in black cloth
Her cloak is set with thousands of mother-of-pearl moons
She appears to be dressed as a unicorn
She wears a green gown and has a hat that resembles a crooked church steeple
She wears a very fine riding coat hanging from the back of which is a bloody fox tail
She wears a blue wedding dress and an executioner’s hood
She’s dressed from head to toe in leather—so much in fact that you can only tell she’s a she by her outline
Her mantle appears to be made from a cloaker skin with the head still intact and a large wax apple in its mouth
Hat pins stick through her enormous gray wig, which becomes part of her curiously web-like clothes
She’s wearing a bed gown
Her badger stole keeps opening its mouth
Hanging from her scruffy clothes by rope are scores of glass bottles
Her lace shawl seems to have something crawling below it
She wears a cork crown
She wears an apron in the pockets of which are a dozen rats
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