All right, so I grew up watching Xena: Warrior Princess and I refuse to apologize for my love of completely pulpy, totally improbable fantasy warrior outfits. Of course, that doesn’t mean I don’t realize that this armor would be about as useful in a fight as an actual cocktail dress, but it’s never stopped me before.
One of the great joys of paper dolls, if I may get philosophical for a moment, is that they can be anything or anyone. Any character you can imagine, can be created with just a change of clothing. Starting a new series a little daunting after having created works like Marisole Monday & Friends where there are, literally, hundreds of paper dolls.
Now, I both get the excitement of revisiting themes I always have enjoyed (like my pulpy armor today), but also the overwhelming realization that there’s hundreds of themes I haven’t explored yet- astronaut, circus, pirate, Lolita, post-apocalyptic, cyberpunk, all of fashion history and, of course, mermaids.
But those will be explored in due course, I suspect. This isn’t going to be the last set of fantasy armor for the Dames and Dandies, though it is the first.
Meanwhile, is there a theme you’re dying to see? Let me know in a comment. And enjoy today’s pulpy armor.
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Love the armor and the title.
And here’s a vote for Erte’s fashions. If I could draw I would totally do a paper doll series. Well, okay, Tom Tierney did a book I think. But there are lots more dresses, each more bizarre than the last.
The challenge of Erte is that so much of the beauty, I think, comes from Erte’s unique style of drawing. I often wonder how they would actually look if drawn in a different style. On the other hand, we all know how I feel about 1920s clothing and my love of that, so who knows?