Hoo boy! Our first few days have been amazing. We’ve been linked by the Washington Post, tweeted and re-tweeted everywhere, Facebooked, and now covered by Echidne and The Widdershins. (And probably more, but we haven’t sorted through all the trackbacks.) Awesome. Huge thanks to all of you! We still need to add our Glamour Grrl […]
It’s our first blog post, so we’ll start by tipping the hat to all those blogs and posts that inspired us to start this site: College Candy College Fashion Echidne of the Snakes FatGrrl Feminist Mormon Housewives Filthy Grandeur HillZoo I Blame The Patriarchy Jezebel Ms. Magazine Rachel Simmons Salon The Sexist Sociological Images Stiletto […]
This costume should really have its own category: Costumes For When You Have A Halloween Party Tonight And It’s Already 5 O’Clock. Yes, it’s extremely simple, but that’s the appeal. You can stop by a costume store and pick up a Medusa wig, combine it with your own cool clothes, and voilà! You’ll look exactly […]
Tomyris (6th century BCE), the warrior queen of the Massagetae, was the woman who defeated and killed Cyrus the Great. In revenge for Cyrus’s trickery and the death of her son, Tomyris led her troops into battle against the Persians, routing them in what Herodotus described as the fiercest battle the “barbarians” had ever engaged […]
Such a pretty kimono! So delicate, so charming. And such a lovely young maiden…too bad she’s a DRAGON. The story of Kiyohime is the original Fatal Attraction. She fell in love with a handsome young Buddhist monk, and when he spurned her, her rage was so great that she turned into a ferocious purple dragon. […]
Amina (ca. 1533-1610) was a brilliant warrior queen of the northern Nigerian Hausa state of Zaria. She is remembered in song as “a woman as capable as a man,” which is rather understating the matter, seeing as how Amina was the greatest ruler and warrior in Nigerian history. For our illustration we’ve used three images […]
Some sun goddesses are motherly types. They shed their nurturing light on the earth, helping the plants grow and the people thrive. Not Bila. She preferred to burn people up. Every day she would send out her dingo dogs (this was back in the Dreamtime) to hunt down human victims for her great bonfires. Eventually […]
Miriam Makeba (1932-2008), the beloved South African legend, was famously known as “Mama Africa” for her music and her courageous opposition to apartheid. Throughout her long career Miriam was always stylish, wearing everything from boubous to isicholos with panache, but for our costume we’ve chosen her 60s-era look: western-style gowns paired with tall African-style hats. […]
Nu Wa (also spelled Nu Gua or Nu Kua) is the ancient Chinese creator goddess. She’s usually depicted with a dragon body—sort of like a mermaid, but with awesome powers over the universe. Nu Wa spent seven days creating the animals, beginning with chickens (!) and ending with humans. (Day one: chickens. Day two: dogs. […]
Amaterasu is the Japanese sun goddess, the principal deity in the Shinto pantheon. (And yes, we know she’s the ancestor of the Emperor of Japan. So don’t wear this costume if you’re going to a party at the palace. Other than that, you should be okay.) We’re inspired by Stephanie Kao’s modern rendering above (main […]
