Alice: Dark & Strange
I made this dress in the winter of 2010 because I love bizarre versions of characters. I used steampunk, goth and Lolita influences. For details you can check out the tutorial.
I owe this fun little set to my BFF and comic book collaborator, Jay Fife. You’ve seen his name on this site a lot because I model for Jay and he’s the artist on one of my TEEN DETECTIVE comic short story. I have no idea what Jay plans to do with the Dark & Strange Alice Liddell of Wonderland but I guarantee it will blow the minds of everyone who sees it the way his steampunk Bride of Frankenstein did.
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I don’t really see anything very Alice like about it, the only time it applies is with the apron, and even then it lack all victorian inspiration and the curious innocents that is Alice.
It’s an original interpretation with steampunk influence. My costumes almost always original variations that I’ve come up with a few exceptions. I wore this outfit to a couple steampunk events and they seemed to enjoy it.