{"id":1867,"date":"2011-11-13T15:08:15","date_gmt":"2011-11-13T22:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trystancraft.com\/costume\/?p=1867"},"modified":"2023-09-25T17:23:29","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T00:23:29","slug":"miss-hades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trystancraft.com\/costume\/2011\/11\/13\/miss-hades\/","title":{"rendered":"Miss Hades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is something of a belated Halloween costume &#8212; it&#8217;s what I wore to the annual <a href=\"http:\/\/peers.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PEERS<\/a> Bal des Vampyres. I wanted to wear something pretty, gothy, and yet somewhat comfortable (specifically, uncorseted!). The gown was made by the ever-wonderful Donna for me to wear at the Costume College Gala two years earlier. It&#8217;s a vintage 1950s pattern, made in pink dupioni silk, worn over a huge crinoline petticoat I bought at a thrift-store.<\/p>\n<p>For the ball, I decided to go as the Prom Queen From Hell. I made a &#8220;Miss Hades&#8221; sash from silver satin edged in black bat-print ribbon with letters that I painstakingly traced cut out of black satin. The whole sash is held together with FabriTac, no sewing involved.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1870\" style=\"width: 184px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.trystancraft.com\/costume\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/vampireball2011a.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1870\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1870 size-medium\" title=\"Miss Hades, Prom Queen From Hell\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.trystancraft.com\/costume\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/vampireball2011a.jpg?resize=174%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Miss Hades, Prom Queen From Hell\" width=\"174\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.trystancraft.com\/costume\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/vampireball2011a.jpg?resize=174%2C300&amp;ssl=1 174w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.trystancraft.com\/costume\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/vampireball2011a.jpg?w=464&amp;ssl=1 464w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 174px) 100vw, 174px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1870\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miss Hades, Prom Queen From Hell<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1871\" style=\"width: 179px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.trystancraft.com\/costume\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/vampireball2011b.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1871\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1871 size-medium\" title=\"Miss Hades, Prom Queen From Hell\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.trystancraft.com\/costume\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/vampireball2011b.jpg?resize=169%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Miss Hades, Prom Queen From Hell\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.trystancraft.com\/costume\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/vampireball2011b.jpg?resize=169%2C300&amp;ssl=1 169w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.trystancraft.com\/costume\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/vampireball2011b.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=169%2C300&amp;ssl=1 338w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1871\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miss Hades, Prom Queen From Hell<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I used a big net pouf to style my hair into a beehive, wore a black rhinestone tiara, black gloves, and some blingy jewelry. I wore <a href=\"http:\/\/corpgoth.blogspot.com\/2011\/10\/corpgoth-guide-to-high-end-black.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">black lipstick<\/a> (Make Up Forever #50) and pale makeup. Not seen in these photos &#8212; big shiny black bat purse and vintage Fluevog shoes.<\/p>\n<p>My pix from the event are on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/trystbat\/sets\/72157627995817887\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Flickr<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is something of a belated Halloween costume &#8212; it&#8217;s what I wore to the annual PEERS Bal des Vampyres. I wanted to wear something pretty, gothy, and yet somewhat comfortable (specifically, uncorseted!). The gown was made by the ever-wonderful Donna for me to wear at the Costume College Gala two years earlier. It&#8217;s a<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"excerpt-more blog-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.trystancraft.com\/costume\/2011\/11\/13\/miss-hades\/\">Read the Rest of this Post&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,14],"tags":[130,155],"class_list":["post-1867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-20th-century","category-gothic","tag-made-by-donna","tag-pretty-in-pink"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Miss Hades | Trystan&#039;s Costume Closet<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.trystancraft.com\/costume\/2011\/11\/13\/miss-hades\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Miss Hades | Trystan&#039;s Costume Closet\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This is something of a belated Halloween costume &#8212; it&#8217;s what I wore to the annual PEERS Bal des Vampyres. 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