Medieval/Fantasy Looks

You may or may not know it, but we are in a golden age of sword and sorcery fiction. Every fantasy book I pick up has amazing badass women who fight alongside men. They're not just love interests or prizes, they're bandits, fighters, powerful antagonists, and main characters. I remember giving up the search for female knights when I was growing up...It was pretty much only The Hero and the Crown.

So it's no surprise that "Medieval goth" when I was younger was similar to the first search result you get when you type that in Google image search:

still awesome by the way

Historical anachronisms ahoy. But you know the look: big sleeves, corset, long dress. Damsel in the castle. The aristocratic goth look is very very dead. The big sleeves and dresses are coming back, but more in a witchy way.

I see medieval coming back more in a warrior way, inspired by LARPers (live action roleplaying) and cosplayers and the geeky renaissance we are currently in.

http://www.medievalboutique.com/ 

http://www.medievalboutique.com/

Obviously the above are for LARPs and not for everyday wear. But it can translate well to everyday, combining elements of tribal and nugoth...

Mai Magi does this look well:

a festival look

 Necklace: Claires ( 1998), dragon earrings: Body Artforms (new), arrow industrial: bodyjewelry.com (new) )

Manic moth

To have a more fantasy-inspired goth look, I suggest adding the following to your already-existing dark fashion wardrobe/look:

• Having more armor-influenced accessories/clothing like chain mail, scale mail, tooled leather
• sword, dragon, axes, and other geekery accesories
• tribal-inspired makeup
• braids or dreads

I don't think this is currently a trend, just more a thing I'm in to nowadays. I've been reading nonstop sword and sorcery these days! Do you dress historical/inspired by fiction? Let me know in the comments!