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Friday’s Primary Outfit

Friday's Primary Outfit

Friday’s Primary outfit features an ankle-length red-lined black velvet frock coat, topped with a fierce highwayman’s collar and standing cuffs, all trimmed with black lace and silver buttons. Flowing through the gaps are renmants of the crimson silk shirt worn underneath; its lushious ruffles and it’s galant jabot with pointed bow tie.
The outfit is further accesorized with mid calf leather boots and  devilish horns emerging from a mixed-reds curly updo. Finishing this classical ensemble is a beautiful set of organic looking silver rings worn over black satin gloves.

Primary Vs Secondary

Influenced by the bands playing, events taking place and parts of Leipzig I wish to visit, I associate each day at the Wave Gotik Treffen with a certain mood, theme or style. For each of these notions I work out two concepts. I call these the primary and secondary outfits.

The primary outfits are all about exploring new materials and construction boundaries. They feature mostly ornate and experimental pieces, sometimes leaving wearability a bit behind. As construction can be a bit unpredictable, making them adhere to a certain level of quality can be time and resource consuming, yet, the result is often worth the strain.
The secondary outfits are in no way inferior. Using the methods I applied before, knowing they work, I try to create strong, sleek items that adhere to a more simplistic and perfected design. They generally portray a shorter fashion, focusing on the waist instead of the chest and shoulders like the primary outfits do.
 
Because of this clear distinction, one could perceive the two concept types as ‘fashion lines’. For this reason I categorize blogposts by using tags saying primary or secondary, as well as tags stating the day the pieces will be worn on. Clicking the terms in the Tag cloud (found in the sidebar) bundles the posts in a more organised way, making my endeavor a little more comprehensible.

The Esthetics of Horns

With decorative horns so often making their appearance as a merely comical (devilish) attribute one would sometimes forget the possibilities in form and shape such scalp extensions can grow to in nature and how, when combined with a well thought-out notion of direction, any of such forms could be able to bestow a mighty addition to some already conceptually strong outfits.

Even though humanoid horns are a sight, widespread throughout fantasy and gothic imagery, those succeeding with incorporating them into their own creations are often confronted with questions considering ‘the meaning’ behind wearing such addenda.

May the drive be a theriomorphic search for a suppressed animal nature or the desire to impersonate a sort of transcended being, the purely esthetical aspect of homegrown antlers is sufficiently challenging to me for having made the decision to incorporate distinctive forms of horns in each of my primary outfits for 2011.

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