Tim Burton stripes are back, big time, and I’m also in love with bustles again!
Not that I ever stopped loving the bustle silhouette, but wow I am suddenly so excited to wear it and draw it and see it again. The goth and burner fashions of San Francisco in the Oughts were absolutely marvelous, and I am personally ready to bring these looks back in Berlin. It’s gonna be cold drawing at outside events this Fall and I am happy to wear some layers đŸ™‚
Like this little commercial maid doll who I radically upgraded into the goth maid my dollhouses need!
I used fourteen different trims, ribbons and micro-picots plus three fabrics to do this customizing! Of course all the original articulation of the doll is preserved, and a cool bonus to narrowing her skirt silhouette and loading it with ruffles is that she now stands on her own!
I hadn’t touched my black-and-white trims bin in years and it was marvelous to see how many cool things I had saved every scrap of.
Below, the doll (I have named her Myrtle the Maid) with my biggest Little Shop of Horrors Audrey Two, made last year. The last image is the original doll before mods.
If you’d like to see more of my doll customizing, check out the Dollhouse and Dollmaking category on here, or these specific stripey-doll projects:
Gothic Lolita Nico Minoru custom
Gothic Burlesque Bride of Frankenstein
Other bricolage dolls and fairies I have made: