Cosplaying as Elizabeth Woodville for TudorCon!

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I put together this Elizabeth Woodville cosplay for my TudorCon talk, which is all about the effects of the wars of the roses on Tudor policy. I've actually never put together a historical costume before and this is the most work I've ever put into any costume (my costumes tend to be put together by combining various purchased pieces; I usually don’t actually make any of the pieces!).

It's been thrown together with less than expert skill and frankly would only work for zoom, as lots of things are pinned into place. It all looks a lot worse from the back, but decent from the front, yes?

The base dress is a black Tudor style dress from ArtemisiaDesignsCo on Etsy which is also serving as my Anne Boleyn costume base (for Sunday, when I'm reading questions for Tudor trivia - I’ll post pictures of that later!). I hot glued some pearl beading around the square collar but otherwise haven't altered it; I just unzipped it a little and pulled it down my shoulders to get the Elizabeth Woodville dress collar look. The collar fabric is just pinned into place so I can easily take it off and make it Tudor style again.

I got the yellow fabric free from a friend. I pretty much freehanded the shape, hemmed it, and used black fabric markers to imitate the pattern. The hennin was made from a basket + sewed on and hot glued cloth + fabric markers. The only way I've figured out how to keep it on my head is to first put on a Disney tiara, then position it on top of that.

The veil was actually a prop from a virtual production of Twelfth Night I was in a few months back (it's two tiered but I just turned it around and pinned it into place). I got a piece of thin white fabric that matched the portrait a bit more closely, but it ended up being too opaque to see any of the details on the hennin.

The longer necklace is from Treasuresforaqueen on Etsy. The shorter floral necklace is a pendant I commissioned from Aliciasoddities (she specializes in gorgeous metal flower pendants) hanging on a chain I already owned, which I've looped around and pulled tight (it's normally not a choker). #tudorcosplay #historicalcosplay