#asoiaf fashion and hair

[lightofthenorthh]

Aegon Targaryen and his mother Dyanna Dayne

[soncee]

Daenys and her baby Balerion

You can't convince me he wasn't spoiled.

[buildoblivion]

silver queen

[fangrurin]

Fashion of the Great Houses of Westeros: House Tully of Riverrun

[daphncart]

She could make herself a new home here, just as Petyr said.

Alayne at the Drearfort

[l1ghtbr1nger]

asoiaf fashion we DESERVED

hairstyles for women of house velaryon edition

im so obsessed with the 1st one bc it looks like a medieval snood and imagine woven through with jewels and pearls!!

[bunnyshideawayy]

rant warning ahead!

i have such a love/hate relationship with the costume department of both Game of Thrones and HotD. George did not put his whole Georussy into this series, literally spending paragraphs describing clothes, people, FOOD, for us to be given scraps in the costumes on screen. I will forever beef with D&D for sucking the color and magic out of a FANTASY series to make it more “digestible for a wider audience”……besties your job is to translate the source material from page to TV and make it followable for the og fans and newbies alike. that doesn’t mean give every character the same grey tone color scheme. i thank the gods everyday that HotD got the message and vamped up the fashion a little bit more but it’s still not enough, for me personally. especially with Rhaenyra but that’s a different rant for a different day. my favorite fanarts are always the detailed ones with the extravagant clothing and accessories. fake dragon wings paired with a matching dress bejeweled in pearls and rubies? HELL YEAH! extravagant hair-dos and giant dragon shaped crowns? HELL YEAH. Valyrian steel jewelry, in the shape of dragons? HELL. YEAH. clothes with obvious embroidered dragon motifs? HELL! YEAH! like LEAN into the dragon theme with the family known for being the last dragon lords alive, possibly even dragons themselves! again, HotD has done leaps better costuming wise for everyone compared to GoT but it could be more and i will always blame that on D&D for making the choice to be more “realistic” in a literal fantasy world. like we see Cersei in green ONCE. once! imagine if we got to see her ruby encrusted mourning gown for Rob’s funeral. imagine the Starks dressed in rich velvets and furs. imagine Margery in a dress made out of literal rose petals and vine. IMAGINE what we could’ve had if D&D weren’t so scared of letting a magical fantasy world look and act like a magical fantasy world. don’t even get me started on how the magic they tried so hard to strip from the universe to focus more on politics is actually integral to the politics of said universe but this is a fashion rant so i’ll save that for another time. anyway, if i could change one thing about GOT and I had to pick between the costumes or the ending……well…..

[15-lizards]

Any hcs for wedding attire in Essos? Especially the Dothraki because I am dying for them to actually have culture GEORGE

I think a wedding in Dothraki culture is first and foremost a show of power. The man is actually expected to gift the materials to his bride for her wedding outfit, as an example of how well he will provide for her once they're married. The taller/bigger her wedding headdress is, the more established her husband is. All the materials, along with the gifts of slaves and horses, are to be taken as spoils during raids, meaning that to be a wife with a particularly exotic wedding costume is very favored. The husband himself is also expected to be decorated in his spoils, proving his prowess and ability to take what is his just by what he wears.

In Volantis, though there are a very wide range of religious wedding traditions, in most cases the (secular) cultural precedent is that the couple is expected to wear the colors and symbols of the others family, as a sign of respect for the marriage pact. The bride is supposed to make her wedding outfit as detailed and elaborate as possible, because a girl with a fancy gown is indeed a rich girl with a lot of time on her hands and many slaves to help her. The man is expected to wear a head wrap gifted to him by the bride, as a sign of good will.

Myrish weddings are an incredibly excessive affair. The couple being celebrated is given all manner of gifts, like jewelry and lace and bolts of cloth, by their families, which the women of the family then incorporate into the wedding costumes. Bridal gowns are multicolored with lots of motifs (usually floral), while the groom wears matching motifs on his own attire. And of course the lace has to be mentioned. Its everywhere. On the collars, the sleeves, the hems, and of course on the brides head. Traditionally, a woman's mother will make it for her to wear on her wedding, but rich girls usually pay the best lace makers in the city to make theirs.

(pls excuse the fact im using multiple Chinese historical fashion eras, I can't decide which I like the best for my YiTi headcanons) In YiTi, both men and women wear the high necked jacket that covers the skirt for weddings and other traditional ceremonies, as opposed to the shorter jacket/robes that usually go under the skirt for more casual times (its the aoqun and ruqun difference in Hanfu). Women are to wear the colors and symbols of her husbands family, as a sign of being joining them, but the man is expected to provide the bride with a sizable dowry and proper materials for her gown, as thanks towards the bride and her family. Wedding attire is very personalized, stitched and printed with insignias of the brides family, her favorite things, any symbols considered lucky, etc etc. Both members are also to wear their hair in a specific way, with a specific headpiece, to denote their social class during the ceremony.

[snake-berry]

ship drawing challenge day 1 - sansaery!

this was def a QUICK sketch but yeah fun times as i've been meaning to draw more asoiaf ships

ignore how rushed this is pls n thank u. (if u see a mistake no u didnt)

[sare11aa11eras]

As an art request, please may I have some pia of harenhal she’s my favorite minor character 🫶🖤

Sure of course!!

I really like Pia as a character. From a writing perspective, she’s very similar to Pod, Mya, Gendry— lowborn, minor characters who we see from multiple points of view. We see a lot of development for these characters across the books, even though they’re peripheral (Well. Pod and Gendry aren’t really peripheral, but you get what I’m saying). It’s through these characters that I think we see a lot of George’s arguments surrounding class, feudalism, and war. Pia is also I think one of the most real characters in the books. Who doesn’t know a girl like Pia in their own life? How many people like her have existed throughout history? Some of us are like her ourselves. Yes, a lot of our main characters are easy to project ourselves onto, but characters like Pia are I think the truest audience surrogates, in some ways.

I really hope that she finds a happy ending.

[gothgleek]

Alicent based on this post about Modest!Alicent by @dirtytransmasc

Details under the cut

-I was obsessed with the veiled pieces that OP mentioned and I loved the image of her in gold veils that looked like she was dripping in gold.

- The veils are based on Catholic veils (specifically and 4), medieval head coverings like ones worn in Ophelia 2018 and wimples (2 and 6), Star Wars (5), and the Tudor period (7). Most of them are sheer because one, I couldn’t figure out how to wrap them around her head without her looking like a blob of color and when it did look okay she looked like she was wearing a hijab and it felt too appropriative to draw on Alicent. This is also why her hair is visible in most of them but in practice she would cover them with thicker fabric.

- Alicent wears long billowing sleeves with heavy skirts. OP said that Alicent would wear dresses that conceal her figure which I tried to maintain but some have a shapelier silhouette as it looked better with my art style. I hope one day I will be able to draw modest clothing without making someone look like a blob but I’m not there yet.

- Dress 1 is inspired by the series Isabel 2011, which from what I’ve seen has some nice costumes. It also gave me a good base for something historical and modest but still luxurious.

- The second is based on Lady Macbeth and Ophelia in the Ophelia movie. I debated on adding braids but I think Alicent would’ve worn them. They’re neat, mature, and somewhat conservative hairstyle while also giving her an opportunity to wear more accessories which is expected of her as a queen. I know OP said modest but irl royalty had to wear extravagant clothes to prove their status and with the pressure of civil war and being the second wife, Alicent would certainly wear luxurious jewelry while staying simple compared to the rest of the Targaryens. The beads are Targ inspired as she would also need to embrace Valeryian styles to stay in Viserys’s favor.

- This side view of Alicent has the deepest neckline because that is what worked best for a side view. I also noticed Catholic veils tended to have patterns so I added simple gold flowers. The dress is medieval based.

- What sparked my artistic interest was OP’s descriptions of the veils so I had to do a dedicated work with a veil in the spotlight. In the original post, it was mentioned that Alicent would wear shawls with tapestry like designs. I couldn’t think of anything that would look good with fabric folds and creases but on a lace veil? I could definitely do that. Tbh it’s not my favorite design (Helaena’s was my favorite) but I think it represents Alicent’s loyalties pretty well. I’m personally pleased with how the dragons and tower came out.

- I don’t care about Star Wars but some of Padme’s outfits have screamed Alicent to me since the beginning. The golden lace veil with pearls is the centerpiece so her dress is much more toned down.

- This is again based on Ophelia’s costuming and on OP saying Alicent appears to be dripping in gold wearing golden veils. I added jewelry shaped like the Hightower sigil with green gems decorating it.

- OP mentioned shawls with tassels and patterns so I had to add them onto the last dress. Well, I had fur instead of tassels but the statement still stands. I also tried to make the veil based on Spanish mantillas but it never turned out correct so I kept it simple. The dress is a mix of Alexander McQueen Fall 2011 and the Tudors era.

[from-ib-to-asshai]

actually genuinely sad about how both awoiaf shows we have both dont choose to do interesting bold things with their fashion (GOT a lot more than HOTD, but still). they both seem so focused on being serious HBO television that they seem afraid of having any whimsical aspects to their costuming, or little effort to create and diversify the fashion shown. Like what are the differences between fashion in different regions of Westeros? How does the fashion develop over the years? It often feels toned down, and in HOTD's case like they are too afraid of retconning anything GOT established or didn't establish to properly build something to make this world feel fuller and less monotone. It's like they are afraid of getting too creative just in case someone might remember that they are watching a fantasy show, as if being a fantasy show is something it should be embarrassed about

[soncee]

Baela an Rhaena (tap for better quality)

Might start commisions soon🫣

[ophelias-lamentation]

am I crazy or are all of the hair colors in the game of thrones show just kind of weird. Especially the blondes and brunettes So many of them are super red, I’m the early season Cersei looked almost like a strawberry blonde and then in later seasons neither Jaime nor Tyrion had gold hair, the tyrells also looked like they almost had dark auburn hair in some scenes. Idk if this is a wig problem or if I’m just delusion

[fangrurin]

Fashion of the Great Houses of Westeros: House Arryn of the Eyrie

[bloodyziggy]

Artists of tumblr, how would you draw show rhaenyra's braid? or a braid made up of 3 medium braids with a small one in it? I'm attempting to draw Visenya's braid in my version, and it's not quite happening at the single braid stage😅 Any advice or words of encouragement is welcome. (I might just have to trace the bottom left one/third one, which i didn't want to do as tracing takes a while and isn't as rewarding personally)