#aziraphale's face is my 2nd favorite part of this right after aziraphale's hair

[cobragardens]

It's so interesting to think of the ineffable spouses as women, because women's value in society has always lain in their appearance, and although Crowley's corporation would be very fashionable and considered very attractive in some eras (including the present), Aziraphale's body would fit the beauty ideal much more closely in others.

And of course when you are a woman, how closely you toe the line of the beauty ideal of your subculture and class determines how other people treat you.* The reception Aziraphale or Crowley receive from humans would vary far more by era when they are women, even if they are dressed to give the impression of great wealth.

Actually possibly especially if they appeared wealthy, bc poor women had more privacy and freedom of movement (less female supervision and male "protection") than wealthy ones.

But the fashions of the Edwardian era would have offered styles that suited them both. It was right in between the exaggerated hourglass curves of the Victorian era--when plump arms, cheeks, chin, etc. was the beauty ideal and pale, unfreckled skin; blonde hair; and blue eyes were the aspirational coloring--and the 1920s, whose straight-line, dropped-waist fashions demanded thin bodies with long limbs but without large breasts or hips, and the advent of photography and cinema ushered in a fashion of dramatic makeup and suited high-contrast coloring of dark hair and lighter skin.

I love seeing Azirpahale in this dark lipstick, high-color blush, and powdered skin, and how she's wearing it with white and pastel blue. I love her horridly matronly jacket with its big white rose: it's so clearly something Aziraphale would choose, no matter how old or young her corporation looked.

And I love Crowley's pale pink underskirt, especially with the dark red of the gown's shoulders. She lools so vampy, but that underskirt hints at something delicate and fragile underneath.

*The treatment is always bad regardless of whether you're "ugly" or "hot"; it's just a different kind of bad for each category.

I'm done! Reference, closeups and thoughts under the cut :)

This seems to be a fashion plate by Aubert de Dinan from 1913, as far as I could find out.

I tried to somewhat stay in the original style, but didn’t get hung up on it. Especially since I haven't found a good watercolour brush in Krita yet... if anyone has recs, I'd love to hear them!

Aziraphale's face gave me some trouble, but I think I landed on something pretty good. I am really happy with the hands, though!

Crowley’s "sleeve" has the constellations of the Northern hemisphere in Octobre on it.