Artist Claire Hummel grew up watching Disney films and is a little obsessed with costumes. Last weekend she attended L.A.'s annual Labyrinth of Jareth Masquerade Ball dressed in elaborate, hand sewn "rococo punk" attire and this week she's headed to Comic-Con International: San Diego. Her twin fascinations merged after her sister got a job as a costumed interpreter. "My sister Emily, who runs the amazing blog Arrested Westeros, was working at Colonial Williamsburg and whenever I'd meet her friends in the tailor shop I'd think about what Belle would actually be wearing were she properly dressed for the era," she explained to Yahoo! Shine. "This eventually culminated in my historical Belle illustration, and it quickly snowballed into an ongoing project for me." After two years, she has drawn 14 Disney Princesses and recently, female villains, in more historically accurate dresses and has no plans of stopping. She says she's taken some creative liberties with the style. "These are for fun…they're not diagrams," but Hummel estimates the outfits are about 85 to 90 percent accurate.
Photo by: Claire Hummel
Cinderella (Cinderella)
"I went with the mid 1860s for Cinderella's dress, the transitory
period where the cage crinoline [hoop underskirt] takes on a more
elliptical shape and moves towards the back," she wrote. "It's also
worth noting that it was made by a fairy godmother, so it makes sense
that her tastes would be a little behind the times."
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