Tales of Tomorrow

  Many years ago, while perusing one of my cool, older brother's British import music magazines, I came across a fashion spread influenced by the iconic 1968 film Barbarella.  I fell in love with the look, and filed 'retro space girl' as a costume I wanted to attempt someday. Campy, vintage sci-fi and B rated movies hold a special place in my heart.  Along with the lurid covers of trashy pulp fiction novels from the era, the female characters, while highly sexualized,  were often bold, brazen, ass kicking heroines.  This was really one of the few places that females were portrayed as anything other than a love interest or a damsel in distress.  
  Big hair, mod boots, and laser guns, f*ck yeah!

Outfit details:

Early 1960s silver dress: thrifted

underbust corset (modern): Ross

Laser Blaster: Ebay

Silver Steve Madden boots: thrifted and spray painted

Sputnik headband: made by me

Anne Francis in Forbidden Planet, 1955

Fashion designer Edith Head with her design 

for the Venusian Womens' Home Guard, 1953 

Moon bridal hat by Bettmann, 1956

Dyna Sputnik, 1958

1950s Air Vornado Advertisement

Worlds Within, 1950

Barbarella, 1968