The Seamstress - Gothic Clothing & Tailoring.

The Angels Carrying Savage Weapons site has some of the most wonderful corsets imaginable, with beautiful designs, sumptuous materials and can cater for a phenomenal range of sizes from A to G cups and waists from 20″ through to a wonderfully voluptuous 50″!

Handmade in Nottinghamshire (rather than imported from the far east), all of their corsets are steel boned and made to your measurements, which is essential for a flattering fit. You can always tell when someone has crammed (literally) themselves into an off-the-shelf corset, so treat yourself!

All of the corsets are true minimising (reduction) corsets, built to draw in your waist by between 2″-4″, to give you that hourglass figure that your admirers will drool over and your enemies will be sick with envy about.

Our favourites include the Bridal Corsets (though the pictures don’t quite do them justice), with fully tailored skirts and accessories, as well as the wonderful Lingerie Collection designed to complement the corsets.

As with much of the work we tend to gravitate towards, their work isn’t out and out goth, with black lace, drippy velvet and cheap patterns everywhere, but we feel it sits perfectly with the grown up individuality and drippingly dark sensuality that we are drawn to.

Objects of desire indeed.

(As always, we hope that Angels Carrying Savage Weapons don’t mind us pinching their pictures, if you do then please contact us guys: theapprentice@theseamstress.co.uk.)

The Black Wardrobe is run by Spanish gothic clothing designer Nora BenHayyi, who works in the UK designing some beautiful and simple little black numbers for grown-up goth women. Simple items, with lovely touches in lace, combining with her own jewelry are suitable for goths who no longer want to look like teenagers, but who won’t sell out to the norms!

The Satin Shawl Collar Dress is a beautiful piece, understated, cut to flatter and of course, black.

The Gothic Lace Dress is a little more risque, almost see through and figure hugging, which should leave any goth boy drooling.

Though none of her sizes really cater for “real” sized goth women, she will make her stuff to your sizes with her bespoke service, so we’ll forgive her for only doing dinky stuff.

(Thanks to Nora from The Black Wardrobe for allowing us to pinch the pics.)

theapprentice@theseamstress.co.uk)

UPDATE: Nora got in touch with us recently to let us know that she’s re-jigged her sizes. Being european she works in cm (much to The Seamstress’ distress, as Herself refuses to work in anything but imperial measures), but the larger sizes will now go up to around a UK size 16, which will hopefully broaden the appeal of her work. A big thank-you and appreciation to Nora for taking up the comments and acting on them - the sign of a company who really do take their customers seriously.