Glamour Advocate ‘Mademoiselle’
a duchess satin boned corset, draped skirt and collar in aqua, turquoise and black.

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Miss Glamourpuss

Finally locked down the colours for my next project and bought duchess satin in aqua, turquoise and black. I drew the corset pattern from scratch, so it will be interesting to see how everything will turn out…

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Miss Glamourpuss

I just found a very promising corsetry course and immediately booked myself in!

Very much looking forward to creating a fully lined & boned tailor made corset from scratch! I’ve got so many divine corset patterns and ideas already forming! Can’t wait to learn how to turn that all into reality. Such excitement – it’ll be fabulous! Can’t wait!

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Miss Glamourpuss

Just saw this photo and absolutely love it! She’s Jac Bowie Worldwide’s newest cover girl Vicky Butterfly and she is absolutely divine!

I love the decadent 20s feel of this photo and those Art Deco-ish knickers are to die for! This will be my inspiration when I start to design my next glamorous party outfit…

The divine Catherine D’Lish performing her record breaking fan dance with the biggers fans ever at the New Orleans Burlesque Festival!

[photo posted on Twitpic by violance]

[photo posted on Twitpic by 21centurypinups]

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Miss Glamourpuss

The Ruby Revue is a fantastic monthly cabaret variety night featuring Australia’s most intriguing professional and emerging burlesque, vaudeville, comedy, music magic and cabaret performers.

Tonight you have a chance to see some of my favourite performers on stage! Be amazed of the energetic little pocket rocket Kelly Ann Doll who will surely leave you breathless with her dazzling dance moves, Lauren LaRouge will claim the stage with her stunning outfits and enchanting stage charisma, and not to forget Danica Lee who never fails to make you laugh while luring you in with her irresistible feminine curves.

The Ruby Revue is definitely one of my favourite night outs in Sydney! Don’t miss it!

Choosing your stage name is tricky. I agreed to model for a friend’s event and was faced with the decision on naming my fabulous on stage persona.

A good stage name is catchy, yet not obvious or too cliched. Too nice is just boring and anything too raunchy will only make you sound like a drag queen!

First thing I did was to head over to Striptease Symposium to consult this article by Penny Starr Jr.

She bans the use of the most common words like: Kitten, Kitty, Vixen, Honey, Von, Lux or Deluxe, Lola, de Ville, Violette, Pinky, Femme or Belle based on the simple fact that they have already been used by every other showgirl all over the world. I was already doomed by this point as I wanted to keep ‘Glamourpuss‘ as the latter part of my stage name.

I tried the porn name method she advocates (the name of your first pet and the first street you lived on), but I quickly discarded ‘Bella Shaft‘. Not quite what I was after.

She suggests that the use of legendary car models might be a good starting point. And I have to admit that Continental, Coupe, SuperSport, Zephyr, Valiant, Corvair, Mustang, Nova, Futura, Mercury, Rocket 88, Metropolitan, Citrone, and Fiat are actually quite interesting. Maybe just a tad masculine for my liking?

However, my favourite part of her advice was naming yourself after alcohol! How delightfully decadent! How about Martini, Campari, Negroni, Gin Fizz, Dubonet, etc. I was quite attached to ‘Martini Delight’, but gave it up as I still was hoping I might come up with a name that works with ‘Glamourpuss’.

There is plenty more advice in the article, so if you find yourself stuck like I was, go ahead and read some more.

In the end I relied to the good old Thesaurus method and the aid of a good friend. We looked up words that I related to and after a long night, my friend found ‘gally‘. Not only does it sound like a combination of ‘gal’ and ‘girly’, I loved the meaning of the word:

Definition: ridiculing
Synonyms: cheeky, cocky, contemptuous, crusty, disdainful, flip, fresh, gally, insulting, jeering, mocking, nervy, out-of-line, rude, sarcastic, sassy, scoffing, scornful, smart, smart-alecky, taunting
Anonyms: complimentary, flattering, praising, respectful

Also, I like the way the word doesn’t seem to officially exist at all, and another Thesaurus entry contradicted the previous definition entirely.

So there it is:

I’m done. How’s yours coming along?

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Miss Glamourpuss

P.S. If you’re really stuck and running out of time, here’s a Burlesque Name Generator that can spit out off the shelf stage names.

Photography & styling by Pixie from Boogie Bop Dames.

I just ran into an older article about Sherry Britton on Sydney Morning Herald. Well worth a read for anyone into 30s glamour goddesses.

“SHERRY BRITTON was a queen of the burlesque stage in its New York heyday of the 1930s. Her hourglass figure, jet-black hair and rambunctious presence made her a star as a stripper, but she also worked as a stage actor and singer.”

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Miss Glamourpuss