#my dress

[renaissance35]

My favorite outfit is Cassandras I went all out😆💯

These dazzling dresses were supposed to be the batfamily girls outfits for the met gala this year🤩🙏

But, I never finished them I had Carrie Kelly (robin) and Harper Row (blue bird) to do 😓 but I will finish them and post them up as soon as I can.👗👠

If you needed to know, the pearls are all on each dress in individual places hiding in plain sight. Well I hope you have a great night.☺️

[choitoru-toso]

Ye, it's my Miku/Ren cosplay (Vocaloid/BTD)🔥💐

[uwmspeccoll]

Good Bye!

This is my last post as Special Collections Graduate Intern. I am now a Master of Fine Arts and I am using this post as an opportunity to share some of my own work.

My Dress, is an accordion-folded artists book printed from four hand carved linoleum blocks. Two blocks on each side of the single sheet, yellow and a deep navy. Conceived of in 2021, published in 2023 as a small boxed edition of 4. This copy will be a part of the UWM Libraries' Special Collections.

The book was a part of my thesis exhibition, In Here, Out There. My exhibition was about the work of 'becoming' queer, work typically done in safe interior spaces, like our homes where we can play and experiment with our how we perform gender. The work of 'becoming' queer involves orienting oneself towards objects that allow you to imagine new possibilities of being. In this book that object is my dress that I carefully select from my closet and pull on over my head, I then joyfully fly through the apartment and the book to the mirror in which I appreciate the work I have done.

I will be staying in Milwaukee; I love this city and have an amazing supportive community here. I will have a studio at the House of RAD and I will be teaching workshops at Anchor Press Paper and Print! Including one on creating a linocut accordion fold book, much like this one. So, keep a look out!

Also, come and see Boyfriend Material, an exhibition of Queer Milwaukee based artists, including myself, curated by artist and curator, LaNia Sproles. Open May 22 – July 15, 2023 at the Brooks Stevens Gallery, located at MIAD, 273 East Erie Street, Milwaukee.

Follow my work on Instagram @teddylepley, and on my website Teddylepley.com.

Read more posts by Teddy! Read more Fine Press Friday Posts!

Thanks for reading! Too-da-loo,

Teddy Dean Lepley III, M.F.A.

[mrs-trophy-wife]

[killem-all-if-they-wont-eat-cake]

Beautiful robe à la française made for me by the talented Madame Jejette (a.k.a Anna Nurzyńska) from Atelier Saint-Honoré in Warsaw, Poland. Can’t wait to have it in person!

[ssalballoon]

gale doodles (goodles)

first drawing references this pinterest post !

edit: pinterest links don't work if you're not signed in, i've attached the original ref image below the cut and here's the vogue link. the designer is Guo Pei and the dress is from her fall 2019 couture collection

pinterest ux my beloathed

[funnykattotales]

Me in my party dress

[pimientosdulces]

lord of the dungeon

[daigah]

We lose everytime a girl in fiction who is on the masc side and happy with it becomes very feminine as a supposed sign of maturity

[allysketches]

this drawing started off as tv crowley and aziraphale dressed like their book cover counterparts, but then I got carried away and it turned out... not being exactly that anymore 🤷🏻‍♀️

so... late 80s/early 90s au? (aka. literally the book lol)

[cordspaghetti]

got thinking about gerard way tour outfit predictions that never came 2 be… bloody wedding dress…

[tizzymcwizzy]

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!! i hope you get to eat a lot of candy and watch a scary movie if you celebrate :D

[o0kawaii0o]

Ayo 😳

[caligvlasaqvarivm]

calming down the moirail. bonus:

(shameless plug for my eridan essay if you've already read it i recommend checking it again because it's been edited since it was first posted)