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I have posted two pieces of Good Omens fanart on Tumblr that I forgot to crosspost here at the time, both predictably (if you know me) featuring female 1920s fashion.

This doodle of flapper Crowley, based on “The Thinker” by one of my favorite 1920s illustrators, John Held Jr, accidentally became the most successful piece that I’ve drawn in years. (Watercolor and permanent marker, gel pen, and chalk pastel on paper.)

Female-presenting Aziraphale and Crowley in the early 1920s (daytime), colored pencil on paper.

The 1920s are my favorite historical period and a lifelong hobby of mine, and I’ve seen a fair bit of fanart set in this period already, but it struck me that it was all formalwear (including mine!): the glitz of those lovely 20s frocks has understandably hypnotized us all. But stunning evening gowns are far from all that 1920s fashion has to offer.

Aziraphale is, let’s face it, not a heavy user of evening dress for either gender. So here he is in a distinctly academic-flavored outfit - shirtwaists of this type and ties were de rigeur for schoolgirls in secondary school and university from the teens through the twenties - in his signature palette, but distinctly and noticeably several years out of fashion (he’s still wearing a higher-waisted skirt, where Crowley’s Chanel-esque dress shows the fashionable drop waist which Aziraphale has not yet adopted).

(This second piece was actually also inspired by a couple of John Held Jr pieces, but because all that's left of the one is the pose ("The Lass Who Loved a Sailor"), and all I borrowed from the other is Crowley's dress design ("Her Tackling Dummy"), I didn't think it warranted a 'based on'.)

Posts on Tumblr: Flapper Crowley, 3 November - Female-presenting Aziraphale and Crowley in the early 1920s (daytime), 18 Dec