Cosplaying Mother Gothel From Tangled

Her dress is patterned - a repeating pattern of flowerlike starbursts and diagonals. The strips are vertical, alternating between 'infinity loop' in the middle of the diagonal, and what looks like a teardrop but could be a heart (possibly reminiscient of the flower and 'drop of sunlight' - and her potentially infinite/ever-renewing lifespan?)

The colours shift depending on the lighting, but the brightest red (top three colours in the colour palette) are from the promotional screenshots and brightest daylight, so most likely to be accurate. It's hard finding big enough screenshots! These are the best I've found so far

I thought this was really complicated, actually, but when I decided that I was going to be good and draw her properly - including all the detail - I had a closer look and realised - it's just a 'S' based doodle pattern. with a thin gold border! The one I doodle the most, in fact. So I started up ArtRage and doodled them again.

The neckline is loopy S's, turning into circles. Each is one s on its side, making up two circles. The background trim is black.

The belt is actually just single spaced vertical S's - any apparent variation is just caused by folds in the dress.

Her sleeves are edged in a pipeline of gold, and nothing else.

You don't see her shoes much, but they're dark brown slipper-type-at-the-toe boots, clearly leather, and covered in tiny intricate embroidery of some kind (again, looks like more gold thread). That's all that you'll ever see anyway, but in a couple of shots you can see that they have heels (of course) and are actually boots (square heels, about halfway to the knee in height). It also looks like she has a silver buckle peeking out from under her dress in the top picture.

You do get a couple of good visuals on her shoes during her first visit to the nearly-adult Rapunzel, during the song "Mother Knows Best".

Here you can see clearly that they are dark brown high-heeled ankle boots, just like the ones peeping out in the very top picture.

The scene at the end where Pascal trips up Mother Gothel and sends her to her death gives us a really good look at the laces on the boots, the overal shape of the boot and the square heel.

You will need to find a type of shoe that has as many of the following qualities as possible. There is no exact shoe available, but remember that most of the boot can remain hidden under the dress if you can't find something close enough. If you aren't comfortable with high heels, then choose something lower and square-heeled.

However, square heels and lace ups are quite hard to find, and many of the best matches are suede.
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• Dark brown (if possible, leather, if really possible, intricately embroidered as in the first picture)
  
• Ankle boots (reaching about as far above the ankle as below to the ground)
  
• High-heels (Square, not stilletto, although you may not be able to be very picky)
  
• Lace-up (from just below the ankle upwards)
  
• Flattish pointed toes

Her hair is the blue-black side of black, and very curly. It's cut off neatly about mid-back and the fringe is three or four (it varies) short strands hanging down over her forehead to her eyebrows.

Her eyebrows are thing, in stereotypically 'pretty and fashionable' plucked style.

In this sequence of pictures, you can get a look at the lining of her dress and cloak (dark gold) , as well as how both drape (lots of material) and how far down they come (the ground and her ankles, respectively). You can even get a peek at her shoes (usually covered by the hem of her dress).

Mother Gothel: "Oh! Rapunzel, how you manage to do that every single day, it looks absolutely exhausting, darling."
Rapunzel: "Oh, it's nothing."
Mother Gothel: "Then I don't know why it takes so long."

This is the best part of playing Mother Gothel - you get to be flamboyant, selfish, passive-aggressive, vain, and smothering!

Remember, take every chance to admire your own youthfulness and beauty. Even if it requires putting down someone else. That everything is about you and that you are both clever, amoral, and cunning. And SO DAMN SEXY.

Also, Mother Gothel is smart - of course, she's got centuries of experience to draw on!

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