The Revenge of Red Riding Hood

As a child I remember the horror and fascination of touching my grandam’s fur capes, many of which had claws, tails and even eyes. These garments always seem like they belonged to another world and whereas it’s hard to ever justify fur nowadays, when I began thinking about ‘Into Another World’ I started to muse on whether there could be a world which turned this on its head. I came up with the idea of Red Riding Hood, a character from a storytelling world, who has the most traumatic, life changing event with a wolf who eats her grandma and then tries to trick her into becoming its next victim.
In my imagination, a much older Red Riding Hood, crazed with trauma and grief has devoted her life to mad revenge on the entire wolf species, perhaps even attempting to single-handedly wipe them off the face of the earth. I envisaged her as a powerful and liberated late victorian, wearing structured but comfortable garments which were cut to allow ease of movement and padded to offer protection. In my imagination she has ditched the cumbersome red hooded cloak and full skirt in favour of a short red, padded cape trimmed with wolf legs (and claws), riding hat and cycling bloomers. She wears a corded corset which is corded with protection and hyper feminine power in mind. Her corset is stitched and embroidered with red to symbolise the quest for blood that has dominated her life.