I know you’ve seen this one before, but I just wanted to show you Simplicity 2172 in its completed state. After the Wild Boy’s Ball I removed the feather collar, and added the sleeves. I decided to leave off the shoulder flanges and the ruffly bits because they’re not to my taste and I wanted [...]
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Wild Boy’s Ball
Posted in costume, culture, exhibitions, inspiration, museums on Oct 1st, 2011
So, at long last, here is the completed stripy/steampunk outfit! Paul and I went to the Wild Boy’s Ball at Kensington Palace, and had an absolutely magical evening. You can see all the photos that Paul took, over on Flickr. We started off by going inside the palace itself, which was actually quite different from [...]
Paul decided the day before the event that he would come with me after all. Thankfully I managed to get him a ticket, and I had just enough striped fabric left over to make him a tie to match my outfit. The diagonal stripe is because I didn’t have a big enough scrap of fabric [...]
Feathers and sequins
Posted in costume, crafty things on Aug 26th, 2011
Oh my goodness, the feathers. Fluff everywhere. My Shed will never be the same again. Once the glue’s dry, I’ll be getting out the hot glue gun to attach these feathery extravagances to the sides of a mask. The black feathers and the sparkly bits were originally attached to the mask in the first place, but [...]
Here’s the final part of the outfit – a somewhat modified version of Simplicity 2172. Actually, it’s not as heavily altered as you might think – I just left off a few pieces that were surplus to requirements. Like the sleeves. The buttons are the original ones from my friend’s military jacket. There are four [...]
Steampunk Petticoat
Posted in costume, dresses, sewing, skirts on Aug 22nd, 2011
You might have noticed that this is made to roughly the same pattern as the black linen dress. This time the ruffle’s a bit shorter, but that was mostly because I’d almost run out of stripy fabric. The body of the dress is a little longer to compensate. The hem is trimmed with one layer [...]
The title says is all really – this is Simplicity 2207, my striped steampunk skirt! Somewhat eye-bending, but I knew the stripes on the skirt would end up going in all directions, so I deliberately placed them vertically on the front and horizontally on the ruffle. Both edges of the ruffle are finished on the [...]
I don’t think I showed you the finished blouse that I was making for Aldbrickham Clog & Step Dancers. It took much longer than I was expecting, because I ended up having to make all of the buttonholes by hand. The body and collar of the blouse are from Simplicity 3623, with pintucks instead of gathering at [...]
To go with the silk corset, I made a satin bustled overskirt. The idea was to have something that could be worn over several different skirts, and could be varied in style. The top layer is from Simplicity 2207, with a bit of modification. Instead of using a single layer, I doubled the fabric to [...]
This is a little underbust corset which matches the silk waistcoat. It’s made to a pattern that I drafted a couple of years ago. The only alteration I made to the original was that I boned the modesty panel with plastic rather than metal. This makes it much lighter to wear, and as the metal [...]