This is a costume that I made for a friend, way back last October for a Hallowe’en event. She already had a corset and a mask, so they dictated the copper, gold and brown accent colours. The ivory silk had a previous incarnation as her wedding dress. The slightly distressed texture is a result of [...]
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I’ve been asked to work an extra day this week to help out with a school visit, for which I may have heard myself ask my boss “would you like me to come in dressed as a Victorian?”. The session goes with the Victorian part of our building, Palmer House, which was designed by Waterhouse (of [...]
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 [...]
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 Simplicity 4923 again – a waistcoat to go with the pirate shirt. It took me a whole day to hand-work fifteen buttonholes and then sew on fifteen buttons. Blimey. I know I’m quite slow at hand-sewing, but I didn’t expect it to take so long! It was worth it though. The waistcoat looks [...]
This is Simplicity 4923, in white cotton lawn. I only made two pattern alterations to this one – I shortened the front facing, and made buttonholes in the cuffs so that they can be fastened with cufflinks.