Mar 10, 2018
Just finished this jacket in time for The Dark Side of the Con next week. I’m pretty darn proud of myself of figuring out how to redraw a pattern enough to turn 2 yards of velvet and some brocade scraps into a good-looking coat.
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Just finished this jacket in time for The Dark Side of the Con next week. I’m pretty darn proud of myself of figuring out how to redraw a pattern enough to turn 2 yards of velvet and some brocade scraps into a good-looking coat.
My pictures didn’t come out very well, and these are after I got home in my sweaty, crumpled dress, but this is the outfit I wore for Wizarding Weekend’s City of Magic Ball. I made this 1940′s-style dress earlier this year, so I used it as the base of a sort of noir witch look.
Ft. a sleepy whippet and a ghostly, half-visible running orange cat.
The nice thing about steampunk and other alt-historical fashion is that my laziness doesn’t make an outfit inaccurate. I am putting together an outfit for The Enchanted City tomorrow, and pulled out a petticoat, realized it was a couple inches longer than my skirt, and went to put it back before remembering that I am wearing a visible corset. If I have one anachronistic undergarment sticking out, why not two?
I still don’t know if I’ll wear it, mostly because at that point I would have 5 layers of fabric at my waist, plus a corset. It’s going to be 80 degrees and sunny, so I may sacrifice a nicely puffy skirt for sake of being slightly more comfortable.