The Post of Costume - Finally!!! Part One
Apr. 4th, 2013 12:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
teddy_radiatorOkay, here's the deal. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sempraseverus, as you know, sent me a skirt suit. With other bits and pieces, here is the Ministry of Magic's Steampunk Librarian and Tea Dominatrix costume. I must point out that this tiny dressmaker's dummy is sooooo not my size, so think BIG. I'm going to look like a ship in full sail. The skirt is volUminous, almost crinoline worthy, but I just think folks will get tired of seeing THAT much of me swanning about. I'll have to reef up the hem a bit, I think.
The bustle is made from the suit's skirt, and the top is left virtually untouched. I still don't have an idea solution for attaching the apron and I'm still not happy with the way it lays, and I'm not sure exactly what to do about it. The pics also seriously wash out the colours - it's all warm greens. I'm actually quite happy with it, if I can just get the apron to behave.
And one other thing - how is the best way to get the point of my witch's hat to stay up? I don't want to stuff it, and I wouldn't even mind if it was a little crooked, but it is limp as a dishrag right now. I'm also going to be using real feathers on the hat. I am also struggling with spats. I have some awesome green leather-look vinyl which would look great as spats, but that's proving really difficult for me. I have a pattern I got offline, but it's really not working that well for me.
From the side, showing the back bustle:
Front, with very limp hat:
More detail of the back bustle. The apron and the bustle butt up against one another well, I just don't know if my method for attatching the apron will work. More tests.
Close up of the front with collar and skeleton keys. The belt won't be long at all on me.
Back bustle. I tested it by using about 25 safety pins tucking into place. I was actually going to leave it like that, but brighter heads prevailed and I hand sewed the tucks. I could just see me sitting down on a pin. You can just see the original skirt peeking out at the bottom of the bustle. Again, the pics don't do the colour credit. It's all really deep lovely greens. The skirt and the collar are made from a sofa slip cover from Goodwill. It was invaluable, and so similar in texture to Sempra's original suit that they really compliment one another, which of course you can't see because my camera makes it all so pale.
Finally a close up of the collar, which was harder than the rest of the costume put together.
sempraseverus, as you know, sent me a skirt suit. With other bits and pieces, here is the Ministry of Magic's Steampunk Librarian and Tea Dominatrix costume. I must point out that this tiny dressmaker's dummy is sooooo not my size, so think BIG. I'm going to look like a ship in full sail. The skirt is volUminous, almost crinoline worthy, but I just think folks will get tired of seeing THAT much of me swanning about. I'll have to reef up the hem a bit, I think.The bustle is made from the suit's skirt, and the top is left virtually untouched. I still don't have an idea solution for attaching the apron and I'm still not happy with the way it lays, and I'm not sure exactly what to do about it. The pics also seriously wash out the colours - it's all warm greens. I'm actually quite happy with it, if I can just get the apron to behave.
And one other thing - how is the best way to get the point of my witch's hat to stay up? I don't want to stuff it, and I wouldn't even mind if it was a little crooked, but it is limp as a dishrag right now. I'm also going to be using real feathers on the hat. I am also struggling with spats. I have some awesome green leather-look vinyl which would look great as spats, but that's proving really difficult for me. I have a pattern I got offline, but it's really not working that well for me.
From the side, showing the back bustle:
Front, with very limp hat:
More detail of the back bustle. The apron and the bustle butt up against one another well, I just don't know if my method for attatching the apron will work. More tests.
Close up of the front with collar and skeleton keys. The belt won't be long at all on me.
Back bustle. I tested it by using about 25 safety pins tucking into place. I was actually going to leave it like that, but brighter heads prevailed and I hand sewed the tucks. I could just see me sitting down on a pin. You can just see the original skirt peeking out at the bottom of the bustle. Again, the pics don't do the colour credit. It's all really deep lovely greens. The skirt and the collar are made from a sofa slip cover from Goodwill. It was invaluable, and so similar in texture to Sempra's original suit that they really compliment one another, which of course you can't see because my camera makes it all so pale.
Finally a close up of the collar, which was harder than the rest of the costume put together.
