Leather
I made it back to San Francisco this year for one of my favorite fetish events: Folsom Street Fair. We decided to steampunk it up this year so I made myself, my boy and our friend new outfits for the event. I thought you guys might be interested in seeing it. I love seeing everyone's creative endeavors here!
I've never worked with leather before, but have a kickass walking foot industrial machine that has been beggin for it for years. I couldn't afford hides so I went thrifting and bought a bunch of old leather jackets and skirts to hack up. I decided on a deconstructed look so if I screwed it up I could make it look intentional. The outfits turned out AWESOME if I do say so myself. I'm really proud of my first leather attempt.
We were a big hit at the fiar, but the problem with having your picture taken by so many strangers is that you forget to take your own. I only have a handful of shots and none of the back of our outfits! I spent lots of time making cool peplums & bustles ... ah well. I'll just have to set up a photoshoot, damn. :)
So whithout further ado ... the photos! And lots of costume jibber jabber.
Real Redhead: Vest made from a red leather trench & brown skirt, Shorts: brown leather jacket overstitched in red. She has a cute little leather peplum out the back that I spent ages binding in brown leather. Wish I had a pic on her. I'll show ya the back later on the boring little dress form. No cute butt unfortunately.
Me (fake redhead): corset made out of a black patchwork leather jacket, fake ostrich leather skirt, distressed leather bomber jacket. The main part of the hat is the waistband from the bomber jacket. I bought the floor length black leather skirt just for yardage, but then realized when I got home that if I cut off the waistband it actually fit me! So I cut it shorter, grommeted it up and ruched it with leather lacing. I have a big bustle made up of all the cool scraps, snaps, cuffs & pockets from the jackets. Again, dressform pics only. Grrr
The gold bits you can just see a bit of is a cool belly dancing belt with tons of gold jangley, sparkley bits and then I added the leather army pockets the boy reconditioned then distressed for me (he has on the other half).
My friend (the readhead) designed my boot sashy thingy (need to come up with a cool name for it) It has a rose made out of the zipper from one of the jackets and lots of jangly thrifted chains and charms. It sounded like spurs when I walked, only cooler.
The sunglasses were a last minute addition that I wasn't in love with until I decided to glue a bunch of the left over feathers from my hat onto. Viola - steampunk sunglasses! haha
Amazingly this cool photo spot was right outside our hotel (the Westin on 3rd/Market). Wish we had taken more shots, but as usual we were running late. I want to go back and do a real shoot there sometime. The whole street, both sides, is lined with them.
More pics! Less blather ...
You can almost see the backs of our outfits in this one. I borrowed the nifty snood from a friend. I need to find one. I love the way it looked, but I had the worst dreads after the whole day in it!
The boy's outfit was acutally made for Burning Man a couple of years ago, but he has only worn it a few times, so it counts as new! His corset is a really cool tweedy patterned wool that I made into a corset to look like a vest. It has working welt pockets for his pocket watch. Unfortunately he forgot it at home and lost all his steampunk cred! haha He's also wearing black leather guantlets and cool vintage army spats from the surplus store along with his leather army pockets. I really love the western vibe with the cowboy hat and big filegre belt buckle. Yummy.
Vest back on the dress form with no booty. It looked much cuter with some bum.
Bustle in progress - ignore the fancy binder clips! :)
I've never worked with leather before, but have a kickass walking foot industrial machine that has been beggin for it for years. I couldn't afford hides so I went thrifting and bought a bunch of old leather jackets and skirts to hack up. I decided on a deconstructed look so if I screwed it up I could make it look intentional. The outfits turned out AWESOME if I do say so myself. I'm really proud of my first leather attempt.
We were a big hit at the fiar, but the problem with having your picture taken by so many strangers is that you forget to take your own. I only have a handful of shots and none of the back of our outfits! I spent lots of time making cool peplums & bustles ... ah well. I'll just have to set up a photoshoot, damn. :)
So whithout further ado ... the photos! And lots of costume jibber jabber.
Real Redhead: Vest made from a red leather trench & brown skirt, Shorts: brown leather jacket overstitched in red. She has a cute little leather peplum out the back that I spent ages binding in brown leather. Wish I had a pic on her. I'll show ya the back later on the boring little dress form. No cute butt unfortunately.
Me (fake redhead): corset made out of a black patchwork leather jacket, fake ostrich leather skirt, distressed leather bomber jacket. The main part of the hat is the waistband from the bomber jacket. I bought the floor length black leather skirt just for yardage, but then realized when I got home that if I cut off the waistband it actually fit me! So I cut it shorter, grommeted it up and ruched it with leather lacing. I have a big bustle made up of all the cool scraps, snaps, cuffs & pockets from the jackets. Again, dressform pics only. Grrr
The gold bits you can just see a bit of is a cool belly dancing belt with tons of gold jangley, sparkley bits and then I added the leather army pockets the boy reconditioned then distressed for me (he has on the other half).
My friend (the readhead) designed my boot sashy thingy (need to come up with a cool name for it) It has a rose made out of the zipper from one of the jackets and lots of jangly thrifted chains and charms. It sounded like spurs when I walked, only cooler.
The sunglasses were a last minute addition that I wasn't in love with until I decided to glue a bunch of the left over feathers from my hat onto. Viola - steampunk sunglasses! haha
Amazingly this cool photo spot was right outside our hotel (the Westin on 3rd/Market). Wish we had taken more shots, but as usual we were running late. I want to go back and do a real shoot there sometime. The whole street, both sides, is lined with them.
More pics! Less blather ...
You can almost see the backs of our outfits in this one. I borrowed the nifty snood from a friend. I need to find one. I love the way it looked, but I had the worst dreads after the whole day in it!
The boy's outfit was acutally made for Burning Man a couple of years ago, but he has only worn it a few times, so it counts as new! His corset is a really cool tweedy patterned wool that I made into a corset to look like a vest. It has working welt pockets for his pocket watch. Unfortunately he forgot it at home and lost all his steampunk cred! haha He's also wearing black leather guantlets and cool vintage army spats from the surplus store along with his leather army pockets. I really love the western vibe with the cowboy hat and big filegre belt buckle. Yummy.
Vest back on the dress form with no booty. It looked much cuter with some bum.
Bustle in progress - ignore the fancy binder clips! :)