steampunk spam
public entry so that Tom can see it:
So as some of you know my friend Tom came to me looking for help putting together a steampunk costume. At the time he didn't have a clear idea about what sort of direction he wanted to take with his costume. So I also helped kind of steer him in a direction and decide on a real historical figure for inspiration(we decided to go with Nikola Tesla). Tom gave me a color palette to work with but otherwise pretty much just let me make all the design decisions. I made a coat, vest, cravat, and pants for him. It's up to him to accessorize it however he wants.
Patterns I used:
Simplicity 2895 - coat
Simplicity 2870 - vest
Simplicity 5581 - fly for pants
Butterick 3684 - coat sleeves, coat collar shape, and pants
Vogue 7644 - cravat/ascot/whatever it's supposed to be called
Details: All the fabrics were either wool blends or satins. The buttons, main vest fabric, and pants fabric came from Gail K's. I used satin from Hobby Lobby for the lining fabrics. And everything else came from Hancock. On the pants I decided that the fly for the Butterick pattern was too Regency Era, so I picked up a pattern for modern shorts to use for the fly. But I used snaps and a hook and eye for closure on the pants because a zipper would have been wrong and I was kind of tired of buttons. Speaking of which this is the costume where I gave up on trying to use the buttonhole function on my machine. So I made them all with zigzag stitches. And I went over the back of all the buttonholes with some Stop Fraying. I finished the seams of the pants with zigzag stitches, as well as some other seams you can't see since they're covered by lining. For the hems of the pants I also just did that to the edge instead of folding it under to make the hem less bulky, and it's hemmed up with a catchstich. And since Tom had gotten measured at a smaller waist size than what he normally wears I made everything to the larger size but then put elastic in the back of the waistband so that it should be able to work for either size. I wish I could have measured him myself and seen him for a fitting, but at least I was able to send him to a formal wear place to get some measurements taken. The edges of the vest, the front edges and collar of the coat are topstitched. The pattern called for the back slit of the coat to be stitched together. But I didn't like the way that draped so I ripped out that stitching and just tacked the corner of the overlapping flap in place instead. And I'm still not entirely sure how to tie a cravat(lol).
vest front unbuttoned
back of vest with ties and buckle
really high-waisted pants
back of the waistband all bunchy from the elastic
inside of the waistband
pants hem with cat hair everywhere(I went over everything with a lint roller before boxing it up)
blurry picture of the inside of the hem
coat button detail(with loose thread bits and markings showing)
coat facing and lining
everything all together, I didn't button up the vest all the way since it just doesn't fit my girl shaped dressform that well
from an angle
and the back
So as some of you know my friend Tom came to me looking for help putting together a steampunk costume. At the time he didn't have a clear idea about what sort of direction he wanted to take with his costume. So I also helped kind of steer him in a direction and decide on a real historical figure for inspiration(we decided to go with Nikola Tesla). Tom gave me a color palette to work with but otherwise pretty much just let me make all the design decisions. I made a coat, vest, cravat, and pants for him. It's up to him to accessorize it however he wants.
Patterns I used:
Simplicity 2895 - coat
Simplicity 2870 - vest
Simplicity 5581 - fly for pants
Butterick 3684 - coat sleeves, coat collar shape, and pants
Vogue 7644 - cravat/ascot/whatever it's supposed to be called
Details: All the fabrics were either wool blends or satins. The buttons, main vest fabric, and pants fabric came from Gail K's. I used satin from Hobby Lobby for the lining fabrics. And everything else came from Hancock. On the pants I decided that the fly for the Butterick pattern was too Regency Era, so I picked up a pattern for modern shorts to use for the fly. But I used snaps and a hook and eye for closure on the pants because a zipper would have been wrong and I was kind of tired of buttons. Speaking of which this is the costume where I gave up on trying to use the buttonhole function on my machine. So I made them all with zigzag stitches. And I went over the back of all the buttonholes with some Stop Fraying. I finished the seams of the pants with zigzag stitches, as well as some other seams you can't see since they're covered by lining. For the hems of the pants I also just did that to the edge instead of folding it under to make the hem less bulky, and it's hemmed up with a catchstich. And since Tom had gotten measured at a smaller waist size than what he normally wears I made everything to the larger size but then put elastic in the back of the waistband so that it should be able to work for either size. I wish I could have measured him myself and seen him for a fitting, but at least I was able to send him to a formal wear place to get some measurements taken. The edges of the vest, the front edges and collar of the coat are topstitched. The pattern called for the back slit of the coat to be stitched together. But I didn't like the way that draped so I ripped out that stitching and just tacked the corner of the overlapping flap in place instead. And I'm still not entirely sure how to tie a cravat(lol).
vest front unbuttoned
back of vest with ties and buckle
really high-waisted pants
back of the waistband all bunchy from the elastic
inside of the waistband
pants hem with cat hair everywhere(I went over everything with a lint roller before boxing it up)
blurry picture of the inside of the hem
coat button detail(with loose thread bits and markings showing)
coat facing and lining
everything all together, I didn't button up the vest all the way since it just doesn't fit my girl shaped dressform that well
from an angle
and the back