I didn't get a better picture because I was having too much fun to ask people to take my own picture!
The Skirt is made from 6 of my husband's worn out dress shirts which i cut into gores and sewed together. The shirt is a thrift store find that I've used before, and I cannot say how much I love this piece - great lace detailing, pin tucks and fun buttons - such a great find! Though you can't see it, I'm also wearing a great ruffled petticoat that I made from a bed sheet.
It's official, if I'm going to keep doing steampunk work, I need to invest in a ruffler foot for my new Pfaff machine because it takes waaay too much time to do all that gathering by hand.
I am of course wearing my fabulous tailor's cuff from R.H. Mardigan, since no travelling seamstress should be without her tools and my wonderful goggles that my husband made for my following the tutorial on Epbot.com (http://www.epbot.com/2011/07/how-to-make-steampunk-goggles.html)
My corset, which you can't see very well is a version of a pattern I've used before, but because it was going to be so hot this weekend, I adapted it to make it lighter in weight and a looser fit than I might otherwise have gone for. The fabric for this came from a skirt that ended up just not fitting right despite its fabulous suede texture and some leftover shop fabric - too little to do much else with, but enough to make some panels out of.
I'm going to be putting together some more detailed shots of my various accessories, and a full body shot of the skirt to show how all the panels went together.
Stay tuned!
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