During a 3-hour session of P&P and Noir I managed to finish a black fishtail skirt I've had lying around for ages. Now it has lots of nice fake fur and I wore it for Walpurgis Night.

For a garden party I added a shrug.

Ladies and gentlemen,
an afternoon well spent at the Technisches Museum Wien.






A reproduction of Babbage's difference engine, air ships



and gears



Needless to say I'll be there again soon.

I'd like to finish it in 2009.
At least it's only one glove, so no worries about symmetry  :)

Material: black and red leather, wires
Sketch: <to come>

To do

1. Sewing gloves
2. apply red leather patches
3. age leather
4. attach wires and similar stuff

Well - another bloody corset crossed my path and did not escape my hunting instinct - black leather, what else is there to say.
The corset is no longer in Memphis. It arrived yesterday and looks w00t.

I'd like to wear it with a bustle and sew a red underskirt and a black leather overskirt to go with it. It will not fit over the Mantua Maker bustle but I could always wear it under the bustle.

DONE

• Red blouse

TODO

• Underskirt: I found a nice red-black fabric for the underskirt.
• Overskirt: The hunt has been successful - I found a shop in the city with affordable black fake leather and carried home 4 meters.
• Accessories: that will be the fun part :) falconer's glove, instrument belt and leather whip

For my biological field work I dearly need something practical. Planned are black trousers, a black vest and a red blouse. Furthermore a jacket, a belt for my instruments, protective leather gloves and spats.

• Trousers: cut and partly sewn
• Vest: pattern drafted from a corset I own and tested on lining fabric.
• Blouse: Fabric ready, looking for a pattern with short sleeves
• Jacket: cut and partly sewn
• Gloves: leather ready, found pattern and will test on lining fabric
• Belt: leather ready, looking for enforcing second layer
• Spats: black fabric ready, playing around to get a good pattern following this how to.
  

As mentioned before, this is going to be my first outfit and there is a deadline... It requires some purchases as well as DIY pieces, and I'd like to trace my progress here in this post. ( Details? This way please... )

I started to think about the personality of my steampunk alter ego - I like being creative, research is fun, plus it helps with deciding what to wear.

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My french is rusty but nevermind.

Let's see how many objects I can blow up with my going steampunk.