Steampunkishness
Jul. 15th, 2007 05:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
redroseA friend wants to dress up steampunk later this year.
I said I'd help, as much as I can, so here are some helpful (I hope) links.
First, I'm not horribly clear on exactly what steampunk is. I am operating on the assumption that Victorian era clothing (1850-1901 ish) is what is needed. So:
The Greater Bay Area Costumers Guild (GBACG) has an online pattern review, which is a great reference for specific patterns, and for thee names of pattern companies.
In the big US patternmakers, you want to look under costumes, then Civil War and Victorian.
Here are the links to the costume pages:
http://simplicity.com/index.cfm?cat=4&type=19
http://www.mccallpattern.com/list/costumes/page-1
http://www.butterick.com/list/costumes/page-1
If you want either of these two blouses I'll give you may patterns, since I'm never going to make them.
Folkwear has lots of interesting patterns. I've never made one (though I own several), so I cannot advise you how easy they are to follow. They are generally full of lots of information, including historical stuff.
I said I'd help, as much as I can, so here are some helpful (I hope) links.
First, I'm not horribly clear on exactly what steampunk is. I am operating on the assumption that Victorian era clothing (1850-1901 ish) is what is needed. So:
The Greater Bay Area Costumers Guild (GBACG) has an online pattern review, which is a great reference for specific patterns, and for thee names of pattern companies.
In the big US patternmakers, you want to look under costumes, then Civil War and Victorian.
Here are the links to the costume pages:
http://simplicity.com/index.cfm?cat=4&type=19
http://www.mccallpattern.com/list/costumes/page-1
http://www.butterick.com/list/costumes/page-1
If you want either of these two blouses I'll give you may patterns, since I'm never going to make them.
Folkwear has lots of interesting patterns. I've never made one (though I own several), so I cannot advise you how easy they are to follow. They are generally full of lots of information, including historical stuff.
