Steaming the Punk.

As promised yesterday, I bring you today the something awesome I promised. A little bird tweeted you had all been good(bird, twitter... come on it is mostly funny), although I am quite cross no presents were on my door step this morning. So here it is, the long talked about start of my new new steampunk outfit.
Basic run down; the bottom layer is a full circle skirt in a 45 inch shimmery black faux satin 5 yards total cost around 13$, the next layer is a, cream sheer. You may notice that it brushes the floor and then some, I wanted a vintage "waterfall" look, that had a bit of a train. However as awesome as that would be it would be ripped to shreds and dirty within a day, so the material will be raised in front so the "apron" is shorter and will bustled a bit differently in back so that it comes down to the hem of the black but not the floor. And finally my pride and joy, the clockwork over skirt, the position you currently see it in is not the way it will be bustled this was simply to give and idea of what it would look like. You cannot tell at the top and I may alter it just a tad but it is corseted through button holes to bring the corseting idea down from the corset I will be wearing with this into the over skirt, I will possibly put more button holes down the sides to make it a bit more apparent. The ribbon is what will be holding the skirt shut and on. For the curious I do actually have a padded two layered bustle under the skirts to give me that much booty, but I may cut back to one layer or just empty out some padding. I will be working on the rest of stuff that goes along with it for my project of the month. I am also making a petticoat for it. I have had many horrified stares, living in one of the hottest states, heck living in a city nick named the Valley of the Sun, why would I want to add more layers? Simple, sweat and breathablity. Satin, even faux is not exactly wash and wear. A simple thin cotton petticoat will capture sweat, and give me a little bit of room to allow for air flow.

It needs work, tailoring tweaking, but the long parts of hemming that much material is done, as well as taking a basic design made with my very much lacking sketching skills into reality. Sometimes it makes you want to squee and squish it.

And yes I did... so shutup.