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octo-crafts · 11 months

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Will anyone else be in costume tonight when I go out? Probably not, but I don't have any other excuse to dress up this week.

The vest, skirt, and shirt are all the same ones from this post. For the shirt decor, I bought a cheap steampunk choker and dismantled it for parts (one piece was already falling off from where it had been hot glued to the lace) and sewed snaps to one side of each little metal piece. Then, I sewed the other sides to my shirt, and attached the other side of the snaps. This way, I can still button and unbutton my shirt, and if I want to just have a black shirt again/get a better steampunk shirt (i did also buy a brown sheet i'll eventually turn into a shirt, but there wasn't time for that this year) I'll be able to pick out the stitching with relatively little damage to the shirt.

#my projects #craftblr #finished project #sewblr #steampunk #i also picked the choker itself apart into constuent parts #and its construction was BAFFLING #when sewn together it looks like a piece of velvet ribbon layered with lace and gauze #but when you take it apart there's narrower silk ribbon and another piece of lace INSIDE the velvet ribbok #completely invisible but basted to the visible lace and gauze separately from the velvet ribbon #i assume there was a mixup at the factory or smth #but it was sure a surprise to find secret extra lace when i was taking it apart

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