> > My costuming experience is Renaissance and earlier. I'm just getting > > started w/ Victorian/U.S. Civil War and am wondering if there are some > > good online places I can look. I'l looking for: > > > > 1. Life & times of Queen Victoria (just watched Young Victoria & realized > > I don't know much about her) > > 2. Fashions from around then that could be steam punked.
> "Around then," in the context of Queen Victoria, is too vague. She ascended > the throne in 1837 and died in 1901; which period of her life would you like > to use as inspiration? > With that in mind, most steampunk costume takes the fashions of the 1870s and > 1880s as inspiration, so you may want to focus on those periods. **I wasn't aware that steampunk focused on any particular decade but I'll focus on the later period. > > Are you interested in purchasing patterns or drafting your own? If you want > to purchase a reasonable pattern, trulyvictorian.com has some good ones that > are not bad to work with; their website includes a concise timeline of > Victorian era costume. **I just finished a corset from Truly Victorian in a class. Thanks for the website. I'll check them out. I've also been looking at Western US clothing from the same time period. Seems more functional for an airship pirate <G>. Julie _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
