[h-cost] Victorian Costuming Sites
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 h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] Victorian costuming sites?
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. Thanks Julie ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] Victorian costuming sites?
On Tuesday 08 June 2010 1:53:18 pm Julie wrote: 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. 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. Good luck! -- Cathy Raymond ca...@thyrsus.com No one can make as disastrous a bad choice as a smart person, because they sell it to themselves really well.--Tobias Buckell ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
