New Simplicity Pattern

[Artemisia]

YOU!  You are the reason that all three of the stores I went to this weekend were sold out of the pattern!  (Ok, maybe not but seriously this must be one popular pattern)

Yes, I did it. I was the reason why two of the three Jo-Ann's in the NC "Triangle" area were sold out of the pattern. Some of them didn't even make it from the packing box to the pattern drawer. > Don't worry - the stores will stock more as I think I have enough of them.

[ArielCallista]

Joanns here in Denton is sold out...they sold out in a day or two...If i find out who did it I'ma steal it from them! grrrrr...I'm definitely using this for my pirate coat! and of course steamy things

[Artemisia]

I'm using it for a pirate coat too. Actually, I was already designing a pirate coat very similar to the jacket in the pattern. I want a combination of boned bodice and coat-tails type jacket. What a relief I won't have to do all that draping and pattern-making!

[ArielCallista]

Haha same here Artemisia...

[Devangelon]

OK, let me be snarky for a moment: there's nothing steampunk about that pattern. OK, so the shoes are cool and the other is wearing goggles on her head and an hourglass in her hand. OK, so there's a sort of clock in the background, and the dresses has dark, bold colours.

But the actual DRESSES are quite standard Victorian light. They have no details I would consider steampunk. For that you'd need technological inventions, machinery, steel details, gears, quirky details, straps and buckles and whatnot. Steampunk is historical dressing mixed with fantasy or science fiction, with a basis of the new technology of the late Victorian era. The clothes needn't be Victorian, though, they can also be Edwardian, Tribal, Rococo, cyber etc. But the details should be in the actual clothes and not just the props. To me these are way better examples of steampunk:


(The firs is author G. D. Falksen, the second is from steampunk Wicked in Copenhagen)

I KNOW I am snarky in this matter, but steampunk is such a cool sub genre, and I admire anyone who does it well. I fear that people won't get the desired result if they pick up that pattern to make steampunk. It would make a cool Victorian dress with a twist, but the pattern lacks the punk.... and also the steam...

Thank you sooo much for saying that! I really dislike the patterns. They're ok MAYBE for a base. But just as is, they are NOT steampunk.

For my base I'm using http://www.simplicity.com/p-1769-costumes.aspx

It will be the style of the red dress but I'm taking the sleeves off. Then instead of the bustle, I'm making it a bird cage. Because my character is the heiress of a coal mine..Bird cage..Canaries..Yeah. I will also have a gas mask on, I think. Haven't decided just yet. My friend wants me to make an "air tank" to hook up to the gas mask as well. But I dunno.