Recycling, Military, Nerd, Cliché - I like!

First of all: No more braces for Denocte ;) Yay!




All the years I'm in the subculture now there are a few things I've never worn.
e.g. torn tights with holes and stuff on my arms. Or hotpants with some kind of stockings.
And I've never put some functional stuff, like gears or components on clothing, just because it looks good (which, to be honest, it just doesn't in most cases.)

Until this weekend ;)
This weekend I thought I could embrace cliché for once and celebrate that I finally got rid of my braces.
Because, to be honest, a military end of the world outfit just works a lot better without teenagerbraces in your mouth.

All started with this ring.
It's really simple, I just glued a CPU onto a ring. But I just love it! It's cute, and cool, and you can wear it in everyday live as well as in the evenings when going out.

But, then, problem: I didn't have any outfit to go with the ring. So the whole "doing stuff I've never done before" thing started.
I upcycled an old corset of mine. I've sewn it 5 yrs ago, worn it once. It's too small now around the hips, but we can fix that ;)
Originally it was just plain satin camouflage fabric, half bust. When I was done with it it looked like this:

I added some leather clasps in the front, a lot of studs, tulle and straps. left and right I just cut the corset open with zig-zag scissors and added a "lining" made from tulle. Hips-problem solved.

The colours of the rest of my components are in perfect harmony with my corset, don't you think ;)

An some of the straps I strapped on the, perfectly ruined, cut off jeans pants.

 

The upper part of the Jeans was my handbag for the night, which can be worn over your shoulder as well as around your hips to ensure maximum comfort while dancing.
And I added some stuff too. Simply black is not enough for this night ;)

I hope you like it, it was a totally new experience for me to actually destroy something I've sewn. But I liked wearing it, so I think it was worth it.


Denocte

Alternative Princess

My sister graduated from High School this year.
Traditionally, in Austria there's a big formal for the students the winter before they graduate.
So - perfect excuse to sew a nice ball gown!
Since my sis and me always want things a bit different, we soon decided that I should sew her dress.
It contains about... 26 (?) metres of fabric... Because, idiot I am, I made a petticoat instead of a petti-crinoline-combination.
NEVER.EVER. EVER. AGAIN.

Well: There's the white tulle petti with pink leopard print lining (we're girls! there's got to be something pink!),
a violet satin skirt and a grey/silver organza overcoat with violet biasbinding seams, I'm very happy that I own an extra utensil for sewing this thanks,
and the corset, made from this wonderful black velvet with violet flowers and leaves and silver glitter on it *love*

Enough words, here are the pictures:





There's a skirt under the skirt under the skirt... omg - neverending tulle...



aha, that's nature... okay, and now?




And now some fun stuff:
Ever saw princess Leia with Dreads, Shades and arrogant face *grin*
We had so much fun!

Underbust Corset + blouse

I don't know why the pics are so fuzzy :( please just klick and open them in a new tab. :(



This spring I noticed, that I don't have any corset-thingy to wear with pants.
Well, I always love reasons to sew corsets!
So I bought a wonderful fake velours-leather fabric and silk satin fabric, being very pleased that the brown leather has a faint shade of burgundy which fits perfectly to the satin.

The blouse can't be worn without the corset, because it fits really tight around the belly *g* which would look strange without the corset. But so you don't find too much extra fabric in the belly area when wearing the corset, which I think makes everything look smoother.


I added two brownish/burgundy buttons and a tiny clasp, at the back it's closed with a zip and I added another button there :)
The seam is braided.



Well - I REALLY should have ironed the blouse before taking pictures *shame* Please just ignore all the wrinkles, thanks ;)



Although I have rather (in my teenie days this would have been called "J.Lo-hips) prominent hips, I like the shape this gives me. Hourglass shapes for president!

goodbye, violin. no to prodigies!

FINALLY!
I'm proud to present the Goodbye, Violin Outfit I made a couple of months ago.
I wanted to wear it to an Emilie Autumn concert, unfortunately she got ill and the concert was cancelled.
Since then I lost some weight, so the corset doesn't fit anymore now :(
On the pics it's a bit too big too, so cut me some slack please ;)
But I do have some pics for you.

The shooting was a way to say goodbye to playing the violin, which I stopped this year :)

Thanks to Birgit Pichler Photography for the wonderful pictures!













The outfit contains:
The Bolero-sleeves-thingy:
Made from some rough woolly fabric with blue flowers woven in it.

The Corset:
The fanciest I ever made.
Made from beige cotton Satin, offwhite lace and the same woolly fabric as above. Add some laces and ribbons and there it is!






The Underskirts
Two of them, my grandma gave them to me. She wore them when she was young :)

The Skirt:
a simple Skirt made from some really cool fabric I swapped, with silver lurex woven in it.
There is a rabbit-heart brooche
on it, matching the rabbit buttons on the back of the skirt
and the


Rabbit Purse
Simple and girly!

Boots:
bought them, but spiced them up with fabric straps so they match.

grandmas wedding corset

Heihei folks,
I really need your help this time :)

As I already told you, my grandma gave me her wedding corset.
They are married for 50 years now *love* and still happy :)

Well, now I have this gorgeous thing there - and no idea how you're supposed to wear it!
For the record: My grandma was really thin when she got married, my sis and me took turns in trying on her wedding dress. It's too big for us since we were 16 ;)
so, one should think that this corset should be waaay to small for me too.
well: somehow, no.

This is what it looks like:
In the back (? at least I think so) the corset can be closed with 4 heavy hook-and-pile fasteners, the fabrics are shiny white jacquard, white velvet, some strange net-thingy and the lining is thin cotton fabric.



Fabrics:



Lining:


You can clearly see that in the late 50ies and 60ies it was fashion to wear synthetic fabrics, today those fabrics wouldn't be used for a wedding corset I think.



The front bears three steal planchettes, approximately 2cm wide, the other seams have flexible steal in them. You can see the tunnels on the fabric outside.



So. How to wear this?
I have two ideas:
1) like an overbust corset.
it's way to big. and it doesn't look right.




2) like a panty-girdle thingy.
you really can't sit down.
and it's still big.
doesn't look right either^^

So, all you creative heads out there!
Help me, how do you wear this thing?
Fasteners in the front? Upside down? On your head?

greets,

denocte