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

Flight of Icara

On Sunday _the Day_ finally was there:

At the "Gössl Dirndlflugtag 2011" I jumped down 4m into a "lake" wearing my brand new Dirndldress and feathers and wings and accessories etc etc.

It was a lot of fun and I definitely want to take part in this contest again next year! Maybe with some more advanced jump to have a chance at the prizes ;)

You can see detailed pics of the parts of the dress in my last blogentry, so I'll just post the "action pics" in this posting.

Thanks a lot to all the people who helped me realize this project. It was very important to me, I finally managed to defeat my fear of heights.

Dirndlkleid and Icara

I finished my sewing project!

I created a Dirndl-Dress, pattern and everything very traditionally.
Since I'm gonna enter a Contest, the "Gössl Dirndlflugtag 2011" tomorrow, I needed a Dirndl that's suitable for jumping down 4m into a lake.
Edit: Action Pics online here 

So hopefully I can provide you with pictures "in action" soon.

I twisted Austrian Culture with the ancient myth of Icarus.
So this is what Icarus would look like in my mind, if he was a her ;) and born somewhere in the Austrian region "Innviertel"

This outfit contains:


Underwear
A Dirndl Blouse (bought, brand is Hammerschmid Salzburg)
poufy underpants ("bloomers") created after a pattern from sweet snowlady, check out her blog ReichDerSchwarzenRüschen

Dress
It's an original pattern of an "Innviertler Säumchentracht", made from offwhite Linnen with flower printing, light blue cotton for the lining, darkblue linnen for the Passepoiles.
I bought all the fabrics from "Heimatwerk" in Linz.
The skirt has some rather large pleats in the front (where the apron covers them) and tiny ruffles in the back.
The top is fastened with some rather large hooks and eyes. The seams on the front give this dress its name, as (tiny) seams could be translated with "Säumchen" hence the name "Säumchentracht".







Apron
Traditionally this dress comes with a rosé-white striped apron. I did use a very soft linnen/cotton fabric for this apron. Then I added a LOT of stuff to kind of "tell the story" of Icarus and his fall.


So the Apron is actually kind of a whole project on it's own.


The sea. 
Beautiful blue Van-Gogh-like cotton fabric with swirls and waves on it. I cut it in form, sew it onto the apron and added blue, dark blue and green beads on top of the waves. Yes. A lot of beads.

The sun.
Icarus' wings are burned by the sun. So of course you'll find a sun on my apron. It's made from the same Van-Gogh Design, but in yellow/orange. Again I sew thousands of tiny beads on the sun. It's really sparkling in sunlight!


Icarus.
I made a tiny Icarus Doll out of the same fabrics I used for my dress. Tiny Icarus has wings made from Ostrich feathers, a dress, an apron and a felted head made from norwegian super-soft-super-perfect wool. (Thanks to Helsinki for providing me with this great stuff ;) )


All around the apron there are feathers from Icarus' wings flying around.

And my wings.
I used some very thin cotton fabric (actually it's some leftover curtain fabric from Ikea ;) ) and added hundreds of feathers. They are just pierced in and out again through the fabric and fixed with some spray-on glue from the back. Like Icarus I have some straps to fasten the wings to my arms (and my dress).