A New Outfit: The Secret Chapter

The Secret Chapter (by Eric Aisling)
It has been over half a year since my last post and a whole year since the pictures I want to show today were taken!

Unfortunately I couldn’t be at the Anno 1900 Steampunk Convention Luxembourg this year, but I was there last year and these pictures come from there.

I’m quite proud of this outfit, I called it The Secret Chapter.
Of course, the outfit includes various accessories: The Secret Chapter Bag, the small but fine Secret Chapter Wrist Warmers and the beautiful Secret Chapter Hat :-)

The pictures this time are from different photographers, but I would especially like to highlight the wonderful pictures by Eric Aisling!
Thank you!!!

There are more pictures from the Anno 1900 Steampunk Convention Luxembourg from last year, but I will show them at a later date :-)

See you soon, yours
JessiCat

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Secret Chapter Wrist Warmers

The Secret Chapter (by Fred)
These mini gloves belong to The Secret Chapter. They should give the impression that the blouse is long-sleeved with the jacket on and without the jacket they should be small, fine gloves to match the blouse. They serve this purpose quite well ;-)

The very simple pattern is selfmade. They are closed tightly to the wrist with a small snap button.

Completed: 2023

Status: in my Klamottenkiste and I wore it for the first time in 2023 for the Anno 1900 Steampunk Convention Luxembourg

Photos: Eric Aisling, Fred (2023)

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Secret Chapter Bag

The Secret Chapter (by Manfred Weis)
This is the bag for The Secret Chapter – small enough to fit well, large enough for everything important ;-)

The pattern is actually a leather pattern from DieselpunkRo’s wonderful Etsy shop.

It was a real challenge to change this pattern for a purely fabric bag. Given this experiment, I’m still somewhat satisfied with the slightly messy result.

But I definitely have to make the pattern again out of leather ;-)

Completed: 2023

Status: in my Klamottenkiste and I wore it for the first time in 2023 for the Anno 1900 Steampunk Convention Luxembourg

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Secret Chapter Hat

The Secret Chapter (by Eric Aisling)
This is the hat to The Secret Chapter.

This was my second time using the Butterick pattern B6397, version D. This time, however, I used more of the same methods as for the Truly Victorian hats and am very happy with it.

I chose a quill pen as the only decoration on the top of the hat to echo the theme of the script fabric. Five fabric roses are sewn on the back under the hat.

Completed: 2023

Status: in my Klamottenkiste and I wore it for the first time in 2023 for the Anno 1900 Steampunk Convention Luxembourg

Photos: Eric Aisling (2023)

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A New Crochet Dress

Crochet Dress
I debated for a long time whether I wanted to have these revealing pictures for this dress on my website.
But I like the pictures and the dress even more! :-)

So today I’m introducing my new Crochet Dress that (with something underneath ;-) ) is perfect for tango dancing.

As I continue to reorganize my home, I haven’t started any new projects this year and updates will probably slow down for a while.
But maybe there will also be one or two small craft works from the apartment to show ;-)

See you soon, yours,
JessiCat

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Crochet Dress

Crochet Dress
This dress fits like a second skin at the top and has a beautiful, heavy circle skirt. It’s also a perfect tango dress, I just didn’t want to declare it exclusively as a dance dress, so it ended up in this category ;-)
I wouldn’t wear it as revealing as in the pictures here to go out dancing, but with a slip underneath it looks very classy, too!

Photos: Olaf Pinn (2023)
Earrings: Sandra

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Making of …

For this crochet dress I followed the wonderful Blue Dress pattern from krinichka’s etsy shop as closely as possible (except for the color choice and the hem). The difficulty was that the crochet pattern was only available in Ukrainian. But these days you can get something like that translated quickly ;-)
I am very satisfied with the result :-)

Completed: 2023

…in Action

Status: in my Klamottenkiste

A New Outfit: Badass Tailcoat with Long Gloves

Badass Tailcoat and Long Gloves
The first new work that I want to show this year was already finished in 2021 and the shooting for it was in 2023, so it’s actually not new at all ;-)

It is about theBadass Tailcoat with the matching Badass Long Gloves.
Even though the shoot has a Star Wars theme, I didn’t want to classify the tailcoat under Cosplay & Nerdiges, but instead under Gothic & Gruftiges, because for me it is an all-rounder :-)

Olaf Pinn took the wonderfully space-y images in a very fun shoot. Thank you very much for that :-)

It will still be some time before you can see anything really new from me…I’m still in the process of rearranging my life and getting back on my feet.
In the meantime there will still be one or two posts!

Yours,
JessiCat

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Badass Tailcoat

Badass Tailcoat
When I look at this tailcoat, I think of some superhero or evil archenemy. It reminds me of something that a character from the Matrix movies or a Sith would wear – hence its name ;-)
The tailcoat goes well with rock outfits as well as gothic outfits, is super comfortable and fluffy on the inside. It also flatters the figure ;-)

I sewed long arm warmers to match, which of course also got a suitable name: Badass Long Gloves .

Photos: Olaf Pinn (2023)

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