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I had a flash of insight today, as I put my hair up for a nice luxurious bath this morning (yes, it's finally long enough again to tie up on top of my head). I'm creating a Steampunk inventor character with Badger in her name, or her nickname or something. Mainly because, when I had my hair up, I noticed the 2 white stripes on the side and the pitch black swath in the back (the center front is a dark salt-and-pepper look).
I think I'll look good in some of the costume possibilities that Steampunk allows. And who knows -- maybe I'll draw up some cartoons or write some stories about her. I've already got her entire backstory in my head (adapted and embellished from my real biography and conflated with a bit of 19th or earlier century geography). I've decided that my entire second marriage becomes, for this character, as "kidnapped by a Persian/Ottoman and kept for 9 years in his seraglio (where I learned belly dancing and finally escaped)" and ran into my current spouse (who has decided to create another companion character so we can do a group costume thing - he's my "pilot", so we apparently own some sort of airship - but this also lends itself to some interesting costume possibilities) who brought me back to civillization and helped me get set up in my lab.
I'm not sure I'm going to go the corset route or not, but I sketched out some designs...
I haven't been this excited about costumes/conventions in a very long time... And I believe I haven't given away all my suit-weight wool, so I have some fabric to start working with (oooh. some of it is very RED.) I can be my current size and still look just fine in this type of fashion, too.
I think I'll look good in some of the costume possibilities that Steampunk allows. And who knows -- maybe I'll draw up some cartoons or write some stories about her. I've already got her entire backstory in my head (adapted and embellished from my real biography and conflated with a bit of 19th or earlier century geography). I've decided that my entire second marriage becomes, for this character, as "kidnapped by a Persian/Ottoman and kept for 9 years in his seraglio (where I learned belly dancing and finally escaped)" and ran into my current spouse (who has decided to create another companion character so we can do a group costume thing - he's my "pilot", so we apparently own some sort of airship - but this also lends itself to some interesting costume possibilities) who brought me back to civillization and helped me get set up in my lab.
I'm not sure I'm going to go the corset route or not, but I sketched out some designs...
I haven't been this excited about costumes/conventions in a very long time... And I believe I haven't given away all my suit-weight wool, so I have some fabric to start working with (oooh. some of it is very RED.) I can be my current size and still look just fine in this type of fashion, too.
