Well if I tell you too much, I'll give away the surprise. But I'll tell you this much!!! I'm making some amazing new music videos in the next couple months, and I've been hard at work putting the outfits together. I'm filming Any Wonder, and Heavy Heavy Heart. I've been shopping, and searching. I've been cutting, and sewing. Mixing and matching, and accidentally poking my myself in the finger with the pins every five seconds. Along side with being my videos costume director, I'm drawing story boards, and arranging designs. Dat's some hard werk guys! Honestly, it's been very stressful, but I'm thoroughly excited to finish the garments, and storyboards and move onto filming. I have an amazing team of people behind me, and very talented film makers. Mom's been hard at work too, and I think we've visited every fabric store in the area at least once. It's becoming very cold outside, so I'm forced to stay indoors, and sew Sew, SEW! Have I mentioned I'm not very good at sewing? HAHA. If you're a fashion major, or a seamstress and want to hang out at my studio, please do. So now for a sneak peak:
I only have one outfit completely finished/photographed, and it's a gentleman's jacket I made for my bass player Nate. This outfit is for the Any Wonder music video.
The base of the jacket was a womens winter jacket from a vintage clothes store. I sewed appliques, flowers, buttons, cuffs, and lace onto it. Tyler helped with some of the tulle on the cuffs. He also constructed one of the jabots shown. I made the vest entirely out of scratch with no pattern, and it took me a couple days. The hat is actually for another character but I threw it on because my hairs usually a mess. :)
Here are some pictures:
Close up of the detail:
The vest itself with a nice blouse:
This is the jacket I'm currently working on for Tyler. He is a very large man and this fits me like a mouse in a potato sack. I'm waiting for the appliques in the mail, but this will be a much more elaborate jacket when I'm finished.
Those are all the pictures I'm going to take for now. I'm hand sewing vests, waistcoats, frocks, pants, jabots, and much more over the next few weeks, and I'm sure it will drive me nucking futz. This Saturday, Tyler's mother, my mother, and I start constructing... THE GOWNS Mwuhahahahahahaha!!!!! Dun Dun Dun.
I need to go finish the outline before I pass out. I'm grumpy. Thanks for reading,
Much love, muahs and stuff,
Sleepy Casey
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