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I wish I had the skill or patience to make one for myself
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When I REMEMBER I DISMEMBER
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When I REMEMBER I DISMEMBER
How much do you think it costs now that it's finished? Have you ever considered selling Leviathan cosplays?
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Waitin' for Brave.
I have considered doing commissions, only I have never made clothes for anyone but myself, so I am not good at making clothes from measurements. I don't know how good I would be at it. And I would never make this jacket in leather or pleather again, making the piping nearly destroyed my sewing machine and it doesn't drape as well as serge or light wool would. It is definitely the most difficult sewing project I have ever undertaken. But I would make cosplay if anyone is interested, though I work very slowly and am a busy college student... For one of these in a nice cloth I would probably charge about $75. I have a pattern for Deryn's jacket and that one wouldn't be as difficult to make, so it would cost less.
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Waitin' for Brave.
I do have one or two small critiques though. If you do plan on making it again and planning to be period accurate (well, as period accurate as you can), if you're going for a WWI pilot jacket, they were made either in dark chocolate brown or black leather (or you can use pleather. Good quality leather is extremely expensive, obviously). In our world, airplanes were used only toward the end of WWI so they are few pilot jackets. Austria-Hungary didn't have an air unit at all (if I remember right. My history is awful).
My other tiny critique is the lining. Traditionally, royalty wore purple (not red). Purple in Europe in the traditional "royal" color (red is the royal color of Asia). Alek was trying to HIDE, not be branded as the prince. His jacket was probably lined the same way Count Volger's and his soldier's were. They were probably lined in black satin, if they were lined at all.
(Sorry, I come from a military family. I know a lot about uniforms and I have a passion for royalty. I don't mean to offend or anything)
P.S. I could swear the jackets Alek and the gang wear are the traditional WWI Austrian army ones. They're stiff cotton that they still use in today's military uniforms and blue. I saw a color illustration that Keith Thompson did for Leviathan and Alek's jacket was blue. Where did I see it? Gaaaaaaah, it's going to nag me now.
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Be Grimm.
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You know, I actually reread Leviathan and I need to smack myself on the head. Alek does indeed have a leather jacket. *face palm* Oie, sometimes I need to shut up and read my darn book again before I post (but I--being the bright person I am--kept conjuring this image instead of the jacket used in the book).
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Be Grimm.
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