Step Five. Putting it all together! Easy Steampunk Clothing and Costumes. How-to Make Spats, Threadbanger Projects. How to make a Steampunk Outfit, Threadbanger. How to Convert an Ordinary Suit Coat into a Tail Coat. Materials: Suit Coat Piece of Chalk Scissors Pins and/or Safetypins Needle & Thread or Fabric Glue Step I: Finding a Coat Finding a suit coat free or for cheap is quite easy.
Before you go shopping for one, ask your parents, friends and family if they have any sitting around that you can have. Often, relatives will have a lot of them, so pick through what they have to find one you like. How to Make a Steampunk Corset. Spats Tutorial. Hello world, Upon a few requests over at Threadbanger, I've decided to put together a quick tutorial for the spats I made to match my she-tails: Apologies that I don't have pictures of the first couple of steps - I began making this pair before I decided to make a tutorial!