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. If you are not so lucky as to get a coat for free, look through thrift stores, ideally the Salvation Army or, failing that, Goodwill.
If none are available in your neighborhood, check a local charity or religious center, tag sales, flea markets or consignment shops. Step II: Choosing a Coat Choosing a coat is also easy, and your primary concern is that your coat is comfortable and looks the way you like; although remember that you can always change or customize the color of the coat and buttons.
If you want to dye or bleach the coat, make sure you do this before you begin cutting. 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! :) Materials and tools Main fabric - at least 1x0.5mLining fabric - at least 1x0.5mMatching cotton threadIron-on interfacing Elastic - 2x 10-12cm lengths; use thin elastic, like 5-10mm width Method 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Baste your elastic in place on the main fabric. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. Et voila! Alright. As a side note, I decided I will give this tutorial's pair away to the first person who leaves a comment saying they're interested and with a way for me to contact them.
[EDIT] Congrats Allegra, you will be seeing some spats in the mail shortly. ~Jessica.