Getting Dressed in Victorian Menswear : Gonzo Cosplay from Muppets Christmas Carol

It's finally finished! 10 weeks of work has culminated in an entire 1840s mens ensemble. I even managed to squeeze a few accessories in at the very end. If anything, I'm just even more impressed with the costume design and construction for The Muppets Christmas Carol. They didn't have to include all of the extra layers and accuracy, but they did! The final tally for the Victorian Gonzo ensemble is 11 major pieces: shirt, trousers, braces, waistcoat, stockings, shoes, cravat, tailcoat, overcoat, gloves, and hat. Though I have often heard exclamations over how many layers women wore in the 19th century along with the myth of how difficult that must of been, we can't ignore that men wore a similar number! This is a winter ensemble with the overcoat, but that's the only additional garment for the weather- otherwise changes would have been made to the textiles and construction techniques to deal with heat. While this project was aimed at 1842, the year that Charles Dickens was working on A Christmas Carol, the basic construction of the many pieces holds fast for quite a few years either direction. Sewing machines begin to take over in the coming years, but it's a long time before the techniques change to fully accommodate the new technology. Thanks to ‪@AbbyCox‬ for the camera work and chaos Shirt cotton broadcloth: https://www.dharmatrading.com/ Waistcoat check silk taffeta: https://prismsilks.com/ Trouser tartan wool: https://www.thehistoricalfabricstore.... Tailcoat wool coating: https://www.moodfabrics.com/ Overcoat wool broadcloth: https://burnleyandtrowbridge.com/ Linen canvas: https://www.macculloch-wallis.co.uk/ Cravat silk: https://camellucci.com/ Buttons: https://burnleyandtrowbridge.com/coll... Glove leather "Maroquin": https://www.rmleathersupply.com/ Hat capeline: https://www.judithm.com/ Met Museum Fashion Plates: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/librari... NYPL: https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/ Socials Instagram:   / silk_and_buckram   Twitch:   / nicolerudolph   Tiktok:   / nicole_rudolph   Patreon:   / nicolerudolph   🎶Music via Epidemic Sound (https://www.epidemicsound.com) 00:00 How it Started 03:46 Research Process 07:40 Finding Supplies 09:48 Just Keep Sewing 14:54 Dressing 20:51 Chaos