Alek's Piloting Jacket

This is a fan-costume from Scott Westerfeld's amazing novel, Leviathan! [link]

Anyway, I had always thought that Alek's piloting jacket was really awesome, as drawn by Keith Thompson. So I decided to make it. I drafted the pattern myself, so it doesn't really look quite right. I think that I might fix the back sometime, by tacking the underlay to the lining seperately, because the pleats don't lay quite right, and I could never find any metal studs to put there either.

It's made of fake leather (like I could afford real leather XD), and lined in red satin (because Alek is a prince, after all...) I'm not totally sure if the colours are how they should be, I think that in the colour illustrations the jacket might be blue, but I made it brown and red. It photographed oddly, though, with the brown a bit more green than it is in real life, and the red slightly more pinkish... It was sewn by machine and hand, and it took me about four days of straight work, which included drafting and fitting the pattern, over Spring Break. Unfortunately, I only got to wear it a couple of times because it's too hot here in the South, even in late March. XD