Elizabethan Doublet... but make that fabulous too! [CC]

[@AshLG]

This is so hecking joyous and the final ensemble is INCREDIBLE. Worth every minute of endless endless matching stripes. It looks so good!

[@TheMetatronGirl]

It’s so lovely to have representation such as yourself! The finished ensemble is truly fab. I feel very much the same about my gender as you described yours, just more toward the female “side”, and is also a subject I could go on for hours speaking or learning about. My other passion, rarely shared by others, is historical needlework. Embroidery, knitting, tatting, crochet, macrame, knot work, needle lace… I’ve likely dedicated a couple of years to rabbit holes over my nearly 47 years of breathing. Looking forward to seeing your next project. Love, light, and blessings to you and yours.

[@Tbehartoo]

This was brilliant! Loved seeing how much work you put into this even when those stripes were driving you crazy. Thanks for sharing this with me.

[@Mommamacnz]

Absolutely stunning and well worth the pain of making stripes and pattern matching.

[@justsomeone5658]

it looks like a LOT of work, but turned out really quite fabulous! 👍🏻 love both the trunk hose and the doublet and especially the pride inspiration 🏳️‍🌈 much love from germany ☺️

[@emeraldh80]

those chevrons turned out SO WELL!!!

[@MonaSkovJensen]

I love how this turned out!!!! Loved listening to you talking about gender and nonbinary.

[@ragnkja]

I don’t currently have any subjects that I’m likely to talk on and on about, partly because I’ve been shamed too many times in the past for going on and on about my special interests, but I regularly gravitate towards various bits of mathematics, especially number theory, which isn’t something most people around me tend to appreciate nearly as much as I do.

[@mariebray9831]

It's Non-Euclidian geometry I love.

[@unnwean]

I'd listen to you! I love listening about mathematics.

[@rachelboersma-plug9482]

Another member of the horizontal buttonhole club, I see 👍 "Before I even started sewing, I was already done with it." I fully sympathise with that statement. Small aesthetic/sensory pleasures: the lovely and appropriate colours of the flowers in your intro; the crisp cutting noises, and the way your bias tape maker coordinates with your ironing board cover. Deliberate or serendipitous, I can't always tell, but I love it. Please keep up the good work.

[@brionygniechwitz9692]

Fabulous indeed! Thank you for the video and the inspiration!

[@lizzyrbits1283]

I feel you on the having a bunch of things I am deeply into! I hyperfocus and love chatting about my various things, so chances are I have something to chat about with basically everyone! Haha literally ask me anything!

[@TheMetatronGirl]

Same! Perhaps our “things” are just good rabbit holes? 😂

[@playme129]

Hello Gilbert, Fantastic! All that matching up is so worth the effort. The outcome is elegant. As far as I'm concerned, you can be as fluid and flexible or as static in your gender as suits you. I respect you for your sewing skills an just being you.

[@khaxjc1]

I so greatly appreciated your description of gender queer. Ive found some explanations too clinical or clunky. This was just right. I also appreciate your linking for those after more info. I recently lost 3 weeks to health issues and even before that I was struggling with motivation for just about everything. The more I struggle the more incapable I feel. Watching others create has been working to inspire me and get the batteries charged up to actually want to do. The last couple days I managed some modest projects and it means alot. So thank you for taking the time to share your projects with us. The work with pattern matching and the stripes is seriously impressive as is the whole piece. I would really love to see the outfit shown off in a photoshoot or such. p.s. I very much agree there is too much out there that is of interest and I want to research it all.

[@canucknancy4257]

All that wonderful stripiness. It looks amazing! Thanks for sharing your fabulous project.

[@rd6203]

Mmmm! Sooo good! Love that green fabric! Love the striping and the pattern matching is so satisfying! Love the lace! And the full ensemble is 😘! SO GOOD! 💚💜

[@catherinejustcatherine1778]

An engaging and informative video. Thank you so much for sharing information and your process with us. As the thumbnail shows, the outfit is wonderful. I think your stitch shirt is beautiful.

[@esmecat]

amazing, and you looked really lovely in it

[@AndersWatches]

My pet subject is Dragon Age 😅 especially mages within Thedas. Also a week today is my top surgery, wish me luck for the teet yeet :D I had wondered why gender criticals were using the genderqueer colours, and now it makes sense. Pretty gross of them to co-opt a symbol of suffrage to display their hate, but then again everything they do is gross. Great video as always!

[@khaxjc1]

Good luck with the surgery! Hope everything goes smoothly. Both during, recovery, the check in, and all of that. May every step be smooth sailing.

[@AndersWatches]

@@khaxjc1 thank you!

[@Dolthalion]

Good luck with your top surgery! I hope everything goes well and you heal well and quickly and it brings you the gender euphoria you deserve!

[@KacyBurchfield]

That pattern matching is so satisfying! This is a beautiful doublet.

[@indiabilly]

You made that very complicated design look easy and it looks brilliant xx

[@escapismfetishism2689]

I'm so excited I stumbled over your channel, I love your ideas and your vibe.

[@p0etrygh0st]

I think it is beautiful

[@veronica5896]

You look totally Fabolous! And the video was great, you are a pleasure to watch!

[@Lic021]

omg. drawing the lines ON THE PATTERN to match them up???? that's genius!

[@bunhelsingslegacy3549]

I LOVE how the stripes on the doublet came out, the chevron's gorgeous and everything's fabulous. And your hair looks so pretty like that! I have too many hobbies (literally, my house has stuff crammed everywhere for all my crafts) but I guess the ones I talk about most right now are mead and winemaking, bunnies, bees, sourdough, historical and hand sewing, medieval armour and combat, and gardening... but I'll also talk anyone's ear off who will sit still long enough about Chevettes (silly little 1980's compact car) and classic cars, auto bodywork, crocheting, beadwork, baking, woodworking, preserves, drywalling, candlemaking and horses... and I'm set to get into tablet weaving and embroidery and I want a spinning wheel because I must try doing aLL Of ThE THinNGs. Except knitting and cross-stitch, because I can't count while I do.

[@marybull3715]

Love the video, love the outfit, and enjoyed all your chat sewing and otherwise. There is so much to learn, I too have several passions, and can fall down research rabbit holes far too easily current one is Family tree research.

[@celineypie]

The doublet came out great 😍 And the period hairdo was awesome, too. - love from a nonbinary/genderfluid viewer

[@yvonneburns2786]

I use the word queer a lot, only in the leerie way( strange, spooky,heebeegeebees, etc), the feather boa,though fab as it is, but would've been better if it was a period hat with fab coloured feathers trailing down the back, maybe consider it for a future project? And boots of course!

[@selkiemorien9006]

A very fetching outfit and it fits you very well - the hard work paid off! It's good you managed to push through, even if it isn't perfect (what is in life?) and you struggled with it. Something like that usually does wonders for ones confidence :) My number one rabbithole are changes in history (and modern day too), what brought them on - be it fashion, technology etc. and how they impacted society. But there is so many interesting things and a lot of them can keep me occupied for a long time.

[@coreygilles847]

I love it! You did such a fabulous job!

[@camib2864]

I have many lovely rabbits to chase and I try to keep them contained mostly because the neurotypicals do not understand. This whole look is lovely especially when you wore the entire thing with all the purple flowers.

[@ragnkja]

You shouldn’t have to keep your special interests contained just because neurotypicals don’t understand the joy that a special interest can give you.

[@patriciaadams7965]

My first thought was... those patterns won't go together... yet they do and so wonderfully.

[@tracieeaton1082]

My favourite or pet subject to talk about is Antique cook books, the recipes they contain that I also cook and the Authors of said books. I could rabbit on for hours about everything that is associated with them. Your outfit is, in a word, Fabulous! Do you, Gilbert. I have 9 kids and 3 of them are Gay and 1 is non binary. As I said to them, make no apologies for who you are and what makes you happy. Life is too short.

[@theplussizecostumer]

Fabulous!

[@amyjanefrater1447]

So handsome! It creates a complete story with the striped hose. The doublet is a classic look, in the same way that every man looks good in a suit. It would work in your daily life with well-fitting pants and accessories to match your gender mood (sorry, don't know to call it!) Whatever, you look great in your doublet. Very interesting to watch your creative process. My rabbit hole is Mormonism - traditional Latter Day Saints, off-shoots, pro, anti, former, preppers, ex-communications, apostates, fashion, food, missionaries, polygamy, sealings, temple ordinances, blessings, recommends, free masonry, secret combinations, translated beings, thin veils, Church of the Firstborn, lineage, pioneers, converts, scriptures, stones in hats, papyri, plates, treasure digging, apostles, prophets, gods & planets, historical controversies, race theories, gender roles, gender morality, leadership, politics, finances. The more I learn about it, the better I understand my own faith (not a Mormon).

[@unnwean]

The final outfit is fabulous and I love your video, it's chill and informative. I enjoy your explanation of your gender. It also shows why I don't identify as genderqueer (shame, the flag has the best colours). I don't feel like I'm queering the experience or the expresion, I don't feel like the shape of my gender doesn't fit the shape of the social expectation hole. I don't have anything to grab and try to push it through the norms. It seems like people have this blocks and I have just one big package of gender void. :D I'm agender af.

[@AnnaCMeyer]

I'm a bit of a polymath, so I have several topics that can get my husband and children to roll their eyes and say "Mom's on one of her tangents again." Including but not limited to: literature, history, maths, fashion, food, racial and gender equality. I also have a brain that makes connections between seemingly unrelated bits of knowledge. Thank you, too, for the explanation of genderqueer. I'm a female-identifying woman, but intellectually and emotionally, I tend more toward stereotypically masculine patterns.

[@craftyviking]

I have many rabbit holes I fall into, especially late at night. Like how to organize and shit (if I read about it I don't have to do it right?) Geology is a random one that catches me often. And old medical herbs and stuff. Like let me tell you about how great stinging nettle is....

[@unnwean]

Ok, so other than my PhD subject and stuff, it's misconception about witchhunt in modern fantasy literature and how it affects our perception of the past, English folk ballads and translations of literature. I also love to fall into little pet topics holes, like those two weeks four years ago, when I've read everything about keeping exotic spiders at home, or like the phase for evolution of crocodileans.

[@eeyoreismyspiritanimal8761]

Dearest Gilbert,I have never had an ad blocker nor do I skip through ads so that the people I'm subscribed to, as the only thing as a disabled person on a U.S. government check, which means I've no way of supporting the creaters I love. I never got an ad shown to me... I wish this is fixed in the future.

[@Eruvadhril]

I feel your frustration regarding the suffragette colours being co-opted as a hate symbol. I've been working on a costume with a similar theme, and I've added "queer pride flag face-masks" to the ensemble for that very reason.

[@nanettebromley8843]

They came out brilliantly. I could see the amount of work that went into the outfit. I raise my mug of tea to you with pattern matching. I dont have the patience for it. Saw the green striped fabric and thought regency ish dress for myself (if I can find it or similar) My current rabbit holes are all fibre/fabric related. Weaving on rigid heddle looms, wish I had the space for vertical loom. Sewing historical ish outfits (need new for Jorvik viking festival and Whitby Goth). crochet, embroidery and any other fibre chaos I can get into. Wheelchair user, bi yorkshire female. Whose partner is genderfluid. 🌈🧵🪡🏳‍🌈

[@sgussy]

How great ! Great video