Ideas often hit me while I’m laying in bed half-awake … I want the lady’s apron to be red with patches scattered all over. At first, I thought of buying Harry Potter patches to go with the Quidditch goggles. Then I wanted a Holyhead Harpies Quidditch team patch. Which I’d have to make.
If I’m making them, why not make ones of all kinds of faux things, a la the Miss Steampunk skirt? It could be multi-fandom … like Milliways and UNIT … then I thought Batwing Candlewax for some reason and figured, why not go really authentically steampunk and make up fake band names that are taken from Victorian novels? Such as …
Heathcliff and the Brooders
The Eyreites
Rosamond’s Many Charms
Death Not Divided
Little Father Time
Jude and the Obscures
The Brideheads
Bathsheba’s Seven Years
The Desperate Remedies
The Egdon Heaths
The Reddlemen
Eustacia’s Pagan Eyes
The Furze-Cutters
Shadwater Weir
The Quiet Woman
Tess and the Durbeyfields
Maiden No More
Angel Clare
The Mellstock Quire
The Wildfell Tenants
Villette and the Brettons
Lucy Snowe’s Secret
The Governesses
Acton Bell
The Madwoman in the Attic
The French Dancer’s Bastard
Cathy’s Ghost
Top Withens
The Foundlings
Lockwood’s Nightmare
I’m sure there are more. Gotta flip thru actual books for phrases. But this is a start. And, of course, I’m sure I’ll waste way more time designing patches than actually sewing up an apron.