Hmm, I'll just recount my own plans and see if anything good comes of it. Once I get some money, I'm getting some colored spectacles (hopefully some shades with circular green lenses), and some cheap goggles. I'm currently debating whether to get the cheap motorcycle/aviator style goggles (with the flat, angular lenses), or the raver/welder style goggles (with round lenses and curved eyecups). I want some cheap mass-produced ones that I can modify and wear around, since I doubt they'll be SO cheap that I can't actually wear them. There's also a really nice compacting telescope with a leather case on the Gentleman's Emporium (
cough). Now that I think of it, there are a few more items there I'd like to pick up soon...
As for stuff to make for myself, I plan to get some cheap leather, either by itself or off some cheap old clothes. And a few cheap magnifying glasses. And then I'm making my OWN goggles, which likely will be too fragile to put to practical use (ie mainly decorative). I have everything else needed to make goggles, like spraypaint, sewing stuff, even some punch-based metal snaps, just need leather and some lenses -- the magnifying lenses won't be the actual goggle lenses, they'll be attached on little arms. I'm also planning to get a decent soldering kit so that I might make some gadgety-looking stuff.
I already have a pocketwatch and a compass that I bought recently... All of the clothes I want are online, I'm not really willing to spend so much for clothes I can't try on beforehand. I don't trust my meager sewing sills enough to try and make non-costume clothing without a sewing machine, so making clothes myself is, at the moment, not an option. I'm also in the market for a cheap, worn top-hat and a cheap vest, but again that's something I'd have to go out and by in person, which would require I get a friend to drive me around and pay for gas while searching for thrift stores...
Hopefully there's some sensible suggestions up there!
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