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Originally Posted by Okami
I'm african and my hair is short and curly. I'm kind of interested in that victorian look.
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Oh dear...
Brother, unless you are going for irony, I would try something else. With the mention of your hair, looking to later eras could do a lot for you especially from 20s all the way to the late 80s.
With all the possibilities, I could see you as an Oscar Micheaux in training, a poet living out the last of the Harlem Renaissance, a Tuskegee pilot championing the Double V campaign, a rude boy or a mod, even as a backup Ray Sexgang, Jean Beauvoir, DH Peligro or Eddie from UK Decay.
However, if you are absolutely insistent upon the done to death and culturally biased against us cliche that is Victoriana, try something that hasn't been seen before (i.e. abolitionist, horribly mangled child worker, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Dred Scott, mob victim, asylum escapee). And a warning too: Unless you are proficient with sewing or have a fat wallet, this will cost you big time in terms of material, patterns and yardage.
Really, just make something that has a sense of irony AND originality to set you apart from the cookie cutter dark aristocrats who never fail to receive compliments on their stuff even though they all look the same.