My First "Historical" and movie Costumes I ever made part 1

Well I wouldn't call them historically accurate, not at all. But they are somewhere along those lines.
My first costume
Earlier this year I entered a contest just for fun and sewing practice. The contest called for you to make a garment based on a costume from a movie using the company's patterns. As a lover of movies and movie costume I just had to give it a go.

The movie I chose was Moulin Rouge. It one of my favorites, and I chose my favorite costume that Satine wore. Her grey walking gown, It was only on screen for a few minutes but I love it. Every time I watch Moulin Rogue I fall in love with it.

My version isn't exactly like that but it's close enough to were I placed runner up in the contest. From what I could tell cause as hard as I tried I really couldn't find much information on the dress. I figured it was made of wool and velvet, neither one of those fabric were in my budget. I went for a grey suiting fabric that I found on sale. It was light weight and easy to work with, this was my first time working with a costume pattern and making a costume of any sort. 

the pattern I used

I used the skirt pattern as instructed, I only re-sized it, I had to go up a size, my backside is a little larger then the size of the pattern. But for the Jacket I had to do some reworking. I had to crop it and rework the sleeves.

There was some problems and issues but I was happy with how it can out. I wish took more pictures of the making of it. at the time I wan't into really blogging about my pain. It was a learning experience that I enjoyed and jumped started my love of making costumes not just admiring them.