It's okay, I took a gravity induced blow to the head, took all my layout and design with it.
Still back to the princess gown, chop it off or hike it up. There aren't that many basic sewing forms out there. The dress on the cover, and cape, are in stretch velvet which is great, I sliced the hem and didn't even need to finish it.
As for bottoms the pants can be trimmed down, or just put two triangles together. The basic bikini is triangles of fabric, use a stretchy fabric. I'm vaguely familiar with steampunk but feel I'm something about it, what I've seen looks late 70s early 80s when there's a lot of horizontal ornamentation going on. Like a drafty reform dress.