The Gun Counter

Weetabix wrote:Kommander and Aesop need to add pictures. /armchair commentator

I particularly want to see Aesop dressed up in all that er, finery.

Nah. You really don't. Some things can't be unseen.

For most of 20 years at The Original renfair, just about everything I wore I made. Except boots or shoes, a mug hook (which latter I could have made in 20 minutes, but it was easier to just buy one for $5), and the pewter mug that hung on it.
Before I owned a sewing machine, I constructed entire costumes with a tube of Shoe Goo, scissors, and two heavy books. The costumes still work fine, but after about a decade I went back and sewed through the Shoe Goo seams I originally pressed, just in case, but they're still holding. That crap will outlast your shoes.

Aseop touched on an interesting point there, shoemaking is so specialized as to be a totally different craft with a ton of extra tools. Nothing like telling someone you do leather craft as a hobby and having them ask you to make them shoes.