Update

Did very little yesterday. There was shopping, and I found many cheap gold things to help to build a belt. Which is good. Must get to $2 shop and buy HUGE beads to complete it.
Cut out the skirt pieces - four trapezoids in 3 sizes. Plan is to french seam them, to save time and bloody stupidity. Brocade is very fray-y, and needs to be finished. What to line skirt waist in, to get good pleats? Hmm.
Still to do on the bodice: lacing rings (changed my mind again), prick stitching velvet trim, cotton tape over sleeve seams.
Pants of doom need button loops on legs, buttons and button holes on fly. I seem to have lost a button. Pants.