Steampunk fashion. Discussion, praise, sneering etc

[Balbi]

I'm confused at the line between cosplaying goths, regular goths and some steampunk stuff. Some of it looks really stylish, but others look like they've narrowly escaped an explosion in a watchmakers

I ask because i'm going to a masque ball at the end of the month, and it's a steampunk themed thing. So far i've got;

1 pair of army boots.

White shirt, polished boots and pinstripe trousers tucked into boots? I dunno.

 

[Madusa]

what's steampunk?

 

[Balbi]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

i only really know steampunk as a genra akin to with magitek

i'd gess that coat with big leather gloves and goggles would be about right ... got to be a bit eingineerery

 

[killer b]

balbi - sounds cool enough, but that just sounds like period dress - don't you need some modern twist chucked in too?

 

[isitme]

steampunk is awesome cos it doesn't exist so no fat or ugly people can be steampunk, you just pick really hot women who are well dressed and say that they are steampunks

 

[Balbi]

Aye, some sort of victorian modern type stuff. Blade Runner powered by steam engines.

I'm slightly confused, and not helped by the various pictures of silly bastards looking very silly.

 

[butchersapron]

To answer the thread title - not very. At all.

 

[Geri]

What kind of fucking freaks would organise a ball with a steampunk theme?

 

[Balbi]

What kind of fucking freaks would organise a ball with a steampunk theme?

The kind who wouldn't invite an abrasive fucking freak like yourself, obviously.

 

[Diamond]

It is not cool. In fact I reckon steampunk is a total creative dead end in general, never mind the clothes.

 

[Balbi]

This however, is very nice.

 

[butchersapron]

It's like 4 Non Blondes isn't it - dreads with top hats, cyber-fagin oh god.

 

[DotCommunist]

as a fashion stance I am meh, but as a literary style I am YAY

http://coilhouse.net/category/steampunk/

 

[Madusa]

ahh, loads of the kids in The Tribe were like that, Balbs. You should watch a couple of episodes of The Tribe to get some ideas.

 

[Balbi]

ahh, loads of the kids in The Tribe were like that, Balbs. You should watch a couple of episodes of The Tribe to get some ideas.

Shouldn't you be cleaning your fanny for tomorrow?

 

[DotCommunist]

ahh, loads of the kids in The Tribe were like that, Balbs. You should watch a couple of episodes of The Tribe to get some ideas.

That's post apocalypse chic, which ties with Steampunk (the line is blurry) but isn't strictly steampunk

imo

 

[Madusa]

Shouldn't you be cleaning your fanny for tomorrow?

Balbi!

 

[DotCommunist]

There is a sale on feather dusters at the mo.

 

[Madusa]

There is a sale on feather dusters at the mo.

no need. it's been regularly getting a dusting down, thanks for your concern, sweets.

 

[Clair De Lune]

I think some of the womens clothes are well cool.
This photo made me lol though http://www.edopter.com/images_user/ideas/200903/b4yD76

 

[dodgepot]

no

 

[FridgeMagnet]

"Steampunk fashion" almost without exception misses the point; pretty much like "cyberpunk fashion" actually though not nearly as bad (that would be impossible). Some of it is simply wrong, like anything post apocalyptic, and most of it is just Victorian clothing with extra springs and dials and goggles.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

It is not cool. In fact I reckon steampunk is a total creative dead end in general, never mind the clothes.

I blame Cory Doctorow.

 

[feyr]

I'm confused at the line between cosplaying goths, regular goths and some steampunk stuff. Some of it looks really stylish, but others look like they've narrowly escaped an explosion in a watchmakers

I ask because i'm going to a masque ball at the end of the month, and it's a steampunk themed thing. So far i've got;

1 pair of army boots.

White shirt, polished boots and pinstripe trousers tucked into boots? I dunno.

if it were me, i'd wear my bill bailey steampunk tshirt, a waistcoat, trousers in polished boots, probably a studded belt and a top hat. maybe a clock chain or similar if i was feeling silly thats what i wore for a fancy dress party a few months ago, where the theme was past and present.

 

[DotCommunist]

The must have steampunk sidearm accessory.

 

[Diamond]

I blame Cory Doctorow.

Never heard of him. If he's into cyberpunk/steampunk, that can only be a good thing.

The only creative effort involving steampunk that has ever impressed me and broken through the generalised "no, this is stupid Victorian nostalgia for a bygone mythology and power we once had and as such is dead end suspect bullshit" reaction I've always had against it was one of the storylines from Nemesis the Warlock which involves a Victorian England that never lost its power and now rules the world.

Except I seem to remember that there was a good deal of knowing "this is what all the British right-wing would really want" irony in it.

I seem to remember Torquemada possibly being a prominent member of the state, which if you know anything about Nemesis the Warlock indicates that even the writers held the universe they had created in a degree of contempt.

Actually, I think I may be wrong about that. The Victorian England lot were a bunch of aliens who had aped Victorian England's style through radio broadcasts.

 

[longdog]

Anything that gives you an excuse to wear welding goggles in the street is cool with me

Actually the whole steam/cyber-punk thing is all based on a faulty premise.

Steampunk ignores the effect technology inevitably has on fashion and cyberpunk misses the point that the 'high tech low life' would probably spend most of their time sitting in front of their computers in their Matalan pants and a pizza stained Primark t-shirt.

 

[killer b]

you are the true cyberpunk, doggy.

 

[longdog]

Nah... I've just watched The Matrix too many times