Steampunking Your Wedding Dress

If you know what the title of this article means, you've probably already been busily punching grommet holes into your bodice all afternoon and are just taking a break to let your leather aviator hat air out. If not, you've got some reading to do. Steampunk dress is a genre of literature and film that uses alternate timelines. As a rule, stories take place in a Victorian world with some extremely cool accessories, like steam-powered robots and Jules Verne submarines and anything awesome

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Steampunk Accessories And Steampunk Clothing

Steampunk is about a lot more than Victorian era clothing, brass watches, and industrial goggles. It offers followers a way to express their individuality and style in a sense that other more popular genres fail at. By choosing to wear various steampunk accessories and steampunk clothing, it is possible to give off an aura of being in touch with the past whilst remaining ultra modern. Steampunk fashion is not one that is casual or unsophisticated, in fact it embodies certain traits that make

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Steampunk Costume Ideas

The short definition of Steampunk is: Victorian science fiction. A slightly longer definition is: what the world would have looked like if the technical revolution had arrived a little earlier. We have steam-powered machines and robots, Victorian culture and adventurers and explorers, both male and female. Think "Wild, Wild West", think "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen", think "Time Machine" and think Jules Verne. There is a small but strong Steampunk costumes

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Steampunk Costumes: True Costumes or New Styles?

Cyberpunk and Steampunk are frequently mistakenly associated with each other. Whereas they do have an influence on each other and share like-minded admirers, Steampunk is actually an entirely separate movement. Of the two, Steampunk is more authoritarian in nature and representative of a world that that passes itself off as utopia; when in reality, is ruled under strict laws and regulations by the powers that be. That being said... Steampunk costumes as a fashion fad look like exactly what they

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