![]() As you might guess, a major hallmark of Steampunk is steam power more modern vehicles and devices are often recreated using cruder methods of the time, including clockworks, steam power, and electricity in tubes and bulbs. This past originally centered around the Victorian era of England, but has expanded to potentially include the Edwardian era as well as fashions from abroad, particularly the United States, as well as alternate worlds that follow the Steampunk aesthetic. Anyway.For those unfamiliar with the term, Steampunk is a both an actual successor of sorts and a spiritual predecessor to Cyberpunk, but where the latter draws from visions of a dystopian and highly technological future, Steampunk draws from the past, or rather a re-imagined past. The Erte, no surprise, was like $5,400 and the Victorian was $650. I actually thought about asking to buy the Victorian until I saw the prices. I went into a crummy little beads and notions store in downtown LA fashion district Tuesday and in their backroom, I spied an original late 19th century print of three ladies sitting in a parlor and I did a silent "Squeeeee!!!!" They had several framed prints, including an original Erte print, that were all for sale. I LOVE that third pic of the blue ballgown! The painting technique is amazing! It's as though you could reach out and touch the taffeta and hear it rustle!Īll of these pics are incredible! What a library! I can't say which I like better! whatever percentages that all works out to! And I have 6 yards of mint green fabric that I'm still thinking what I could do with that. ![]() ![]() no, that's not right cuz there's a quarter brown too, so. ![]() Well, it's about half cream, half white and. I think that's one of the reasons I was so drawn to "steampunk."īut, I'm in the process of making a white skirt and jacket right now. anyway! I've just always worn a lot of black and brown naturally and really have to force myself to wear color. Color definitely has a place in all of this. And of course, in a steampunk setting, access to more vibrant chemical dyes, machine-woven patterned fabric and international trade all make it possible (indeed, likely) for a "steampunk outfit" to be more colorful, more vibrant, more intricate or highly decorated than even a period Victorian outfit.īecause of the largely monochromatic status of photography during this age, paintings and colored drawings are generally the easiest way to get a feel for the color of clothing, and these make remarkable references. Women's clothing especially was very colorful, and while men's clothing grew more somber as the decade progressed, they still found ways to keep things interesting. It can sometimes be misleading given that most of the photographic and film references for the 19th and early 20th centuries are either in sepia tone or grayscale, but in fact the Victorians and Edwardians were color-loving people. Steampunk is not brown, or black, or white, or gray, or any other single tone. I would like to take this moment to reassure everyone that this is not, in fact, the case. Recently I have noticed some people who have developed the mistaken impression that steampunk cannot have color (that it must be some kind of monochrome, like grayscale or brown), which has led to their second-guessing their wonderful, colorful, truly steampunk creations and outfits.
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