Fashion Design: Steampunk

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Steampunk is everywhere all of a sudden. It's like grunge in 1991. Crazy.

[LMNO]

Actually, I'm amazed it's still around.  I remember seeing it 6 years ago in the clubs.

I suppose it's finally coming above ground, which means you will soon be able to find it in Macy's...

[Suu]

A lot of places have already started with the Victorian/Edwardian revival. If they start making real corsets fully fashionable again though, I'm totally in.

[Cain]

If corsets become fashionable again, fuck it, I'm in.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Actually, I'm amazed it's still around.  I remember seeing it 6 years ago in the clubs.

I suppose it's finally coming above ground, which means you will soon be able to find it in Macy's...

That's exactly what I mean by grunge in 1991... 

1991 was when designers and news media caught onto the "grunge scene" and it started appearing as a fashion statement in department store windows. By then it had been around forever and everyone IN the "scene" was already over it.

[B_M_W]

I just think the traditionalist, nostaglist and craftsperson in me finds steampunk aesthetically pleasing on a deep level. The whole building of technology by hand and the skill required as opposed to the largely uniform machine assembly lines of today....its interesting and fullfilling things. I like making things, and I take pride in a project well done. I also like the look of brass, and minimalism, and I'm a bit old fashioned about some things.

You get the idea.

[AFK]

I've never really been one to get into fashion stuff.  I kind of happened into the grunge thing by accident because in my neck of the woods it was already pretty common to wear flannel and denim, cause it is pretty comfortable and can keep one warm.  In fact, my non-professional/work attire probably still falls into that arbitrary genre.  Basically I'm all about anything I can get for cheap.  Maybe I can start a new fad.  Thriftpunk.   

[LMNO]

I just think the traditionalist, nostaglist and craftsperson in me finds steampunk aesthetically pleasing on a deep level. The whole building of technology by hand and the skill required as opposed to the largely uniform machine assembly lines of today....its interesting and fullfilling things. I like making things, and I take pride in a project well done. I also like the look of brass, and minimalism, and I'm a bit old fashioned about some things.

You get the idea.

I get ya.  I'm not opposed to the steampunk ideal, I just worry about what it will turn into when commercialized.

[Cain]

It will turn into 18 year old girls in corsets in clubs.

[LMNO]

I thought goth already took care of that.



Not that I'm complaining, mind you.

[Cain]

Yeah, but then I'd have to go to a goth club.

No goth clubs around here.

[B_M_W]

I just think the traditionalist, nostaglist and craftsperson in me finds steampunk aesthetically pleasing on a deep level. The whole building of technology by hand and the skill required as opposed to the largely uniform machine assembly lines of today....its interesting and fullfilling things. I like making things, and I take pride in a project well done. I also like the look of brass, and minimalism, and I'm a bit old fashioned about some things.

You get the idea.

I get ya.  I'm not opposed to the steampunk ideal, I just worry about what it will turn into when commercialized.

Then we can start using the phrase "Steampunk is dead!"

[Cain]

Nazi steampunks fuck off?

[LMNO]

"I was into Steampunk before it was cool!"
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[Jasper]

It's almost like society is starting to think scientific things are COOL.



(I know Steampunk isn't strictly scientific, but it's science-themed.)