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[snoopeasystreet]

Steampunk looks like what happens when nerds try to turn history into fan fiction.

 

[The Technomancer]

Steampunk looks like what happens when nerds try to turn history into fan fiction.

Yeah, its basically that.

 

[G.O.O.]

Fedora bis.

I've seen steampunk clothing on average joes. It looks bad. Really bad.

 

[SiegfriedFM]

Those coats look great, a friend has a similar one (although the double buttons are fake). Not steampunk at all though. Start adding random metal components on top of them, then we're talking.

 

[jon bones]

*please come to the US.*

it already left

 

[Alx]

Only a select few can pull off that look.

I don't think so (except for the white collar, that looks a bit gaudy). It's inspired from military design, that is meant to look good on almost anybody. Being strict and quite functional gives those clothes their own aesthetics, that doesn't depend as much on the shape of the body wearing them.

 

[Deleted member 10571]

*and Germany*

anything that brings back top hats, bowlers and actual clothing is okay in my book.

 

[Combichristoffersen]

It's a cool look as long as you put the effort into actually making it look good, but yeah, old news are old.

 

[Salvadora]

It's a cool look as long as you put the effort into actually making it look good, but yeah, old news are old.

What's old about it? It isn't saying that steampunk is a new style, just that major retailers will stock the style and it's becoming very popular in the fashion industry.

 

[CountAntonius]

And we thought fedoras were bad. Here come the top hats.

 

[Valnen]

Don't care what anyone says, this guy looks awesome.

 

[Combichristoffersen]

What's old about it? It isn't saying that steampunk is a new style, just that major retailers will stock the style and it's becoming very popular in the fashion industry.

Steampunk fashion came around and more or less died years ago. I don't know if it's the paper reporting the news or the UK fashion industry who's to blame here, but someone's rather LTTP.

 

[Polari]

Some fashionistas have been sniffy: one dismissed steampunk as "what happens when goths discover brown".

Bingo.

 

[akira28]

Was it mainstream in the US?

it was known enough to become a meme and something to be made fun of.

also...I'm not quite sure it's a 'major fashion trend' even today.

 

[Salvadora]

Steampunk fashion came around and more or less died years ago. I don't know if it's the paper reporting the news or the UK fashion industry who's to blame here, but someone's rather LTTP.

Was it a major fashion trend or people wearing it at an anime convention?

 

[diamount]

I don't see the steampunk part of it, 18th-19th century clothing aside. Where are the steam-magnified monocles?

 

[shuri]

The entire article feels more like a promo for Ibm's trend predicting engine :S

 

[Funky Papa]

The entire article feels more like a promo for Ibm's trend predicting engine :S

They pretty much regurgitated an IBM PR/article and passed it as journalism

http://asmarterplanet.com/blog/2013/01/22562.html
http://www.ibm.com/analytics/us/en/conversations/social-sentiment.html

 

[Salvadora]

 

[relik]

Steampunk is dead. It's all about Cheadlepunk these days.

 

[Deified Data]

It's a cool look as long as you put the effort into actually making it look good, but yeah, old news are old.

For conventions, you mean. A cool look for conventions.

 

[Combichristoffersen]

Was it a major fashion trend or people wearing it at an anime convention?

It wasn't a major fashion trend then and whatever that rag believes it's not gonna be a big fashion trend now. The steampunk look is just a tad too out there to become huge.

For conventions, you mean. A cool look for conventions.

It looks good wherever you're sporting it as long as you actually put the time, money and effort into making it look good.

 

[Chinner]

steampunk more like....shitpunk.

heh

 

[NoRéN]

*please come to the US.*

The last thing we need are overweight people spilling out of their Victorian corsets.

 

[Funky Papa]

The last thing we need are overweight people spilling out of their Victorian corsets.

Well, too late.

 

[Kwixotik]

I'm not really feeling it. Steampunk is cosplay tier.

 

[Deified Data]

China Mieville's New Crobuzon series is the only manifestation of steampunk I've seen with an ethos other than looking "cool".

 

[The Technomancer]

The last thing we need are overweight people spilling out of their Victorian corsets.

Worst part of working at a Renaissance Faire

 

[Horseticuffs]

Stream-work smartphones here we come, am I right fellas? All we'll need is two brawny lads to work the bellows!

 

[NoRéN]

Worst part of working at a Renaissance Faire

First time I went to one I was so excited. Then I got there and looked around and the excitement disappeared.

I'm a bit disappointed with myself. I just got what's going on with your avatar.

 

[Jitters]

I wish everyone wore it. I wouldn't want to be the one weird guy.

 

[Amory]

:-/

kinda...lame. They're all so certain they look cool, too.

 

[Brobzoid]

etsy vindicated.

 

[MistakenMobius]

time to invest in that Romain Jerome watch

 

[Blair]

Anyone from uk want to help me make a kickstarter for a custom goggles online retailer? We gonna EAT!

 

[Rubbish King]

This is the only steampunk i know

 

[Incontinentia Buttocks]

Some fashionistas have been sniffy: one dismissed steampunk as "what happens when goths discover brown".

I love that line.

 

[Mrs. Manky]

China Mieville's New Crobuzon series is the only manifestation of steampunk I've seen with an ethos other than looking "cool".

That's because Mieville's a real life socialist. So he puts the punk into the steampunk.

The majority of the cosplay types are dressing as Lord Copperbottom-Smythe the Adventurer or Doktor Heimlichmanuever the Mad Scientist.

 

[Dresden]

Gross. Steampunk is horrible in general.

 

[The Technomancer]

First time I went to one I was so excited. Then I got there and looked around and the excitement disappeared.

Working at one of the biggest Renaissance Faires in the country is basically the best job I've ever had, but it was a really enormous and well done place, and the...smaller ones I've seen in other places have always seemed lackluster.

 

[K.Sabot]

No...

NOOOOOOOOOOOO.

 

[Jitters]

What would be cooler, everyone in the world wearing steampunk stuff or dressing like they are from Final Fantasy?

 

[Salsa]

you did it will smith

 

[highrider]

In public this fashion doesn't work, because it requires an aesthetic context around it that just doesn't exist anymore. It looks out of place alongside modern architecture and modern design. It can be cool looking in a vacuum though.

.

 

[NoRéN]

Working at one of the biggest Renaissance Faires in the country is basically the best job I've ever had, but it was a really enormous and well done place, and the...smaller ones I've seen in other places have always seemed lackluster.

I've only been to one so I wouldn't know how it would compare. It was the one here in southern California, L.A. specifically.

 

[Deified Data]

This is the only steampunk i know

Whalepunk, technically.

 

[NoRéN]

What would be cooler, everyone in the world wearing steampunk stuff or dressing like they are from Final Fantasy?

I would prefer the futuristic victorian stuff the pro-augs wear in Deus Ex Human Revolution.

 

[Amory]

What would be cooler, everyone in the world wearing steampunk stuff or dressing like they are from Final Fantasy?

The end of the world would literally be better than either of those scenarios.

 

[GDGF]

Britain is pretty late to the party.

 

[Jitters]

The end of the world would literally be better than either of those scenarios.

Who doesn't like zippers?