May 9 2008Is Steampunk Fashion The Next Big Trend?

The tophat and monocle are definitely the way to go, but I've found the only way to complete the outfit is with a comically large diaper and a bottle of bourbon. Oh, and maybe a cane for beating orphans. Orphans, and most of the goofballs pictured above.

Looks like someone watched Howl's Moving Castle too many times in a row. Can I ditch the steampunk idea and just dress up like Raz? He looked SO much better in unnecessary goggles.

haha, why is the prestige pictured here?

There's another word for this: "Vintage" Duh!

Hey, you're right; those chicks are hot, in the sense that they burned holes in my retinas with their galloping ugliness. I give Steampunk as anything more than an occasional art project a giant thumbs down. Just because you like a movie's esthetic shouldn't give you the impetus to style your everyday after it. I mean, I loved "Gladiator", but you don't see me running around dressed as a centurion, slave boy, or Roman emperor, at least when it's not Caligula night at the local gay club.

Anything that replaces pants worn around the knees is an improvement. Seriously, the size 100XL shorts is the worst fashion mistake since the powdered wig.

Why is Michael Caine up there?

Steampunk as a "Make new gadgets look like they're old" thing was kinda cool. The star wars steam punk was a little overboard, but still alright. But now its just gotten way out of hand. Although the steampunk taxidermy was still by far the worst.

Michael Caine should be included in every post...who doesn't like Michael Caine? "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" anyone?

And Geekologie guy, adding pictures from movies doesn't really add anything to your point, just FYI.

And oh, SlowMonkey, I agree with you on the whole "wearing your pants down at your knees" thing. That's not fashion, in my opinion, it's buying the wrong size which makes one look like a complete idiot.
So yippee for pants that fit properly.

You know, after Steampunk, we should bring back the Libertine style. That's right, powdered wigs, high heeled shoes with bigass buckles, and syphillis. We've already got syphillis making a comeback, might as well roll with it. I'll be reading my Marquis de Sade again so I can have the "total" Libertine look.

i'd love to see a kid wear that to school and magically not get his ass handed to him for doing so. then again, i think i'd be the one kicking his ass before he even made to the school!!

c-crap.... I think the nerdy guy's red jacket in the first pic is.....
c-c-cool....*shudder*
I don't think he's cool, just his jacket. Got it?

Steamboy anyone?

:D :D

I like steampunk fashion. There are a ton of cool laptops, mice, motorcycles etc out there.

Just google Steampunk.

Steampunk....it's for ugly people.
Ugly people that want to punish their parents for making them ugly.

wow dude you totally got me with the "smoking-hot" chicks...

Two Project Runway contestants last year actually turned out a steampunk overcoat and trousers. Actually several of Jillians outfits were steampunkish. I doubt thats the word she would associate with it though.

do you notice that the geekologie writer thinks the white people look like shit but the black folks look stylish. why is that, i wonder? maybe because that is exactly how real life usually is.

The Maker Faire in the bay area last week was swarming with Steampunk yahoos. Everywhere I looked, an old timey engineer and his full bosomed wench, probably sporting a monocle or some goggles -- yknow, because they've just come from their secret laboratory where they were welding some brass shit to a wheelchair. I liken this to REN FAIRE.

Steampunk is HOT, when done right and worn by hot people.

Just because some fools don't know how to dress themselves even when *not* in character, doesn't make Steampunk fashion any less awesome.

I was promised hot chicks. What is this?!
All I see is a semi-decent chick and some fatty wearing goggles.

17. pickle - May 9, 2008 1:04 PM

do you notice that the geekologie writer thinks the white people look like shit but the black folks look stylish. why is that, i wonder? maybe because that is exactly how real life usually is.

ahhhhhhh...The fresh scent of racism...How intoxicating...Black people always look stylish, and white people always look like shit???Perhaps you should examine the diabetes and alcohol/drug dependency rates in minority neighborhoods.

BTW, those black guys are GAY. And everyone knows gays are more stylish than straight folks.

Uhhhh...Nat, you say there's a "decent" looking chick and a fat one wearing goggles.

Decent.

*shakes sadly* It's a sad, sad day for the gene pool, my friend.

@23.
Sorry for not conforming to your leggy blonde fake t*** stereotype Amy, but there's a lot of us who prefer a girl with some curves, character and personality.

@10 Concur, SmokingGirl. It would be great to have the guys wearing the high heels and makeup instead of me. Wait a minute..........I think they already are down on Montrose Avenue in Houston.

The transexuals don't count, SM.

Although, wait, we are looking at the Libertine French...so perhaps the transexuals do count.

I think that SteamPunk is so cool I want a new car styled after it. Anyone want to make it for me?

Serious. I bet old steam tech would out power and out whatever this stupid crap they call cars.

I also want a mobile phone welded to my wrist, and a WII remote on the other. But that's just me. Ask my wife, she hates it.

Whoever did the taxidermy stuff, I have some animals you can work on... paid of course :)

Sweet. I wish we had this when I was 10, my life would be much different. Instead all we had was BBS's and ASCII Pwrn.

Have a good day all you SteamPunk haters, when Guess gets ahold of this you will wonder... maybe I could have made that first?

@24. Bull---shit, I would rather take a blond with fake t*** and nice legs over those with curves only a planetoid could love and a personality that can recite every book by Anne Rice.

Steampunk used to be interesting. Now it is nothing but a club of those who can't even pass as gothic. I loved it's concepts in the past but it's gone now, ain't cool anymore. If you want to have a genuine Steampunk car, make it run on steam.

I love the Geekologie writer so much.

"Is Steampunk Fashion The Next Big Trend?"

"Probably not"

Made me lol. :P

I have a new word..."Wanksteak!"

@ Jane Hammered

Wait, wait. Who is being racist? Pickle was being a dick, but you definitely take the racist cake

What doeshaving diabetes or drug dependence have to do with looking good? I want you to open up a dictonary and look up "logic" and maybe "argument". Oh and "fact".

Hey excellent follow-through with the homophobic sentiments as well, you're one class act.

Seriouly, those "white" peoples' (there is clearly an Asian chick on the right, and I'm not even sure about the one on the left, but essentially, who cares?) clothes looked like shit, period. Those black guys looked good because they weren't dressed like nerds in a park. Tell me, how exactly did you pick their sexual orientation by looking at them? That's certainly a useful talent.

@ Jane Hammered

Wow talk about repressed. I suppose 'immigrants' stole your job and way of life while 'gays' raped your kids am I right?

Get off my planet, you're dead weight

You do have the worst possible examples here from the whole scene.

But thats cool, gamers dorks. Eat some more cookies and log onto WOW for the rest of your week. - I'm sure its a much cooler life you live.

A lot of big time fashion designers have a lot of Steampunk clothing lines on a lot of really hot women and men...Hollywood has been making steampunk movies for years...many great Steampunk writers, and artists, and musicians have been churning out Steampunk art and culture...

..but I'm sure that the guys at Geekologie understand fashion, art and culture a whole lot better then the worlds top designers, artists, writers, musicians and movie makers.

good looking steampunk fashion:

http://a589.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/85/l_d08bead4879830fdbf9f44ed38e3d794.jpg

http://a9.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/100/l_8f2a9b3f20860d6c071d1d8ef41a4b08.jpg

http://anachronaut.com/visual/anachronaut-10.jpg

http://cache.wists.com/thumbnails/b/86/b8699adb271bad7d86a122a6401fab63-orig"

"Steampunk....it's for ugly people. Ugly people that want to punish their parents for making them ugly."

Oh, I have quite a lot of proof to the contrary.

- Robert
www.AbneyPark.com

It never ceases to amaze me how one jaded geek can lampoon another. I think it's absolutely pathetic. You little gits get on here everyday, and make fun of what other people do. Why? Does it somehow make you feel better about your life? What is wrong with having some style? Some real classic style? Steampunk is for ugly people? Why because the jaded little sarcasm bot on here makes fun of it, so you guys tag right along? Cool geeks....LMAO.

Every last one of you come to this site because it's some sort of geek subculture cool. I would wager half of you are wearing T-shirts from jinx.com. Seriously, if someone wants to dress differently what damn business is it of yours? Just because you think a t-shirt and blue jeans are proper attire for all occasions doesn't mean they are, and as far as wearing your pants around you knees. Gimme a damned break. It's nice to actually see someone put some freaking effort into how they look, and try to look like something. Beats paying 100 plus dollars for pre-ripped jeans, now that's something to make fun of.

@28 Nice to see their are people out there for the vain bimbo airhead set to bond with.

Those chicks are not hot at all

@35
http://anachronaut.com/visual/anachronaut-10.jpg
this pic was a "love at first sight" experience.
i think i found my new hair do... except... i'd be getting way to much rust on my scalp.

There isn't a "scene". More of a geek fringe movement, like starwars-themed anything. It's just Victorian styling, you see it now and again. Like gothic lolitas

I'm pretty sure that's just a group of larpers that I saw at the park several weeks ago... but I could be mistaken.

A lot of steampunk seems to me to be too Victorian and not cybergothy enough. I'd love to try this look but only if it involved wearing something steel plated along with this odd combination of Victorian corsets and top hats. I think it's a great concept but it's difficult to get it right.

Jan Hammered: why on earth not? After all, I go out dressed like this on a regular basis (and yes, this is a photo of myself): http://a839.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/117/l_90a0f975312100ce2344eff956479e26.jpg

Look,
Originality is awesome, steampunk is original.
The fist two pictures of the so called "white guys" are a bunch of "century goth"-ish people trying to recreate the 19th century upper-class.
Steampunk is the middleclass of the 19th century. It’s the fantasy version of what really happened. It’s dark, but not goth, its mechanical, but not cyber. It’s the middle ground between cyber goth and century goth, and its a fine line to walk on. It’s edgy, hard to pull off, and requires a lot of effort; a pair of goggles dosnt make you steampunk.

Steampunk has been rather popular for movies and novels, and now its becoming a music genre and a fashion trend. It’s still in development, but it has a shit load more class than a lot of what’s common nowadays. (Pants sitting half way down your thigh are not cool, classy or edgy, and it’s not vaguely creative either)

And as far as the "hot leggy blond chick" thing goes I’ll take someone exotic, classy, or even just different to the norm before I go there. Give me originality any day.

Steampunk was once something much more than clothes.
It was science within art, the dirt and grime behind the brass, a nod back while moving forward. It was recognizing the dreams of a time when we made our worst mistakes, and realizing what could have been. It was Beastmen riots on the streets of paris, Orphan Airship stowaways, Insane victorian Anarchists. Heck, clothes weren't even a part of it. It was literature, philosophy, art, it was so much.

I hate that this is what it's reduced to.

Those people are my friends and *gasp* may the gods save us all from having to look at real people creating a little fantasy in the every day! It's absolutely true that they put thought and care into what they choose to wear unlike the typical modern aesthetic of just throwing on whatever you bought at Abercrombie and Fitch last week so you can relive your glory days in college or even closer to your collective maturity level.....high school!

Go ahead and make fun of those who are "different" from you and prove to the world that you haven't evolved beyond the grade school locker room. Not everyone has the same outlook on life so why don't you try evolution by expanding your mind and banishing yourself of your narrow-minded opinions? After all, Darwin claimed that our thoughts differentiate us from the apes and I'd like to think that perhaps some of you aren't hairless simians.

Boy, you guys are really sad - you're on a website that is mainly for people who played dnd as teens and many of whom have visited a star trek convention or two. Do you really want to start hating on other people for being different. It won't make you cooler. And as for the crazy racist comments - the people on the bottom look more stylish because they've got more style, not because of their race. Jan needs to take a look into his/her own soul and realize how much hatred and racism is there because his/her comments are inappropriate, ignorant, childish and racist.

I actually like Steampunk when it's done right. I prefer the more traditional Victorian aspect with a few clock gears and pocket watches thrown in the mix; however, I dont like the Halloween costume looking stuff like what is pictured above. I disagree that it's only for "ugly" people, I know several highly attractive men and women who are interested in this. Though I highly doubt it being the next big fashion any more than any other fashion out there, to each his (or her) own. The 80s tried to make a comeback recently and some of it succeeded, but I highly doubt that everyone and their mom will be running out to buy 19th Century spats, petticoats and underbust corsets (though some people should really consider that last one).

And a note to the author, I realize that you were trying to be funny when you were refering to "time-traveler's balls" as your junk, but it just made you sound like, well, an idiot. Just thought you should know.

well unlike most people on here i think these clothes are georgeous

black guys: pull it off
everyone else: looks cheap
girls: f-ing ugly.