For Dragon*Con this year I made the ever so popular Simplicity 2172 outfit. The wine color of the dress on the package happens to be my favorite color to wear so my first dress off this pattern (because I plan on making more one day) looks very, very similar to it.

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Right now, all of our medium and heavy weight jackets are on clearance. These deeply discounted deals are final sale. Measurements are on each page and these styles will not be returning to our site.

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Modcloth is a fairly ordinary cute/hipsterish online clothing shop, but there are a few items which strike me as rather steampunk. For example, these shoes:


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Some of you may have heard, we are now only carrying small-runs of limited edition pieces. In other words, if you see something you love, get it while it's there. It will NOT be returning. We want to keep our stock fresh and flowing. We have placed all of our in-stock Hands of Time corsets at cost in order to make room for new styles coming in. ( Read more... )

This is an outfit I put together for Norwescon. I made the earrings, the hat, and the clock belt. The cravat is one of those lace dollies you find at estate sales, and the rest of the outfit is all thift store finds. The gun in particular I am proud of since I found it randomly in a pile of stuffed animalsat an estate sale.It's a child's cap gun ( Read more... )

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If your local Target still has some Halloween stock left, you can grab a pair of these pleather Darth Vader gauntlets for $0.79 (originally $7.99). I think they'd make nice driving/aviator gloves.


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1. Victorian and steampunk are the same thing people. Something can never be "too Victorian" or like wise something can never be "more Victorian than steampunk". Steampunk is just the sci-fi of the Victorian Era, the Edwardian Era, the French Second Empire, the American Civil War, Reconstruction, the Gilded Age,The Wild west, the Progressive Era, ( Read more... )

Greetings!

My husband and I are newcomers to the Steampunk scene, although we've admired it for some time now. I'm still working my way through all the amazing things here (though I doubt I'll get caught up!) If I may, I'd like to share some of our work:

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