I work in a very dangerous place for some one with my hording tendencies, A costume shop. We carry all kinds odd stuff and when it gets broken it comes home with me sometimes. I have four large blue lenses from some over sized broken sunglasses and I was thinking of making goggles but then we got in some cheep top hats that are a bit to big for my ( Read more... )

Introducing the Coalition of Rather Unusual Denizens or C.R.U.D., for short.


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Here are some pictures from a Halloween party I attended this weekend. This is my second steampunk outfit, but I'm still waiting for photos of the other so I can post them.

I started off going for an Indian/Eastern adventurer look, inspired by the Sock Dreams post a few weeks ago (yes, I built a whole costume around a pair of socks). I ended up ( Read more... )

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Ornamental kanzashi are traditional hairsticks worn in Japanese and Chinese cultures. I located several kanzashi tutorials for your perusal. This particular style is called tsumami kanzashi, which means pinched flowers.


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Inspired by the two earlier pieces on cricket and the Zouaves, and also intrigued by the idea of more colorful steampunk costumes, I’ve put together a little piece here on Meiji period (1868-1912) Western-influenced dress in Japan. Hopefully its bright and colorful pictures make up for my ramblings on about the history. ;)

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 I found this link when I was going through my facebook. It's by Siri Fashions called One Gram Gold. It's dripping full of Indian flair.  http://www.sirifashions.com/bytype.php?type=One%20Gram%20Gold&page=1.

Drool worthy?

Y/N?

Folkwear Patterns has made available template for the chinese closures often called 'frogs'.  http://www.folkwear.com/accessories.html I wish they made this available when my mother was trying to teach me the lost art of knots tying cause it was totally lost on me as a seven years old. Also, a few reference websites for chinese knots http:// ( Read more... )

Recently there has been some wonderful interest in the Far East. Asia is an fantastic subject for discussions on steampunk. Like much of the world, it was a "latecomer" to steam age industrialization, but this is not to say that it was wholly backward in terms of technology. Asia was responsible for the development of numerous pre-steam ( Read more... )

There has been much talk and now, gentle readers, let me provide you with rare images of myself costumed in steam-age fashion of the Far East. This is the outfit I pulled on for the South Bay Steampunk Meet-up that happened on Thursday, August 14th.


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