You’ve Been Steampunked!

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2016 You’ve been Steampunked!

The Essentials to (Mad) Maxing out your wardrobe

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Roll over, 2015 and yield to the mighty tunes of fashion’s hottest trend in town – steampunk.

A subculture that embodies a mix of science-fiction and fantasy with a 19th century industrial kicker, steampunk is sometimes fashion’s answer to what the world would look like after an apocalyptic nightmare and, at other times, a style that encapsulates an alternative universe where the Victorian era was never left behind and everything works on steam.

All in all, regardless of what your preference, steampunk is a look worth embracing and, with a little help, your nod to post-Armageddon chic can be a fashionista’s dream.

Here are three loose and fast rules that are guaranteed to get you up to steampunk speed.

1) Don’t be so precious

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Many a puritan will claim that they are “highly offended” by writers suggesting that there are any rules to steampunk but I have something to say about that:

Firstly, we’re all a little too “offended” nowadays. The backlash spewed onto anyone that dare challenge mainstream perception is synonymous to the censorship bestowed on people by authoritarian ruler. It can stifle the genesis of dangerous thoughts and smuggle the challenging of the status quo.

Of course there are rules to steampunk or at least guidelines! You can’t stick an aluminium plate on your head and call it steam punk. The same way you can’t spell fashion without a little of the “fas(c)h.”

2) Do your research

Steampunk is not just a trend but an entire zeitgeist that incorporates music, fiction and film from which you can draw inspiration from.

Of the list of steampunk novelists, the most notable is Jules Verne, of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in Eighty Days fame. You also have a procession of other authors attempting to create an alternate universe in their prose such as G.K Chesterton and Charles Dickens who, much like Verne, have had their masterpieces adapted to the silver screen.

But the buck doesn’t just stop at Victorian industrialism.

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The Mad Max franchise removes steam and replaces it with diesel to create an action-packed post-apocalyptic dystopia.

The Wild Wild West sets the scene in a parallel, western-derived universe. Then you have Dr Who which picks and choses from a few Steampunk influences.

All in all a delicious conglomerate to slip in to.

Then there’s the music…

3) Streamline your steampunk

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Once a newbie enters the glorious realm of steampunk, they’ll discover the rich abundance of factions that can be appropriated to their look.

There’s Diesel Punk for the Mad Max die hards that tends to have an apocalyptic tribal air about it.

Then you’ve got your Street Urchin whose ripped and torn petticoats are accentuated by baby doll tights, understated cross-dressing and a bucket load of bangles.

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