FabSwingers.com forum: Steam Punk

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

What is it exactly? Struggling to understand this musical phenomenon.

And why the aviator/ welders goggles with the top hat? Any significance?

By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Not a clue but I love the aesthetics when they’re done up in full Victoriana.

By *acavityMan
over a year ago

Redditch

Is it musical?

I think it's a development from cyber punk, a style movement that embraced technology within a rebellious attitude, such as hacking and mashing.

Steam punk is an alternative historical model where victoriana clothing is enhanced with jules Verne / hg Wells clock work style technology.

By *tonMessCouple
over a year ago

Slough Windsor ish

"Not a clue but I love the aesthetics when they’re done up in full Victoriana. "

Same... love it

By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

It's based on the idea that instead of advancing in the direction of electrical and electronics engineering the Victorians persisted with steam and hydraulics power and logic systems

By *ibertine_mindsCouple
over a year ago

Staffs/ Derbys/ Peak District

"It's based on the idea that instead of advancing in the direction of electrical and electronics engineering the Victorians persisted with steam and hydraulics power and logic systems"

This.

and . . .

Someone we know once referred to steampunks as as goths that discovered the colour brown.

We have also heard the phrase that it is “nostalgia for what never was“ . . .

These days at events there is a crossover with goth, fetish, cosplay as well as lots of lovely ladies dressed in some very nice corsets!