I recently got into steampunk and I need some help getting started. But something I want to do is have my prom suit to be a steampunk theme. Can anyone help me get started or point me in a good direction?
@sirynxa Of course I will credit you! And the Convention is Anime Banzai, they jumped on the band wagon of themeing your con steampunk this year but weren't exactly sure as to how to really ADD the steampunk aspect. So they asked me to do a steampunk panels including a 101 and I think your video would be perfect to help. :)
@nivispeaks I haven't heard of that con before! Well I'm glad I could be of some help :) I'm a steampunk costumer as well so it's awesome more awareness is getting out there!
I definitely think the steampunk fashion is very interesting, and I'd love to try it out, but I'm not sure if I could pull it off, so I'll just enjoy from afar.
DOC BROWN. When I go on these vids and people ask, what is? I use Doc Brown from Back to the Future 3 with his long coat and engineer apron and his goggles, thats a perfect example of steam punk and theres even jules vern references in that vid.
I hope it becomes maintstree! Ever since I was a child i've loved the victorian clothing- and love the movies that depict that period. but I do not htave the time to make my own outfits, and the ones in the costume stores are way to expensive. This style is what I have been waiting for. Don't hate on mainstreem people, btw. Some people just can't afford to do anything else. If walmart got this stuff. I'd be all over it... 10 years ago.
I think the main gripe is, with things mass produced in a factory, it'll end up like the "goth" faze did. There was me, with my home made outfits, and the avril lavigne appeared and it became no more original or different a scene than the new look parade. When people slave over their work, and have a genuine passion for a sub-culture, they don't want it to then be marred by imbeciles"just trying to fit in somewhere" or the whole meaning to become distorted and lost. That's just my feeling though
@mistresselvira1988 I respect your opinion. But I am just wondering why it matters what other people wear? If you ejoy slaving over fabric and making your own outfits, that is so very cool. But why stop and become uninterested just because everyone else ssems to start liking it for whatever reason? All you have to do then is find a new and more creative way to express yourself. Mainstreem outfits always come from some creative person making thigns in their basement, just the way it goes.
i hope steam punk doesn't get to popular because then everyone is going to try to do it and give it a bunch of stupid titles like what happened to emo goth and scene everybody started calling themselves whatever and it got lame even I'm not a steam punk i just like the way it looks its just my opinion
im not into steam punk...nor do i think I will be...but I definitely respect their love for it, their confidence in being unique and even the art in it is pretty dope.... keep doing you
@DarkLightSatanic What I meant is that people seem to be longing for a world where you can see the clock work mechanisms which in a digital world is not there. I guess I am saying steam punk is people embracing the analog technology of old to do the same stuff we like digitally now. I hope that makes sense.
Is steampunk a reaction to the digital world of microprocessors? A sort of embracing of seeing the analog workings of a device in the age of the unseen workings of a microchip?
I wish everyone was steampunk. That being said, I agree that I really hope it doesn't go mainstream because it will loose everything beautiful about it. Pop culture destroys everything original. Just my opinion. I love our community!! The nicest, most polite people I have ever met!
I feel absolutely no need to be a slave to a single era of clothing. Fashion in general is about being creative. so going WE ALL DECIDED THIS IS STEAMPUNK, YOU MUST DO EXACTLY THIS TO BE STEAMPUNK. ONLY VICTORIAN CLOTHING IS STEAMPUNK... is well, an incredibly christian way to think. if someone wants to do "Steampunk" but with a tudor twist, by all means I feel they should be as creative as they like, not slave-like to past interpretations.
I have to agree with TraumStarke. I loved steampunk even before it was... "steampunk" and when my friends considered it "Sky-pirateesque" and it really is such a wonderful and beautiful... well culture if you will, and it would be a shame if it became mainstream because then everyone would ruin it and try to make it something that is not. Plus I can't stand the people who say: "I started wearing this first!" when they obviously did not.
It's great to hear some steampunk designers discus the fashion aspects of the outfits. Steampunk is something I've been interested in for a long time.
i always say and understood steampunk to be post apocalyptic, with the googles being for the mega hot sun, and the reason for the gear to be steam powered was no more power plants and such, kinda like a mix of fallout 3 and rachet & clank kinda thing, that's how i and all of my friends see it
I really just hope it doesn't catch on with the idiotic mainstream, If it stays small, it keeps its sense of originality and appeal. The second a Hottopic starts selling iron cast goggles I'm nuking humanity.
Come on! We can't all make our own stuff! we dont' have the resources to go to conventions and make our own stuff! Comments like yours, as much as I truly do respect your opinion, are not fair to those of us who cannot have access any other way. If they sell steampunk stuff at Hot Topic then I would be happy. Please reconsider next time you want to post a comment like this, and remember that if you nuke humanity, then there wouldn't be any point to this post. Thank you.
@Typingkira the entire point of this movement is for personal enrichment. If your not toiling over pieces of junk and shards, sweating through hard-work, challenging your mind in ways to create new ideas and designs than your missing the entire point of the experience...Its not some new style to be tagged and dragged through a shop, its personal expression through an abstract means, you cant buy artistic growth!
I can understand that as an artist and a writer who's working on a steampunk novel. I understand that you can't, and I applaud your views on artistic growth. But why focus on the clothes, rather than the history behind the aesthetics?
I applaud your views on artistic growth as an artist and a writer. Isn't it okay to buy the clothes if you can truly appreciate the aesthetic, is that fair? Besides, we aren't all gifted with the talent to make and create our own. Why not buy from a store and work on them once they're yours? I just think that it isn't fair to exclude those that appreciate the art and style but don't have the resources to create their own pieces. Trust me, it's expensive no matter what! Right?
@Typingkira The reason why it works me up is because I don't sit in my shed for days on end creating a sculpture, just so some corporate fatcat can come along and break the art style into some mass produced piece of body jewelry a lackey can wear around thus making them think they are now apart of the some subculture. Steampunk is not clothing, its not a fad, its an art form like surrealism or abstract and when art becomes a marketed item it loses itself and entire reason for being.
Surrealism and abstract are mainstream. They weren't always, but now they are. it happens to everything. There are artists who want the fame and who want others to see and share in this style of art. It's going to happen eventually. You do what you do. They do what they do. And if I live in Hawaii, and I know what this Steampunk is, then I think it's safe to say, it's pretty much mainstream.
@TraumStarke It's already begun to hit the mainstream, but I'm not too worried. Once the fad looses steam (pun intended), we'll be left with more folks who are genuinely part of the community.
@TraumStarke It's already begun to hit the mainstream, but I'm not too worried. Once the fad looses steam (pun intended), we'll be left with more folks who are genuinely part of the community.
@TraumStarke why? i just mean, i never understood why people only liked things that were small. I'm just wondering, if more and more people catch on to steam punk and love the whole culture...and it became more easily accessible to a broader spectrum of people...why would that be bad? no offense meant, just wondering.
I think there is honor and value to the do- it -yourself aspect of a small sub-culture like steam-punk.. Once someone outside the sub-culture exploits it for profit, it loses some of it's originality. If a factory in China makes a million of something for HotTopic, It's not interesting or unique anymore.
@TraumStarke No one really knows... um most say that the style originated from Jules Vern novels... but really.. who ever decided to start dressing steampunk is a friggen genious! :D
@Rolltron No one really knows... um most say that the style originated from Jules Vern novels... but really.. who ever decided to start dressing steampunk is a friggen genious! :D
As far as steampunk goes, I dislike the victorian garb. I think the machinery is awsome and it would look good if properly blended into a modern outfit.
@ThievingMagpie1 Even tho im not following steampunk culture, i think that, as every other culture, it should stay unmentioned to keep its appeal and originality as said above from TraumStarke. People HAVE to search around, and learn things and this is the only way somebody should approach a coulture.....not by being told to check it out or being told to follow along.
@jimvas182183 As a friend of a number of people in the video, as well as being a person some look to for more info on steampunk, I felt I would like to share this. I assume you're saying you think I'm going to use this to try to tell people how to be steampunk. I'm not. My plans to share had more to do with respecting the amount of work Sirynxa did on this & the effort the people involved put into the steampunk community.
@thalionrin That would be Crackitus Potts and they don't even show the best part of his wardrobe. His boots are fraking shiny. You can kinda see them in the picture around the 9:44 mark.
what building are they in? its so beautiful!
ladyhadassah23 17 hours ago
I recently got into steampunk and I need some help getting started. But something I want to do is have my prom suit to be a steampunk theme. Can anyone help me get started or point me in a good direction?
HARRYPOTTER520 2 weeks ago
really cool, i first heard about steampunk in one of the firefly channels
johnnahodil 1 month ago
i want to get into steampunk but im low on brass sprockets and geard and i havent the money to buy anything like that, where do i start?
weardrake 2 months ago
5:45 I don't care if it's steam punk or 20s retro bowler hats are cool at any given time
SELongB 2 months ago
A great video! May I share it during my Steampunk 101 Panel this October?
nivispeaks 5 months ago
@nivispeaks That would be awesome! What convention will this be at?
sirynxa 5 months ago
@nivispeaks Also make sure I'm given credit! :)
sirynxa 5 months ago
@sirynxa Of course I will credit you! And the Convention is Anime Banzai, they jumped on the band wagon of themeing your con steampunk this year but weren't exactly sure as to how to really ADD the steampunk aspect. So they asked me to do a steampunk panels including a 101 and I think your video would be perfect to help. :)
nivispeaks 5 months ago
@nivispeaks I haven't heard of that con before! Well I'm glad I could be of some help :) I'm a steampunk costumer as well so it's awesome more awareness is getting out there!
sirynxa 5 months ago
do u need googles?
ikillesuper 5 months ago
I definitely think the steampunk fashion is very interesting, and I'd love to try it out, but I'm not sure if I could pull it off, so I'll just enjoy from afar.
StreamofSilver 6 months ago
Pretty girl.
blueboy680 6 months ago
DOC BROWN. When I go on these vids and people ask, what is? I use Doc Brown from Back to the Future 3 with his long coat and engineer apron and his goggles, thats a perfect example of steam punk and theres even jules vern references in that vid.
Ztrigg 6 months ago
I hope someone opens up a little shop that exclusively sells steampunk.
CherryValincourt 7 months ago
These guys are awesome
Deathjailer 7 months ago
I hope it becomes maintstree! Ever since I was a child i've loved the victorian clothing- and love the movies that depict that period. but I do not htave the time to make my own outfits, and the ones in the costume stores are way to expensive. This style is what I have been waiting for. Don't hate on mainstreem people, btw. Some people just can't afford to do anything else. If walmart got this stuff. I'd be all over it... 10 years ago.
CherryChocolate1987 7 months ago
Steampunk<3
liveytheKHqueen 8 months ago
for some reason i see steam punk and daft punk music going together well
mythghost 9 months ago
I think the main gripe is, with things mass produced in a factory, it'll end up like the "goth" faze did. There was me, with my home made outfits, and the avril lavigne appeared and it became no more original or different a scene than the new look parade. When people slave over their work, and have a genuine passion for a sub-culture, they don't want it to then be marred by imbeciles"just trying to fit in somewhere" or the whole meaning to become distorted and lost. That's just my feeling though
mistresselvira1988 9 months ago
@mistresselvira1988 I respect your opinion. But I am just wondering why it matters what other people wear? If you ejoy slaving over fabric and making your own outfits, that is so very cool. But why stop and become uninterested just because everyone else ssems to start liking it for whatever reason? All you have to do then is find a new and more creative way to express yourself. Mainstreem outfits always come from some creative person making thigns in their basement, just the way it goes.
CherryChocolate1987 7 months ago
All makes sense to me!
Mod60s 9 months ago
i hope steam punk doesn't get to popular because then everyone is going to try to do it and give it a bunch of stupid titles like what happened to emo goth and scene everybody started calling themselves whatever and it got lame even I'm not a steam punk i just like the way it looks its just my opinion
LangBellsChannel 9 months ago
YOUTUBE NEED A LOVE BUTTON!!!!!!!!!!!!
maroonefi84 10 months ago
1:45 Lady has cool dreads!!
MrYOFACEproductions 10 months ago
Very informative.
CaptainFaust 10 months ago
im not into steam punk...nor do i think I will be...but I definitely respect their love for it, their confidence in being unique and even the art in it is pretty dope.... keep doing you
vanillanupe 1 year ago 6
Where did this come from?, and why?
Rolltron 1 year ago
@DarkLightSatanic What I meant is that people seem to be longing for a world where you can see the clock work mechanisms which in a digital world is not there. I guess I am saying steam punk is people embracing the analog technology of old to do the same stuff we like digitally now. I hope that makes sense.
SupernautG 1 year ago
Very Insperarational. Whats that song Playing from 0:00-1:49???
VonValen 1 year ago
@VonValen The Wrong Side by Abney Park.
sirynxa 1 year ago
Is steampunk a reaction to the digital world of microprocessors? A sort of embracing of seeing the analog workings of a device in the age of the unseen workings of a microchip?
SupernautG 1 year ago
I wish everyone was steampunk. That being said, I agree that I really hope it doesn't go mainstream because it will loose everything beautiful about it. Pop culture destroys everything original. Just my opinion. I love our community!! The nicest, most polite people I have ever met!
madhatter252 1 year ago 6
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rodiansinger 1 year ago
I feel absolutely no need to be a slave to a single era of clothing. Fashion in general is about being creative. so going WE ALL DECIDED THIS IS STEAMPUNK, YOU MUST DO EXACTLY THIS TO BE STEAMPUNK. ONLY VICTORIAN CLOTHING IS STEAMPUNK... is well, an incredibly christian way to think. if someone wants to do "Steampunk" but with a tudor twist, by all means I feel they should be as creative as they like, not slave-like to past interpretations.
boombangbeep 1 year ago
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rodiansinger 1 year ago
@rodiansinger then that isnt steampunk then its called steam because its victorian
TranceExplosion 1 year ago
been into steampunk for a few years now and as far as I know I am the only one in the area..
carlmurden 1 year ago 27
@carlmurden you can try going to online forums like brassgoggles or steam empire and find local steampunks you can meet up with :D
sirynxa 1 year ago 14
Oh and Abney Park is definitely an amazing band. Good choice of music! :D
KILL3Rriot 1 year ago
Thank you! I asked Robert if it was cool if I used his band's music and he said it was so there it is! :D
sirynxa 1 year ago
I have to agree with TraumStarke. I loved steampunk even before it was... "steampunk" and when my friends considered it "Sky-pirateesque" and it really is such a wonderful and beautiful... well culture if you will, and it would be a shame if it became mainstream because then everyone would ruin it and try to make it something that is not. Plus I can't stand the people who say: "I started wearing this first!" when they obviously did not.
KILL3Rriot 1 year ago
@TraumStarke Get your nukes ready lip service and nemesis now have been ripin of clothes and guns for a few months now >8[
DrSparrowShrike 1 year ago
I love Nicks Goggles!!! This is a stupendous video if I do say so myself!
yelirjp 1 year ago
Geeks at their finest ;D
michmellis 1 year ago 3
I love how the guys look in the steampunk outfits. I wish we had that in my country... :(
MissPsychoB 1 year ago
I notice halloween Plays a BIG part in this
grnteabug 1 year ago
Doc Brown is TOTALLY steampunk! I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks this.
phoenixanna 1 year ago
i enjoy the choice of abney park
Locker344 1 year ago
Steam Punk Show casing the DIY Ethic
URNemesis108 1 year ago
This is just too fantastic! I was influenced by Bladerunner of course, remember the toy makers pad?
Mod60s 1 year ago
Woot Abney Park
Steampunk in my definition: Taking something mainstream, and destroying it make something totally different.
TasteOfTorment 1 year ago
These fashion were main stream during those periods in history and have gone to the segments of genres. God bless America and Freedom of expression.
stagedoordaisy 1 year ago
these guys are awesome :D
emovampie345 1 year ago
This is a toned up version of my everyday look. But this gives me an idea of how to take it further then everyday everywhere stuff.
KryingRayne 1 year ago
he has asthpesicles
superphil92 1 year ago
It's great to hear some steampunk designers discus the fashion aspects of the outfits. Steampunk is something I've been interested in for a long time.
irongategallery 1 year ago 2
i like the steampunk fashion, i didn't have the words to describe this fashion, it's like turn-of-the-century, victorian, and silly gadgets.
xtraman25 1 year ago
@richardmulroy I happen to be a member of both groups, so...
everlynnrayne147536 2 years ago
I'd love to steampunk my car lol
Mikej1592 2 years ago 4
i always say and understood steampunk to be post apocalyptic, with the googles being for the mega hot sun, and the reason for the gear to be steam powered was no more power plants and such, kinda like a mix of fallout 3 and rachet & clank kinda thing, that's how i and all of my friends see it
MrSeanhobgoblin 2 years ago
A very cool fashion. Formal yet fun.
Lots better than the "pnats on the ground" and mullets that have gone on way too long.
achivemore 2 years ago
I really just hope it doesn't catch on with the idiotic mainstream, If it stays small, it keeps its sense of originality and appeal. The second a Hottopic starts selling iron cast goggles I'm nuking humanity.
TraumStarke 2 years ago 144
@TraumStarke Let us hope that day never comes. I like being non-nuked...
Of course, if you DO nuke humanity, then post-apocalyptic steampunk might just become a reality.
everlynnrayne147536 2 years ago
@TraumStarke Luckily the style seems to appeal mostly to artisians and tech-lovers, not the masses.
AlbinoMonkeyC 1 year ago
@TraumStarke
Come on! We can't all make our own stuff! we dont' have the resources to go to conventions and make our own stuff! Comments like yours, as much as I truly do respect your opinion, are not fair to those of us who cannot have access any other way. If they sell steampunk stuff at Hot Topic then I would be happy. Please reconsider next time you want to post a comment like this, and remember that if you nuke humanity, then there wouldn't be any point to this post. Thank you.
Typingkira 1 year ago
@Typingkira the entire point of this movement is for personal enrichment. If your not toiling over pieces of junk and shards, sweating through hard-work, challenging your mind in ways to create new ideas and designs than your missing the entire point of the experience...Its not some new style to be tagged and dragged through a shop, its personal expression through an abstract means, you cant buy artistic growth!
TraumStarke 1 year ago
@TraumStarke
I can understand that as an artist and a writer who's working on a steampunk novel. I understand that you can't, and I applaud your views on artistic growth. But why focus on the clothes, rather than the history behind the aesthetics?
Typingkira 1 year ago
@TraumStarke
I applaud your views on artistic growth as an artist and a writer. Isn't it okay to buy the clothes if you can truly appreciate the aesthetic, is that fair? Besides, we aren't all gifted with the talent to make and create our own. Why not buy from a store and work on them once they're yours? I just think that it isn't fair to exclude those that appreciate the art and style but don't have the resources to create their own pieces. Trust me, it's expensive no matter what! Right?
Typingkira 1 year ago
@Typingkira The reason why it works me up is because I don't sit in my shed for days on end creating a sculpture, just so some corporate fatcat can come along and break the art style into some mass produced piece of body jewelry a lackey can wear around thus making them think they are now apart of the some subculture. Steampunk is not clothing, its not a fad, its an art form like surrealism or abstract and when art becomes a marketed item it loses itself and entire reason for being.
TraumStarke 1 year ago
@TraumStarke
Surrealism and abstract are mainstream. They weren't always, but now they are. it happens to everything. There are artists who want the fame and who want others to see and share in this style of art. It's going to happen eventually. You do what you do. They do what they do. And if I live in Hawaii, and I know what this Steampunk is, then I think it's safe to say, it's pretty much mainstream.
Typingkira 1 year ago
@TraumStarke .. Bluebanana are selling those.
TheEgocenteredOnion 1 year ago
@TraumStarke
I AGREE!!!!!
TasteOfTorment 1 year ago
@TraumStarke
I'll provide the button to push.
JonnyPhoenyx 1 year ago
@TraumStarke Hipster.
LordBifford 1 year ago
@TraumStarke yes! []: thats usually how alot of things get destroyed. it becomes too popular and people ruin it. =-=...
PaulinaH727 1 year ago
@TraumStarke costume shops like halloween express have started selling steampunk/threadbanger costumes
ozzyboy3 1 year ago
@TraumStarke lol there is a shop at my ren fair that sells them
nursefuzzywuzzy 1 year ago
@TraumStarke It's already begun to hit the mainstream, but I'm not too worried. Once the fad looses steam (pun intended), we'll be left with more folks who are genuinely part of the community.
xPsyNeox 1 year ago
@TraumStarke It's already begun to hit the mainstream, but I'm not too worried. Once the fad looses steam (pun intended), we'll be left with more folks who are genuinely part of the community.
xPsyNeox 1 year ago
@TraumStarke I wish I could give you 100 thumbs up for that, lol.
fishgul69 1 year ago
@TraumStarke why? i just mean, i never understood why people only liked things that were small. I'm just wondering, if more and more people catch on to steam punk and love the whole culture...and it became more easily accessible to a broader spectrum of people...why would that be bad? no offense meant, just wondering.
OCchicknumber1 1 year ago
@OCchicknumber1
I think there is honor and value to the do- it -yourself aspect of a small sub-culture like steam-punk.. Once someone outside the sub-culture exploits it for profit, it loses some of it's originality. If a factory in China makes a million of something for HotTopic, It's not interesting or unique anymore.
bociferousmimi 1 year ago
@TraumStarke Chocko Bombs away!
MrStuartantony 1 year ago
@TraumStarke Choco old bean, bombs away!
MrStuartantony 1 year ago
@TraumStarke No one really knows... um most say that the style originated from Jules Vern novels... but really.. who ever decided to start dressing steampunk is a friggen genious! :D
Vampgurl184 1 year ago
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@Rolltron No one really knows... um most say that the style originated from Jules Vern novels... but really.. who ever decided to start dressing steampunk is a friggen genious! :D
Vampgurl184 1 year ago
@TraumStarke please do
DreamsofCentaurs 1 year ago
@TraumStarke Iron Cast Goggles ARE sold over here...
RedBigButton 9 months ago
As far as steampunk goes, I dislike the victorian garb. I think the machinery is awsome and it would look good if properly blended into a modern outfit.
strongbad538 2 years ago
i love this style
0b50l3t3 2 years ago
reminds me of chitty chitty bang bang
LightingEMO 2 years ago
Nice presentation on Steampunk fashion. I'll be sharing this for sure.
ThievingMagpie1 2 years ago 13
@ThievingMagpie1 Even tho im not following steampunk culture, i think that, as every other culture, it should stay unmentioned to keep its appeal and originality as said above from TraumStarke. People HAVE to search around, and learn things and this is the only way somebody should approach a coulture.....not by being told to check it out or being told to follow along.
jimvas182183 1 year ago
@jimvas182183 As a friend of a number of people in the video, as well as being a person some look to for more info on steampunk, I felt I would like to share this. I assume you're saying you think I'm going to use this to try to tell people how to be steampunk. I'm not. My plans to share had more to do with respecting the amount of work Sirynxa did on this & the effort the people involved put into the steampunk community.
ThievingMagpie1 1 year ago
@ThievingMagpie1 Then youre doing it right! No offense here! i Hope you got what i wanted to say!
jimvas182183 1 year ago
@ThievingMagpie1 Thanks so much!
sirynxa 1 year ago
Very interesting. I really appreciate the guy at the end, talking about how it is more CLOTHING than COSTUME for him.
thalionrin 2 years ago 3
@thalionrin That would be Crackitus Potts and they don't even show the best part of his wardrobe. His boots are fraking shiny. You can kinda see them in the picture around the 9:44 mark.
BaconLettucePickles 2 years ago