Steampunk! I may not always be blogging about it but I am usually thinking about it. Particularly the fashion. Here's some fun steampunk images that haev come across my screen recently.
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| Corsetry collection shoot at Salle Pianos. Euphrates Dahout in custom leather corset with separate buckle lapel piece and bias-cut plaid skirt. © Joel Aron. All rights reserved. by Dark Garden, via Flickr |
"If an article is shown to you in Philadelphia as "something quite new,"
refrain from saying that it has been out of fashion these two years in
New York."
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The Ladies' Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners or, Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book by Eliza Leslie (American 1864)
For my characters...
For Sophronia
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| Watch Fob, related the the California Gold Rush 1850s Lang Antiques |
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| Pocket Watch 1840s Christie’s |
For Alexia
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| 1870s Wedding Dress 1870s The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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| 1873-1879 The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
This could be a painting of Ivy
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| 1874 An Elegant Lady Alphonse Marie de Neuville 1874 |
For Countess Nadasdy
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| 1877 The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
1879 Redingote, 1879-80 From the Musee Galliera
For Primrose
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| 1897 Les Arts Décoratifs |
For Prudence
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| 1900 The Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
"Dress very plainly when travelling. Few ladies that are ladies wear finery in rail-cars, and steamboats—still less in stages—stage-roads being usually very dusty. The best travelling-dresses are of merino, or alpaca; plain mousseline de laine, grey or brown linen; or strong India silk, senshaw for instance. In warm weather, gingham is better than printed lawn, which rumples and tumbles and "gets into a string" directly."
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The Ladies' Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners or, Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book by Eliza Leslie (American 1864)
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| 1900 Gustave Beer, 1900-1905 The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Lace spats! Eeep!
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| 1900 Spats 1900-1925 The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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| 1904 Collar 1904 The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
For Percy, perhaps
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| 1906 Ensemble 1906-1908 The Victoria & Albert Museum |
"Gentlemen consider it a very irksome task to go on shopping expeditions,
and their ill-concealed impatience becomes equally irksome to you."
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The Ladies' Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners or, Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book by Eliza Leslie (American 1864)
After the turn of the century...
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| 1922 Ski Ensemble 1922 The Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| 1960 Coat Lilli Ann, 1960s 1stdibs.com |
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| 1965 Boots Roger Vivier, 1965 Les Arts Décoratifs |
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| 1965 Ring 1965 1stdibs.com |
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| 1994 Ensemble Jean-Paul Gaultier, 1994 The Victoria & Albert Museum |
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I've always wanted to make that green dress (for Primrose)! My grandmother was Irish, and it reminds me of her...not stylistically, or time period, just the clover and color. One day I will be brave enough to try a version of it! Nice choices, all.....
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