Steampunk Style

I am posting this again before I put it up on ebay. This is a beautiful and very detailed real black leather steampunk jacket. It is FULL of details.

The back of the jacket is longer than the front to fit over a bustle. Features ruffled sleeves,vintage inspired buttons, embroidery. This jacket looks wicked! I love it but need money. Would best fit a M-L. It looks great alone or on top of your outfit!


Measurements : pit to pit 18 inches across, waist 16 inches across, 21 inch long sleeves, 20 inches long in front, 26 inches long in back. Not much stretch to it since it is leather.

I am looking for 100.00 including shipping anywhere in the USA. Paypal only! email me niknak79@aol.com and I have more pics if you wish to see more!

So I am totally feeling this wedding dress idea I have...it's far from David's Bridal but it's more "me"  It's not a steampunk outfit, but most of the accessories I'm going to wear are the sort of things I've seen in this community.

I'm looking for ideas to improve the outfit, feedback, and links to accessories that you would suggest, especially if you make them yourselves or know a custom shop.

Basically it's going to be a short kimono dress, ivory fishnets, lace up victorian style granny boots, an ivory feminine type top hat (or other hat that works as well), lacey pearly wrist cuffs, and possibly a tulle petticoat under the kimono to wedding it up a bit.

( The outfit, with pictures )

I've got a sale on many of my couture textile cuffs in my shop http://lacamelot.etsy.com



Some photos below




Please stop by my shop for prices and many more cuffs on sale xo La Camelot

I believe this to be a commemorative Diamond Jubilee pin brooch for Queen Victoria.
It is made from brass in the shape of a royal crown and enamelled in blue and red.
The back clasp is a simple pin and hook.
It has the following inscription in raised brass: 37 97 Victoria .
Its overall manufacture is very basic so I assume this was made for the masses.

I am going to list it on ebay soon but was wondering if anyone could shed any more light on it.


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~~If you don't have an Etsy account and wish to take advantage of this offer, direct sale is available for a short time, so please let us know which item you'd like via LJ message or in the comments here, and include an email address we can invoice you at =) (any email addresses in comments will be set as screened comments as soon as I see them) ~~

( New historical, literary and Alice in Wonderland items! Including Oscar Wilde, Victoriana, Edgar Allen Poe, European royalty and more. )

 Ohhh the Amazing Stan rocks my socks.. he made like 5 cuffs in a week! 

Ornate Accented Leather and Chain Cuff

  


Chunky Chain and Brass Gears Leather SteamPunk Cuff 

 


Modern Black Leather Infinity Cuff

 

I've decided to sell my Victorian lower class costuming cupboard and I thought that the steampunk community might find some of the Items useful. My location is Adelaide.

(Please feel free to head over here to have a looksee at what I have up for offer, everything is cheap!)


(Mods, I hope this is okay to post, please accept my apologies if it is not)

Anachronistic accessories on a budget at our steamy Ten/Ten Sale. Ten items for $10 and under..what a deal!

This vegan-friendly padlock keeper is in the sale!



( A glimpse of some of the other sale items )


Check our Etsy Shop for unique creations...Search ‘Ten Ten’ for other items in this sale.

I possibly am ready to kill.

I have a laughing moon pattern, Men's Frock Coat, with Waistcoats, Pattern [L#109] and I have successfully completed the view A waistcoat a number of times, the one without the shawl collar, it has turned out really well.
So, I am launching into the view B, with the shawl collar. And the under collar is just not working. It appears that something is too short and the shape seems odd. The instructions have the extra step but the pieces just don't seem to link up. My gut instinct is piece 39, the front facing needs to be lengthened but also there no bend in the two pieces for the bend in the lining. It is quite a way out and I am touch frightened it will be still wrong when I come to whacking the outside and inside together.

I am not sure if there is a missing piece or I am doing something completely wrong.

Help me steamy clothing magicians. My pattern drafting is way too rusty for all this. (My pattern teacher will be rolling his eyes and telling me I should be drafting it from scratch.)

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Hello everyone

I'm happy to announce that the 7th edition of the Gatehouse Gazette is now available for free for your reading pleasure!

For those that don't know it: the Gatehouse Gazette is a wonderful online magazine about steampunk and dieselpunk :)

We have articles on several subjects, fashion, comics, reviews and much much more!

This time we have an article about etnic steampunk, beer, a tale of travel and the city of London, reviews about movies, books and roleplaying games (Unhallowed Necropolis), comics and many more interesting things!

Do not be alarmed if you have missed an edition of this magazine, they are all available for free via this link.

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It was only at the estate sale that I heard Professor Elderbridge had died. The widow Elderbridge was not particularly upset by this development, however. Indeed, not only had she been expecting it for years, but she and the Professor had not been on the best of terms since his jaunts to newer and exciting reaches of the globe began. Still, she told us between sips of Earl Gray tea she made sure to point out had been purchased fresh from the airship India; it was her duty as his wife to dole out his small army of apparatuses to those of us amongst the scientific community who would gain the most use from them. I had, being a nartheciumolgist and sometimes librarian, assumed I would receive a few unwieldy, ancient tombs from the Professor’s private collection that had, no doubt, been obtained in some unpronounceable, foreign temple.

This was not the case. Perhaps the widow Elderbridge or whomever else had been placed in charge of the Professor’s last will and testament was unable to read his tiny chicken scrawl. Or perhaps, and I suspect this is more likely the case, my bequeathal is simply the Professor’s notoriously obtuse sense of humor at work, for he has left to me, and I quote: Lot 74, Portable Insect Containment Unit and Terrarium.

Perhaps it is a play on “bookworm”. Or else the Professor believes the hitherto undocumented moss rattling about the bottom of the jar to have some sort of medical properties I might be interested in. However, as I am not at all keen on accidentally encountering an equally hitherto undocumented species of stinging insect inside, it is with regret that I must leave the stained and scrawled upon paper where it is.

A pity, really. I am told the Professor was carrying the Terrarium with him upon his death. I would expect the paper inside is likely one of his last remaining journal entries. Though, knowing the Professor, it could just as likely be a recipe for tea.


(Kit for sale here)

 

(nartheciumology – the study of other people’s medicine cabinets.)

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I made this pistol because as an airship librarian, I absolutely cannot imagine keeping one of those unwieldy steam flintlocks on my hip. But then, pirate attacks do happen and it is necessary to be prepared for these things.

I imagine there must be other women who feel the same.

I've selected a few steamy and Neo-Victorian items in my shop and will include a free gift with the purchase of one of those items.

Treasure Tins and Leather Key Fobs:



Browse our Etsy Shop and see which items come with a free gift!

Hello Folks!

I hope this isn't too off-topic. If it is, please delete it.

How would you like to have a real oil painting of yourself or your loved ones? I'm offering special prices to the steampunk community if the painting is on canvas board rather than gallery wrapped canvas. The canvas board is easier for framing, too! Prices are approximate by size. Lots more sizes are available than what I am listing here.





$40 ACEO (2.5"x3.5" - canvas paper only)
$100 5"x7"
$150 9"x12" (size of example)
$200 11"x14"

Portraits are painted from photographs provided by the commissioner, and may be bust or full body, with or without backgrounds, one or more subjects.

If you would like to see more of my art, please visit my deviantART gallery http://sidneyeileen.deviantart.com , or my personal web site http://sidneyeileen.com .

Thanks!

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For the amazing images alone this title should be of great interest :




(As ever, this and other books are available for purchase here : http://crimsonbooksinc.storesecured.com/items/Victorian/list.htm )

The Victorians and Edwardians at Work – John Hannavy

 

“Taking photographs of people at work is an application of the medium that is almost as old as photography itself.”

 

Based on John Hannavy’s personal collection of period photographs and picture postcards, The Victorians and Edwardians at Work contains many never before published images of life as it was actually lived in these eras. Many of these photos are hand-colored, doing much to alleviate the notion that the world was sepia-toned prior to World War I.

 

One of my favorite images is of a group of bakery workers cleaning after having removed bread from large, tin containers. It is semi-candid, and the young men all look a bit bored and a little annoyed at being bothered at work.

 

 

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1, helpful link for many fun things http://www.marquise.de/en/1900/index.shtml

2, If your on the east cost and can come to this I want you too as it will be a great great deal of fun.
http://community.livejournal.com/steam_elegance/20941.html

3, who has read this ? http://www.steampunktales.com/issue_1.html and if you have what did you like the most? If you really liked do tell other people so the authors and artist do not go un appreciated.

4, if you have some cash to blow why not some nice leather http://stores.shop.ebay.co.uk/Impero-London

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Happy international steampunk day everyone!!!!

I don't know what everyone else is up to, but I'm meeting up with some friends later. In the mean time I had an outfit shot done, not the greatest shot I know, but the weather here in Belgium is being absolutely dire. It was really warm, then it rained but didn't cool down so it's this nasty sticky humidity here now. I fled back inside where it's cool O_o

I hope everyone is having a fabulous time!!!!!

So I think most of us have heard of the Spruce Goose, but I would not be surprised if many of you didn't really think about the fact that it was made out of spruce. I sure as heck didn't. Today I went on a tree education walk in my community and learned the little tidbit about Sitka Spruce being important to the military back during WWI for airplane building. Even how during a strike to improve working conditions the Army was sent into the woods to harvest this important timber. This seemed to me to be good knowledge for any airship designer and thus I did a quick google search for some sort of artical about it.

Enjoy!

http://www.sportair.com/articles/Aircraft%20Wood%20-%20Part%20One.html

P.S. if anyone has any nice photos on the internet to share of wooden ships and designs it would be lovely to share.

Looking for the following patterns from Truly Victorian:

TV101 Petticoat with Wire Bustle
TV110 1880 Late Victorian Corset
TV550 1880s Buckram Hat Pattern
TV462 1883 Tail Bodice
TV365 1883 August Overskirt
TV261 1885 Four-Gore Underskirt
TV461 1880s Yoked Blouse

Shipping is to Sweden and can pay by paypal.

Thank you.

I wanted to share my newest creation.

( More pictures and commentary behind the cut )

Thanks for looking, I am so pleased with this set!