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 Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 6:19 am
As far as social groups go, I've always been somewhat nerdy. However, I could say that I fit rather with the anime/Japan freaks.
As far as fashions go, the only other fashion I've gotten into is Classical Lolita. I was into goth as an admirer for a few years, which led me to Classical Lolita. Both of those influences led me to the discovery of Steampunk, but it's what I was looking for with Classic Lolita and goth. It just fits so nicely. I haven't, however, started dressing up in Steampunk yet. I'll sew an outfit for it soon, however.
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Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 6:38 am
Ive been in a lot of groups and never fit in. Im a builder, welder, machinist, metal worker and a metal arts. I also have always had a spote for things of old, rusty, and any thing that has gears in it. I ran into Steampunk by looking up lego vehicle and found some that were called Steampunk and then I looked up the word and found this cool culture.
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Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 9:02 pm
I'd be lying if I were to say that I'm a steampunk. I'm actually part of the lolita subculture, only my lolita style tends to have a more aristocratic and steampunk flare to it.
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Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 4:56 pm
I've always been a dandy - obsessed by oddities, myself and nature's beauty (that being the beauty of the human form, both male and female.) However, there have been very few dandies of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and so I could not declare it a revived subculture.
When I discovered Steampunk, it was like someone had given dandyism to the world, and then made it run on steam rather than poetry.
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Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 3:35 pm
I was goth for a while before trying steampunk, but I didn't fit into the club scene.
I'ld wanted to try a kind of "Steamgoth" for a while, but wasn't sure how it would work visualy; I do my own thing, but prefer when I can tell what it will look like.
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Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 2:07 pm
Jazzaram I was goth for a while before trying steampunk, but I didn't fit into the club scene. I'ld wanted to try a kind of "Steamgoth" for a while, but wasn't sure how it would work visualy; I do my own thing, but prefer when I can tell what it will look like. My brother just came in and read your post and said that was me. I was a so called goth kid back in the day, but I wasn't your basic mainstream goth, I just really wore a lot of dark clothing and dark music, but I was also a skater at that time. Now a days I'm just me I stick with my own style. But as for the Steampunk aspect, I haven't gotten into the clothing, yet but I'd like to I just have to find something that fits my style of it.
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Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 5:47 am
Amossk Steampunk seems to be popular with tons of other subcultures. I was/am "goth" (AKA a dark individual whos tired of explaining how "I do my own thing" to idiots) but I recently took interest in steampunk fashion. I have always loved that brass and wood, turn of the century retrofuturisam look. Even before steampunk was a fashion statement. How about you? Are you or where you anything else before steampunk? Discuss why you think so many diverse subcultures seem to like steampunk. I know steamies who used to be goth, punk, cyberpunk, emo, even prep I don't consider myself "steampunk" or "goth" or anything else like that, simply because I don't really fit into any particular subculture very well. I guess I'd be best defined as "anachronistic"--like the title character of Dr. Who, I enjoy the best of a variety of eras, subcultures, and interests ranging from history and alternate history to science fiction to "fringe" science--hence my signature: "mad scientist, wizard, and time traveler". Plus, being on a limited income means that I can't afford to dress the way I'd like to (a mixture of anime, SF, Victorian, and a little bit of Goth), so that I'm limited to jeans & T-shirts, so wearing the "uniform" of a given group is kind of out of the question for me--but I could never understand calling yourself a "nonconformist" and then dressing up like everyone else in your chosen group anyway, so...
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Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2009 4:56 pm
When I was in High School I associated with the Punk ideology most of all.
Now that I'm older, but not much wiser, I realize that we are more than the limitations and definitions we place upon ourselves.
I am simply epic win now. That is the category I most associate with.
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Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2009 6:57 pm
Honestly, when i was in high school, like many of you i did try the goth thing, no offence i didn't like it.
And to beat it all i didn't even any odd looks. Then i started actually wearing skater clothes, still do sometimes; im more of a redneck skater, werid combo right? But, i've always had a facanation for steam machines, and eventually found out about the steampunk genre, and that is where my heart lies. Even though i don't dress it, i would like to, but i don't have any of those type of clothes. But if you really want to stand out at high school wear pure white, i did that once, everybody gave me werid looks like "damn, he's bright or wow", it was quite funny acutally.
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Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 11:31 am
I wonder if people feel that steampunk has 'what it takes' to be a future youth culture? In the same way we've had goth and punk and emo rumble by?
Many of us seem to have evolved into it, but as more and more people are becoming aware of it, will it start getting larger youth appeal? Or doesn't it have the pull of other subcultures that usually draw in the younglings?
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