Steampunk!

I've been fascinated with the steampunk look since I first noticed it a few years ago. It's another of those styles I admire from afar but could never, ever pull off. Steampunk fashion often involves corsets, goggles, undersized hats and funky boots and relies heavily on styles from the Victorian era .

Steampunk is more than just fashion. From Wikipedia:
Steampunk is a genre which originated during the 1980s and early 1990s and incorporates elements of science fiction, fantasy, alternate history, horror, and speculative fiction. It involves a setting where steam power is widely used-whether in an alternate history such as Victorian era Britain or "Wild West"-era United States, or in a post-apocalyptic time -that incorporates elements of either science fiction or fantasy. Works of steampunk often feature anachronistic technology, or futuristic innovations as Victorians might have envisioned them, based on a Victorian perspective on fashion, culture, architectural style, and art. This technology includes such fictional machines as those found in the works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, or the contemporary authors Philip Pullman, Scott Westerfeld and China Mieville.

Steampunk also refers to art, fashion, and design that are informed by the aesthetics of steampunk literature. Various modern utilitarian objects have been modded by individual artisans into a pseudo-Victorian mechanical "steampunk" style {like this computer or this digital camera}, and a number of visual and musical artists have been described as steampunk.


Steampunk 101 also has some great information, if you're curious at all.

I love this sepia treatment and it seems more authentic than the high saturation color version, which I'm quite fond of. Another difficult blip choice.