Awesome Anachronistic Apparel: Difference between revisions

* [[Of Corsets Sexy]].

* Arguably the entire reason for [[Steampunk]] fashion, though in its drive to be [[Rule of Cool|awesome]], it ends up with a fair amount of [[Anachronism Stew]]. It's a pastiche of roughly 1850s-1910s fashion, with a generous helping of [[Sci Fi]] mixed in.

* [[Waistcoat of Style|Waistcoats]] and pocketwatches.

* Long, over-the-elbow gloves for women; often called "[[Opera Gloves]]" (no prizes for guessing at what event they were worn), these were standard accessories of ladies' costume for evening wear (and often daytime wear) from the late 1880s through the late 1950s; they also showed up in the [[Regency England|Regency era]].

* [[The League of STEAM]] are often written about and interviewed as leading examples of steampunk style.

* The "bluecoats" of Christ's Hospital boarding school in West Sussex, England are not only among the oldest school uniforms still in use. For while their present form's virtually unchanged for over 200 years, they've held up remarkably well to the point that when it was brought up to finally update the look in 2011, the vast majority of students refused.

 

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