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Beyond Brown and Sepia
Styling Colorful Steampunk Without Losing the Vintage Feel Steampunk has a color problem. Not because brown, brass, sepia, cream, and black are bad. They are classics for a reason. Leather, old machinery, antique photographs, aged paper, tarnished metal, and Victorian adventure stories all lend themselves naturally to that palette. The problem starts when people begin treating those colors as the whole genre. Brown does not automatically make something steampunk. A pair of go

T.L. Duncan
Jun 178 min read


Accessory Hacks
Weathering Leather, Customizing Aviator Goggles, and Aging Brass Components Steampunk style lives in the details. A coat may set the silhouette. A corset may shape the outfit. Boots may ground the look. But the accessories are what make a steampunk ensemble feel lived-in instead of freshly purchased from a costume rack. The best steampunk accessories look as though they have history. They should feel like they have crossed train platforms, airship docks, dusty workshops, back

T.L. Duncan
Jun 36 min read
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