Speaking of Change…. Are You Ready for Steampunk?
Thanks to loyal reader SpaceyG for sending over these pics! I first noticed the British club kids dressing this way awhile back. But now it seems the style has crossed the Atlantic and found its way to urban centers of NYC and Atlanta.
I like this look! It’s definitely a welcome departure from the sagging pants and white tees favored by our young men. Steampunk is a phrase coined by K.W. Jeter to describe sc-fi novels with Victorian era endings. The term spread from literature to objets d’art, and now to fashion:
Steampunk is, most simply defined by one enthusiast, as ‘the intersection of technology and romance.’ A more encompassing description according to Ruth LaFurla of The New York Times, states it is “a subculture that is the aesthetic expression of a time-traveling fantasy world, one that embraces music, film, design and now fashion, all inspired by the extravagantly inventive age of dirigibles and steam locomotives, brass diving bells and jar-shaped protosubmarines.” (Source)
Y’all know if Jay Z adopts this style your man will too. Rapper Dre 3K has already incorporated this look into his new clothing line. So, ladies can you see your men rocking the new Steampunk style? 
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So, ladies can you see your men rocking the new Steampunk style?
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HAIL NAW!!!!
They look like they are going to play practice for a civil war broadway show
I was thinking that too shunda……they look like runaway slaves just discovering the city…especially the one on the left.
LOL No offense to our ancestors
lmao at katgirl. That is what I was thinking but I was trying to be PC. You have me rolling.
katgirl33 Says:
I was thinking that too shunda……they look like runaway slaves just discovering the city…especially the one on the left.
LOL No offense to our ancestors
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There should be no offense to our ancestors. Times change, styles change and if my husband wore this I would have to wear depends from CTFU all day long.
yessir masta
“Iz free! Ya hea’? Iz free!”
LOL - Forreal, Dre has been on some ol other since way back when he was rockin’ a turban, white wig, skirt and a sweater. Don’t trip. I will always and still love that dude.
my husband is a truck driver. and he comes home with some funky threads. from all over. seattle, cali, phoenix, jersey, even little rock….for all of us. me, him, the girls.
but if he come home sporting THIS here? he gonna get cussed out for wasting $$ on some shyt he can’t wear on a day to day basis.
where he gonna wear this mess too? he can’t drive no truck looking like a train conductor. and he can’t go out with me looking like one neither….shooooot.
Dre has been on some ol other since way back when he was rockin’ a turban, white wig, skirt and a sweater.
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or when he was rocking the blonde blunt cut wig and the football gear, with the knee boots on the apollo i think…..singing “rosa parks”
Oh let me be the first to say……I WOULD ROCK EVERY LAST ONE OF THOSE PIECES THAT THEY HAVE ON (EXCEPT FOR TWO OF THE HATS)…………just not all at the same time.
Chooo Choooo Charlie need to SITCHOAZZ DOWN !! .. that is NOT the biz …
hey fella’s .. how about a … hmmmm .. lets see .. a SUIT .. a Sport Coat and Tie
I saw these Bama’s on America’s Got Talent .. and thought well thats an Intresting stage get up .. lil did I know they trying to make this Shhhhh Main Stream … GTFOH !!
me AND my coworkers are dying over katgirl and shunda…..it is REAL funny b/c we have a civil war park over in durham called bennett place where they really DO dress up in period costumes.
somebody here said they are late for work over at bennett place. DEAD. LMAO
Ya’ll are going to kill me.lmao. I already had an asthma attack from this weather here changing this morning. Now I am laughing so hard I had to get my inhaler again.
Whoever finds this remotely comfortable, cute, and stylish needs to gone somewhere
#11 said:
I saw these Bama’s on America’s Got Talent
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I knew they looked familiar. I thought it was an act as well. LOL
Smitten as my boo is I’m sure he would put his foot down on this one. He would not wear this slave era clothing now would I want him to. But then again we are old folks. Let me see if the young people are more receptive. They are the ones who set the trends. But hell now, my man won’t wear it.
My dude will so NOT be rocking this.
the first now should have be nor and the second now should have been no. Now is my new favorite typo word
prynsexxx Says:
Oh let me be the first to say……I WOULD ROCK EVERY LAST ONE OF THOSE PIECES THAT THEY HAVE ON (EXCEPT FOR TWO OF THE HATS)…………just not all at the same time.
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Are you a guy? I have been thinking you were a women all this time. One never knows. Do one?
where is goat and elove on this post. we need some heterosexual men… hell even some homosexual ones to weigh in on this.
i wouldnt want to be caught dead in that over priced mess.
why would any black man want to dress like he was in the civil war ? nyc and atl is not the us, what they do there doesnt work in the rest of america.
the better question would be how long would it take for a brothaz azz to get jacked for looking like a silly azz fool in the hood.
I like the fitted-ness lol…not really feeling the Top Hat or Union and Confederate jackets per se, but I admire anyone who walks the fine line to creativity.
do they still take kids to that plantation on old 75 in durham county ?
so i take it @teecee you too have been on the 4th grade or 8th grade class field trip (the grades you study nc state history) to bennett place in durham!!!
brawhahahhahaha. LMAO. ROTFL.
my daughter is in 8th this year. and she is INDEED going to bennett place. so yes…..
@kwall.
lol…wow. i dont remember the 4th grade and i think in the 8th grade we went to that place in Winston Salem with the Moravian. they dressed up like 17th century people and we walked around there and got back at like 7 pm that nite.
dayum i had forgot about the moravian folks. old salem. you ARE a native aren’t you?? i only remember when my daughter who is wake schools come home and is like we are studying xxx and it triggers memories of some horrible trip i went on as a wee girl. seems like the curriculum never changes which is a little scary.
they still do not cover the wilmington race riots of 1898.
lol, you can’t be serious. they need to keep that sh@# over there… But that something common,t-pain,3k,big boi would wear..
LOL @ BIRD:
Yes I am a woman. I would rock those jackets. Dude who has on the tan slave-trade ensemble looks to me like he is rocking what would be considered in todays era as some “wide leg capris”. Give me those. LOL His hat is hawt! I would rock the hatt, if I had hair (my hair is short). Dude sitting on the tricycle, looks like he has on some kind of riding boots. I would rock those. I just wouldn’t mix and match them all together. I would have to pull out my own jeans. My own shirts. My own skirts, and mix-n-match here and there.
LMAO at slave-trade ensemble. That is it pryn you are on punishment
#20 said:
how long would it take for a brothaz azz to get jacked for looking like a silly azz fool in the hood.
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Damn, its still like that in the hood?
Everytime I look at these Pic’s .. I keep expecting Shucky Ducky Quack Quack to brong out some Lions and Tigers and Goats from the Universal Souuuuulll Circus !!
@kwall.
im from nc. lol no you dont cover that till like 11th grade and then you would have to have a blk history teacher.
i try my best to forget school but i run into these old folks who try and bring it up every time i see them. lol im like good lord, if you keep bringing things up, im need theraspy. lol
I AGREE with the Fellas ;-)
I’m not Gay but Those Get-ups look Gay to me… IMO
I SEE nothing that remotely exudes Strength-n-Confidence-n-Masculinity along with Comfortable yet not Too Casual appeal to me ;-)
British club kids were dressed like this a while back? Err thats news to me……. When were you last in Britain???