Steampunk millinery and other costumes

• Opulent materials: tweed, taffeta, 
• Bustles, feathers, ruffles, silks, hanging bits
• Hats- top hats, tricorns,some bowlers
• googles/binocular-type contraptions
• Cogs and wheels and cogs and other machinery embellishments
• Victorian and Edwardian-looking garments
• Dark colours
• Bodices and waistcoats
• Quirky accessories or weapons
• Frockcoats, capes and corsets
• Canes

 Leather details and ribbons were in abundance.
 Feather, chiffon scarves and lavish embellisments
 This man had embellished his hat in a myriad ways- clock face, feathers, bincoulars, cogs, keys, ribbons.
 One of the events of the day was a reading of a novel by a Steampunk writer who read extracts of her book- loved her goggles and bustle
 One of my favourite hats was this musical collage- netting, musical notes and ribbons aplenty.


 I loved this fancy lace bustle
 The engine driver cap look featured highly too!
 Let's take a closer look at her vintage wine carrier.
 And there were several examples of piratical chic too!

I forgot to mention some of the fun events you could sign up to:  Umbrella jousting, biscuit dunking, altered art books and steampunk brooches. I managed to bag a place on the Steampunk brooch workshop but it was quite late and so CBC didn't want to stay so my place was given to one of the many of the waiting list.

As I dressed that walking (very late, we woke up late- I had wet hair which then turned fluffy), I'd thought I'd like to try and at least make a nod to the steampunk look. What did I go for in my wardrobe?


 Which I noticed matched my Clocks handbag.

 Accessories-wise, I added this vintage mini-telescope necklace (it works) and wore some pocket-watch Disney Alice in Wonderland earrings.