{"id":1310,"date":"2010-12-16T15:37:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-16T15:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1310"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:33:34","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:33:34","slug":"steampunkalt-history-week-dress-par","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1310","title":{"rendered":"Steampunk\/Alt History Week: Dress the Part"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_nIccA6r7lXY\/TQjksghg3uI\/AAAAAAAAB90\/F-xlCJvKSAA\/s1600\/james_gang.JPG\" target=_blank title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/writingya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/james_gang.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>(l-r) Deacon Boondini, the Great Gatsby and Giovanni James of the James Gang, a neovaudevillean performance troupe, as photographed by Robert Wright for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/slideshow\/2008\/05\/07\/style\/0508-PUNK_4.html\" target= _blank>The New York Times<\/a>, May, 2008<\/div>\n<p>A lot of the fun of steampunk fiction is imagining the outfits. And then wearing them.<\/p>\n<p>I lurk on a blog called <a href=\"http:\/\/thesteamerstrunk.blogspot.com\/\" target= _blank>Multiculturalism for Steampunk.<\/a> It&#8217;s a steamer trunk full of clothes, foods, stories and traditions from different nations and peoples, with added goggles, gears, gun belts, tassels, and cravats.<\/p>\n<p>It is so neat.<\/p>\n<p>If I were a gadzillionaire, and had the means to persuade otherwise busy people to do my bidding, do you know who I&#8217;d get to design ALL of my clothes? <a href=\"http:\/\/writingya.blogspot.com\/2010\/11\/foundlings-tale-part-three-factotumand.html\" target= _blank>D.M. Cornish<\/a>. He was recently <a href=\"http:\/\/community.livejournal.com\/enchantedinkpot\/62283.html\" target= _blank>interviewed at <i>The Enchanted Inkpot<\/i><\/a> about the awesome that is the Monster Blood Tattoo series (okay, okay, Foundling Trilogy, what<i>ever<\/i>), and THIS most gorgeous and swashy-buckled outfit came to light &#8212; a sketch he didn&#8217;t use in book three. <a href=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/ellen_oh\/pic\/0000wgxr\" target= _blank>I. Want.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sigh. But alas, not a gadzillionaire, and I really need D.M. to keep writing me more books anyway. So.<\/p>\n<p>If you could put together the most AWESOME steampunk outfit ever, what would it be?<br \/>Why aren&#8217;t you wearing it now??<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_nIccA6r7lXY\/TQnp97lkwiI\/AAAAAAAAB98\/5S1bAphs8oY\/s1600\/that_coat.png\" target=_blank title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/writingya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/that_coat.png\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(l-r) Deacon Boondini, the Great Gatsby and Giovanni James of the James Gang, a neovaudevillean performance troupe, as photographed by Robert Wright for The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11,12,18,40],"class_list":["post-1310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-adventure","tag-fantasy-sci-fi","tag-happenings","tag-historical-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6346,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310\/revisions\/6346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}