Imaginative Historic Evening Wear Highly Suggested.
Here are some resources that might be helpful:
What is Steampunk?
- The User's Guide to Steampunk by author Bruce Sterling
- "What Then, Is Steampunk? colonizing the past so that we can dream the future" from Steampunk Magazine (a PDF)
- Steampunk 101
Guides to Costuming
Women's Fashion
- Truly Victorian Pattern Catalog. Full scale and hand drafted garment patterns, using historical principles and techniques.
- Period Clothing Patterns and Cutting Diagrams. Reproduced from original period patterns and from cutting diagrams found in English, French and American publications of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Men's Fashion
- Century of the Beard. Victorian and Edwardian Beards as the Apex of Gentlemanly Adornments.
- Hudson's Guide: Facial Hair: Growth and Grooming
