Heavy Red has recently released a Victorian Misfit Gown. Of course, all Victorian styles have a touch of steampunk about them. Or perhaps all steampunk has a touch of the Victorian. At any rate, Heavy Red gets a steampunk bonus for featuring their lovely gown model loitering by an old train. After dirigibles, trains are nicely steampunk modes of transportation, even without a steam-powered engine. I wish Heavy Red credited the model and photographer her, but they describe the Victorian Misfit Gown thusly: “The trains all stopped dead in their tracks as she walked by…stunning, breathtaking and with devious intentions. Born of another time, lost in this world, she is a misfit.The Misfit Gown is deep blood red satin, covered with a net and lace overdress. The overdress is adorned with black lace, ribbon and sequins. This fitted A-line dress gives you a glamorous statuesque figure, while not being impossible to wear, accentuating the bust and hemline, while distracting from the hips and tummy. Dress has spaghetti straps and a side zipper. This is a dress that is truly to die for…Shown with our matching sequin strap gloves.”
Ani Niow, of One Letter Wonder, says she can’t fathom why she would get placed in the steampunk area at Maker Faire. I think I can fathom it. Victorian women, living in such a repressed society, used to get vapors where they would swoon and be out of it. Doctors could often treat the vapors by putting the women on huge vibrating machines until they felt better. Ani Niow has made a much more compact steam-powered vibrator and she says it is really better to run it off of compressed air, as the steam makes her model get extremely hot to the touch. The guts of the vibrator feature one of the “world’s smallest Tesla turbines created out of brass and Dremel cutoff discs”. She explains the genesis of her creation: “this is it. this is what happens when you’re an engineering student with a minor in sexuality and you find yourself funemployed.”
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