A couple years ago, my wife's friend invited us to a steampunk ball up in Salt Lake City. We're definitely geeks, and we love to cosplay, so the invitation was right up our alley. What we didn't have, though, were costumes to go along with the theme of the dance. So, over the course of about a week, my wife whipped up some quick steampunk-esque costumes. They were quasi-Victorian, had some gears on them, and looked fine and fun. They weren't the most impressive things at the ball, by any stretch, but they did the job. One thing about my wife: When she gets an idea in her head, she wants it done and she wants it done right. Even though we had fun at the ball, she wanted to improve the costumes, to make them more noticeable and eye-catching. The best way to do that was to become more authentically steampunk. I happened across Steampunk'd on Netflix, which we then began to watch together in the evenings, after the boys were tucked in bed. We're not steampunk c...
Personal musings of Steven Dowdle