Things That Are Not Steampunk #5
Oh sure, Rockabilly Steampunk. Love that whole genre. I like to roll my snuff up into my white t-shirt sleeve, slick my hair back into a Marcel Wave, and just get my La Belle Époque on. Good day, daddy-o!
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July 7, 2010 at 1:35 pm
“Rockabilly Steampunk” is my porn name.
July 7, 2010 at 1:37 pm
I’m a little busy trying to figure out how on earth this is rockabilly. Once I crack that code, I’ll move on to the steampunk portion of this mystery.
July 7, 2010 at 1:40 pm
That’s it. This weekend at the Ren Faire, I’m going to combine my ren faire garb with the 80s-era Madonna look.
I’ll be Pop-DaVinci.
July 7, 2010 at 1:43 pm
I understand all those words separately, but combined in that fashion it makes no sense at all. Just like that garment-posing-as-a-handbag makes no sense at all.
July 7, 2010 at 1:44 pm
I can haz the special Regretsy Not Steampunk banner?
July 7, 2010 at 1:44 pm
I think if one were truly attempting a Rockabilly Steampunk accessory, you would need to start with a denim bustle. Preferably one that was vintage.
July 7, 2010 at 1:45 pm
#4 Buzzkill To Teenagers: You think the seller was trying to go for irony and it just went over our heads and failed miserably or am I being too hopeful and optimistic?
July 7, 2010 at 1:45 pm
oh for heavens sake. people, you are already ON the computer. how hard is it to google the definition of something? or wiki-answer it?
jeans a la victorian age were referred to as dungarees and were worn by immigrants digging ditches and gold miners panning in a river.
no purse necessary.
July 7, 2010 at 1:46 pm
This would really go well with the Mans best friend pillow!
July 7, 2010 at 1:48 pm
At last! We know what happened to Rockabilly Steampunk Jean’s purse!
I shall send her a telegraph now.
July 7, 2010 at 1:49 pm
#7 redredred, no I think the seller lost all her irony with her last menstrual cycle. She’s got irony poor blood.
July 7, 2010 at 1:51 pm
OK, so, Levi Strauss was in the 1870s… and… um… Jeans were called “jeans” in the 50s…
Fucking hell, I could connect this to Kevin Bacon easier than with Steampunk or Rockabilly.
July 7, 2010 at 1:57 pm
#11 Buzzkill To Teenagers: *sigh* I was afraid of that. Could you blame me for being hopeful though?
July 7, 2010 at 1:58 pm
This just looks like crap. Fuck rockabilly. Fuck steampunk. It’s neither. It’s just crap. You took a skirt, sewed the bottom, used the belt for a ‘strap’, and figure you can make $30 off of it.
July 7, 2010 at 2:00 pm
http://www.etsy.com/listing/39014250/steampunk-cuff-bracelet-titled-time-in
Yay let’s crazy glue some random charms on an old bracelet! Everyone knows bunnies and frogs are totally steamy.
July 7, 2010 at 2:03 pm
Inconceivable!
http://img810.imageshack.us/img810/7920/1278565096.png
Prepare to die.
July 7, 2010 at 2:05 pm
I’m sure the Big Bopper had something similar with him the night of that terrible zeppelin crash.
July 7, 2010 at 2:12 pm
Not rockabilly, not steampunk, but I can see how the seller got confused. The print on the hideous belt/tie looks a lot like cogs and wheels. We all know if it has cogs and wheels it’s steampunk!
The non-steampunk coffee corset would be a perfect accompaniment to this, no?
July 7, 2010 at 2:14 pm
I found the link between Rockabilly and Steampunk.
Stray Cats “Sexy and 17″
(Rockabilly music)
Lyric segment:
“Well she’s sexy and seventeen
My little rock-roll queen
Acts a little bit obscene
Gotta let off a little STEAM”
(emphasis mine)
July 7, 2010 at 2:14 pm
At least it isn’t a reusable rockabilly steanfuck maxi pad, ‘cuz that shit looks filthy.
July 7, 2010 at 2:18 pm
Took another look. If this is a steampunk purse I’d rather carry around the Trader Joe’s paper bag instead.
July 7, 2010 at 2:23 pm
Hmmm… apparently she already knows about gluing clock parts to things
http://www.etsy.com/transaction/25673857
July 7, 2010 at 2:26 pm
This shop is full of the things that make me wish for a WTF button next to the “I heart…”
July 7, 2010 at 2:37 pm
Not steampunk or rockabilly, but I do like the whole Daisy Duke cutoffs look, is that a trend? Hazzardpunk?
July 7, 2010 at 2:41 pm
Steamabilly, heh. I’m picturing a gear-covered steam-powered 50′s dragster in my head.
July 7, 2010 at 2:43 pm
As Regretsy items go, this isn’t bad. Hell I kind of think it’s cute. But as an Etsy seller I am so fucking sick of people who mis-tag things or mis-label things on purpose.
I wouldn’t know a steampunk purse if it pissed on my shoe, but I do know this *isn’t* one and using buzzwords to try to attract people to your item is only going to bring you the wrong kind of customer!
So tag it as up-cycled or re-purposed and make your $30 without showing you don’t know what you’re doing…
July 7, 2010 at 2:52 pm
Ack! I think the rockabilly steampunk debate has been well discussed above so I won’t add to that but…. first of all UGH to the reused denim skirt as purse and second of all how is this useful? It is a huge gaping maw of a bag to rummage around in. That someone used to WEAR. Blech.
July 7, 2010 at 3:36 pm
Well duh people, it’s obviously steampunk what with the grommets on the strap, and it’s rockabilly because…uh…she used to wear those jeans to the classic car show?
July 7, 2010 at 3:40 pm
Can I tell you the ways I luv the marcel wave? Oh my, flashback me, baby!
July 7, 2010 at 3:46 pm
Why??? Why is this happening… it’s like, beanie babies…
mini-barf
July 7, 2010 at 3:55 pm
#16 BillsBayou : Inconceivable!
http://img810.imageshack.us/img810/7920/1278565096.png
—
has just combined two of my favourite things: snarcasm and Mandy Patinkin.
I think I luv you.
July 7, 2010 at 4:07 pm
Steampunk: anything with grommets, watch parts, or cog-like shapes.
Rockabilly: anything with denim.
Flapper: anything with a fringe.
Hippie: anything with rainbows or tie-dye.
Mix-and-match fun!
July 7, 2010 at 4:09 pm
My brother-in-law has a rockabilly punk band. I’m gonna tell him to start performing with a monocle and spats to capitalize on this trend.
July 7, 2010 at 5:08 pm
Maybe if she hot glued the thong liner to it………..
July 7, 2010 at 5:47 pm
Needs more cowbell!!
July 7, 2010 at 6:33 pm
If anyone here watches “Warehouse 13″, a resurrected HG Welles was sporting a steampunk vest in last night’s episode – just in case you need a reference.
July 7, 2010 at 6:34 pm
I have made a jeans purse. By request, for a friend who uses it and loves it.
But that may be because it’s Fin de Siecle Disco Preppie. Any hack can mix Rockabilly with Steampunk.
July 7, 2010 at 7:34 pm
Hot glue a few gears and copper pipe to it and anything can be steampunk.
July 7, 2010 at 8:10 pm
I’m sure Hermoine was rockin the same number at Hogwarts
yes Harry Potter is a Steampunk!
July 7, 2010 at 8:49 pm
More denim, less Steampunk…
http://www.etsy.com/listing/50383671/kinies-ruffled-waist-purse-denim-dark
July 8, 2010 at 12:17 am
#15 I have to disagree that piece is both Steampunk and WHIMBSICKLE FTW
ok lose the bunny charm
July 8, 2010 at 12:27 am
I love that there’s enough of this grotesquely mislabeled “steampunk” BS to warrant a new category.
cheery-o hepcats!
July 8, 2010 at 6:03 am
Other things this is not:
Cute
Rockabilly
Cute the second time.
July 8, 2010 at 4:42 pm
Good news! You can get this in denim OR khaki to match whatever goggles you choose to wear that day! Stupendous!