Ahh, the good old days of the 1980s. I remember taking the dirigible to school and the shop teacher having us build all those gears so we could power the football scoreboard with steam.
I used to fluff my feathered hair with Aquanet, which made fitting those goggles over my head nearly impossible!
The dude comes close to being a steamhunk & the fake squash blossom/suncatcher thingies on the white tee shirt looked suspiciously like cogs/gears until I unfogged my glasses but alas , in the end it’s all a bunch of leftover yard sale crap.
Steamschlock.
If you look at the listing and click on steampink noir you can see a tank top with a destroyed pair of jeans sewn on (from a different seller too). So. Very. Sad.
Wtf shirts? I haven’t seen so much tucking since I got all shitfaced and ended up rolling around a club with a bunch of drag queens. It was pretty steamy there but the only punk was a sulky looking douchebag drinking fuzzy navels in the corner…
I don’t really patronize the Steampink Noir movement, so I can’t comment on that, but why did I think the gal on the left in yellow had her top emblazoned with the Hair Bear Bunch? Have I missed the start of drinking time again?
#45 yes what are you ignorant. this is the newest trend of course! it’s steampink for charity dammit! they just forgot the little pink ribbons to make it OBVious.
Kraken-for me nail polish doesn’t even work. And it’s all metals too. Makes buying the little, everyday things like jeans so much fun. That’s why I’ve got these big pieces of horn stuck through my ears. Can’t kill me. Can poke someone’s eye out if they get to close, but they can’t send my lungs into shut down.
August 30, 2010 at 9:35 am
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August 30, 2010 at 9:39 am
It looks like the Duggars tried to create their own subgenre.
August 30, 2010 at 9:43 am
It’s most like “steaming pile” than steam-anything else.
August 30, 2010 at 9:43 am
Ahh, the good old days of the 1980s. I remember taking the dirigible to school and the shop teacher having us build all those gears so we could power the football scoreboard with steam.
I used to fluff my feathered hair with Aquanet, which made fitting those goggles over my head nearly impossible!
August 30, 2010 at 9:43 am
This MAY qualify for “steampink”. Also for screampunk, steamjunk, steamjinx, supremepunk, icecreampunk, serenepunk, and possibly, Sistenepunk.
August 30, 2010 at 9:46 am
D’oh! I didn’t notice the typo of “steampink”… Its all that absinthe I’ve been ingesting.
August 30, 2010 at 9:51 am
The dude comes close to being a steamhunk & the fake squash blossom/suncatcher thingies on the white tee shirt looked suspiciously like cogs/gears until I unfogged my glasses but alas , in the end it’s all a bunch of leftover yard sale crap.
Steamschlock.
August 30, 2010 at 9:52 am
It must be opposites day!
August 30, 2010 at 9:54 am
@Patty-funny, the word “steampink” actually makes me want to drink absinthe. Lots of it. Chased by more absinthe.
August 30, 2010 at 9:54 am
Give that family pink top hats and rose colored monocles – that will make them steampink ready!
August 30, 2010 at 9:55 am
Can you file this under ‘Things that need to be set on fire’?
August 30, 2010 at 10:04 am
It’s not just steampink, it’s steampink NOIR! Which takes it to a whole new level of craptacular.
August 30, 2010 at 10:05 am
Will Pink be steamed when she sees this?
I don’t know.
August 30, 2010 at 10:07 am
This seems to be a pattern with this seller.
August 30, 2010 at 10:07 am
gotta love those mom jeans! hey, is the gal on the far left of the package an actress from “hello larry”?
August 30, 2010 at 10:11 am
The whole store is so sweet it could make Strawberry Shortcake puke.
August 30, 2010 at 10:13 am
Bad 80′s trends that should be killed with fire for $400, Alex.
August 30, 2010 at 10:14 am
The seller seems to specialize in yard sale leftovers.
August 30, 2010 at 10:27 am
We could give her the benefit of the doubt and assume that’s a steam-powered oil derrick on the left leg of mom’s jeans.
And I’m sure they all used the steam setting on their blow dryers.
August 30, 2010 at 10:32 am
I’m not spending $4.00 on an envelope of trasfers, even if they are steampink.
August 30, 2010 at 10:48 am
Look, they’re already out west. Throw a locomotive in there and some goggles on them, and they’re good to go!
August 30, 2010 at 10:55 am
Only 100 years off.
August 30, 2010 at 10:59 am
the only model on this package who doesn’t have a fixed, over medicated grin is the little kid
no one that young should be able to look that long-suffering.
I hope he turned out okay
the 80′s: the “It seemed like a good idea at the time” Decade
August 30, 2010 at 11:02 am
noir noun \ˈnwär\
Definition of NOIR
1: crime fiction featuring hard-boiled cynical characters and bleak sleazy settings
“Who wants to go to Branson??”
August 30, 2010 at 11:04 am
HK, LOL @ your Steampink article, I had to check if you actually posted this on Wikipedia.
Holy shit, Raz, I forgot about “Hello Larry”!
This looks like the cast of a bad 80′s sitcom, The Steampink Clan, starring Kim Richards, Danny Pintauro, Ted McGinley and Beverly D’Angelo.
August 30, 2010 at 11:04 am
I love the addition of “noir” . It makes the cactus pants motif far more dark and mysterious.
August 30, 2010 at 11:09 am
I’m sending her all of my old sewing patterns from the 70s and 80s. Because I can.
August 30, 2010 at 11:10 am
I do believe the adult male model is Ted McGinley from when he was on “Mork and Mindy” as Roger.
And he is rockin’ that belt buckle and bull’s motif.
August 30, 2010 at 11:44 am
The male model looks more like David Hasselhoff on Prozac! Either that or I want to know where his 2 hands are!
August 30, 2010 at 11:48 am
This is steampunk if “Family Ties” is steampunk. And I can totally see Alex Keaton rockin’ some goggles & some leather pants….
August 30, 2010 at 11:55 am
Ah, the 80′s—re-patterning the Wild West as the steampinked west. With bad hair.
August 30, 2010 at 12:03 pm
How can it be steampink without Hello Kitty on it somewhere?
August 30, 2010 at 12:06 pm
This listing is so awesome, I had to change my name.
August 30, 2010 at 12:08 pm
We’re going to need a bigger sewing machine
August 30, 2010 at 12:18 pm
No, THIS is steampink:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/littleblackcar/4295750048/
August 30, 2010 at 12:28 pm
If you look at the listing and click on steampink noir you can see a tank top with a destroyed pair of jeans sewn on (from a different seller too). So. Very. Sad.
August 30, 2010 at 12:35 pm
Wtf shirts? I haven’t seen so much tucking since I got all shitfaced and ended up rolling around a club with a bunch of drag queens. It was pretty steamy there but the only punk was a sulky looking douchebag drinking fuzzy navels in the corner…
August 30, 2010 at 12:41 pm
@#36 JRose48: white trashed is more like it. Shredder chic.
August 30, 2010 at 2:13 pm
I need a foot long crotch on my jeans!
August 30, 2010 at 3:41 pm
This is a good reason not all patterns should be saved.
August 30, 2010 at 3:49 pm
I don’t really patronize the Steampink Noir movement, so I can’t comment on that, but why did I think the gal on the left in yellow had her top emblazoned with the Hair Bear Bunch? Have I missed the start of drinking time again?
August 30, 2010 at 3:51 pm
I can’t help it. “Steampink” sounds like some kind of porn to me.
August 30, 2010 at 3:51 pm
its not just steampunk it is VINTAGE steampunk
August 30, 2010 at 4:03 pm
Skully, I had to check out Wikipedia too! Wanted to read the entire article.
By the way, this seller lives in about 20 places. Guess she sets up shop wherever the dirigible lands.
August 30, 2010 at 4:19 pm
I noticed the multiple shop locations. Perhaps she has an army of automatons to do her bidding in various locals.
August 30, 2010 at 4:26 pm
Do you think that Steampink could be an offshoot of the pink theme for breast cancer awareness? (aaaaand hidden due to low comment rating.)
August 30, 2010 at 5:11 pm
I reckon they’d have some steampinking shears secreted somwhere about their persons.
August 30, 2010 at 5:51 pm
#45 yes what are you ignorant. this is the newest trend of course! it’s steampink for charity dammit! they just forgot the little pink ribbons to make it OBVious.
August 30, 2010 at 5:56 pm
Kraken I think you meant #46. Unless the automatons are steampinking for charity.
Your shop is really great. If actually wearing metal wouldn’t kill me I’d be ordering earrings!
August 30, 2010 at 8:27 pm
Ahh 1989, when my hair was tricolored and my wardrobe was black BECAUSE OF SHIT LIKE THIS.
AWESOME wikipedia listing. There should be a Wackypedia just for stuff like ‘steampink’.
August 30, 2010 at 8:57 pm
a lot of the 80′s are foggy but I sure as hell would have remembered this.
August 30, 2010 at 11:40 pm
knittin-kitten ah yes you are right, sorry. and thankyou.
I totally don’t know how to solve the whole metal allergy/earrings thing yet, except with nail polish.
August 31, 2010 at 8:58 am
Kraken-for me nail polish doesn’t even work. And it’s all metals too. Makes buying the little, everyday things like jeans so much fun. That’s why I’ve got these big pieces of horn stuck through my ears. Can’t kill me. Can poke someone’s eye out if they get to close, but they can’t send my lungs into shut down.
August 31, 2010 at 9:05 am
#30 hippiejo74 :
This is steampunk if “Family Ties” is steampunk. And I can totally see Alex Keaton rockin’ some goggles & some leather pants….
“Back to the Future Part III”
How quickly they forget.
August 31, 2010 at 11:15 am
Steampink could be a spin-off of Gothic Lolita.
March 17, 2011 at 11:28 pm
i love steampunk noir…