The only way in which this could possibly be a steampunk accessory is if two acrylic cardigans were mauled and fused together in a collision between a dirigible and a steam locomotive. That could maybe also explain how this fashion disaster came about.
I say my good man if you’d put your clockwork goggles on you’d see the microscopic cogs and gears in the fabric I’m certain I see a steam engine in the dots running those gears they reweave the fabric if you tear it.
See, what we have here is merely a failure to communicate. Y’all are using the modern, slangy definition of steampunk. She is sticking with the classic Victorian meaning of the word: created by the ragpickers (aka “punks”) of the sweatshop-steamy parish poorhouses.
looks like Miss Havisham’s wedding dress, after the moths have eaten it and the rats and Miss H herself have peed and defecated on it for thirty years.
So I agree with #33 Wednesday that there is a Victorian authenticity of sorts here
Help me with the color scheme “orange with peach circles.” I obviously need to adjust my monitor. I always thought peach was lighter than orange. Of course the hunter orange lace IS a nice touch. “Don’t shoot!”
Putting the term “steampunk” as a tag reeks of gimmick. The seller is desperate to draw people to their page by any means necessary. I’m surprised the other tags weren’t: “twilight” “justin bieber” “this will look great on you” ” free puppy with purchase”
This is like when J Lo wore the dress with the giant slit down the front to the Oscars to draw the eye away from her big butt, except its more of a conceal/confuse strategy to have polka dots on top and wacky ruffles and lace sticking out over your hips and buttocks.
Huh. Turns out my elementary school substitute teacher, Mrs. Gianello, was uber-steampunk. This sweater would have been paired with a giant plastic elephant necklace and maybe a red paisley scarf. (Yes, both.)
the Orange Prison Jumpsuit meme has been covered here before. Who says it isn’t PRISON Steampunk? Maybe something turn-of-the century inmates might have cut up their prison duds to make, while sekritly assembling their time-machines in the prison repair shop.
This is steam punk, after all there will still be people with bad fashion sense in a dystopian future fueled by coal. Just because society collapses does not mean everyone gains a keen Gothic fashion sense.
Because people who are looking for steampunk and stumble across this disaster will suddenly have the urge to dress up like a giant creamsicle? Yeah, that’s a good marketing strategy.
January 24, 2011 at 1:47 pm
What it lacks in Steampunk, it more than makes up for in Ugly.
January 24, 2011 at 1:49 pm
Hideously ugly, maybe…but definitely not Steampunk.
I wonder if I can take torn sweaters, sew them together in the ugliest way possible and sell them as Steampunk. hmmmmm
January 24, 2011 at 1:50 pm
That cardigan looks like it’s busting forth some sort of weird growths. It needs a seam ripper to liberate it from it’s parasitic twin!
January 24, 2011 at 1:51 pm
Tinkerjenn,try old oily shop wrags.
January 24, 2011 at 1:51 pm
I long for the gritty and industrious Victorian days of 1988.
January 24, 2011 at 1:52 pm
Steaming-pile-of-poo more like.
January 24, 2011 at 1:52 pm
i knew i recognized this!
http://www.strawberry-shortcake.net/CollectorsInfo/PriceGuide/OrangeBlossom.htm
1981 was the height of steampunk, apparently.
January 24, 2011 at 1:56 pm
Mom Jeans and an ugly granny sweater= Steampunk soccer mom!
January 24, 2011 at 1:58 pm
I totally saw that at Walmart yesterday.
January 24, 2011 at 2:06 pm
“asymmetric hems” = upcycled “I sewed it crooked”
January 24, 2011 at 2:06 pm
I think Cindy Lou Who got access to the sewing machine again…
January 24, 2011 at 2:11 pm
“Not steampunk”? It’s not even “reconstructed.” It’s “I-tore-it-up-and-rammed-it-through-the-serger.”
…which isn’t even a “sewing machine,” when you get right down to it. Sideways.
January 24, 2011 at 2:13 pm
She already lost me at “acrylic.” The rest is just icing on the fuglycake.
January 24, 2011 at 2:14 pm
You can see where the mannequin tried to cut it’s own wrist. That should tell you something.
January 24, 2011 at 2:14 pm
not only does she have a sewing machine she has a serger. see what horrors you can do with a serger here: http://www.etsy.com/listing/63134268/reconstructed-black-sweater-with-silk
January 24, 2011 at 2:18 pm
That poor sweater, it never had a chance.
January 24, 2011 at 2:22 pm
I find it hilarious how many people take close-up pics of their crappy work in case we needed to see how horrible it was with more detail.
January 24, 2011 at 2:24 pm
The only way in which this could possibly be a steampunk accessory is if two acrylic cardigans were mauled and fused together in a collision between a dirigible and a steam locomotive. That could maybe also explain how this fashion disaster came about.
January 24, 2011 at 2:40 pm
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January 24, 2011 at 2:42 pm
This is Steampunk, the lesser known Annette Funicello movement.
January 24, 2011 at 2:46 pm
This reminds me of a Jello salad my grandma used to make for her bridge club.
January 24, 2011 at 2:49 pm
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January 24, 2011 at 3:06 pm
Grandma might have been steampunk, but I’m pretty sure her curtains (or, rather, her “uphostery”)weren’t.
http://www.etsy.com/listing/64621917/shabby-chic-uphostery-scarf
http://www.etsy.com/listing/61823060/reconstructed-shabby-chic-sweater-with
January 24, 2011 at 3:18 pm
For sale at Anthropologie, right?
January 24, 2011 at 3:28 pm
In about 10,000 years when this sweater finally begins to decompose it may be worth $68 (not adjusted for inflation).
January 24, 2011 at 3:35 pm
maybe it’s another typo
Seampunk?
Creamsiclepunk?
screampuke?
January 24, 2011 at 4:10 pm
Say what you will, it is constructed excellently for flouncing.
January 24, 2011 at 4:17 pm
If your clothes stick together in the dryer, you’re not supposed to sew them together that way!
January 24, 2011 at 4:26 pm
i dunno, i can see a clown in some 1890′s carnival sporting this
January 24, 2011 at 4:26 pm
I say my good man if you’d put your clockwork goggles on you’d see the microscopic cogs and gears in the fabric I’m certain I see a steam engine in the dots running those gears they reweave the fabric if you tear it.
January 24, 2011 at 4:57 pm
Steamfug.
January 24, 2011 at 5:04 pm
Does uh, the term “weavejunk” exist yet?
January 24, 2011 at 5:06 pm
See, what we have here is merely a failure to communicate. Y’all are using the modern, slangy definition of steampunk. She is sticking with the classic Victorian meaning of the word: created by the ragpickers (aka “punks”) of the sweatshop-steamy parish poorhouses.
January 24, 2011 at 5:22 pm
I want to see it in a room. Then I want to see someone flounce out of the room while wearing it.
And Nico, I think you’ve hit on something with ‘weavejunk.’ I vote it henceforth be used to describe fugly upcycled supposedly Steampunk sweaters.
January 24, 2011 at 5:26 pm
Acrylic; Cheeto orange and calamine lotion peach; machine-made tank top lace; zip fly stonewash jeans. Yup, very 1889.
January 24, 2011 at 5:31 pm
Thank god it’s ooak
January 24, 2011 at 6:03 pm
Ewww ick. $68?! Really? My gosh, if that is $68 then I should really raise my prices! lol
January 24, 2011 at 6:03 pm
looks like Miss Havisham’s wedding dress, after the moths have eaten it and the rats and Miss H herself have peed and defecated on it for thirty years.
So I agree with #33 Wednesday that there is a Victorian authenticity of sorts here
January 24, 2011 at 6:04 pm
It is to Steampunk. Its how the Victorians would dress in the future. Just add goggles…wah la.
January 24, 2011 at 6:21 pm
I have it on good authority that that particular shade of orange did not exist until the 1970′s – after the 3 Mile Island radiation leak, to be exact.
January 24, 2011 at 6:25 pm
Help me with the color scheme “orange with peach circles.” I obviously need to adjust my monitor. I always thought peach was lighter than orange. Of course the hunter orange lace IS a nice touch. “Don’t shoot!”
January 24, 2011 at 7:04 pm
thinking of things that are not are not Steampunk, how about Sarah Palin.
http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/01/20/steampunk-palin-comic/
WHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHY?
January 24, 2011 at 7:09 pm
Putting the term “steampunk” as a tag reeks of gimmick. The seller is desperate to draw people to their page by any means necessary. I’m surprised the other tags weren’t: “twilight” “justin bieber” “this will look great on you” ” free puppy with purchase”
January 24, 2011 at 7:33 pm
#42, you owe me my sanity and a cup full of brain cells that I lost following that link.
January 24, 2011 at 7:34 pm
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January 24, 2011 at 7:46 pm
Huh. Turns out my elementary school substitute teacher, Mrs. Gianello, was uber-steampunk. This sweater would have been paired with a giant plastic elephant necklace and maybe a red paisley scarf. (Yes, both.)
January 24, 2011 at 8:57 pm
If it weren’t heinous enough from the front be sure to check out the back. I’ve always wanted an orange sweater complete with a yellow butt flap…
January 24, 2011 at 9:33 pm
why does this even have to exist MY EYES IT BURNS!!!
January 24, 2011 at 9:49 pm
#34 @Badger – I like the idea of seeing the sweater leave a room, too. Good thinking. Who doesn’t love a good flounce?
January 25, 2011 at 12:27 am
the Orange Prison Jumpsuit meme has been covered here before. Who says it isn’t PRISON Steampunk? Maybe something turn-of-the century inmates might have cut up their prison duds to make, while sekritly assembling their time-machines in the prison repair shop.
January 25, 2011 at 2:14 am
I didn’t know Mrs. Roeper from Three’s a Company had a fashion line.
January 25, 2011 at 5:17 am
Great. Now David Caruso can finally go to a costume party dressed as “Kathy”.
January 25, 2011 at 5:35 am
I really hope that that’s OOAK, because I’d hate to think there are more like it out there.
January 25, 2011 at 5:58 am
This is steam punk, after all there will still be people with bad fashion sense in a dystopian future fueled by coal. Just because society collapses does not mean everyone gains a keen Gothic fashion sense.
January 25, 2011 at 6:32 am
I get the feeling an awful lot of their seams are “asymmetric”.
January 25, 2011 at 9:32 am
Because people who are looking for steampunk and stumble across this disaster will suddenly have the urge to dress up like a giant creamsicle? Yeah, that’s a good marketing strategy.
January 25, 2011 at 1:11 pm
“Lettuce Edges” on all of your work = “I can’t hem knit fabrics so the hems lie flat so I’m doing this and hoping you think it’s decorative.”
January 25, 2011 at 5:46 pm
Upcycled? XD
January 25, 2011 at 8:41 pm
They have THIRTEEN of them hideous things tagged as ‘steampunk’.
Not even remotely close.
January 26, 2011 at 4:29 am
Since it was “upcycled”, does this mean it is upscale?
January 26, 2011 at 12:57 pm
Steambunk.
December 5, 2011 at 10:05 am
Wow, this sweater meets the style with perfection. Not so sure I am ready for it.