Cowboys & Steampunkers

Inspired by the Victorian era of buttoned-up gentility and amazing new mechanical inventions, Steampunk designers seek to rekindle a sense of awe and romance in an otherwise sterile and detached digital world. That’s a goal and a fashion sense also found in the Western lifestyle. These Steampunk designers, a New York Times article states, “assemble their own fashions, an adventurous pastiche of neo-Victorian, Edwardian and military style accented with sometimes crudely mechanized accouter