Steampunk Posh

Today we see this particular piece of garment as sexy, sensual and striking.  It creates those HOT curves on a woman. The price we pay to look good.  Well these little pieces of garment have had a significant impact on the overall health of a woman, Victorian era women to be exact.

Victorian women’s clothing followed trends of elaborate dresses, skirts with wide volume created by the use of layers crinoline, hoop skirt frames, and heavy embroidered and detailed fabrics. Did you know that because of the impracticality and health impact of the era’s fashion, there was a fashion reform movement?

The ideal silhouette of the time demanded a narrow waist, which was accomplished by constricting the abdomen with a corset. While the silhouette was striking, the dresses exquisitely detailed, the fashions were quite cumbersome. These fabulous dresses restricted women’s movements and were harmful to women’s health. Physicians turned their attention to the use of corsets and determined that they caused several medical problems: compression of the thorax, restricted breathing, organ displacement, poor circulation, and prolapsed uterus.

Exist the corset … enter the girdle.

Some interesting points, issues faced by women of this era were quite similar to those for American women of the same time period.  Which I can understand the similarities since America was settled by the early English immigrants that came to the New World to start new lives.  Unfortunately, they also brought with them some discriminatory concepts towards women and others.

A little information taken from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_the_Victorian_era

Rights and privileges of Victorian women were limited, and both single and married women had hardships and disadvantages they had to live with. Victorian women had disadvantages both financially and sexually, enduring inequalities within their marriages and social statuses, distinct differences in men and women’s rights took place during this Era. Providing men with more stability, financial status and power over their homes and women. Marriages for Victorian women became contracts,^[4]one which was extremely difficult if not impossible to get out of during the Victorian era. Women’s rights groups fought for equality and over time made strides to change rights and privileges, however, many Victorian women endured their husbands control, cruelty targeted against their wives; including sexual violence, verbal abuse and economic deprivation ^[5] and were given no way out. While husbands participated in affairs with other women wives endured infidelity as they had no rights to divorce on these grounds and their divorce was considered to be a social taboo.^[6]

I’m finding there is so much information to take in on the inspiration behind the steampunk movement. Numerous blogs to read, flea markets to visit (for those vintage things) and books and magazines to read in historical fact & fiction and fashion.  I think I am experiencing information overload.  It’s great!

All of the education I am receiving will feed and fuel my inspiration and ideas for the pieces of jewelry I put together.  I’ve always felt that I was born too late, I should have been born in a different era. Or maybe I was born in another era and I’ve been reincarnated.

I’m drawn to shows and books about Queen Elizabeth, Queen Victoria, British and French royalty as a whole. Makes me wonder what is drawing me in … and now the fascination with Steampunk … were the old meets futuristic. Hmmm.

I’ve just finished working on a couple of new metal crest pendants in hematite and antique copper.  They are now available for purchase in my online shop – http://steampunkposh.storenvy.com

Get them while they are still available, these are limited editions and once sold I will not be offering similar items again.

Have you chosen your steampunk name? I came across this website that offers the “service” of being named and thought it would be cool to share with the “steampunk nameless”.  Check it out and share it with others too.

http://brassgoggles.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,38164.0.html

I took the concept and scrambled and unscrambled my own name and came up with one for myself.

Enjoy …

Always,
Tasannia Darnmny

(my Steampunk name)

All of our pieces are handmade, so it does take a little bit of time to add inventory. That being said, we do have some of them now available for purchase.

The goal in designing our pieces is to incorporate one or more components that is vintage, up-cycled, repurposed, sustainable or eco-friendly. We want to create pieces that help our environment and that is still trendy and affordable.

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Finishing up the website for our online sales on Storenvy.com.

Watch for our line of Steampunk inspired line of accessories. Our line will incorporate one or more components of vintage, up-cycled, sustainable, eco-friendly, recycled/redesigned products.  Dressing  up should not be at the expense of the planet and it does not have to be expensive to have a good time.

Find us at https://steampunkposh.storenvy.com