Steam Punk Evaporates?

Steam Punk--the idealization and combination of Victorian era science fiction and fashion-- was one of my favorite design trends for many years and then suddenly it was gone.  What happened?

Forgive me for being behind the times as usual, but I think I just noticed that much like the water vapor for which the movement is named, Steam Punk has evaporated from mainstream design, fashion, and general interest.  

Let's face it, pretty much everything dropped off the radar in 2020--except for the strawberry dress that we all sat cooped up at home drooling over--because we all had our minds on other things.  But, Steam Punk was disappearing years before our global meltdown worries.

As early as 2017 articles started appearing about the dying of the trend and by 2019 the internet was covered up in posts with people asking, "What Happened to Steam Punk?"  Some say it was the fact that sudden focus on Victorian colonialism or perhaps attempts within the movement to politicize it that caused so many to lose interest.   

As for my own theory about what happened to Steam Punk, I always apply Occam's Razor to mysteries such as this:  The simplest solution is almost always the best.  The simplest answer is just this:  It was trendy; now it's not.  It happens all the time.

If you're a follower of fashion you're particularly aware of trend trends have of being here today and gone tomorrow.  True fans will continue to love Steam Punk regardless of popular opinion.

So, the steam punk conventions may be gone, and it may be a little harder to find the fashion, but I'm keeping all my stuff and I shall wear my Victorian era costumes and clothing with Jules Verne-esque scientific artifices as often as possible.

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