"(Make it) out of different things that you can put together and make happen, and yeah, it was fun a lot of fun." "I just wanted to do something different," she said. Gwen said her costume came from a Halloween contest a few years back. "I'm not really one much to socialize, so this is a very big thing for me and seeing other people dressed up like this is just wondrous!" he added. "I find stuff like steampunk and clockwork is more meant for those of an intellectual mind, and it can be appreciated by such people and it's just wonderful how it works especially with everything that works perfectly together," Evan said. "I was more going for a little bit of a masquerade look, which is why I have a little bit of a Clockwork Orange getup here," he said, showing off a piece his grandmother, Gwen, helped make from part of a yoga mat. "If the Victorians were imagining the future, they often imagined steam powered gears and so forth in their space exploration and their technology."įestivalgoers from across the province were keen to show off their costumes, some with technical, homemade additions like Brockville resident Evan Duffy. "This steampunk community looks at what the future would look like from a Victorian point of view, so it’s a lot of imagination, a lot of creativity and a lot of fun," Larose said. "It's as if people went back in time for a taste of what the future might hold," explained organizer Julie Larose. After a pandemic hiatus, the first annual Fort Town Steampunk Festival finally got underway on Saturday in Johnstown, Ont.īut some might be wondering, what exactly is steampunk?
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