Steampunk Fancy Dress Becomes More Popular

Online, January 22, 2013 (Newswire.com) - Steampunk is a style developed by lovers of fancy dress and fantasy novels. Steampunk costumes are stylised after Victorian outfits, but include bright gold cogs and gears all over them, making them look like steam powered robots, putting a classic spin on a futuristic idea. Steampunk worlds have also been created, featuring huge classic buildings with large industrial pipes sticking out from them and steam pumping from them, meaning an entire city can look both beautiful and destroyed by technology.

Steampunk is becoming much more popular with people lately, with more fans of fancy dress trying out Steampunk costumes and finding they like them better than anything else. The difference between Steampunk costumes and any other fancy dress costumes is that Steampunk costumes can be worn to more than only fancy dress parties. Many people dress up in Steampunk outfits to go to various types of conventions such as Comicon or E3, as dressing up in themed costumes is welcomed and encouraged for those who want to put the effort in at them.

Fancy Dress Outfitters has recently noticed that Steampunk outfits are growing in popularity, not only within the niche cosplayer market, but also with the wider fancy dress community. A Customer Researcher for the company commented, "Steampunk has always been popular with cosplayers, individuals who dress up as characters from anime films or videogames. Now however, there are more people opting to purchase Steampunk costumes for their design rather than for an event such as Comicon. This shows that these costumes are becoming more acceptable to wear outside of these specific events, meaning more people are willing to experiment with wearing them."

As Steampunk costumes grow in popularity, so too will other costumes people wear to niche events such as E3. These costumes are often homemade and designed after characters from videogames such as Commander Shepherd from the Mass Effect Series. As these become more popular, more fancy dress manufacturers will be willing to make them, and more fancy dress retailers will be willing to sell them.

Fancy Dress Outfitters is an online retailer of fancy dress costumes based in the UK. They have a wide range of products to suit everyone's fancy dress needs, growing all the time to meet new needs from the fancy dress market.