Gothic and Steampunk Styles: Fictional Genres Creating Fascination in Fashion World

Oct. 21, 2013 - PRLog -- The gothic and steampunk styles are providing the unique styles to the men and women today. Both these genres are based on the fantasies of the alternate world.

The gothic concept is based on the horror fiction of 18^th and 19^th centuries. This horror fiction started with the popular 1764 novel of Horace Walpole – “The Castle of Otranto”. The story of this novel revolved around the Lord of a Castle and an ancient prediction. All the gothic stories are based on some supernatural phenomenon like prediction, or some supernatural being like ghosts and vampires, or the extreme capabilities of science and technologies. Moreover, the incidences take place in some old gothic castle. Some other famous novels also came in the limelight in the rest of 18^th century as well as in the 19^th century. “Dracula”, the 1897 novel of Bram Stoker, is a famous treatise in this regard. A number of movies have also been produced on the same concept, such as Gothika, Dracula, Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein etc. The gothic clothing inspired by this concept is highly popular in the fashion world in the recent times. Most of the outfits are available in the dark shades because of the depiction of the dark culture.

On the other hand, the steampunk is based on the science fiction of Victorian Era, i.e., 19^th century. It is very close to gothic and depicts the futuristic technologies based on the steam power. It was fictionalized because the Victorian period was the era of steam engines and the people were crazy about the steam power. Another interested thing is that the stories are set in the English Victorian Era, American Wild-West period and the post-apocalyptic world. H.G. Wells and Jules Verne wrote the first steampunk novels, such as The Time Machine, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea and more. Similarly, a number of steampunk movies have also been produced, such as Steamboy, The Time Machine, The League of the Extraordinary Gentlemen and many others. Like gothic, a number of costumes based on the steampunk concept are also widely popular in today’s market. These outfits are the perfect blend of Victorian and modern styles.

The gothic and steampunk outfits can be obtained from a number of online stores. http://www.thegothcode.co.uk is one of the most popular stores in this regard. It offers the gothic, pirate and medieval outfits for both men and women, and steampunk dresses for women only.