March 15th Today, I am...

...this supercool steampunk watch!

I am made of brass all over, numerous filigrees with floral patterns, two feather wings and a set of leaves forming a second pair of wings, one Swarovski pearl, one resin cameo and a beautiful watch face with mother of pearl front. Steampunk is the science fiction of the steam age, re-imagined with the advantage of modern hindsight. Drawing upon the wealth of historical technology and the scientific fantasies of the Victorian and Edwardian periods, steampunk seeks to reinvent modern wonders such as the computer as the people of the age might have envisoned them. Following in the footsteps of Hules Verne and H. G. Wells, steampunk authors blend history, science and imagination into a world of wonder that might have been. Steampunk is a sub-genre of science fiction that portrays a world where steam is king: without higher technologies to replace it, steam is the dominant source of power, leading to the creation of strange and new technologies which dominate an entirely new society.

other steampunk watches:

interesting steampunk fashion facts:

* goggles are the easiest way to identify a Steampunk
* if you meet a Steampunk, be prepared for florid dialoge last heard in 1850's England
* steampunk includes the supernatural as well
* the term "steampunk" itself, now a badge of honor, began as a putdown, a joke
* steampunk has always displayed a split personality
* Alan Moore's superb graphic novel The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and its sequels certainly represent the extreme heights to which steampunk will go in its tendency to appropriate past fiction into itself.

(facts found at Cracked and Huff Post)

March 2nd Today, I am...

...this lovely vintag-y like dress!

I am a Chotronette dress, which is a Romanian fashion brand. They are inspired by ballerinas and circus music, they love insane photoshoots. The brand consist of two designers, Silvia Chiteala and Laura Cazacu. "We’re obsessed with Frida Kahlo, retro punk music, Art Nouveau architecture, Wes Anderson’s movies and Victorian glasshouses. Our artistic goal is to make timeless dresses that would have looked great at Gatsby’s parties, but that would still look exquisite 50 years from now. We don’t believe in trends, but we do believe in style./.../ The characters we create in the Chotronette imaginarium are the seemingly-perfect suburban housewife, the Russian princess, the Audrey Hepburn wannabe, the goth Tim Burton muse and Mexican Lolita. We create these imaginary universes, because the world needs stories and we consider ourselves visual story tellers.
/.../Chotronette was featured in Vogue Britain and Vogue Italy, Playboy Romania and many other local magazines. We’ve collaborated with some very inspiring people, and we’re always searching for artists who share our aesthetic values."

other Chotronette dresses:

 interesting dress facts:

* up until the 19th century, children were dressed as miniature adults
* up until around 1910, it was totally common for little boys to wear dresses until they were around 5 or 6 
* during the 1860s, dresses were so wide that women were often stuck in doorways 
* South Korea used to have actual fashion police who would go around measuring the miniskirt length of women; if skirts were deemed too short, they could be fined or arrested 
* the world’s longest wedding dress has a train that’s 1.85 miles long; it required approximately three miles of taffeta and 18 feet of lace to produce
* Marie Antoinette was actually super modest and wore a high-cut flannel gown while bathing so nobody could catch a glimpse of her naughty bits 

(all facts found at Buzzfeed)