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Fashion & Clothing: Follies, Fads & Social Norms

World's worst attempt to cash in on a fashion which is already past its peak (though long may genuine Steam Punks continue):

http://hornby.activehosted.com/inde...883422.462&s=d49da3f9aa581cf86d780042b2d71fc2

The items they are pushing are just out-of-date moulds dressed up with some meaningless rubbish. One of the locos is a diesel, FFS. What is it about Steampunk they don't understand? Oh yes, everything. Mind you, I wish I had the fee given to the marketing people who dreamed this nonsense up.

And no, they aren't Hornby or Bassett-Lowke, they just bought the trade names. Which shouldn't be allowed.
 
Agreed! Although I do like the standing passengers sets.

Never thought about modding into steampunk. Where's my milliput? :twothumbs:

The larger figure. The painted model isn't the same as the unpainted one. Has it been altered?
 
Agreed! Although I do like the standing passengers sets.

Never thought about modding into steampunk. Where's my milliput? :twothumbs:

The larger figure. The painted model isn't the same as the unpainted one. Has it been altered?
The passenger sets are the best of a poor attempt to cash in.
 
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2019: What?!
2020-21: Interesting. Sounds viable...
 
I don't think I can ever remember anybody wearing the 'shirt suit' back in 1972.
Perhaps people who frequented certain 'establishments' may have done, but only at night. Perhaps with an armed escort.
 
I don't think I can ever remember anybody wearing the 'shirt suit' back in 1972.
Perhaps people who frequented certain 'establishments' may have done, but only at night. Perhaps with an armed escort.
I actually like the blue coat but yes, those shirts with flounces on the front should be burned!!
 
I was "there" (the Seventies) and frequented night spots of the era (as a musician). I don't recall many folks wearing such radically pimped-out garb, though I recall the catalogs that were chock full of such stuff.

Then again, I suppose folks who wore such things were more likely to be found in the entirely separate disco scene. There wasn't a lot of crossover or intersection between the disco scene and the rock scene.

The one thing that's new to me in the most recently posted catalog pages above is the fact the shirt suit ruffles were detachable on both the shirt and the pants legs. I don't recall seeing or hearing of such clothing that included any such removable frills.
 
I was "there" (the Seventies) and frequented night spots of the era (as a musician). I don't recall many folks wearing such radically pimped-out garb, though I recall the catalogs that were chock full of such stuff.

Then again, I suppose folks who wore such things were more likely to be found in the entirely separate disco scene. There wasn't a lot of crossover or intersection between the disco scene and the rock scene.

The one thing that's new to me in the most recently posted catalog pages above is the fact the shirt suit ruffles were detachable on both the shirt and the pants legs. I don't recall seeing or hearing of such clothing that included any such removable frills.
Detachable?! :hahazebs:
 
I was "there" (the Seventies) and frequented night spots of the era (as a musician). I don't recall many folks wearing such radically pimped-out garb, though I recall the catalogs that were chock full of such stuff.

Then again, I suppose folks who wore such things were more likely to be found in the entirely separate disco scene. There wasn't a lot of crossover or intersection between the disco scene and the rock scene.

The one thing that's new to me in the most recently posted catalog pages above is the fact the shirt suit ruffles were detachable on both the shirt and the pants legs. I don't recall seeing or hearing of such clothing that included any such removable frills.

You just weren't one of the 'cool cats' were you? :hahazebs:
 
Sadly, no ...

It would seem the combination of ruffles (of the historical rather than hysterical variety), mountaineering knickers, and elven shoes with the turned-up curly toes just couldn't compete with the skin-tight polyesters and platforms of the day. :roll:
 
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