How to: affordable steampunk
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Equals: cheap steampunk.
No one else is putting any actual effort into their Steampunk Costumes, with the exception that proves the rule being the Apparition Abolishers, why should you? Just get some old clothes at a thrift store, get some goggles, and apply copper spraypaint liberally. Congrats, you’re steampunk. Woo.
Steampunk is what happens when Goths discover brown.