Welcome to The Steampunk House of Mode, an interactive dress-up guide to the world of Steampunk fashion. This ingenious new publication, compiled by the staff of The Steampunk Gazette, has been designed especially for computational tablets. In two parts, the first section comprises an ebook with a wealth of information on steampunk fashion and more than 130 images of extraordinary outfits that can be zoomed in on, revealing their elaborate detail. In the second part, an innovative interactive game allows readers to dress a model from a selection of steampunk clothing. In this virtual dressing room ladies and gentlemen can assemble magnificent outfits from a sumptuous selection of garments using the drag and drop feature, then send the results to their friends through the magic of the aethernet. There is the facility to import the reader’s own visage onto a male or female model, add the clothing of their choice, then share the resulting image via Facebook, Twitter or email.

In the book section of the publication there is a fantastical library of looks, with photographs of more than 100 different outfits that can be zoomed in on so as to inspect their elaborate details. There is also a catalogue of the garments featured in the dressing room section with links to their suppliers’ websites.

Discover a wealth of costuming ideas influenced by the past. Inspired by the cosplay community, Steampunks take on retro-future personas and tell their story via costume. Tea parties, salons, conventions and balls offer opportunities to parade original ensembles crafted from a treasure trove of haberdashery and hardware and mixing designs from the Victorian and Edwardian eras with goth and punk styling and military tailoring. Steampunk fashion motifs and interests include clockwork, airships, time travel, explorers and adventurers, pirates, the wild west, and zombies.