Steampunk fashion: zeppelin sky-hat

Posted by Cory Doctorow, January 1, 2008 9:57 PM | permalink

Molly "Porkshanks" Friedrich's Ludiculous Skytop Zeppelin Hat is a sky-blue, cloud-decorated leatherette top-hat, featuring a miniature zeppelin on its brim. Link (Thanks, Jake!)

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#1 posted by jdf , January 2, 2008 5:16 AM

I thought it was going to say Skytop Zeppelin-toilet paper roll cover.
Although, either works for me.

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#2 posted by Matt Staggs

, January 2, 2008 6:17 AM

Is this where I come to watch that jumping shark?

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#3 posted by Jake von Slatt

, January 2, 2008 6:46 AM

This is just such a delightful creation! Often steampunk fashion tends toward the gothy but this dieselpunk fantasy is a new direction and I like it.

@Matt - no, this is where you get the free ice cream.

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#4 posted by jeffjonez , January 2, 2008 7:18 AM

The metal-to-felt ratio is way off for this to be a true steampunk creation. Pretty, though!

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#5 posted by Halloween Jack , January 2, 2008 7:28 AM

The 2.0 version of this hat should have a wind-up zeppelin circling it.

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#6 posted by moddoctor , January 2, 2008 8:41 AM

Enough already. Just because something has some weird Victorian styling overtone does not make it cool or even interesting. The only way this hat steams is in a metophorical fresh feces on a cold morning kind of way.

Steampunk is neither steam nor punk nor meaningfully descriptive of "Victorian style technologies." That's a total peeve of mine already lost to the meme consuming public.

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#7 posted by dculberson , January 2, 2008 8:57 AM

#6, Enough of your complaining already.

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#8 posted by 5000!

, January 2, 2008 10:18 AM

I can appreciate that as a piece of cloth art, but you'd have to be the biggest dork in the world to actually wear it.

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#9 posted by Sparrowhawk , January 2, 2008 10:24 AM

Someone has been reading too much XKCD.

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#10 posted by HOTDAMN , January 2, 2008 12:13 PM

I'm sorry but that thing is hideous.

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#11 posted by meegs , January 2, 2008 12:55 PM

I definitely think this hat is inspired by the Philip Pullman Northern Lights book character, Lee Scoresby.

Come to think of it, there is allot of steampunk contraptions in those books....hmmmm

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#12 posted by Gilbert Wham , January 2, 2008 5:25 PM

If there was a clockwork mechanism inside the hat animating the Zeppelin, then yes. Otherwise no. Apropos clockwork hats, there was a Victorian invention that lifted the hat and rotated it in a polite orbit round the head if you inclined your noggin forward, thus allowing you to be polite to ladies even if your hands were full. Now that's, what I'm talkin' 'bout...

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#13 posted by neurolux , January 2, 2008 6:59 PM

I generally like steampunk style, but this looks like something Gallagher would wear. Yuck!

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#14 posted by Shawn Wolfe

, January 2, 2008 9:20 PM

yeah, if Gallagher played drums in Jellyfish

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#15 posted by Dug North

, January 3, 2008 6:35 PM

Submitted for your consideration: my trick top hat with hidden springs, hinges, a four-bar linkage, cable, and hand lever.

Granted, the rubber monster lacks a Victorian feel, but this is the most mechanical top hat I have encountered.