4.7.2009 by Traveler.

Sometimes, dress can be a hassle… A few weeks back I purchased a nice pair of tan breeches which I intended to use for dress-up occasions in the summertime. Since today I thought I could go shopping in style I got dressed up in my breeches, an off-white shirt and my riding boots. When I looked into the mirror I found two things:

1.  I looked rather cool
2. For the untrained eye I could be mistaken for a person with unfavourable views towards foreigners and radical ideas about government…

I therefor decided not to get dressed up like this until I get myself a vest to match this outfit. The vest should take a lot of radicality out of the whole ensemble (I might actually just go for another shirt, come to think of it.
Oh well… I will come up with something in the end.

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2.7.2009 by Traveler.

Official Steampunk Holiday

Today is a day of celebration for all Steampunks and Dieselpunks out there. Let us raise our glasses and give three cheers to his Excellency, Ferdinand Graf Zeppelin:

Hurray!

Hurray!

Hurray!

For today in 1909, exactly 109 years ago the first Zeppelin took to the air and this is the first time since the beginning of this blog that I can mark this occasion, because last time I missed it.
So here is an image of the Zeppelin LZ-1, taken from a contemporary postcard (I guess):

If only those marvelous sky-cruisers were still around today. I am talking of the classic versions. Obviously, today there are Blimps and the modern Zeppelins, but they have little of the style and majesty the original Zeppelins had.

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