Steam-powered spectacle takes over downtown Fergus
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Gears were turning in Fergus, Ont. Saturday for the first annual Cogs and Clockwork Steampunk Festival.
Gears were turning in Fergus, Ont. Saturday for the first annual Cogs and Clockwork Steampunk Festival.
The event featured fashion shows, teapot races, vendors and plenty of retrofuturistic style.
“I like to describe steampunk as Victorian futuristic, so if we hadn’t taken electricity into the future and we just stuck with steam power,” event organizer Tony Deluca explains. “So well-dressed Victorian clothing with 1950s style ray guns.”
“It’s an opportunity for us to show our flair.”
Cosplayer Paul Bastien says many people create their outfits from thrift store finds.
“That’s the nice thing about steampunk is that anything pretty much goes,” Bastien says.
Anna Robertson, who was at her first steampunk festival, spent several months putting her costume together.
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