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suits, caps and sunglasses gave way to satin dresses, top hats and glasses at Whitby this weekend the city played host to a steampunk convention.
Hundreds of dramatically dressed fans of the genre descended on the North Yorkshire seaside town for the biannual Whitby Steampunk Weekend, one of the largest in the UK.
But even the elaborate costumes and layers of vests and corsets didn’t stop attendees from the usual coastal activities of walking on the sand or queuing for fish and chips…
fans of steampunk dress in a retro-futuristic style of the kind associated with Edwardian and Victorian science fiction, with nods to plague doctors, Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea and HG Wells’ Time Machine.