The Social Significance of Steampunk Style

I have a recent fashion obsession, and you may call me crazy for endorsing this eccentric trend: Steampunk. Originating from sci-fi novels set in the Victorian era, steampunk fashion has been pervasive in counterculture clothing this last decade or so. Why? Because it's different, it's eye-catching, but most of all, it is a re-write of history. In the Victorian Era, women were expected to be passive and polite. Unless they came from a poor family, they were expected to get married and have kids; never having the opportunity to build their own careers. Steampunk clothing takes the traditional feminine Victorian clothing and makes it more fierce and edgy. It's like pretending that in the era that women were most repressed in western culture never happened that way, that women were able to be heroines and do anything a man could, but with maybe a little more frills and Victorian charm. The message of Steampunk it is women can do anything a man can, and they don't need to sacrifice their femininity for it.