What to wear?

The thing that really strikes me about the reality of steampunk as a people thing is that it's principally a look at me thing, and I don't mean to say that's wrong, but that at the moment it's mostly about dressing up oneself which then, of course, means you go to a place where people look at you.

But me and my little crew, or the crew I'm within to put it more modestly, aren't necessarily into being seen... we are into what we make being seen, but what we make doesn't hang off us so much as be built to hang around those who might want to widen the seen they are to the seen they are also within.

Matter of factly, though, we're going to be about those things we are tryin' to sell, and being about them means we might have to create some guise that's suits the proceedings, to fit in on one hand but be backgrounded enough that that which we make shines brighter than that which we wear.

I went to the last Aethercon and I wanted to be subtle in the wears I wore so I had this little backstory whereby I was Victorian but I'd gone to India and ended up hanging with the natives so while my clothes were indeed handmade I'd got with the whole Nirvana trip and had given up on worldly pursuits... I never got the chance to explain that amongst all the flamboyance, so this year I'm wondering how we still might embrace a story of a similar narrative whilst also being of the workaday quality of our wares. Maybe something like the Muslim men wear with a leather apron. Whatever I come up with it's gotta be simple and cheap but at the same time kinda speak about us as workers... at least that's kinda what I'm following as a line of thought.

Basically I'd actually to kinda not be there while still bein' there, hidden or invisible, so the artworks speak for themselves... maybe we can employ someone, already steampunk'd, with the guise in place to represent us?