True Blood effecting men's fashion trends and is Bill Compton a little SteamPunk ?

There is a really fun men's fashion article in the LA Times this morning -it's discussing how the runway fashion shows for men fashion seem to be very dark and how they may be reflecting global economic concerns.

I also noticed that the same issue of BUST magazine that has the Charlaine Harris interview also has a huge layout on Steampunk fashion...you know Bill in his epaulets and Henleys is a little steampunk, don't ya think ?

It may well be that the duo of darkness is too many fall seasons ahead, but they could be on to something. These are dark times indeed, and vampiric overtones abound. Movies like "Twilight" and TV shows like "True Blood" capture the imagination of a generation whose social lives exist in the matrix of the Internet, an existence back-lit by the cathode-ray tube.

Forget "comfort" and "safe" -- Owens and Pugh exult in what the creatures of dark know all too well: When the sun drops below the horizon, and the winds become gale force, a pin-covered leather jacket or multilayered tunic under a severely belted trench coat is the kind of armor you really need.

Of course, if you'd prefer to weather the mother of all socioeconomic turbulence in a cardigan sweater, you'll have plenty of choices.

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Steampunk Moves Between 2 Worlds - NYTimes