Victorian fashion hasn’t gone the way of the dinosaur
Pia Webster, Centretown News
Members of Ottawa's Steampunk, a neo-Victorian fashion group, congregate in all their finery.Archive 1997-2016
Looking over the balcony onto the dinosaur exhibit at the Canadian Museum of Nature on Elgin Street, one expects to see one kind of extinct creature – perhaps a T-Rex – but on a recent Saturday there was a second, more surprising, kind.Pia Webster, Centretown NewsMembers of Ottawa's Steampunk, a neo-Victorian fashion group, congregate in all their finery.
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