Kilt as part of Steampunk costume

[OC Richard]

Perhaps Steampunk doesn't have to be rooted in the Victorian period, but in my experience it pretty much always is.

I regularly attend comic-cons and I've seen and hung around with hundreds of Steampunk people and the Victorian period is clearly part of the thing. People's clothing is invariably and clearly based on Victorian clothing styles.

I can't recall ever seeing Steampunk costumes based on modern clothing styles.

As Wiki puts it:

Steampunk most recognizably features anachronistic technologies or retrofuturistic inventions as people in the 19th century might have envisioned them, and is likewise rooted in the era's perspective on fashion, culture, architectural style, and art.

The one exception, as always, is Highland Dress, which somehow floats outside of time itself.