Substitute DE: This old thing?

[bjornwilde]

When it comes to clothing, what’s your character's style? Do they prefer natural or formal? Skinny or baggy clothes?

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[genarti]

Enjolras dresses very plainly. By his era's social signals, he's clearly bourgeois -- there's really no class-neutral outfit he could wear, except by picking up another era's styles here at Milliways -- and his outfits are generally very boring. They're tailored to him, because off-the-rack clothes weren't really a thing yet, but he puts zero effort into making his outfits flattering; as a matter of fact, he would prefer to not play up his looks. He also tends to keep an outfit until it's gotten significantly worn out. In other words, he's the despair of certain fashionista friends. Enjolras is the equivalent of that guy who has jeans and khakis and like ten identical t-shirts.

To the eyes of late 20th and early 21st century people, of course, he probably just looks old-fashioned and formal. Unlike some of his other friends, he hasn't really picked up any future fashion, though Bar may have snuck in some wool blends or something.

Cosette, on the other hand, loves fashion! She hasn't had a ton of guidance with it, though, so although her clothes are mostly quite flattering by the fashion of the day, sometimes they're a little old-fashioned or matronly or overdone or whatever. She probably doesn't go for quite as much sleeve poofiness as some, out of practicality, but she loves little decorative touches like lace.

Thor goes for stuff that's comfortable and allows him to move easily, but that's also fit for a prince -- high-quality materials, impeccable tailoring, rich colors within his preferred set of 'em, ornamented very tastefully within Asgardian standards. Tight fitting as a rule, but we're talking bespoke clothes that can go to court and to a fight within five minutes, not spandex. The showiness is of course partly his personal style, but it's also the legitimate symbolic demands of his position. It's pretty hard to separate out Thor's personal taste from Thor's Prince-Of-Asgardness, you know?

If he's wearing clothes to blend in in another world or on a dare or whatever, though, all bets are off. He'd much prefer something he can move easily in, but he can always split a seam or three if he really needs to. If you didn't want him tearing your clothes and fighting half-naked come a brawl, you shouldn't've given him clothes he had to do that with!

Kazul doesn't wear clothes. But she prefers her scales to be well brushed and her claws tidily filed to points, and she maybe has some jewelry to wear for the right kind of special occasion.

[i_am_your_host]

I've had to come up with the Master of Ceremonies' personal style since he's never seen out of costume. But based on that, I think he prefers as loose and as little as possible, in that he hates layers, and everything is either very worn or bought secondhand (except for the few items that Eric replaced, heh). The black leather coat is his own and he wears it the most often. Other than that I've had him wear tuxedo shirts with the buttons and cuffs undone, loose trousers with suspenders, and waistcoats most recently in cold weather. He'll put on a full suit or a sport coat only if he absolutely has to. If I were dressing him by today's standards of casual wear, I think he'd readily take to tank tops and sleeveless shirts.

Pam's style...where to begin. Well, many of her favorite things to wear are corset-based. She grew up in the Victorian era, so she likes pieces that accentuate the bust and waist. What she wears to work at Fangtasia usually involves tight-fitting leather and vinyl, a lot of black and red, often playing up the goth/punk look that fangbangers are drawn to. But she also has a conservative, feminine side, which shows in her pink and lavender sweater sets and floral skirts, and she can be very classy in a cocktail dress or evening gown. Overall, though, she's a badass vampire bitch and doesn't give a fuck, so she will damn well wear a gold lamé jumpsuit or a red vinyl dress with shoulder pads and giant '80s hair if she wants to.

Annnnnd then there's Floki. Viking casual? His style changes from season to season. In season 1, he has a long raggedy coat and wears loose shirts that make him look like a hippie forest dweller, which he basically was. In season 2, he has a fuzzy sweater made of some kind of...animal hair. In season 3, having gained social status under Ragnar, I can't help but think that he totally pimped himself out with majestic white furs and stuff. What remained constant, though, was his color scheme. Always shades of green and brown, which I think tie him to the trees and nature.

[inlovewithwords]

Eriond dresses very plainly--probably not as peasant-like as Eddings would like us to believe, as he always wore Solidly Well Made Clothing Without Holes, because Polgara, but nothing fancy. He doesn't care. He somehow always gets out of fancy. Then again, now he can by virtue of 'you don't tell God what to wear.'

Henry wears a lot of plaid shirts. Khaki or jeans for trousers. Pretty plain, practical sort of kid in that regard, but all his stuff's well-made because Regina and class status.

Lois has so many variants depending on the occasion! She does the Office Business Casual look more often these days, what with her job, and can really rock the button-down shirt plus waistcoat look. Slacks or skirts, both work. She definitely does like her heels. On the other hand, casual days she likes jeans and tank tops, occasionally with plaid stolen out of a friend's closet to go on top (and no he's not getting those back). When she wants to dress up, sometimes she goes for The Red Dress because she can. Lois' sensibilities and preferences kind of change depending on what she needs, I guess, but even with office or specially chosen wear, she likes to be able to move.

Evelyn wears fairly plain mage robes, because she's not even a fully certified mage yet and cares more about books. Maybe sometimes her family pretends to remember her and sends her something a little nicer. Class does sometimes rear its head with her.

R2-D2 likes to be cleaned and oiled when he can, thank you. It isn't a matter of style, it's a matter of functionality.

Anakin wears Jedi robes. Movement is a necessity. He also seems to be somewhat more prone to dark colors than some of his Jedi fellows because he is Emo Ani Skywalker sometimes.

Tavi is slowly phasing out of wearing nothing but military uniforms, but he's going to be in red and blue basically the rest of his life because they're the royal colors and there's all sorts of color-related protocols in Alera. He definitely goes for plain; just because it's going to be extremely well-made, and good cloth, doesn't mean it'll stand out unless someone's forcing him into something flashy (he does not want to discuss the gold tunic he wears at his confirmation and his wedding, that was not his choice and he hates it). I figure in general, if he is for some reason hiding that whole Projected Aura of Authority, he probably looks about the same as a higher-ranked scribe or otherwise bureaucrat (as opposed to Ehren, who can fade into the background completely).

He might have to dress slightly more formally for Senate sessions (whatever the Aleran equivalent of business suit is), but he's going to stay as casual as he can when he can, because a) he doesn't care about looking fancy and b) he does actually care about reinforcing that he cares about practicality over opulence, don't try to play that game with him because you will look stupid.

[angry_friendship_wolf]

Yugo quite possibly dresses in the dark. By which I mean that he dresses in a lot of baggy, ragged red and orange. This seems to be a particular thing for all the Greater Phantom hosts: Medusa's host dresses in long, blue-and-purple dresses that make her look quite snakelike, Chimera's host dresses in fur and animal print, Dragon's host favours big leather coats that vaguely resemble wings, and so on.

Sherral dresses in a uniform, more or less always. Archadian uniforms are grey - black for Judges - very formal, and just generally very much like something you'd see in Georgian through to Victorian times. Fatigues are a bit looser, but also grey, and armour is grey as well. A lot of grey, enough so that if you told him he couldn't wear any variety of his uniform, then he'd probably just find middle-of-the-road unremarkable clothes in some form of grey. This also immediately marks him out as foreign in Rabanastre, since native Dalmascans tend to wear a combination of pale and bright colours, and Dalmascan men usually go around bare-chested.

Hawke has his particular outfit, although it's probably truest to say that he wears clothes which are practical and, more importantly, that he can either afford or scavenge. He has very little taste for expensive clothes, and even less for ones that make him stand out, and he's very much the kind of person who will happily wear something long after it's become visibly ragged and scruffy.

He has the mage-y leanings towards slightly flowing clothes, but since he tends to be more willing to fight up close than most mages in the series, you probably won't catch him dead in proper robes.

Yamato has several outfits in Tri, and seems to favour the standard t-shirt, jeans, jacket or coat of some variety get-up. Given that he has a green jacket now and spent the entirety of 01 in green, that's - probably his favourite colour to wear.

[ceitfianna]

Hm, most of mine don't have huge preferences but there are a few that do.

Charles opts for a formal style-collared shirts, suits, professorial and considering his era on the formal side. For his age, he dresses older in comparison to Raven who tends to wear whatever is in style, this has been true of them since they were younger. I think a lot of this comes from his family, he grew around a lot of money where how you looked mattered and dressing older got him more respect.

Quentin is a neatly dressed teenager, he wears t-shirts and jeans but they tend to not be sloppy. Presentation is important in the Fae world and he's spent most of it dressing in a way to look the right way. Its carried over into his non Fae clothing.

Moist prefers suits or if not suits, casual clothes with style. I try to pattern him after the clothes of someone like Bertie Wooster or Peter Wimsey, that 20s style of different styles of suits and clothes for certain moments. He knows exactly how to use his clothes to get across an idea but he wears clothes that communicate someone who has or as had the time and money to have an outfit to fit each occasion. Also my headcanon is that Uberwald is more formal in terms of clothing and that simply carried over but now he uses his knowledge for conning.

Jane tends towards the simple but elegant style of her era. Her family has enough money that she and her sisters are well dressed but not showy.

Ivan is usually wearing a uniform, a suit or something incredibly comfortable. He grew up in uniforms and formal clothing and given the choice he tends to relax is something close to the most casual of his uniform.

Demeter always wears a green dress that changes material depending on the moment, no shoes and in the winter her black shawl.

All my others don't have as much fashion choice due to their eras and money.

Will wears Robin's livery or working clothes, modern clothes are odd and he doesn't put them on unless he's visiting someone else's world. They're nice enough but not him.

William's from a time with lots of fashion options but with the kind of work he does and how much money he has, he mainly goes between various hard wearing clothing. Its one of those things that adds to his inferiority complex but thanks to Bahorel, he's getting a few more options.

Sameth is either dressed as a prince in his surcoat or wearing something incredibly comfortable and basic for working. In Ancelstierre, he either wore his Somersby uniform or something similar, he's never really thought about clothing unless its improving armor.

Tumnus has a selection of scarves.

Now I think I'm going to put Charles in and hopefully today or tomorrow finally see Star Wars.

[bjornwilde]

Ahsoka Tano: Dresses for movement. She likes clothing that won't restrict movement or get in the way. Aside from that, she doesn't care. Well, except for color. She likes burgundy and browns.

Amelia Heartstriker: New pup I haven't brought in yet, aims for what will give her the best advantage. This of course changes for the situation. If she is dressing for herself only, casual and serviceable, but quality fabrics and nice jewel tones for colors. I think she does like a-line dresses when she wears them, and to hell with whatever the current fashion is.

Hank McCoy: He used to dress very norman Rockwell, loose trousers, plaid shirts, and the like. Now that he's furry, he's still figuring out what will work. I imagine he opts for sweats and a lab coat most days.

Luidaeg: Comfy is her game plan. Overalls are not uncommon. I think she insists on natural fibers as well.

Quinlan Vos: Smuggler chic here, with browns and grays for colors. He also mixes in armor pieces.

Rollo Rognvaldsson: Rollo likes nice clothes and will wear whatever fine fabrics he can get his hands on; as long as it doesn't get in the way of drinking. Season one had him in rough cloth but as his station has improved with his brother, he's worn nice furs, leathers, and such.

Sabine Wren: Right now she doesn't have a style. She wears what the Empire assigns. Once she's free, she' opt for khaki pants, a black top, and colorful armor. Color will be most important to her, but serviceability is equally important.

Sam Wilson: Seems pretty GQ manly man.

Selina Kyle: Street kid chic. She wears a leather jacket, ripped jeans, calf-high boots, and while she likes to wear fancy dresses from time to time, the leather will always be a part of her.

Shinatose Izana: Another for military uniform. They like the uniform, it is comfortable. Much later in canon, their grandmother convinces them to wear an old Gothic Lolith outfit (much to Izana's chagrin) and yes, I will be bringing them in when this happens.

[have_no_mercy]

Tess prefers to dress well, usually couture. Blouses, pencil skirts, pants and lord, the shoes. She probably owns a pair of jeans but those are generally kept for horse riding than as casual wear.

[death_gone_mad]

Amascut likes clothing that is loose and easy to move around in. It is usually flattering when the disguise allows it. She keeps her appearance as a young woman for a reason, be it vanity or some deeper psychological issue, and she likes showing it off.

She definitely does not like tight restrictive clothing but somehow the only surviving statue of her (plus other iconography) shows her in a tight hobble dress. She and her priestesses destroyed much of her statuary so something odd is going on there.

Fairy Fixit dresses odd, even for a fairy. It might be a family thing - Elbow length gloves, knee high boots, big hats and poofy pants. Her personal touch is that she seems to like bare shoulders.

I would say the gloves and boots are purely for function and protection, like work gloves and boots, especially since she is somewhat akin to an electrician, but her gloves and boots are very form fitting.

[2goodarms]

Layers. All the layers. Preferably for multiple days in a row. That usually means an undershirt, flannel shirt, sweater, and coat up top; his knit hat; underwear and thick pants on the bottom (maybe with some long johns thrown in there too); and a couple layers of socks under his boots. He wore everything he owned for eighteen years straight, only taking off his jacket and boots when he slept at night, so that's what's most comfortable for him.

Curtis is...I wouldn't call him a control freak when it comes to his clothes? But it's harder for someone to steal your shit when they'd literally have to strip it off your body first. He knows Dejah won't take his stuff -- and trusted Edgar the same way, when they shared a room -- so he's a little more easygoing about shedding layers in Milliways than he was on the train. It helps that Dejah's room is a goddamn furnace and it's more comfortable if he's only wearing a layer or two.

As far as their condition, he kept all the clothes he arrived with -- but, while they're still pretty ragged, they're far cleaner and more patched-up than they used to be. Thanks, Milliways laundry service! He also got another set of clothes from Bar at some point, plus a good supply of underclothes/socks, so there are some newer layers he'll rotate in so he doesn't stink up the place too much. Clean underwear every day: it's pretty awesome.

Formal clothes are ridiculous. He hates looking so Front. But, cf. things like the recent lake party, he'll dress up for Dejah's sake. And he's gotta admit that the Front makes some pretty comfortable robes.

[harryhotspur]

Harry hates fashion and also people who think about fashion. Because #ShakespeareProblems, I describe his clothing as tending more towards the Elizabethan than the medieval, partly because I know more about the latter and partly because I think they look less silly. >__> In any case, despite his indifference, he would still be very clearly recognized as a nobleman by anyone of his period. Presumably Bar/waitrat magic means he washes his clothes here significantly more often than he ever did at home.

Arabella dresses as one might expect a wealthy woman living in London in the early 19th century to do. She's not fanatical about fashion by any means, but making things look nice is something she enjoys, and that naturally includes her own clothes. At this point in canon, she might also be seen in otherworldly fairyland clothes.

Liz looks unrealistically snappy for how much she complains about money, because movies. I suppose this can be explained by saying she has just a couple of very well-made outfits that she has invested in. And very fetching hats.

Segundus needs to get back in bar augh. He is a gentleman by birth and rather poor, an awkward state of affairs. He makes his clothes last as long as they can, and it shows: elbows and knees repaired, hems and cuffs turned, outfits allowed to drift out of fashion (not that he'd be the height of fashion anyway), all that.

Viola dresses like a boy! I sometimes say that she's wearing livery, but that's not really accurate-- she would dress as befits her status, which is, technically a 'gentleman'. Orsino seems likely to be the kind of person who's willing to invest in making sure his followers are smartly dressed.

[varadia]

X usually dresses in black. Black yoga-type pants, a black tank top, fingerless black gloves that are mid-forearm to elbow-length depending on the day, black combat boots. Her uniform has more gray in it, plus cool red-eye nightvision goggle-domino! And a belly shirt, but I pretend that no, since it's bulletproof it covers all the things. Usually her belt has some kind of X symbol on it, and she's also got a choker with a locket on it. Her clothes are generally scrupulously clean and unwrinkled. Except on lazy days, because cat hair.

Ysalwen wears Grey Warden mage robes, which are more like blue-and-silver chain mail tabards with pants than actual robes. She also wears Tevinter-style robes a lot, which are more like slit-sided tunics with leggings/stockings, and are generally hella statted up in-game. Her hair is either simply or elaborately braided because she has a lady's maid/librarian person who loves doing fancy braids and no one else will sit still for it while doing paperwork or eating breakfast or chatting. Ysa will. So. Here we are!

Raven wears faded blue jeans, black boots, a black shirt, and his blood-and-smoke-stained ragged long black coat. All of it is pretty dusty. It's thematic. Or something.

Michael the Archangel wears jeans, Doc Martens, and T-shirts with various logos, phrases, and insults on them. Also sometimes cartoon animals making obscene gestures. Because it's funny. And a weird sort of fuck-you.

Flemeth either wears raggedy homespun dresses and shawls, or has awesome maroon dragonscale armor and a fancy headpiece/crown. It depends on whether she feels like dressing to impress or not. The armor is generally much cleaner than the homespun, because how else is one to make sure no one confuses one swamp witch for another?

Nynaeve wears dresses. Usually clingy and/or low-cut dresses in blue or green, because those are Lan's favorite colors. She has a yellow-fringed shawl, too.

Dean Winchester wears a leather jacket, a button-down shirt over a T-shirt, jeans, and boots. Unless he is pretending to be a priest, or a cop, or a fireman, or an FBI agent. Then he wears what those guys wear in movies!!!

Galadan wears black and gray, mostly. Chainmail if he is somewhere in Fionavar, a leather duster and a cowboy hat if he's running around FF-verse in the Rim, and a more Edwardian schoolmaster-type of suit in the Core. That is in no way sentimental, shh. Core clothes are cleaner than the other two.

Wonder Woman wears her uniform, or suitable civilian clothes for wherever she is visiting and what she is visiting to do. Blending in is important! Among other things.

[clayforthedevil]

Bahorel's fashion is all Statement. To anyone from his era (and from Paris), he's wearing aggressively High Fashion But In a Punk Way, and his political and subcultural affiliations would be obvious before he said hello. To anyone from a later time (who isn't a fashion historian), he probably just looks like a well dressed man from the 19th century. This bothers him considerably and he's started experimenting some to see how far he can push details while keeping to the basic silhouette of his day (which does flatter him and he very well knows it, besides thinking that most later men's fashions are basically dead boring).


Joly cares about clothes at least somewhat, enough to be aware of other people's appearance and his own both. He (canonically) takes some of his fashion advice from Bahorel, and they'd share at least some of the same tailors. But Joly's a bourgeois kid who actually wanted a career in the professional world, so his fashion is very properly bourgeois. In Milliways he's taken to wearing surgeon's cuffs on his jacket as a quiet indicator of his position on the staff; unlike Bahorel, he's not really too conscious of how much these things don't scan across eras (he knows, he just doesn't think about it).

[electro_kinetic]

LUCKILY I HAVE LINKS FOR THIS.

For most of them.

Noriko by far has the most adventurous sense of style; she goes from very casual to incredibly formal and almost everything in between. (She's also the one I have the most links for, surprise surprise.)

Ganymede is mostly casual; he lives in jeans and button-ups, and the occasional tee shirt, but he can dress it up to a suit if called for. He just doesn't much like it.

Sooraya is much more middle-of-the-road when it comes to dress; she goes dressy-casual and canonically very modest. This is about as close as I can get to how I picture her clothing in my head; she also wears the veil over her face and hair, and undershirts (much like UnderArmour) that cover her from wrist to neck.

[i_am_your_host]

I was musing over how Pam would love to dress Emcee up for Fangtasia, and I think he would enjoy shopping with Noriko, too. We should probably do that.

[electro_kinetic]

Bwahaha, they should so go shopping together. She would do her best to make him look awesome~

Also makeup. They must do makeup.

[maid_of_tarth]

Combeferre, like Enjolras, wears fairly standard clothing for a man of his era and class. He pays slightly more attention to things like color and cut than Enjolras does--but only slightly. And he's much more likely to spill chemicals and blood and other things on his clothes in the course of practicing medicine, or capturing moths to draw from memory. At Milliways, he hasn't really experimented with other era's fashions, but he has experimented with losing several articles of clothing that were considered mandatory in his era, like the cravat, the waistcoat, and the coat. In other words, sometimes he walks around in a shirt and pants, and feels vaguely scandalous doing so, but it's less trouble than tying a cravat every morning.

Jehan Prouvaire is canonically "badly dressed." As a Romantic and a poet, this means he dresses really incongruously, wearing fancy coats with tattered pants, and experimenting with faux-medieval doublets. In Milliways, he's mostly stuck to the faux-medieval aesthetic, but he's tried other things too, like 1970s fashion with sequins. He has a kilt that looks like the one Djehuty wears, but he hasn't had the nerve to wear it outside his room yet.

Brienne of Tarth dresses like a man. This means a tunic and breeches, and mail over it, and she carries a sword. She avoids dresses, and doesn't take much care about how she looks, deeming it hopeless anyway.

Fantine, unlike any of my other characters, is fashionable. She likes stylish, pretty dresses, though she generally tends to the more modest/conservative side as far as how revealing they are.