Post by grognardtxt on Apr 21, 2017 22:17:03 GMT
Among the aristocratic women the style of dress is simple and straight, cinched high beneath the breasts to emphasize rich patterned fabrics and expensive colors rather than form, often trimmed with gilt or jewels, worn with lace hairnets for the truly demure.
The working class wear broad and sturdy mantles off one shoulder, patterned only on the hem and neck if at all, with more fitting clothes beneath. Borrowing on this, and combined with influences from an eastern Empire desperately trying to reclaim its classic dignity, another fashion has emerged among new-blooded wealth and been dubbed the Pious-Classical for the arrogance ascribed to its adherents.
Wearing simple one-shouldered dresses similar to the toga belted at the waist with bright shawls, or for the truly Eastern, a more complicated form folding in upon itself several times to tightly bind around the upper body and cross both shoulders, either variant leaves the collar bared to display intricate mantles of lace laid over the shoulders beneath, identifying beyond doubt the wealthy from the working class they emulate.
For men the style is stiffy embroidered jackets in sumptuous patterns, coming down past the waist and there giving way to short open fronted skirts that imitate both the Eastern toga and the soldier's cape. In fashion are tall and high-heeled riding boots in expensive leathers, an undeniable symbol of wealth.
Those who wear full pants rather than breeches, often coupled with shorter shoes, are rightly considered fops and fuckboys.
Finally, the self-styled patricians have their own affects, with an oversize and exaggerated cavalry jacket worn across the shoulders being the preferred statement - a suggestion that they are the soldiers and founders of a culture undeserving brats reap.
Hats are a contentious issue, with their wearers endlessly the butt of plays. Still, they have become a symbol among a kind of young debonaire, in who's circles the largely mythical duel has been revived for sport. Striking the hat from an opponent's head is considered cause to end a match and the height of prowess, 'disfiguring' your opponent rather than adding to his looks with a scar - and this has been seized upon by the old guard, who were lucky enough to see one or two duels in their entire youths, as proof enough that the younger generation is weak and mewling. All this has only entrenched a kind of crushed velvet cap as the crown jewel of fashion, a proud declaration among the young rakes - 'You cannot take it!'
SOMEBODY ELSE DO THE WRITEUP FOR HAIRSTYLES BLERF
The working class wear broad and sturdy mantles off one shoulder, patterned only on the hem and neck if at all, with more fitting clothes beneath. Borrowing on this, and combined with influences from an eastern Empire desperately trying to reclaim its classic dignity, another fashion has emerged among new-blooded wealth and been dubbed the Pious-Classical for the arrogance ascribed to its adherents.
Wearing simple one-shouldered dresses similar to the toga belted at the waist with bright shawls, or for the truly Eastern, a more complicated form folding in upon itself several times to tightly bind around the upper body and cross both shoulders, either variant leaves the collar bared to display intricate mantles of lace laid over the shoulders beneath, identifying beyond doubt the wealthy from the working class they emulate.
For men the style is stiffy embroidered jackets in sumptuous patterns, coming down past the waist and there giving way to short open fronted skirts that imitate both the Eastern toga and the soldier's cape. In fashion are tall and high-heeled riding boots in expensive leathers, an undeniable symbol of wealth.
Those who wear full pants rather than breeches, often coupled with shorter shoes, are rightly considered fops and fuckboys.
Finally, the self-styled patricians have their own affects, with an oversize and exaggerated cavalry jacket worn across the shoulders being the preferred statement - a suggestion that they are the soldiers and founders of a culture undeserving brats reap.
Hats are a contentious issue, with their wearers endlessly the butt of plays. Still, they have become a symbol among a kind of young debonaire, in who's circles the largely mythical duel has been revived for sport. Striking the hat from an opponent's head is considered cause to end a match and the height of prowess, 'disfiguring' your opponent rather than adding to his looks with a scar - and this has been seized upon by the old guard, who were lucky enough to see one or two duels in their entire youths, as proof enough that the younger generation is weak and mewling. All this has only entrenched a kind of crushed velvet cap as the crown jewel of fashion, a proud declaration among the young rakes - 'You cannot take it!'
SOMEBODY ELSE DO THE WRITEUP FOR HAIRSTYLES BLERF