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What style of clothing would y'all wear if public ridicule, financial limitations, and general inconvenience weren't a thing?
While I feel like I should say "something extremely comfortable", because that's the practical answer (and I do love me a nice fuzzy floor-length bathrobe, lbr), I have to admit that my deepest clothing id? Is totally renfaire-shaped. :D I love layers, I love old stuff, and I cannot overemphasize how much I enjoy wearing ankle-length skirts—and I do mean "skirts", I love having two or three on at a time. I love the feeling of weight, the swishy grace of them; I don't know if you've ever read Dragonflight, anon, but the super-brief description near the very beginning of Lessa in her new clothes, feeling the swing of nice heavy skirts around her ankles and loving it? <– YEP. THAT'S IT. THAT'S THE THING.
So, yes. If it were guaranteed no one would look at me funny, and cost were a non-issue? I would totally commission like fifteen sets of petticoat + skirt/dress + overskirt, plus or minus a few corsets (with busks rather than laces, I'm not coordinated enough to manage my own laces) and maybe even some slightly fancier things with crinolines (all right, yes, slightly later period than renfaire proper, but WHATEVER).
... Which is kind of a weird answer! BUT THERE IT IS. YOU WANTED TO KNOW.
While I feel like I should say "something extremely comfortable", because that's the practical answer (and I do love me a nice fuzzy floor-length bathrobe, lbr), I have to admit that my deepest clothing id? Is totally renfaire-shaped. :D I love layers, I love old stuff, and I cannot overemphasize how much I enjoy wearing ankle-length skirts—and I do mean "skirts", I love having two or three on at a time. I love the feeling of weight, the swishy grace of them; I don't know if you've ever read Dragonflight, anon, but the super-brief description near the very beginning of Lessa in her new clothes, feeling the swing of nice heavy skirts around her ankles and loving it? <– YEP. THAT'S IT. THAT'S THE THING.
So, yes. If it were guaranteed no one would look at me funny, and cost were a non-issue? I would totally commission like fifteen sets of petticoat + skirt/dress + overskirt, plus or minus a few corsets (with busks rather than laces, I'm not coordinated enough to manage my own laces) and maybe even some slightly fancier things with crinolines (all right, yes, slightly later period than renfaire proper, but WHATEVER).
... Which is kind of a weird answer! BUT THERE IT IS. YOU WANTED TO KNOW.
