Fictional Fashion

Clerical robes are white, red, and brass. White robes to symbolize purity, red to symbolize blood shed in self-sacrifice, and brass because that's a gunbelt he's wearing, not a shawl.

The CEO's mask is specially made to show imitations of his facial expressions to convey his feelings better. But it only works with his eyes as a mouth was too difficult.

Commonwealth fashions vary, but being predominantly on low-temprature worlds, the longcoat has stuck. Be it an insulated duster on the iceworlds or a leather trenchcoat on the homeworld, longcoats (badassery optional) are everywhere.

are they brown, though?

The Atlanteans, an offshoot of humanity descended from early-bronze-age Earthlings employed as mercenaries by the resident Precursors, actually did fit the Crystal Spires and Togas trope when 26th-century humanity ran into them again. It was just a phase, though, similar to the art-deco era on Earth, and already waning at the time of contact. Current atlantean fashions tend towards a "nouveau primitive" look that appears vaguely pacific-islander/polynesian (it helps that atlanteans prefer decidedly warmer climates than baseline humanity), with architecture that's heavy on appearing simple and natural.

Grey, black, or white and blue. Gotta show them national colours.

A breakaway nation of clones finds fashion to be part of a larger culture war among its people. There are some who want to emphasize their sameness as a sign of unique ethic pride, unity, and brotherhood and will wear the same clothes, jewelry, make-up and whatnot. Then you have the other ones who find the idea of sameness in a nation where everyone already looks the same to be oppressive and strive to wear whatever makes them stand out as often as possible.

Human vests are color-coded to let people know which noble house they belong to. However, red always indicates a Freeman or Disenfranchised. The Empire adopted red as its national color; the house associated with red switched to an eye-gouging shade of pink.

in the southern theocracy of Kozenshen, despite the nations favored colors leaning (naturally) towards the colors of flame the nobles tend to gravitate more towards violet robes, while the clergy are the ones who bear their religions colors. the general populace tend towards plainer, darker colors, and the theocracy as a whole has a rather subdued sense of fashion.

meanwhile over in the eastern empire, only the high empress and the acting emperor wear (tyrian) purple- at least until Kozenshen dropped it's barrier and began to interact with the rest of the world; Kozenshen's alliance with the empire and relative closeness made them good trading partners and gradually violet and purple dye became more common, and more widely used among the empire's populace- albiet, primarily as hair dye, with their clothing tending towards more earthy tones.

edited 26th May '15 5:24:06 PM by Tarsen