Questions tagged [clothing]
For questions regarding clothes (and other related possessions) and trends of a culture.
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Prince Rupert' Drop Armor: How Expensive?
I recently saw this short which showed that, if you melted the tail off of a Prince Rupert's Drop, the head would retain its characteristic toughness without the vulnerability of the tail. This got my ...
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What industrial footprint is needed to manufacture ample medieval-era work uniforms?
I'm a time traveler from 2024 who has set myself up in the medieval era as a local lord, and I wish to provide cheap, high-quality uniforms for laborers in my lands, namely: unisex tunics, and hooded, ...
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In what situation would universal full-body protective clothing be preferable to living in sealed habitats?
For complicated reasons I won't get into, I am trying to create a setting where full-body protective clothing at nearly all times is the norm.
There are numerous post-apocalyptic scenarios where going ...
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How does constant darkness effect a culture's clothing?
In my world, Elves live in a tall forest with a canopy so thick that almost no light reaches the forest floor. Due to this, Elves have all but gone blind. The sun still warms the upper layers, but ...
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What would mice use as raw materials for clothing?
This is my first question and I hope I didn't go beyond the scope of this forum.
I am working on an amateur tabletop role-playing game, and I'm wondering how to make clothing & architecture feel ...
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How does a wing membrane from shoulder to knee affect the clothing of a humanoid?
This species called Artisans has a second shoulder on the lower half of the ribcage which extends into a pterosaur-like wing, and a membrane that goes from the wing shoulder down to about the knee. I ...
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Best female underwear for rocket travel [closed]
Rocket-based travel must minimize the amount of mass that is carried. At the extreme end, this would include eliminating mostly non-functional systems such as clothing
Not all clothing is without ...
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Would Fishmen Wear Corsets? [closed]
Corsets are a useful piece of clothing. They have a variety of uses, including shaping the body
This functionality can clearly work in mammals and other cases where the spine is in the back, however I ...
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How long do Brown Bear coats/pelts last?
I have a character who intends to wear the pelt of a Brown Bear at a particular point in time. That doesn't come about for a decade. I was wondering how badly degraded, or preserved will the coat be ...
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Would Frogs Wear Corsets?
Corsets are undergarments with a variety of usages, including supporting large dress and such. While this is functional for birds and lizards, I feel there is another type of being to consider, that ...
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Clothing for my Alien Species
I have designed an alien species with a non-humanoid build, and I would like some help with figuring-out what plausible clothing for it would look like.
My objectives for what I would like this ...
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Footwear for my invisible fantasy race
My setting (urban fantasy set in 1998 America) has a variation on the classic movie monster of the "invisible man". Here this species (tentatively called the neverthere) has a physical body ...
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How might a flippered being wear a watch?
The underwater people are humanoid beings that live underwater. In place of arms they have flippers: These flippers vary in shape from more humanoid to closer to that of a penguin or whale. All of ...
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Desert clothing in a world without plants
Suppose there was a world in which there were no plants, and with that no vines, fibers, or cotton and whatnot. There are animals that produce fur, in large abundance, and so that is a major source of ...
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What natural ocean resources can be used to make into clothing?
I have a civilization that lives not exactly underwater, but completely surrounded by water in which their cities are both submerged underwater or built floating right on top of it. Almost all of ...
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