Lit Clothes and Fashion in the Galaxy Far Far Away

That's because you don't have to wear them! Have you any idea of how cold that stuff is?!? Besides it's insane in battle outfit to leave bare the nost vulnerable part of the body!

Hear! Hear!!! And I don't mind sexy - on the contrary - but I an tired of one-size-fits?-all-sexiness and sexiness that's so darned unrealistic.

It's easily exotic (in fact mostly of chinese origin) and thus easily marks a distance to contemporary RL fashion. The same goes for the cape - put a cape on someone and you immediately say - this is fantasy - this draws lines to history or legends. I suppose it's the same reason why in SW originally only smugglers and shady guys like Lando wore shirts (pulling on cowboy associations) while others wore tunics - a much older garment that goes back thousands of years in earth history.

In general, I think it's good that clothing in SW pulls on history more that on contemporary fashion - which is part of why I don't like the bare midriff stuff. Problem is, that it might look cool right now to readers/viewers - but in fifteen years it will look outdated. Like Mark Hamill's hair in ROTJ that was allowed to be too 80's.

Agree with you there! And fact is, that the combo of a swept piece of clothing (f.eks a cape) over a tunic was the formal Wear for rich classes already in ancient Rome. Indeed - one could argue that the jacket over shirt + trousers Uniform has developed from there.

 

Apparently "Imperial chic" came into fashion again after the Bastion Accords, with a designer saying "It's new and retro at the same time" when presenting her suggestion for Mara's wedding dress in Star Wars: Union.

Leia kiboshes it: "The bride doesn't want to look like the father of the groom."

 

Minimal is maximal!

 

Actually, if you lack armour and don't have to good medical service at hand it can be a good idea to be lightly dressed or forgo clothes at al, since the can get into wounds and create infections. But than again that argument can only be made if you are not nearly fully dressed outside of your midriff

 

The Imperial Teletubbies!!!

 

PS: That one Imperial Adviser just begs to be retconned into a Cerean... or at least into loving Cerean hats!

 

I'd definitely like to see this (in general, I tend to prefer it when the clothing leans toward the believable and practical). That having been said, however:

 

Children of the Jedi does mention that the Court clothing designer (apparently there was such a person) was among the Imperials lynched when the Rebels seized Imperial Center...

 

I bet the Rebels had a good reason to do so.. I wonder if the fashion designer scene knew of the execution... or else in Union neoimperialistic fashion would not have been proposed at all!

 

Note: The Imperial Sourcebook said that the Imperial Advisors number in the thousands. Much like Imperial Eunuchs. They were so interchangable, they wore ridiculous outfits so Palpatine and other important officials would remember them.

I'm serious, this is in the book.

 

more formal fashion examples:

 

The Togruta waitress' outfit is nice.

 

quote please! and why did the Empire need Eunuchs... ???

 

There are no Eunuchs. Just the role of the Advisors is thousands of officials jockeying for the Emperor's attention, much like Ancient China.

 

Hey, the fat bald dude is a Pantoran! Oh, and also, that Twi'lek in the background is in the same waitress outfit as the Togruta...and she's also the same skin color? I wonder if that club or wherever they are only hires red-skinned employees.

 

Magentas - Come for the crimson, Stay for the Bantha Steaks.

 

AH! Here's the section!

I'd like to point out that Jan isn't the only one who creates the outfits I like either.



Though, admittedly, this is more of a happy accident.



We also have the Twilek midriff code.

 

TOR Era Jedi Council clothes... again the MING-style is prominent.



even more ancient times with roman/greek remniscient tunics and dresses and heavy use of metal not just for protection but ornament or has there been a retcon that it is tech gear yet? otherwise very non-space-age clothes for a spaceage society, a step backwards from where they had been in Dawn of the Jedi that needs elaboration:

 

Eh, fashion doesn't mean advancement.

Especially not in Star Was, where everything is all times simultaneously.

 

They had some odd choices for Roganda Ismaren.



Peculiarly, this is actually would mean Palpatine had his mistress/sex toy/assassin dress up as Amidala.

*shudder*