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 Remember
when you were little and played dress up in fantasy clothes? Don’t lie, of
course you do. Be it in your mom’s heels and lipstick singing along to
“goodbye horses” or your favorite Halloween costume while saving/terrorizing
your neighbors, you, at one point in time had the time of your life
pretending to be someone or something else. Make believe wasn’t enough,
dressing the part in fantasy clothes somehow always made it more real.
That’s been proven throughout time itself. Hunters in tribes used to dress
up to try and trick their prey or to gain favor with the animal spirits
while Bugs Bunny did it for, well, probably for more personal reasons than
Tex Avery would have us believe. But that’s not the point. The point is that
fantasy clothes are fun, and depending on your livelihood, profitable!
Of all the genres out there to dress up as, fantasy clothes have got to be
one of, if not the most diverse of them all. It’s like the melting pot
of creativity, although what we associate with fantasy in our day and age
more so than anything else is the classic high medieval fantasy, Lord of the
Rings style, if you will.
You’ve got diverse humans, stoic, if not staunchly dwarves, mystical elves
and of course more orcs, goblins and the gods only know what else than you
can shake a broad sword at… or a very big club.
Elves are known for their links to the woods and similar lines and patterns
show up in their fantasy clothes while the earthy dwarves tend towards
geometrical shapes and designs. Humans have, of course, a well rounded take
on whatever they see, enabling them to fit in just about anywhere while
still maintaining a sense of “human”. You know, as opposed to, “not human”.
In any case, most of the fantasy races that are humanoid in shape tend to
have certain similarities to what they wear. Though each race has its own
sense of fantasy clothes style, the cut of said style can still be similar.
This would prove most true with shirts, pants and some dresses and tunics.
That along with a clever background story and you’re well on your way to
mixing and matching to come up with more fantasy clothes than you
initially though!
Then of course you get into the extra stuff. No, not inter-racial breeding,
I’m talking about latex. Not that kind either. I mean elf ears, horns, beast
noses. You know the stuff that makes fantasy clothing less status quo and
more, well, fantastical.
 But
of course, the prosthetics are only if you or someone you know is
comfortable in dealing with that much adhesive and make up. But there’s
always the jewelry, even for the men too, whether you want your fantasy
clothes as an Elvin noble man with a crown of flowing silver or a
no-nonsense dwarf and his bad ass Thor’s hammer ‘round his neck.
There’s always more room for the nonsensical and the fantastical in this
world, so get out there and spread the imagination, but don’t forget to put
on your robe and wizards’ hat before you go!
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Author: Tae Wells |
