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 Remember
when you were little and played dress up in fantasy garb? 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 garb 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
garb is fun, and depending on your livelihood, profitable!
Of all the genres out there to dress up as, fantasy garb has got to be one
of, if not the most diverse one 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 garb 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 garb 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 garb outfits 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 garb 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 garb
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 |
