“The devil!” said the boy. “You must be joking! Change the fine clothes my mother made me just the other day for this knight’s stuff? My nice thick canvas shirt for his, all soft and thin? Give up my tunic that never leaks for this thing, that wouldn’t keep out a drop? Hang anyone who’d swap good clothes for bad!”
Chrétien of Troyes, Perceval
Separate from their base appearance, how does the character dress? Most specifically, what is their semi-formal wear1? What colors and materials do they use? What new fashions are they using, or what are they not adopting?
Should have some guidance on clothing here
(like the stuff in Songs & Styles of ___)
The Clergy
Not that appearance doesn’t matter to the clergy2, but you often have less say on the style and its trends. Attire is only a field for knights and ladies.
”Wielding” your Attire
Your clothes make an important impression, which is a tool or even a weapon for you to use.
Very WIP, but my current thoughts are Attire is mostly a free place to draw Advantage from - like a free Preparation. Or perhaps it still has a price, but you just get a few points of Preparations (based on how out of date the outfit is) at the start of the year3.
Getting Out of Date
There’s a place to mark “year made” because, well… after awhile, that dress is no longer the new in thing. Both because the style falls out of date, and potentially before then just because you’ve been wearing it all the time. It’s no longer novel and fresh.
Footnotes
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Though if you have the space you can specify multiple outfits. ↩
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Including very intentional use of attire. ↩
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I do like the idea of being able to “wear out” your benefit, and perhaps with minor mending and additions to “repair” it, because that gives The Loom and The Distaff and Spindle more direct and meaningful interactions with someone players interact with all the time. ↩