The best dressed Cantrian!

[SekoETC]

Do we always need to get a full suit before it's something to brag about? Actually, out of my characters I'm most satisfied with Hannah's selection. She has a wool robe (those have a mystical hood, yay!), moccasins, leather bracers and two rings (though she can only wear one of them, she's carrying the other one in a sting around her neck spinned of her own hair).

[Surly]

Lopan has a woolen robe, sandals (impossible to make on the K-island due to lack of hemp... not sure where they came from) and an iron crown.

I quite like that.

[Celthin]

Amazing how many people can reply to a post yet not actually help out the person who posted it... I don't want a complete set of silk necessarily, I just figured since he was going on a silk gathering trip he might as well get as much of a suit as he can... He's going to end up with part leather and part silk, I think. Moccasins would be nice, but so would a silk shirt and pantaloons. Hemp gloves... Basically he's going to end up as a rich working-man, so a silk shirt and pants, but hefty gloves and durable boots and stuff. So anyway, a little help with the silk outfit would be greatly appreciated, rather than complete avoidance of the topic...

[kinvoya]

Other than the sari, dress and silk pantaloons (which I have always pictured as sort of like blousy belly-dancing pants) I think any of the other silk clothes could be worn by men or women. I think you are right about the gloves being womens gloves, too.

Oh, and also the pirong and the stockings are girlie.

[Celthin]

So basically, the only silk clothes for men are the slippers, jacket, shirt, and the robe? Which brings me to my next point, what exactly is the robe like? My imagination is failing me in this instance.

[kinvoya]

I would say the slippers are for women unless maybe they were bedroom slippers and the robe could be for a man but I would say worn open over other clothes.

Really, it kind of depends on the man for all of these things. Some men would wear silk pants and shirt, some wouldn't.

Some men wear the two-piece bikinis.

[Sunni Daez]

don't put silk pants...of any kind on a man!! Not a pleasing image by no means..Silk shirt , yes, silk head wrap, maybe, silk jacket, maybe, but sounds girlie to me, silkpirong NO, pantaloons not by my choice
silk robe...ok

silk stockings, silk slippers, silk gloves, silk Sari, silk veil NO not much possative silk things......

[kinvoya]

In rl there are different kinds of silk. Some of it is sheer and clingy and sexy (which I think is what we are mostly picturing) but raw silk fabric is heavier and could almost be mistaken for cotton or very fine, soft, lightweight wool.

[Sunni Daez]

well, I am refering mostly to the description....silk pants on a man.....thick n heavy...well, then if it doesn't feel or look like silk..whats the point. NO silk pants..

[Celthin]

*puts his hands up in a gesture of "don't hurt me!"* Ok, ok, I get it, no silk pants on a guy! So basically, silk shirt, maybe jacket, possibly robe, but other than that, no silk. Got it.

Oh, and thank you for your input, by the way.

[AoM]

Well... seeing as Cantr is partially fantasy... (barring the cars and bikes, it's technology is set a while back...) silk pantaloons for men make sense. Heck, during the time of Billy Shakespeare, men wore pantaloons...it was the style!

Oh and the Mongol hordes (big barbarian warrior types) wore silk shirts (maybe silk pants, I'm not sure). They did it because the type of silk they wore wouldn't break when they were hit by arrows, it'd be pushed into the body where the arrow sunk in. You might say, yeah, so what? but the damage that came from arrows back then mainly came from the removal of the barb, not the initial puncturing. (Pulling out the barb would make new tearing and cause more loss of blood, leading to death.) HOWEVER, if you had a layer of silk inbetween the barb and the skin, removal of arrows was a lot easier and healthier, and it saved mongol lives.

So... I think silk has it's place on guys... historically at least.

My character on K-island has a silk jacket... don't know how it got there, but he's not complaining.

[Junesun]

Also practitioners of martial arts usually wore silk clothes for training, before modern technology made it possible to create cotton cloth that would be just as resistable to tearing.

[Nick]

My character on K-island has a silk jacket... don't know how it got there, but he's not complaining.

How DID you get a silk jacket?!

[AoM]

He found a mysterious unidentified dead body in one of the buildings in his city when he was cleaning out dead bodies, and it was wearing a silk jacket. *shrugs* Can't let it go to waste.

~AoM

[wichita]

The silk robe makes me imagine Hugh Heffner.