Fantasy Clothing Style Index (In progress)

[Lysander_Works]

Not sure how to go about starting this thread, but I am sure what I want it to look like. I want to get an organized list and group of indexes for clothing styles used primarily in fantasy stories, so that visualizing character clothing styles is a bit easier. Examples would be, grouping by time-frame/era, long vs short... Any artists willing to contribute some examples, externally or from their own work is fine. Looking mostly for unique concepts.

 

[RiceballWasTaken]

Not sure how to go about starting this thread, but I am sure what I want it to look like. I want to get an organized list and group of indexes for clothing styles used primarily in fantasy stories, so that visualizing character clothing styles is a bit easier. Examples would be, grouping by time-frame/era, long vs short... Any artists willing to contribute some examples, externally or from their own work is fine. Looking mostly for unique concepts.

you could probably find some of that on pinterest

 

[sbdrag]

Not sure how to go about starting this thread, but I am sure what I want it to look like. I want to get an organized list and group of indexes for clothing styles used primarily in fantasy stories, so that visualizing character clothing styles is a bit easier. Examples would be, grouping by time-frame/era, long vs short... Any artists willing to contribute some examples, externally or from their own work is fine. Looking mostly for unique concepts.

I mean what you're mostly looking for here is usually inspired by irl fashion, so a good way to look into this would be studying a wide variety of fashion from different cultures, era, and movements as an art form.

 

[AmbreaTaddy]

It also depends on the environment. For exemple, my fantasy story takes place in a desert, so the clothes are created according to that fact

 

[CharlesEBrown]

Not sure how to go about starting this thread, but I am sure what I want it to look like. I want to get an organized list and group of indexes for clothing styles used primarily in fantasy stories, so that visualizing character clothing styles is a bit easier. Examples would be, grouping by time-frame/era, long vs short... Any artists willing to contribute some examples, externally or from their own work is fine. Looking mostly for unique concepts.

Several role-playing games have already done this - the "Goods and Gear" book put out by Kenzer and Company for the Kingdoms of Kalamar setting (in D&D 3.x and HackMaster 4th Edition) had some great examples, some straight historical, some tweaked for setting deviations.
There were two books like that for D&D before that but I never owned those. A lot of settings guides (the d20 Slayers series - which include some mythical creatures, but also historical settings - had some good details on Aztec and Wallachian (Transylvanian) costuming (often violated on the cover for "cheesecake factor"); their Chinese one (or one of them - I've heard they had two) wasn't as good - it seemed to assume one small region influenced the entire empire. For turn of the (19th-20th) Century fashions, any version of "Ravenloft: Masque of the Red Death had some solid examples (and some references to look into for more detail)

 

[Lysander_Works]

Been meaning to reply. Had much less time for this than I thought I did. I might not be able to organize these things as I had planned to, but there are still some good sources you have suggested. Thanks for that.
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