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Ah, right, they're pearls. Living in a world where the majority of the surface is water, pearls are a common decoration in ritual and simply used as jewelry. I forgot to add it to the pictures as I scanned them in and then colored them, but they are held up using leather strips much like bracelets that hug the arms and legs tightly. They aren't considered practical, so in general, only land-dwellers wear them.

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Kind of interesting.
Also interesting that dressing for church actually means more-revealing clothing than dressing for a formal banquet/ball.

So, where do you tell us about Apishutsa Nanala? And, do they think they look pretty dressed like that?

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Not really, considering not all cultures have the same religious ideas about sexuality as western ones do. Aside from that, formal wear is normally all about showing societal status: Complex, expensive garments which show off an individual's wealth, but because of this complexity are unlikely to be revealing. There's only so much you can do with a bikini.


Anyway Pirka, I never posted this topic because I never finished it! Still have a lot of details to fill in. I'll get around to it eventually.

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The only conculture of mine that has been deeply thought-out is that of the kamawenõ, the native speakers of Evelēranēl. They are an extra-terrestrial race, with an avian physiology instead of a mammalian one. After countless generations of genetic experimentation (they're more than a little obsessed with 'perfecting' their own DNA, since natural evolution takes too long), they are rather humanoid in appearance. As far as concostumes go, it varies quite a bit depending on preference, profession, and practicality (ooh, alliteration).

For day-to-day life, they wear various outfits made of a synthetic, feather-like material, a custom loaned from ancient times when, having lost most of the feathers on their bodies save for their wings, they began to cover themselves with garments made from lost or discarded feathers, both their own and those of other avian species on their planet. Since then, their technology has improved somewhat. They usually wear skintight, jumpsuit-like outfits of this material, in order to best streamline them for flight. Consider it feathery, flight-resistant nylon. (Bad pun alert: I could call it flylon.)

Their higher government officials wear uniforms made of a thick but loose-fitting material intended to actually impede flight - due to some cultural phenomenon in which those with political power must give up physical power.

They also have ceremonial clothing (which in many cases is made of actual feathers) for use at various events that I could ramble on about for hours. But I will spare you.

As far as ornamentation goes, they never wear large amounts of jewelry or decorations, again - primarily because of streamlining, but smaller trinkets such as bracelets and rings are often seen, and in some cases may act as a literal status symbol, with those of certain professions or social classes bearing particular ornaments. A respected geneticist, for example, may wear a ring in the shape of a double helix. And so on and so forth.

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Wait a minute -- You're a belly-dancer?

Pics or it didn't happen.

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The Kàmo wear clothes sparsely, because they live in a hot environment, and many of them work entirely outside, for long hours every day. The majority of workers will wear skirts and things made from grasses and other plants, which protect the "important" external organs. They avoid leather or similar materials, because there is a strong religious stigma among their culture against killing land animals for any purpose. However, they will make charms out of bones from fish, which are widely believed to protect against nasty things like ipiha, which are a whole nother story. However, it is quite common for people to go completely naked in casual environments, such as in the house, and this goes especially for the children, who don't usually have to work anyway.
Social status as a doctor, tribe leader, etc. is not usually marked by more elegant clothing. The normal custom is to put patterns of dyes/paints on the skin that may include certain characters in the conscript that I have actually not even made yet.

A potential Inyauk outfit.

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Oooh, sexy back :3

*oontz oontz oontz*

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What culture do the Inyauk live in? It was probably in one of your Inyauk language pdf's, but I overlooked it.

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No one can resist the sexy back.


What exactly do you mean by 'what culture?'
I guess a general overview would be they're mostly agrarian low-tech people. While they value equality they're government is closer to an oligarchy. They are distrustful of outsiders and have a tendency towards violence when dealing with them.

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Crap. Not culture. I meant to say "Climate"...

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@Ossicone:

That looks sort of Vietnamese too.

Well, at least the way it does the sexy back. Some Vietnamese clothing has that sort of thing. Dunno how widespread it is.

Okay, well, maybe it's not Vietnamese, but I couldn't help remember that some Vietnamese clothing also has the back thing.

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Well that does make more sense. I've gone through a few different climates for them but I've ultimately settled on somewhere hot and humid. Part of it is forested and part of it is not.


I think you just have Vietnamese on the brain...

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For some reason, I have always thought that they were more arctic/taiga peoples...Perhaps because the name reminded my of "inuit"...

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lol. Well I would be pretty cruel to have them wear that in the snow.

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Which is why I was wondering. "Could Ossicone be that cruel? Well... "

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