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Old 10-15-2011, 03:27 PM   #54
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Default Re: 'Imperial Culture' (non-canonista)

My artistic skill are obviously pretty limited, but the fashion sketch above may serve as an example of how I see Imperial fashions. Of course, The Imperium dominates a vast area of space, with trillions of 'citizens.' There are a lot of cultural influences at work.


IMC, the austere 'crystal towers and togas' look was in a couple of hundred years ago, a sort of recycled neo-Classicism mixed with early 20th Century sci-fi coolness. Now a more complex, strongly gendered, naturalistic fashion has come into favor. Synthetics are out, natural fibers and leather are in. Handcrafted clothing, holsters, etc are the mark of good taste and money. Some of trend is reaching back not so much to the 18th & early 19th Centuries AD of Terra, as to the mode when Arbelletara was Empress. The rising tide of Authenticism has impacted court fashions, as well.
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