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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Paul Farquhar" data-source="post: 9740667" data-attributes="member: 6906155">A couple of things that happened in these editions is, in 2nd more professional artists were being used, and by 3rd the printing went into colour.Now, professional artists use reference material, and that becomes even more important with colour. So those artists were drawing what they could see around them, and when delving into historical reference material, focused on the more colourful and interesting outfits. Now from the 15th-17th century, fashions for European nobility became more colourful and elaborate (you can see this by the passing of sumptuary laws, that made it illegal for non-nobles to were certain colours), and thus, more interesting to artists and Ren-Faire cosplayers.Also casting a long shadow is the Victorian artistic movement known as the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, which pretty much invented the completely fake medieval look. Tolkien is often considered a late associate of the Arts and Crafts movement, and hence connected to the Pre-Raphaelite art style. You saw a lot of this in The Peter Jackson movies.Now, when I first started playing D&D, the art was mostly crude pencil drawings, so I wasn't particularly influenced by it. Pointy-hatted wizards and fighters with horned helmets and no pants were clearly just a bit of a joke. So I leaned to not let the art in the book influence my D&D.</blockquote>