Gamer Chic

[pogre]

I'm a shirt and tie guy, but I have a player in my group who is much more interesting. He regularly wears a mohawk, a reverse mohawk, or is clean shaven. He wears ponchos in cool weather and has some very funky knitted hats. Very eclectic tastes, but still cool - I could never pull it off though.

 

[Shadowdancer]

I'm fortunate that at work I can dress pretty casual -- Dockers or jeans with polo shirts. I work afternoon and evenings, sometimes until early in the morning. So when I go home for dinner, I often change into something even more casual before coming back to work -- jeans in winter (in Texas, that's like 2-3 weeks), hemmed jeans shorts the rest of the year. Plus T-shirts. The T-shirts vary, depending on my mood. I'm recently into a retro-rock phase since I found a place selling old school album cover and logo artwork T-shirts -- Pink Floyd, Led Zep, the Beatles, Rolling Stones.

I do have some gamer-related T-shirts I've worn to work in the evenings. Others are from places I've been on vacation. Or sports related.

I also have a large collection of baseball caps and gimme caps that I wear, esp. if the weather is bad or I'm at a sporting event, or I'm having a bad hair day, or if I come to the office on the weekend.

For footwear, I usually wear sneakers. Back in college, I started wearing Nike hightops almost exclusively, but they've gotten so expensive, and so ugly! They junk them up with all this urban-style crap that I don't like. So I've switched to low tops -- excuse me, "cross trainers" -- white with subtle color accents.

For cold or rainy weather, I do have a black trenchcoat that my wife hates for me to wear, and a leather bomber jacket and a canvas bomber jacket. And a couple of lighter, windbreaker jackets.

I don't own a suit, but I do have a blazer, a couple of button-down dress shirts and a couple of ties, but rarely wear them.

 

[Kapten]

I'm usually wearing Diesel jeans (one of four pairs of pants which are the only ones I own ~~) and a t-shirt. I own one set of medieval clothes, but I wouldnt be caught dead wearing them outside any kind of convention or medieval- festival ^^

 

[Djeta Thernadier]

Djeta,

See how this chainmail bikini grabs you.

Cedric

Thanks. That's pretty cool and I like the red, but for what I want it for, will involve adding material to where the backing is...hard to explain in words. Maybe I'll draw a picture and scan it in. So I'm probably looking for more along the lines of the "more flesh" one. But this one is so cool, though. Someday, I'll have to hit the lottery or something and then, I will have a lot of money & a chainmail collection

 

[Afrodyte]

I love to be comfortable, so that usually means that I prefer to be as close to nude as possible without being obvious about it. However, if I had the funds, I'd dress in more glamorous fare, like the Elves in the LotR movies. Unfortunately, not many stores have that sort of thing.

 

[Djeta Thernadier]

I love to be comfortable, so that usually means that I prefer to be as close to nude as possible without being obvious about it. However, if I had the funds, I'd dress in more glamorous fare, like the Elves in the LotR movies. Unfortunately, not many stores have that sort of thing.

Do you have any stores near you that sell those gorgeous imports from India? Like this dress (just an example) :

I like wearing stuff like that. It's light, very elegant and fantasy-like yet easy to find at most malls (Around here, every mall has a store, or at least a cart set up that sells this stuff). And it's not very expensive.

There's also a couple of stores that sell clothing marketed as mediveal or fantasy, but that tends to get up there in cost. I was looking for a pirate shirt for my boyfriend, and while Fools Mansion in Salem, MA (a store that sells period clothing) sells them as "Pirate Shirts" for $45, a small imports cart at the mall sells the same shirt for $32 as an "imported mens shirt".

 

[dave_o]

I usually just make the clothes I wanna wear, as far as fantasy gear goes.

Or have my uberrad and gorgeous girlfriend make it for me!

 

[ssampier]

I feel left out. Most of the clothes I own are store bought t-shirt and jeans. I'm gradually moving away from novelty shirts to plain old vanilla shirts.

I second the pajama bottom idea. They're great, but I'm a prude and wouldn't walk around my apartment like that.

 

[Afrodyte]

Djeta> Unfortunately, no. I do own a kaftan that I got for some $10 or so, but the fabric is very thin and light where I'd prefer it to be dark, so I have to wear something beneath it, or put on dark undies to maintain my modesty. But the reason I bought the kaftan was so I wouldn't need to put all those clothes on.

 

[WanderingMonster]

I'm gay and even I think that's too much Chain and too much Bikini.

Sooo...not enough "mail"?