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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mythusmage" data-source="post: 139808" data-attributes="member: 571">A Forlorn Attempt at Being SeriousFolks, ask yourself this. Do the people of your world even know about bikinis? If they did, would they use chainmail to make it? Why? I should think that any armorer worth his salt would absolutely refuse to make a chainmail bikini for someone who plans to go fight in it. Battle is really no place to look for mating opportunities. You have one set of gear for killing monsters, another set for recreational babymaking.Where daily garb is concerned, you do need to ask a few questions. First, what is the climate like? Unless there is some sort of conflicting influence, clothing tends to be determined by the local climate. Those who live in hot, humid climes do tend to wear a lot less than those from drier, more temperate climes. Second, what about personal wealth? A wealthy man will have more to wear than a poor one. Related to this is the question, How easy is it to get stuff clean? The harder it is to get something clean, the more likely it is for people to do without clothing in situations where near or total nudity is possible (a nice, warm hut for example).Which last leads to the question of children. What do they wear? In a land where clothing is expensive and laundry technology is primitive you can expect the younger childern to be running around nude. In a cold clime (or one where it gets cold on a seasonal basis) the youngest children are likely to be kept indoors. The older kids, the ones who can be trusted to at least make a stab at keeping their clothing clean, would have stuff to wear. But even then there will be times when they'll be in the altogether.And that leads us to the question of privacy. Is there any? Is interior architecture like today, with corridors and individual rooms, or is it like the "good-old-days" when every part of a building was visible from every other part, with the exception of those rooms designed to be "set off" from the rest of the place. So why not use interior walls the way we do? Expense. Cut stone and concrete is expensive, and many a culture couldn't see the value in it. Even today this is true, with most interior walls being made of drywall and similar materials. If there are no interior walls, no distinct, separate rooms, then there will be no privacy or any expectation of privacy. Not only will there be no expectation of privacy in private, there will be no expectation of privacy in public. That means you'll see the local leather worker placing jars in front of his shop for men to urinate in. (Urea is used in the tanning process, in case you were wondering.) Alchemists may set up urns for folks to defecate in so they can collect the fewmets for their work.To make a long expositon short, how people dress will depend on their culture, what they are going to be doing, and their expectations regarding personal privacy. In other words, you're really not going to see chainmail bikinis out on an adventure. One last thing. After awhile a nude person doing ordinary, everyday things becomes rather uninteresting. It really isn't what you wear, it's what you're doing while you wear it.</blockquote>

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