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Livvy [ OOC Account ]
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Casual Wizarding Clothes
« on: January 28, 2019, 05:32:17 PM »
What would be considered casual wizarding clothes?
I just imagine it being muggle clothes like a t-shirt and jeans/shorts.
Wizarding clothing always throws me off x.x
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Olivia [ Hogwarts Admin ]
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Re: Casual Wizarding Clothes
« Reply #1 on: January 28, 2019, 05:37:50 PM »
Per canon, wizarding clothing really only consists of robes. There are definitely different colors and probably slightly different styles (maybe fancy embroidery or collar style or something), but from my understanding anything that is not a robe is not true wizarding wear and is instead some degree of Muggle adaptation. Dress robes are your formal wear, and things like Hogwarts robes are casual wear. Most young witches and wizards that aren't strict traditionalists probably wear more Muggle styles than older witches and wizards (remember the scene at the World Cup in GoF with Archie hahah).

People with fashion designer chars may be able to shed some more light on this! But if we're talking strictly canon, it's just robes.
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Livvy [ OOC Account ]
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Re: Casual Wizarding Clothes
« Reply #2 on: January 28, 2019, 05:55:46 PM »
This is super helpful! Thank you.

Laura [ OOC Account ]
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Re: Casual Wizarding Clothes
« Reply #3 on: January 28, 2019, 06:01:42 PM »
^I agree with Olivia.

I think characters who live in more muggle-populated areas might wear more muggle-type clothes, but would still not be up to date on the latest fashion. For example the Weasley's wear muggle-style clothes but it's all quite plain/basic and Molly makes the knitted sweaters etc. I have @Elisabeth Sturm dressing like this. @Angharad Hughes dresses in muggle clothes but her style is quite eclectic.

For purely wizarding lines without much exposure to muggles (e.g. @Eris Rosier ) I tend to pick either robes or gowns, or "old" style clothes etc. depending on their status.
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Taylor [ OOC Account ]
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Re: Casual Wizarding Clothes
« Reply #4 on: January 28, 2019, 06:28:45 PM »
soooooo which canon are we going by? or is it a choose your own type thing for mh?
because if we're going by book canon none of the guys would be wearing pants, not even at hogwarts lol (at least from what i remember)

Olivia [ Hogwarts Admin ]
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Re: Casual Wizarding Clothes
« Reply #5 on: January 28, 2019, 06:34:17 PM »
coming back to add that Kat chooses her character Farren's style based on a more traditionalist look and her Pinterest board is here if that helps visualize what a more modern fancy wizarding look might be!


soooooo which canon are we going by? or is it a choose your own type thing for mh?
because if we're going by book canon none of the guys would be wearing pants, not even at hogwarts lol (at least from what i remember)

...always book canon hahahah
at least for me
however I will accept movie canon that doesn't clash with book canon. movie canon is definitely more liberal with applying Muggle styles though (even with Arthur and Molly, though as Laura pointed out the style they wear in the movies is fairly simple)

again I feel like the students are pretty well-versed in Muggle garb (even though some like @Lionel Sterling would probably never wear it haha), but most older adults or traditionalists tend to stick to robes or are generally more ignorant of Muggle fashion (or, again as Laura mentioned, the "older style" Muggle clothes) - again, the GoF scene with Archie's friend brandishing pinstripe trousers at dress-clad-Archie saying Muggle men "wear these" lmao. even if they have a general sense of what Muggles wear, they may not really know how to wear it.
regarding pants, I do think most students nowadays would wear them because #progressive but I doubt many of the professors do hahah
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Ariana Laurier [ British Ministry ]
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Re: Casual Wizarding Clothes
« Reply #6 on: January 28, 2019, 06:50:00 PM »
Pottermore says a lot of things that I find a bit sketchy but I feel like what they have on clothing sums things up well.

Book canon wise, HP lexicon reminds us of the following:

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Neville's grandmother wears a long green dress with a fox-fur scarf, a tall hat with a stuffed vulture on it, and a big, red, handbag (PA7).

Young wizards and witches may affect dragon hide accessories to look cool, while the rest of their clothing may be somewhat similar to that of Muggles of the same age. Bill Weasley wears dragon hide boots, and the rest of his clothing "would not have looked out of place at a rock concert" (GF5). After the twins left Hogwarts, they bought themselves dragon hide jackets, apparently Common Welsh Green since they were lurid green (OP38). Tonks when dressed as a Muggle to meet Harry at King's Cross Station wore clothes that could pass as Muggle clothes, but the T-shirt bore the name of a wizarding musical group, so evidently young wizards and witches wear that sort of thing among themselves (OP38).
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Ashton [ OOC Account ]
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Re: Casual Wizarding Clothes
« Reply #7 on: January 29, 2019, 03:57:43 AM »
this is all great info for Britain, but I'll chime in and say for the United States clothing is a lot more relaxed and some schools such as Durmstrang would be even more conservative. One need only look at Ilvermorny's uniforms to understand the differences.

Carys [ OOC Account ]
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Re: Casual Wizarding Clothes
« Reply #8 on: January 29, 2019, 01:42:47 PM »
regarding pants, I do think most students nowadays would wear them because #progressive but I doubt many of the professors do hahah

I used to have something in Sam's sheet that he doesn't ever wear trousers OR underwear...I think he's got one tatty pair of jeans and a loose white shirt he wears when he wants to look like a muggle but in reality he looks like he's escaped from an art college that closed 30 years ago... he tends to go for African-style robes because he spent time there in his youth; which in itself would look fairly ludicrous (blond, white guy in ethnic robe-type things...)

But yeah. I just came in to share TMI about his lack of owning underpants.



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