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[sythyry]

A hat[10 Thory 4261]

Anoof, who is taking a course on Theoretical Fashion, has decided that I am generally underdressed.

I consider this unfair, since I spend more time in the morning getting dressed than he does, seven or eight days a week. (The ninth and occasional eighth is when he has some formal occasion to go to.) I wear ribbons tied here and there -- and they must be tied well enough not to come off when I am flying, and, somehow, delicately enough to actually look good. On ordinary days I wear six (neck, wrists, tail). On more formal occasions, I wear waistcoats, collars, cummerbunds, and this and that.

In any case, Anoof has persuaded me to get a hat.

A blue and glowing green hat. I do not fully understand why it should be blue and glowing green, but it should be. The blue should be a darker version of my feathers, which pretty much means that it has to be done by an Illusidor spell. The glowing green can be produced by yavalle dye, which is the color and luminosity of noontime sunlight shining through an emerald lens.

I have never worn a hat before. Indeed, if you have seen me, you would know that with my usual feather-styling, I had thought that either I need to do something different, or the hat would be more of a hollow-topped bonnet kind of a thing.

In fact, a variety of designs are under contemplation. The most likely one is a very romantical cone sort of a thing, with a thin veil dyed with yavalle trailing romantically off the tip. My feathers will hold it up, and keep it on my head as I fly romantically through the chimneypots and get romantically chased off by pigeons.

But other designs are possible. A truncated cone of a fez. A wide-brimmed thing in the Orren style like Strenata often wears, but without a crown, with my feathers peeking through. A coronet, almost, of cloth on a boiled leather frame.

It will improve my luck with the Orren, Anoof says. As I am currently Orrenless, and have no good prospects even, I am, somehow, making my way to the milliner's. Well, properly, I am waiting for the milliner to show me some cloth samples.

It is hard to express the depths of fear I feel at the prospect of such headgear.

[Poll #382942]

Comments

[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

Hats need a brim! If they can't hide your eyes from the sun, they're useless.

[wave-cannon.livejournal.com]

What about skullcaps?

[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

What about them?

I like the idea of the coronet thing a lot

[dakiwiboid.livejournal.com]

May I suggest something? You could also apply various bits of jewelry to the coronet as appropriate, or even amulets if you liked. If the jewels or amulets are on sturdy pins, you would be able to change them around for the seasons or dress the coronet up or down.

[wave-cannon.livejournal.com]

When you mentioned a "romantic cone," I immediately thought of these cones of scented fat and perfume the women of Ancient Egypt (an ancient civilization oft romantized of on Earth). The "bit" as it was called, was a cone sculpted out of beef lard that had been earlier thoroughly blended with perfume and or strongly scented flower-juice. Once firm, it was then placed, perhaps glued, on top of the head, and the heat of the sun would then cause the bit to melt, thus liberating the scent, and the melting lard would, in turn, help to moisturize the lady's skin.

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

This is a very good reason to consider your species to be monsters.

[Bard grins, though. It hadn't remembered those in a long time!]

[greenreaper.livejournal.com]

I don't know . . . doing silly things because it's a custom is true just about everywhere - consider the case of the statue of Gomo in Rabrazzan, or the habit of Khtsoyis have of slamming one another on the head with clubs at every opportunity! Then again, I guess many would consider them to be pretty close to monsters anyway. :-)

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

Well, that's Rabrazzan for you. And Khtsoyis for you. You're welcome to both of 'em.

[Bard grins. Sythyry knows less than you about Rabrazzan.]

[greenreaper.livejournal.com]

[Don't know what zir excuse is - zie has lived in zir world zir entire life, I've just read a tour guide! ;-]

[greenreaper.livejournal.com]

I am overcome with gratefulness on your unexpected bequest, O most splendrously-prettyful-and-greatly-feathered-and-soon-to-be-hatful Zi-Ri!

[wave-cannon.livejournal.com]

P'shaw: We humans have concocted far greater sartorial catastrophes over the millenia.
Like, that horrid costume that Hallie Berri wore in Catwoman.
If that doesn't qualify as "monstrous," I don't know what would.

[chipuni.livejournal.com]

If you want to catch an Orren, you must think like an Orren. Wear the Orren hat!

[greenreaper.livejournal.com]

Zie already tried being an Orren, and that didn't exactly work out . . .

[wave-cannon.livejournal.com]

He should have practiced the mating calls more, then.

[chipuni.livejournal.com]

At least, not with Seeks-A-New-Name Strenata it didn't. Perhaps if she were higher-class?

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

I'm fond of wide-brimmed hats, myself. But a hat type you didn't list here would be a headdress, perhaps Egyptian-style, perhaps Indian-style. Or perhaps a fusion of those, all draped with beaded leather strands and feathers poking through, accompanied by frills of fur to give Sythyry a veritable mane.

[striderhlc.livejournal.com]

For some reason, I keep having visions of you wearing one of these. :)

- HC

[wave-cannon.livejournal.com]

If zie wore that, I'd be afraid that zie would be mistaken for a shepherd's pie with turquoise feathers!

[shaterri.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid that the orren hat is a bad idea on two counts: on the one count, that Orren -- or at least the sort of Orren likely to take a fluffy young Zi Ri as a laptop -- are more likely to appreciate something a little exotic rather than the Same Old Orren Hat. On the other count, a wide-brimmed hat, stylish as it may be for someone who does a lot of walking around, is bound to be awkward for someone who wishes to fly through doorways at occasionally high speeds and curl up in warm, comfortable, and occasionally narrow spots. I suggest a coronet as the most potentially demure of the options...

[rowyn]

Get the Orren hat! If you get that or the romantic cone, I bet Esory will draw you wearing it. ;)