Sayyidah Al-Kateb's attire

[Alberyk]

BYOND Key: Alberyk

Character name: Sayyidah Al-Kateb

Item name:

- Jeweled Tiara

- Traditional Jumper Dress

Why is your character carrying said item to work?

Those items are supossed to be traditional tajaran clothing of the New Kingdom of Adhomai, the place from where Sayyidah hails from. So, when working aboard the station she would like to dress formally with the common clothing of her kin, and since she is a librarian, it would have no trouble with the uniform regulations.

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Item function(s):

Jeweled Tiara: pretty much works a hat, going in the head slot.

Traditional Jumper Dress: Probably a jumpsuit, or a suit.

Item description:

Jeweled Tiara: A silver headdress in the shape of a tiara, it is adorned by not so valuable jewels and spots a translucid veil on the back. There is room for pointy ears in the sides of the piece, as it was molded for a tajara.

Traditional Jumper Dress: A light summer-time dress, decorated neatly with black and silver colors, it seems to be rather old.

Item appearance:

Jeweled Tiara: A silver jeweled tiara based on the russian head gear kokoshnik, something along those lines

Traditional Jumper Dress: A black and silver light summer dress, also based on Russian clothing, the sarafan.

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How will you use this to better interact with crew and/or stimulate RP?

As said before, those are supposed to be tajaran traditional dressing from the New Kingdom of Adhomai,that would tell more about her background and social status back in her home world. And the jeweled tiara would enforce Sayyidah’s origins, such as being part of the nobility and a member of the Njarir’Akhran people. And the items are based on traditional Russian dressing, which the tajaran species draws inspiration from.

Additional comments:

Sprites for the dress are ready, thanks to Coalf for the sprites that were used as base for the the recoloring:

[Coalf]

I know it isn't really the usual for a non-spriter/coder/admin to comment on these apps, but as a man of Slavic origins this really grabbed my attention since this style of dress is russian but the general fashion of such dresses is Slavic in origins thus my country has such traditional dresses too and I have a few pointers and even a similar sprite to that dress.

First, such a dress is worn during a holiday or before a wedding, it was often tailored to show how rich the family was, the more colours the richer the family would be, it wasn't for daily wear but such a thing could be left out since in ye olden days, daily wear meant working with animals and as such they didn't want to dirty their dress, if said character works in a clean department they could possibly wear this daily.

Now the problem is if the character is a noble, the dress doesn't fit, sarafans were worn by peasant girls not nobles, nobles in Russia tried to adopt fashion of other cultures such as French or English (depending what was hip at the time), of course some still wore their Sarafans but those colors would be more modest, white/silver/gold/purple would be colors that nobles would wear to appear a bit higher and above daily lives.

Bit this isn't russia this is Ahdomai so who knows what they feel like wearing, as I said I even have a sprite of a Sarafan made, it's not exactly on model but it's similiar

https://puu.sh/qGEMz/012e1b9b7a.png

https://puu.sh/qGFZX/dac14e2200.pngFront

http://puu.sh/qGG3M/a9e15abd2b.png back

http://puu.sh/qGG5F/e1fdd25f33.png side

 

Now for the jeweled headpiece, that's called a Kokoshnik and as I said it would fit a more modest white/gold/silver dress and not such a colorful dress, it would clash horribly, also Kokoshnik was intended for married women, povyazka would be more fitting for a maiden, it's basically a Kokoshnik but with an open back.

Sorry I reared my ugly head into this thread.

[Alberyk]

First, such a dress is worn during a holiday or before a wedding, it was often tailored to show how rich the family was, the more colours the richer the family would be, it wasn't for daily wear but such a thing could be left out since in ye olden days, daily wear meant working with animals and as such they didn't want to dirty their dress, if said character works in a clean department they could possibly wear this daily.

The character in question is a librarian mostly.

 

Now the problem is if the character is a noble, the dress doesn't fit, sarafans were worn by peasant girls not nobles, nobles in Russia tried to adopt fashion of other cultures such as French or English (depending what was hip at the time), of course some still wore their Sarafans but those colors would be more modest, white/silver/gold/purple would be colors that nobles would wear to appear a bit higher and above daily lives.

That is indeed in purpose, even if their culture is losely based on russian/20's merica one, I believe it would be fine to take some poetic license, as well it is also related to the economic status of the New Kingdom, even if the character itself has noble origins.

 

Bit this isn't russia this is Ahdomai so who knows what they feel like wearing, as I said I even have a sprite of a Sarafan made, it's not exactly on model but it's similiar

https://puu.sh/qGEMz/012e1b9b7a.png

https://puu.sh/qGFZX/dac14e2200.pngFront

http://puu.sh/qGG3M/a9e15abd2b.png back

http://puu.sh/qGG5F/e1fdd25f33.png side

The one at the link in the thread is just an example of how they do look like, but, as said before it, it is supossed to be silver, not colorful. However, those sprites do look great.

 

Now for the jeweled headpiece, that's called a Kokoshnik and as I said it would fit a more modest white/gold/silver dress and not such a colorful dress, it would clash horribly, also Kokoshnik was intended for married women, povyazka would be more fitting for a maiden, it's basically a Kokoshnik but with an open back.

Already explained before about the colors. Also, that could be done too without issues, in regards to the povyaka.

[Coalf]

Bit this isn't russia this is Ahdomai so who knows what they feel like wearing, as I said I even have a sprite of a Sarafan made, it's not exactly on model but it's similiar

https://puu.sh/qGEMz/012e1b9b7a.png

https://puu.sh/qGFZX/dac14e2200.pngFront

http://puu.sh/qGG3M/a9e15abd2b.png back

http://puu.sh/qGG5F/e1fdd25f33.png side

The one at the link in the thread is just an example of how they do look like, but, as said before it, it is supossed to be silver, not colorful. However, those sprites do look great.

 

Glad you read the pointers and you're right, it's simply based on Russian culture, I guess catpeople can do as they please, also not sure how silver/gold/white will look on that sprite, I made it with a lot of colors in mind.

[TishinaStalker]

Application accepted.

[Alberyk]

Items done and added to the code.