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[Sirbug]

I think it can be tied with mandate/demand system. If we get it so mandated crafts go into noble's posession, let's have them request regalia first. They will then wear it as clothes.

[Starver]

My mind just decided that "chains of office" should be added to the 'wearables' list, under this plan.  Certainly at the Mayoral level of nobility.

(Makes more sense than randomly placing chains-as-furniture in their bedrooms.  Unless they're into kinky restraint activities or something.)

[Tristan Alkai]

I like this idea.  My favored implementation would be nobles demanding or mandating clothes "fitting of their station," which is defined by a minimum value in dwarfbucks.  This value could then be achieved by quality, dyes, embroidery, gem studding, or whatever embellishments can actually be produced at this particular fort. 

And in general "clothes befitting their station" would almost certainly be both more sensible and much easier to fulfill than a lot of the stuff we get now. 

And preferably fairly large prominent clothes at that: cloaks, shirts or robes, and other things that would be distinctive from a distance. 

As King, I require either a scepter or a crown!

Our culture doesn't make crowns or scepters.
Symbols of oppression...

Uhh, well then anything made out of giant tiger leather. I do love giant tigers...

A month later...

I present to you, your symbol of office, a giant tiger leather thong!

Yeah, I don't think a thong is big enough.  The main purpose of royal raiment is to look impressive (in other words, expensive), and I envision an expensive look being easier to pull off with a distinctive dye (or, better yet, gems).  Not that I'm an expert on leather, but I am given to understand that most leathers look pretty much the same, or are at least affected more by the tanning process than the animal the hide came from. 

[NJW2000]

While the fur industry is pretty evil largely, fur might be a good material for this.

[BoredVirulence]

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Yeah, I don't think a thong is big enough.  The main purpose of royal raiment is to look impressive (in other words, expensive), and I envision an expensive look being easier to pull off with a distinctive dye (or, better yet, gems).  Not that I'm an expert on leather, but I am given to understand that most leathers look pretty much the same, or are at least affected more by the tanning process than the animal the hide came from.

It was a joke stemmed from a possible raw implementation, where, among other things, you may be able to specify just the material that should be used. In this case, they just happened to make a thong. The purpose of procedurally generated forgotten beasts isn't to die in a single punch, but it sometimes happens.

[Starver]

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Yeah, I don't think a thong is big enough.  The main purpose of royal raiment is to look impressive (in other words, expensive), and I envision an expensive look being easier to pull off with a distinctive dye (or, better yet, gems).  Not that I'm an expert on leather, but I am given to understand that most leathers look pretty much the same, or are at least affected more by the tanning process than the animal the hide came from.

It was a joke stemmed from a possible raw implementation, where, among other things, you may be able to specify just the material that should be used. In this case, they just happened to make a thong. The purpose of procedurally generated forgotten beasts isn't to die in a single punch, but it sometimes happens.

Jokes aside, one couldn't imagine the king wearing just a skimpy thong, sandals and a short cape as a mark of his office?  Or is it just me that needs the brain-bleach?

(And that's even before I remembered that this guy ruled his berserkers and crazies and other various 'camp'-followers whilst wearing not much more than leather hot-pants...)