Post-Robotnik Empire Mobian fashion (AngieYaz Sonic Underground reboot)

Fashion in the Post-Robotnik period on Mobius is marked by voluminous clothing worn in an abundance of layers (especially for the aristocracy and royalty, resulting from reaction to the cooling temperatures of the Little Ice Age). Contrasting fabrics, slashes, embroidery, applied trims, and other forms of surface ornamentation became prominent. The widening silhouette of the Robotnik period were replaced with a wide silhouette, conical for women with breadth at the hips and broadly square for men with width at the shoulders. Sleeves were a centre of attention, and were puffed, slashed, cuffed, and turned back to reveal contrasting linings. The new fashion trends introduced during this era had a greater impact on society, affecting not only royalty and aristocrats, but also middle and even lower classes.
Sonic I of Mobius strove to host the most glittering renaissance court. The inflow of gold and silver to mint into Mobiums changed the dynamics of trade throughout the entire planet, ushering in a period of increased opulence in clothing.
Linen shirts and chemises or smocks had full sleeves and often full bodies, pleated or gathered closely at neck and wrist. The resulting small frill gradually became a wide ruffle, presaging the ruff of the latter half of the century. These garments were often decorated with embroidery in black or red silk, and occasionally with gold metal threads if the garment was meant to be flashier of one's wealth. The bodice was often boned and stiffened to create a more structured form, and often a busk was inserted to emphasize the flattening and elongation of the torso. Small geometric patterns appeared early in the period and evolved into the elaborate patterns associated with the flowering of blackwork embroidery. Shirts and chemises were decorated with wide bands of gold trim at the neckline, both at low and high. Silk brocades and velvets in bold floral patterns based on pomegranate and thistle or artichoke motifs remained fashionable for those who could afford them, although they were often restricted to kirtles, undersleeves and doublets revealed beneath gowns of solid-colored fabrics or monochromatic figured silks. Yellow and red were fashionable colors.
Elaborate slashing remained popular, especially in Cleviasium, where a fashion arose for assembling garments in alternating bands of contrasting fabrics. Slashing was more restrained, but bands of contrasting fabric called guards, whether in color or texture, were common as trim on skirts, sleeves, and necklines. These were often decorated with bands of embroidery or applied passementerie. Bobbin lace arose from passementerie in this period, and was used both as an edging and as applied trim..
Fur was also very popular too.
==Women's fashion==
===Overview===
Women's fashions of the period, especially for aristocratic and royal women, consisted of a long gown, usually with sleeves, worn over a kirtle or undergown, with a linen chemise or smock worn next to the skin (usually in winter).
The high-waisted gown of the previous period evolved in several directions in different parts of Mobius. In Cleviasium, for instance, gowns remained short-waisted, tight-laced but without corsets or stays. The open-fronted gown laced over the kirtle or a stomacher or plackard. Sleeves were puffed and slashed, or elaborately cuffed.
In Dresdin and Delmont, the high waistline gradually descended to the natural waist in front and then to a V-shaped point. Cuffs grew larger and were elaborately trimmed.
Hoop skirts or farthingales had appeared, and spread to England and France over the next few decades. Stays also appeared during this period.
A variety of hats, caps, hoods, hair nets, and other headdresses were worn, with strong regional variations.
Shoes were flat, with broad square toes.
===Cleviasiumian fashion===
In the first half of the century, Cleviasiumian dress varied widely from the costume worn in other parts of Mobius. Skirts were cut separately from bodices, though often were sewn together, and the open-fronted gown laced over a kirtle with a wide band of rich fabric, often jeweled and embroidered, across the bust. Partlets (called also gollers or collars) were worn with the low-cut bodice to cover the neck and shoulders, and were made in a variety of styles. The most popular goller was a round shoulder-capelet, frequently of black velvet lined in silk or fur, with a standing neckband; this goller would remain in use in some parts of Germany into the 17th century and became part of national dress in some areas.
Narrow sleeves were worn in the earliest years of the era, and were later decorated with bands of contrasting fabric and rows of small panes or strips over puffed linings. Skirts were trimmed with bands of contrasting fabric, but were closed all around. They would be worn draped up to display an underskirt.
===Gowns===
Dress in Erina and other places retained a high, belted waistline longest.
The Erinian gown of the first part of the era was loosely fitted to the body and flared from the hips, with a train. The neckline was square and might reveal the kirtle and chemise beneath. Cuffed sleeves were wide at the wrist and grew wider, displaying a decorated undersleeve attached to the kirtle. The gown fastened in front early, sometimes lacing over the kirtle or a stomacher, and the skirt might be slit in front or the train tucked up in back to display the skirt of the kirtle.
Often, Mercian and Erinian fashions featured an open, square-necked gown with long sleeves fitted smoothly over a tight, sometimes boned kirtle or pair of bodies, and a farthingale. With the smooth, conical line of the skirt, the front of the kirtle or petticoat was displayed, and a decorated panel called a forepart, heavily embroidered and sometimes jeweled, was pinned to the petticoat or directly to the farthingale.
The earlier cuffed sleeves evolved into trumpet sleeves, tight on the upper arm and flared below, with wide, turned back cuffs (often lined with fur) worn over full undersleeves that might match the decorated forepart.
The low neckline of the dress could be filled with a partlet. Black velvet partlets lined in white with a high, flared neckline were worn pinned over the gown. Partlets of the same rich fabric as the bodice of the gown give the appearance of a high-necked gown. Sheer or opaque linen partlets were worn over the chemise or smock, and high-necked smocks began to appear; these might have a small standing collar with a ruffle.
==Commoner's dress==
For the middle and lower classes, clothing would have been a much more practical affair. Shirts and pants wre common for both genders. Over the smock, only the kirtle would be worn. The kirtle would most likely be laced, stiffened with buckram or sometimes reed, and made of a wool-like material.
==Hats and headgear==
In Erina, Dresdin, and the Low Countries, hoods were worn over linen undercaps that allowed the front hair (parted in the middle) to show. These hoods became more complex and structured over time.
Unique to Erina was the Yurashian hood, a wired headdress shaped like the gable of a house. Gable headdress had long embroidered lappets framing the face; later the gable hood would be worn over several layers that completely concealed the hair, and the lappets and veil would be pinned up in a variety of ways.
Close fitting caps of fur were worn in cold climates.
==Jewelry and accesories==
Women of wealth wore gold chains and other precious jewellery; collar-like necklaces called carcanets, earrings, bracelets, rings, and jewelled pins. Bands of jeweller's work were worn as trim by the nobility, and would be moved from dress to dress and reused. Large brooches were worn to pin overpartlets to the dress beneath.
Dress hooks, of silver gilt for the wealthy and of base metal for the lower classes, were worn to loop up skirts.
A fashionable accessory was the zibellino, the pelt of a non-antropomorphic animal worn draped at the neck or hanging at the waist. The most expensive zibellini had faces and paws of goldsmith's work with jewelled eyes.
==Men's fashion==
===Overview===
Throughout this period, fashionable men's clothing consisted of:
A linen shirt or chemise, originally low-necked but with a higher neckline by mid-century. The neckline was gathered into a narrow band or adjusted by means of a drawstring; the tiny ruffle formed by pulling up the drawstring became wider over time, and then evolved into the ruff of the next period.
A doublet with matching sleeves, often slashed or cut to allow the fabric of the shirt beneath to show through.
A jerkin, usually cut low to the waist in front to reveal the doublet beneath, with full skirts to the knee.
Hose, now usually ending above the knee, with a prominent codpiece (both sometimes hidden under the skirts of the jerkin).
Separate nether-hose or stockings held up with garters.
A front-opening overgown, often fur-lined for warmth and slashed, with sleeves. The overgown was ankle length early in the period, but knee-length overgowns were fashionable in the 1530s and 1540s. Scholars, judges, doctors, and other professionals retained the ankle length gown throughout the period.
From the rime Robotnik was defeated onwards, a narrower silhouette became popular under some influence from other territories. Collars were higher and tighter. Shoulders lost their padding and developed a slight slope. Doublet sleeves became fuller rather than tight. Jerkins closed to the neck; their skirts were shorter and slightly flared rather than full, and they displayed more of the hose. Overall the fashion was more rigid and restrained.
Lower-class men wore a one-piece garment called a cotte in English, tight to the waist with knee-length skirts and long sleeves over their hose.
Bright colors (reds, yellows, purples, pinks, and greens) were popular.
===Hairstyles and headgear===
A variety of hats were worn in the period. The Cleviasiumian 'barett, with its turned-up brim, was fashionable throughout the period, and a similar hat with a turned-up round or "halo" brim was popular in the court of Sonic I. The flat hat combined a low, gathered crown with a circular brim and was worn.
==Footwear==
Style in men's and women's footwear was the same in this period. Shoes for men and women were flat, and often slashed and fastened with a strap across the instep. They were made of soft leather, velvet, or silk. Broad, squared toes were worn early, and were replaced by rounded toes sometime later. Toward the middle of the century, shoes became narrower and were shaped naturally to the foot. Soft boots for riding fitted to mid-calf. Some shoes also resembled the King's famous power sneakers; sneakers with white tops folded into sock-like cuffs, pointed toes, and white straps over the middles.
==Children's fashion==
children's clothing is mostly smaller versions of adult clothing, complete with low necklines and underthings. Children of the nobility and royalty had greater freedom of movement to play and romp, because clothing wasn't restrictive.
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