OKAY I WORK IN A FABRIC STORE AND ONE TIME THIS LITTLE OLD LADY CAME UP TO ME AND SLAMMED THE INDEPENDENCE DAY ONE DOWN ON THE COUNTER AND SAID, “THIS. THIS IS WHAT OUR COUNTRY NEEDS.”
I had an older man come into the fabric store that I used to work in and dropped 3 bolts of the firefighter one on my counter and said, “I need this. I don’t know what I’m gonna do with it, but I need it.” a man behind him then yelled, “Pyjamas!” and the first man said, “My husband recommends pyjamas.”
omfg
I don’t know how, I don’t know where, but I will find this fabric.
I work at Joann’s Fabric and we carry some in stores and online. My boss says around Christmas and Halloween we get things like sexy Santa’s helpers and sexy Devils, and I’ve definitely seen firefighters.
Apparently, she’s made curtains of the firefighters for her crafts room.
There’s a wider selection of the fabric here, though strangely every place that stocks it seems to think that it’s just for quilts, home decor, bags and maybe a t-shirt. Personally I think we’re missing the true potential here.
So hear me out:
Tuxedos.
Is the world ready for this much manliness? There’s only one way to find out.
– wincenworks
I’d note that this fabric collection also comes with many traditional female pinups, so in that perspective it’s a breath of fresh air to see how they cared to cater to people with different tastes in sexy.
OKAY I WORK IN A FABRIC STORE AND ONE TIME THIS LITTLE OLD LADY CAME UP TO ME AND SLAMMED THE INDEPENDENCE DAY ONE DOWN ON THE COUNTER AND SAID, “THIS. THIS IS WHAT OUR COUNTRY NEEDS.”
I had an older man come into the fabric store that I used to work in and dropped 3 bolts of the firefighter one on my counter and said, “I need this. I don’t know what I’m gonna do with it, but I need it.” a man behind him then yelled, “Pyjamas!” and the first man said, “My husband recommends pyjamas.”
omfg
I don’t know how, I don’t know where, but I will find this fabric.
I work at Joann’s Fabric and we carry some in stores and online. My boss says around Christmas and Halloween we get things like sexy Santa’s helpers and sexy Devils, and I’ve definitely seen firefighters.
Apparently, she’s made curtains of the firefighters for her crafts room.
There’s a wider selection of the fabric here, though strangely every place that stocks it seems to think that it’s just for quilts, home decor, bags and maybe a t-shirt. Personally I think we’re missing the true potential here.
So hear me out:
Tuxedos.
Is the world ready for this much manliness? There’s only one way to find out.
– wincenworks
I’d note that this fabric collection also comes with many traditional female pinups, so in that perspective it’s a breath of fresh air to see how they cared to cater to people with different tastes in sexy.
I am mostly convinced this was kind of a happy accident rather than intentional worldbuilding, but this here’s a thing I get a kick out of regarding Gerudo fashion;
In Gerudo society, this is women’s armour that armoured warriors would wear;
When you crack even the regular not-Nabooru Iron Kuckles open there’s a unique, not-Nabooru Gerudo lady inside of them, Iron Knuckles are covered in Gerudo motifs, this is all around a pretty Gerudo construct.
BUT, this is Ganondorf’s armour when he was young and functioning as their king;
We got a skin tight black leather catsuit under sculpted muscle leather armour topped off with thigh-high boots. Ganondorf comparatively wears the masculine equivalent to form-fitting titty breastplates. I’d go so far as to say this is like the Gerudo saying “But if they can’t see his sweet abs and manly, narrow hips how will they know he’s a guy? Better hammer some pecs into that chest plate just to be sure. Put some weird beads on his big bulgy biceps, it’ll draw people’s attention and he’ll get the upper hand while they’re distracted.”
The in-universe implications of of the character with the most aggressively on-display masculine secondary sex characteristics also being the character who was most likely dressed by women are kind of interesting to consider. It’s kind of taking “male power fantasy” and looping it around into some kind of “strong male character” situation, like some Gerudo fashion designer is standing there all “okay, so the fabric might not breathe at all and you’ll probably get your sternum crushed by the first guy who tries to punch you in the chest, but just get a load of how masculine and empowered you look!”
Wouldn’t it be nice if someone did female society worldbuilding deliberately and unironically like that?
Matriarchal society (say, drows?) where female warrior attire is designed with functionality and coolness in mind, while male fighters are dressed to look as masculine and conventionally attractive to the women as possible.
It’s quite sad that no-one in the mainstream media seems willing to try the idea.
I am mostly convinced this was kind of a happy accident rather than intentional worldbuilding, but this here’s a thing I get a kick out of regarding Gerudo fashion;
In Gerudo society, this is women’s armour that armoured warriors would wear;
When you crack even the regular not-Nabooru Iron Kuckles open there’s a unique, not-Nabooru Gerudo lady inside of them, Iron Knuckles are covered in Gerudo motifs, this is all around a pretty Gerudo construct.
BUT, this is Ganondorf’s armour when he was young and functioning as their king;
We got a skin tight black leather catsuit under sculpted muscle leather armour topped off with thigh-high boots. Ganondorf comparatively wears the masculine equivalent to form-fitting titty breastplates. I’d go so far as to say this is like the Gerudo saying “But if they can’t see his sweet abs and manly, narrow hips how will they know he’s a guy? Better hammer some pecs into that chest plate just to be sure. Put some weird beads on his big bulgy biceps, it’ll draw people’s attention and he’ll get the upper hand while they’re distracted.”
The in-universe implications of of the character with the most aggressively on-display masculine secondary sex characteristics also being the character who was most likely dressed by women are kind of interesting to consider. It’s kind of taking “male power fantasy” and looping it around into some kind of “strong male character” situation, like some Gerudo fashion designer is standing there all “okay, so the fabric might not breathe at all and you’ll probably get your sternum crushed by the first guy who tries to punch you in the chest, but just get a load of how masculine and empowered you look!”
Wouldn’t it be nice if someone did female society worldbuilding deliberately and unironically like that?
Matriarchal society (say, drows?) where female warrior attire is designed with functionality and coolness in mind, while male fighters are dressed to look as masculine and conventionally attractive to the women as possible.
It’s quite sad that no-one in the mainstream media seems willing to try the idea.
