Clothing

Clothing in Osreth is widely varying, depending on age, race, gender, class, work, and the level of formality of an occasion.

Men's Clothing
Men's clothing is variable based on class and profession.

Habitual outfits for men consist of tight-fitting trousers and padded jackets. Even men of lower class can dress quite fancily, depending on their personality and access to money.

Women's Clothing
Women's clothing is variable based on class and profession.

Lower-class women can wear manufactory clothes. Prostitutes in Amalo wear a variety of clothing, including low-cut dresses.

Amiru Chonhadrin, an ashenin, wore her "hair in cable-thick braids around her head. She wore airmen's trousers tucked into heavy boots, and a patterned calico shirt under a laced leather vest."

Noblewomen wear a variety of expensive fabrics and tailored outfits, often with a great deal of ornamentation.

For her first audience with Maia Drazhar, Csoru Drazharan wore a jacket with silver bullion embroidery.

For her first audience with Maia, Hesero Nelaran wore "a floor-length dress trailing a train like a snake’s tail; a quilted and elaborately embroidered jacket, plum on black, frogged with garnet clasps like drops of blood.”

For the party at which she met Maia, Nedaö Vechin wore "a tulip-hemmed dress of a deep rose color with a long, trailing train."

For her first meeting with Maia, Csethiro Ceredin wore "pale green watered silk".

When Maia first saw Paru Tethimin, she wore "long sheath skirt" and high heels that made running difficult to impossible. This was a very sophisticated fashion popularized by Csoru.

Uniforms
Mazei wear blue robes.

Clerics of Ulis wear black robes and veils, and sometimes masks. Prelates of Ulis often wear black frock coats.

Soldiers wear uniforms with baldrics.

Scholars in the Ethuveraz wear special robes.

The Emperor
Only the emperor may wear all white. He is also expected to wear extensive jewelry, either the Michen Mura (Lesser Jewels) or the Dachen Mura (Greater Jewels, which do not leave the Untheileneise Court). He also wears the Ethuverazhid Mura, the imperial crown, which is a heavy circlet of silver set with opals.

Maia wore tashin sticks of frosted glass, emerald, and "gold-chased bone sticks set with pearls." He was given ivory tashin sticks by his aunt, Thever Sevraseched. On Winternight, Maia wore “an elaborate silver webbing with tiny diamonds at every node, and a veil over it so fine it almost wasn’t there. Diamonds on his fingers, in his ears, [and] around his neck”.

Maia had necklaces “of moonstones and cabochon emeralds that clasped tight around his throat”.

During the seclusion before his coronation, the emperor is expected to wear a mourning veil; it is held on with bronze pins.

Maia's coronation outfit was "snow-white linen; white stockings and white court slippers; white velvet trousers; a white silk shirt; and over it not the ordinary quilted jacket but a long white robe, quilted and brocaded."

Amber worn in the hair is seemingly reserved for members of "the ruling house", possibly imperial or otherwise (and possibly indicating ruling branch status).

Special Occasions
A keb is “a long, white, sleeveless and shapeless garment. . . an archaic piece of clothing used. . . only for initiations among the mazei and clergy, and for coronations.”

Formal mourning clothing is all black.

Accessories
People in Osreth wear spectacles for visual disabilities, as well as pincenez. Pincenez are possibly a sort of spectacles like the real-life pince-nez "that are supported without earpieces, by pinching the bridge of the nose. . . . Because they did not always stay on the nose when placed, and because of the stigma sometimes attached to the constant wearing of eyeglasses, pince-nez were often connected to the wearer's clothing or ear via a suspension chain, cord, or ribbon so that they could be easily removed and not lost."

Elves and goblins, regardless of gender, wear a variety of jewelry, including earrings, bracelets, necklaces, and rings, as well as hair ornaments. Earrings can be made of glass, or have precious stones like lapis lazuli, cloisonné beads, sapphires, pearls, fire opals, rubies, amethyst or emerald chips, silver and jade, or be gold-beaded hoops. Elves and goblins often wear multiple earrings on at least one ear. Ilinverieise-made earrings are incredibly precious, and are at least sometimes made of pearls.

Goblin nobility is possibly conservative with non-hair accessories. Prelates sometimes wear brass earrings.

When elves are in mourning, regardless of gender, they wear a face veil.

Scholars wear a scholar's key about their necks.

Hairstyles
Elvish hair tends to be white, and can sometimes be curly. Goblin hair tends to be black. Goblin hair goes white with age, and can be very thick. Long hair is seemingly favored over short, with elvish and goblin nobility in particular sporting long hair.

Elves and goblins often braid their hair. A simple braid to keep hair off a person's neck is "more suited to a child than to an adult". A thick knot of hair is a child's hairstyle. Adults of goblin heritage sometimes braid their hair in a horsetail. Barizheise braids are a particular hairstyle for goblins and those with goblin heritage.

Adult female elves can have long braided hair going down in a single braid past their hips. Noblewomen sometimes pile their hair in buns and twining braids, and sometimes beads. Male elves also sometimes wear their hair in thickly braided buns.

Adult male elves (or at least the emperor) can have their hair tied "into a giant knot" at the base of their skulls, "with long thin plaits", with ribbons and precious stones. Women also sometimes use ribbons in their hair.

Elves (and possibly goblins) often braid up their hair especially for when they sleep.

Prelates are entitled to a special long braid called a prelate's braid that can go past the waist, with a ribbon at the end. At least some prelates wear "pearl-headed hairpins", pinned up in a way “so that none of the metal showed, only the pearls”. This is a style they are taught as novices. Prelate pins can be glass rather than true pearls.

For soldiers, a typical hairstyle is a soldier's topknot, at least sometimes with braids.

Ashenoi sometimes wear their hair in "cable-thick braids" around their heads.

Scholar's braids are a pair of braids plaited with specifically colored ribbons: red ribbons indicate a scholar of the first rank.

Elves and goblins often add tashin sticks, combs, ribbons, and sometimes precious gems and/or beads to their hair. Hair ornaments include black beads, opals, moonstones, pearls, rubies, as well as strands of "faceted onyx", pearls, amber, rubies, black pearls, and turquoise beads.

The number of tashin sticks used seems to indicate rank or formality: a single pair is considered plain. Tashin sticks can be made of red lacquer, and the nobility can have them made of various expensive materials. Noblewomen sometimes wear tashin sticks in their hair, like daggers.

Combs can be made of tortoiseshell (the most common, especially for nobility and their servants),  black lacquer,  ivory, and pale jade. Combs can be carved with patterns, like dragon scales.

Amber worn in the hair is seemingly reserved for members of "the ruling house", possibly imperial or otherwise (and possibly indicating ruling branch status).

Goblins braid their mustaches. Elves can also have tremendous mustaches.

As a punishment for crimes, such as murder or in preparation for a revethoran, hair is cropped.