Clothing

Clothing in Osreth is widely varying, depending on age, race, gender, class, work, and formal occasions.

Men's Clothing
Habitual outfits for men consist of tight-fitting trousers and padded jackets.

Women's Clothing
For her first audience with Edrehasivar VII, Csoru Drazharan wears a jacket with silver bullion embroidery and has her hair "piled in an elaborate edifice of buns and twining braids...[adorned] with glittering black beads, each as big as Maia's thumbnail." Maia thinks that she is overdressed.

For her first audience with Edrehasivar VII, Hesero Nelaran wears "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," and has her hair "dressed with black lacquer combs and tashin sticks and strands of faceted onyx."

For the party at which she meets Edrehasivar VII, Nedaö Vechin wears "a tulip-hemmed dress of a deep rose color with a long, trailing train" and has her hair "piled and braided, ...held with tortoiseshell combs and rose-colored ribbons, and her only jewelry was a series of tiny gold-beaded hoops in her ears."

For her first meeting with Edrehasivar VII, Csethiro Ceredin wears "pale green watered silk; cloisonne beads, crimson and gold...wound through her hair and hanging from her ears."

Uniforms
Mazei wear blue robes.

Clerics of Ulis wear black robes and veils, and sometimes masks.

Soldiers wear uniforms with baldrics and keep their hair up in topknots.

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.

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 is "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 is apparently reserved for members of the ruling house.

Special Occasions
For initiations and coronations, mazei, clergy, and emperors wear the keb.

Formal mourning clothing are 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."