Senderal Fashion
Senderal officials, merchants, and professionals favour tailored clothes, cut to fit and shape. They wear high boots, often sport gloves, or arm bands from wrist to elbow. Citizens - both men and women - wear waistcoats over loose shirts or chemises, with overcoats and jackets cut with many panels to create a close fit. High collars are common. Formal skirts are long, and both sexes wear close cut trousers, often with inset side panels of different fabrics or colours.
Service uniforms follow similar lines, but only within distinct (and distinguishing) colour schemes. The space faring wear grey standards and dress blacks, the planet military dark green or deep blue with dress scarlets, and Sentinels (the Senderal police force) varying shades of gold (amber, mustard, or ochre depending on their posting) with dress whites.
The most distinctive part of Senderal clothing is the braid that decorates it. Braids denote rank, standing, lineage, title, position and office, and there is a complex set of rules that dictates who can wear what, when and in what combination. Modest citizens tend towards the discrete, wearing narrow braids at cuff, collar, clothing edge and sometimes covering seamlines. The ostentatious sport wider decorations, declaring themselves to the worlds.
Sendaral spacesuits can also display the wearers' personal braiding, although a ship's crew (including its officers) will wear ship issue suits with braids in the ship's colours alongside their ranking braid.
Hats - tricorns for nobility, and ranking military officers (across all services). Lower ranks wear narrow caps with no brim. Working men sport linen caps in dark colours. Officials are issued with rigid domed helmets with a small brim. Hats are discretionary, and are not currently fashionable for those who are not required to wear one.
Serving Sentinals, like any other of the Senderal services, display service and rank braids on their uniforms and their hat brims (or around the edge of their caps). Those of noble birth are permitted to add a lineage braid, but this should never overshadow their ranking.
(Du Maris Snr is *very* discrete, sticking to his service (Overseer) braid with a thin strip of his house/line colours underlying it. Those with sharp eyes might spot an equally thin strip that decorates his undershirt - this is his old service ranking braid, which includes two very high awards, and a pattern indicating royal favour, but it’s not something he boasts about.)
The Senderal wear their hair mid-length to long. Long hair can be worn up, decorated with ribbons (or more braid). Women often include flowers and jewellery in their up-dos. Men may slick back shorter hair with an oiling/moulding product.
Beards are small and well shaped if worn - goatees are popular. Moustaches are favoured over beards - they tend to be narrow and trimmed to a neat shape.
Service uniforms follow similar lines, but only within distinct (and distinguishing) colour schemes. The space faring wear grey standards and dress blacks, the planet military dark green or deep blue with dress scarlets, and Sentinels (the Senderal police force) varying shades of gold (amber, mustard, or ochre depending on their posting) with dress whites.
The most distinctive part of Senderal clothing is the braid that decorates it. Braids denote rank, standing, lineage, title, position and office, and there is a complex set of rules that dictates who can wear what, when and in what combination. Modest citizens tend towards the discrete, wearing narrow braids at cuff, collar, clothing edge and sometimes covering seamlines. The ostentatious sport wider decorations, declaring themselves to the worlds.
Sendaral spacesuits can also display the wearers' personal braiding, although a ship's crew (including its officers) will wear ship issue suits with braids in the ship's colours alongside their ranking braid.
Hats - tricorns for nobility, and ranking military officers (across all services). Lower ranks wear narrow caps with no brim. Working men sport linen caps in dark colours. Officials are issued with rigid domed helmets with a small brim. Hats are discretionary, and are not currently fashionable for those who are not required to wear one.
Serving Sentinals, like any other of the Senderal services, display service and rank braids on their uniforms and their hat brims (or around the edge of their caps). Those of noble birth are permitted to add a lineage braid, but this should never overshadow their ranking.
(Du Maris Snr is *very* discrete, sticking to his service (Overseer) braid with a thin strip of his house/line colours underlying it. Those with sharp eyes might spot an equally thin strip that decorates his undershirt - this is his old service ranking braid, which includes two very high awards, and a pattern indicating royal favour, but it’s not something he boasts about.)
The Senderal wear their hair mid-length to long. Long hair can be worn up, decorated with ribbons (or more braid). Women often include flowers and jewellery in their up-dos. Men may slick back shorter hair with an oiling/moulding product.
Beards are small and well shaped if worn - goatees are popular. Moustaches are favoured over beards - they tend to be narrow and trimmed to a neat shape.
Senderal fashion leans towards formal presentation, but aims to be elegant in style. Its most distinctive feature is always the wearer's braids. These openly identify their rank, their standing, and any noble lineage and title, alongside their office and position.
Wearing a false braid (so disguising their place in society) is considered a crime. Offworlders are not only not required to wear a braid, but can only do so if awarded one by Senderal royalty.
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