Howard Brazee wrote:
> Traditional elves were very fa****on conscious. They copied the fa****ons
> of the rich humans of their time.
>
> So what would they wear nowadays? I can sort of see them emulating Tom
> Wolfe. But in generally our wealthy don't stand out the way they did
> in the past.
Blonde-eyed blue-haired fa****on victims, the whole kit-and-kaboodle of
'em!
No, facetiously - the elves - if they weren't being masalai
http://www.geocities.com/thslone/masalai.html
and haunting humans just
for
the malicious fun of it - and were trying to fit somehow into human
society, they would either be trying to blend in, in which case they would
take whatever is blandest of the human styles, east or west, or they would
be trying to be pre-eminent, in which case they would take the lead in
various experimental and extremely chancy clothing styles.
In Tolkien's cycles, Elves were long-lived and didn't have the time to
copy
human fa****ons - humans copied Elvish fa****ons; in various other eldritch
cycles, the elves/eldritch beings are by now a lesser quantity, and do
have
to copy their styles from the humans.
I've written something along those lines - of the Spirits of Fire, one of
whom has to return to Earth to complete a failed mission from millennia
back, as it's the only thing that will grant "him" absolution and
restore "him" to the bosom of society. "He" appears to be dressed in a
casual suit, rather than anything fancy, in order to blend in with human
society - though it is the paleness of "his" skin that tends to bring
attention:
The City Presence Fires http://masalai.free.fr/Monature.html
"But what can you do with a six-foot something that looks like he hasn't
seen the sun in ages, who is - get this - dead-white, or as near as makes
no difference, who doesn't speak any language known unto man, or at least
known to this seventeen-year old specimen trying to serve him? Who has
shades on and has just lowered them to take a good, long look at you? That
he was wearing a decent suit and tie made no difference. Just his luck to
get the weirdoes, just what James O'Sullivan needs on a hot summer's
evening, isn't it!"
FWLIW
Wesley Parish
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