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airyairyquitecontrary:
mandomorp:
One of my favourite things in Star Wars fashion is the stripey bits on jackets.
Everyones got them.
Even in the cartoons.
I want a jacket with stripey bits on it. I’d forever be running my hands over my arms.
It looks like you’d feel a very satisfying kind of “tthhhhhrrrrrppppp.”
I’ve actually sort of been idly working out how to make that trim, because I have a fur-trimmed-hood parka in navy blue satin that looks almost like Cassian’s parka, and it’s got a busted zipper so I don’t want to try to donate it anywhere, I want to take it apart and make myself a Cassian parka.
It’s slightly too small for me, but if I took it apart and expanded it by putting panels of that trim on, it would work.
So anyway– it looks like that trim could be made with a heavy panel of fabric accordion-pleated and sewed down at the sides to some coordinating piping. And I bet it would be really satisfying to run your hands along.
I wonder if there’s any in-universe explanation for the prevalence of that sort of trim, or what? Does it mean something? Does it serve some function in-universe? (Like… being the sort of thing door sensors pick up on, and so serving to make the wearer more likely not to have a door slam in their face, or something, I’m just randomly guessing here.) Or is it based on some old-fashioned textile production technique that used to be common? Or is it just a fashion element kind of like how jeans always have yellow topstitching and flat-felled seams and are blue, even though the reasons for those originally-functional design choices are long gone?
Anyway. I don’t know how to pleat like that but I bet I could figure it out.
airyairyquitecontrary:
mandomorp:
One of my favourite things in Star Wars fashion is the stripey bits on jackets.
Everyones got them.
Even in the cartoons.
I want a jacket with stripey bits on it. I’d forever be running my hands over my arms.
It looks like you’d feel a very satisfying kind of “tthhhhhrrrrrppppp.”
I’ve actually sort of been idly working out how to make that trim, because I have a fur-trimmed-hood parka in navy blue satin that looks almost like Cassian’s parka, and it’s got a busted zipper so I don’t want to try to donate it anywhere, I want to take it apart and make myself a Cassian parka.
It’s slightly too small for me, but if I took it apart and expanded it by putting panels of that trim on, it would work.
So anyway– it looks like that trim could be made with a heavy panel of fabric accordion-pleated and sewed down at the sides to some coordinating piping. And I bet it would be really satisfying to run your hands along.
I wonder if there’s any in-universe explanation for the prevalence of that sort of trim, or what? Does it mean something? Does it serve some function in-universe? (Like… being the sort of thing door sensors pick up on, and so serving to make the wearer more likely not to have a door slam in their face, or something, I’m just randomly guessing here.) Or is it based on some old-fashioned textile production technique that used to be common? Or is it just a fashion element kind of like how jeans always have yellow topstitching and flat-felled seams and are blue, even though the reasons for those originally-functional design choices are long gone?
Anyway. I don’t know how to pleat like that but I bet I could figure it out.
