5 People and Their Closets
1.) Rhaenys treated clothes like armor- on certain days, helping Sirius, Gendry, and Arya restore Mott’s old garage, she wore the same ripped jeans and holey t-shirts as them, steel toed-boots for when Arya overestimated her strength. Working at the club meant red tops and dark skinny jeans, with chucks and minimal make-up. (Tyrion had tried to make it closer to Lannister crimson, rather than the artierial blood shade that she preferred.) Programming gigs meant flared jackets and pencil skirts, unless she was working for either American Stark. (Tony was too likely to rope him in for a messy project, while being in Eureka meant wearing street clothes with sensible shoes.) She preferred her street clothes with odd sleeves and boatnecks that covered most of the scars. (And robes- she has a gorgeous deep blue waterfall pattern that Leonette gave her one Christmas, and a short orange one that makes Sirius’ eyes follow her.)
2.) Arya owns two bright and colorful tops- one is a permanent loan from Rhaenys, a cherry-red t-shirt with a cartoon Cthulhu, saying “Why vote for the lesser evil?” It’s from the year that Stannis Baratheon and Tywin Lannister ran as Mayor, and Brienne and Edmure managed to get her mother elected as write-in candidate. She suspects one of the Martells ordered them, because a lot of people were wearing them last year.
The other is a shiny purple button-up with dark grey buttons, from Sansa last Christmas. Sansa had told her that she would need for uni or interviews, and this saved her the horrors of shopping. (She’d been doing the not-laughing thing their father liked to do when Arya was in trouble for something fun, so Arya didn’t yell.)
She ignored how Ned Dayne said he liked the colors.
3.) Someone had once told Sansa that grey looked good on redheads. She’d done some experiments and googling before deciding that was mostly true, and adding it to the list of colors she could wear. (Yes, she had a list- whatever Arya liked to think, she disliked spending hours wandering aimlessly for one or two things as much as her younger sister did.)
So she had a list of colors and cuts and fabrics that she carried around in her head, and had earned a good deal of pocket money doing the same for other girls, especially when formal occasions came up.
So sometimes she despaired of Arya’s choice of clothing sometimes, and made a point of picking up something whenever she needed to get her sister a present. (Well, that and something small Arya would admit to needing- like a woodworking kit, or climbing gloves in colors that weren’t neon yellow.)
4.) Sirius liked muggle clothes- they made life easier. (Like riding a motorbike. And fighting. Harder to dodge properly in formal robes, as many a family holiday had taught him growing up.)
So finding himself in a little muggle town in another universe, he’d taken to muggle clothing. Some of it was work clothes- he liked helping with the garage, and maybe he could bring Harry and Remus over, live over it.
But part of him, the part who still got twitchy on cold nights and hated the sight of mist, insisted on comfortable clothes. Comfortable and nice, and the absolute opposite of the prison robes he’d worn for twelve years.
5.) Jon wore black and grey clothing. It wasn’t out of a deliberate fashion statement or anything.
It’s just what he bought, he said with a shrug. He didn’t give much thought to it.