the next time you put on a leather coat remember, it was made with cow hide, a lot of the fur coats we have now adays are made with minx fur or fox fur.(Rat fur if it cost anything under 100 dollars) We use gator hide and snake hide to make boots jackets belts and pants not to mention purses. Guess what hides are processed in order to make them 1 durable 2 not rottable and 3 bone doesnt go away. We have fossils to prove that. The one is smithed into a fitted design in order to be plausible as an armor.

It was based on dominance only for the very top of the community. The rest chose mates according to their ability to provide (men) and their ability to birth (women). These qualities could be pretty well ascertained by the physical appearance of prospects.

If you are tall and have huge muscles, chances are you're a man who can do a lot of physical labour, can physically protect "your woman" and, with a bit of practice, be a good hunter. If you have big hips and briasts, and a good hip-to-waist ratio, chances are men will be able to get a lot of children out of you before you keel over from the exhaustion of birthing and taking care of a passel of children.

This explains why the Forsworn armours just don't make sense.

Oh -- the top few didn't have to worry about this stuff because they already had what the physical traits implied or promised -- access to resources.

A TES with tele-olfaction... Ah, I can dream.

The Male outfit for the Forsworn is as revealing as legally possible. Really I think most of the outfits in Skyrim are ridiculous, they just don't cover enough of the body to make sense in a coldweather environment.

It's good you made the distinction between Armor and Armour... we all know which one is correct though.

Yeah but a 200kg over weight beast of a man, could take out some weasely well toned bloke quite easily. I still say it was based on dominance for males.

That's what i was getting at. If you want to accommodate for the female parts, you don't do it like the Steel Plate, Wolf Armor and Ebony Armor does, but likehttp://www.uesp.net/wiki/File:SR-item-Dwarven_Armor_Female.jpg does. But like i said, i'm not complaining

Bare male chests are illegal now? There are fur armours that are bare-chested, so I don't understand why Bethesda couldn't have done it for the Forsworn, if they did intend for them to be primitive. The only reason I can think of is that they created the fur armours before the Forsworn ones, they didn't want to make the two look too similar, and they didn't want to or didn't have time to return to the fur armours and make them more visually distinct. So they compromised and just made the male Forsworn armour look different, even though it doesn't fit.


Shhh.


Don't want to derail the thread but... Dominance comes in many forms. For the hoi polloi, 'dominance' meant physical dominance, because that is the kind of dominance that will get you resources. For the upper classes, 'dominance' meant social or financial dominance, because that is what maintains the resources the upper classes already have. And if one of the hoi polloi decides to fisticuff with one of the elite, he'll find himself in jail, or killed by lackeys, or exiled, or his family will be murdered, or...

These distinctions still hold true today, though to a lesser and lesser degree because of advances in technology, which mean that the big earners from here on out are going to be smart people and not strong people.

To get back to clothing: this was reflected in the (visual) utility of attire, which showed off potential mates' best assets. The hoi polloi showed off their bodies, and the elite showed off their wealth.

Good to know that there is no difference between the fantasy of the unreal in an open world and the desert of the real medieval age in a closed world.
The thread turns out to be ridiculous per definitionem.

From everything I've seen in the game, I find Dark Brotherhood robes the worst looking clothing in the game ><

Sheldon! I didn't know you liked Beth games!

The look of glass, elven, daedric and dragonbone is just ridiculous. Totally destroys immersion for me. I'm glad I stuck with leather and iron armor for so long.

Well with the female forsworn outfit we all know were the "male" developers minds are in the "gutter" Now why can't the male npcs have sixy outfit.

People saying that the Forsworn armour is skimpy are missing the fact that the Forsworn are racially Breton and Bretons are based on Celts of ancient Britain and France (also called Bretons / Britons). That and they are particularly influenced by the whole Celtic druid lore.

Celtic warriors used to go into war naked wearing just war paint. Google "Celtic warrior" and see examples.

http://www.kernunnos.com/culture/warriors/britons.jpe

http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT0VfHJWHY3PFI3fbCOGX70ixfmv9FCH8s3u7GNiUt-VmychcRWFRTrssvs

http://bloggwonder.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/male-and-female-celt-warrior.jpg?w=495

http://www.usefilm.com/images/4/6/4/4/4644/1189078-medium.jpg



That or they wore tartan clothing (which is probably more the style seen amongst many warriors in High Rock).

http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQJRZDdshN54rZ6BVzvGzlNMW6iGU8gQnnLo2xoVC1uw41CzGUcVvKJO-9Z

http://artfrombooks.com/bmz_cache/9/9b54af29d186a9a1f44187b85157da7d.image.217x400.jpg

http://th09.deviantart.net/fs16/PRE/i/2010/235/e/1/Slaine_the_Celtic_Warrior__by_mnwlf6666.jpg

notice that Bretons in previous TES games didn't get very high stats in armor. Specially not heavy armor. They are better suited to clothes or conjured armor.

I dislike the Glass Set.

Looks way too...fantasyish xD?

I'm surprised the Aminal rights / vegetarian / vegan mob didn't decend on this thread and demand Tofu armour in Skyrim.

Yeah, they look ridiculous in most TES games, like they are supposed to.
People need to remeeber, this is Nirn, not earth.

On earth, you wouldn't have seen people walking around in glass armor or armor from different races of Elves.

Dunno if they fit your definition of "sixy" but the male versions of hide and scaled armors show much more skin than the female ones. Just look at what most of bandits are wearing, next time you encounter some. Forsworn armor is the single example where this is reversed, so now somebody's mind is in the gutter?

Really?
I also had an 'oh no' moment when I saw those robes, because I knew Id never get to wear one.
I think they look great.
Different strokes for different folks, I suppose.
The second best looking set of robes I think is the one priests wear, like the one from the temple of Kynareth.

As for silly, I suppose the female Forsworn armour is a bit skimpy and unprotective.

i demand tofu armour because tofu would discurage saber-cats, bears, dragons, and anyting else with taste-buds from eating me meat ftw

As cool as the nightingale armor might seem, i think it looks ridiculous. Its like i went from "thief" to "batman".

Augh. Not to mention the cloak's too shiny.

Actually... the Khajiit map solidly with the Indians from the Indian Subcontinent. Annequine is Persia, Pelletine is India. And the Argonians sound a lot like the Native Americans of the Central-American Bayou.

Most ridiculous armor?

Draugr -hands down

Most ridiculous clothing?

Sleeveless Jarl outfits.. Absolutely [censored] looking.

The Dark Brotherhood armor... And that hat posted a while back xD

The ones that i think look bad are the DB jester robes Festus & Gabriella use. As soon as possible I got a mod to make them like the black hand robes from Oblivion. There is also that ebony helmet that looks like it came from the Power Rangers cartoon.

Oh god how could i forget that... Yes... That is the most ridiculous thing in Skyrim... I cant put it on without getting the Power Rangers theme stuck in my head...