Clothing and Fashion

In general, the style of clothing worn in Perrenland is similar to that worn throughout most of the Flanaess, thanks to the past influence of the Great Kingdom on Perrenese culture. Likewise, Perrenese fashion tends to follow the trends set in Greyhawk City and the other great cities of the Flanaess. As a result,

• People dressing for active roles (such as labourers, soldiers, travellers and adventurers) tend to wear shirts and trousers.
• People dressing for sedentary roles (such as housekeepers, scholars, priests and the indolent rich) tend to wear robes or dresses.
• People tend to wear cloaks and hats when outdoors.

There are some exceptions to these tendencies.

• Because military service is held in high regard throughout Perrenland, former soldiers often dress in shirts and trousers even when now working in "desk jobs", retired to a life of leisure, and in other sedentary roles. For example, Voormann Orgus Bildgear rarely wears his formal robes of office, preferring instead to wear his Auszug dress uniform.
• There is a cultural association between being a woman and wearing dresses. This probably originated because most women spend part of their lives at home raising their children, and as housekeeping is considered a sedentary role they tend to wear dresses during this time. As a result, some women prefer to wear dresses, even in situations (such as travelling) when wearing a shirt and trousers would be more convenient.

Perrenese garb is distinguished from that worn in other parts of the Flanaess by the following local variations.

• As a relatively cold country, fur is frequently used, particularly for autumn and winter clothes.
• Perrenlanders routinely demonstrate their clan affiliations by wearing clothing (particularly cloaks, badges and ruhebinden) in their clan colours.
• Perrenlanders routinely demonstrate their military, religious, and social affiliations by wearing clothing (particularly cloaks, badges, ruhebinden and medals) that identify their allegiances and their achievements. For example, soldiers wear badges that identify their Auszug, their Auszugen, and their rank; bards of the Old Kerk always wear a blue cloak trimmed with purple, while judges (rechters) always wear a blue cloak trimmed with silver.
• Perrenlanders travelling abroad routinely demonstrate their national affiliation by wearing a badge with the red and white emblem of Perrenland.

Metagame information: Characters with a home region of Perrenland are assumed to wear clothing and badges that identify their membership in the publicly known, socially accepted meta-organisations (including the clans, the fighting forces, the Old Kerk, and the rechters). Players must tell their DM if their characters are concealing their membership in a meta-organisation during an adventure. Unless specified by the meta-organisation, there is no additional GP cost to have clothing that displays your meta-organisation affiliations.