Clothing among the Humans

Needless to say, most dragons don’t wear clothing; however there are some interesting clothing folkways and social expectations among the human settlers of NewEarth that have developed in the last two hundred cycles.

Farmers, those of that family who still till the land or even f they don’t but have strong familial ties, all wear Farmer clothing, to announce their family affiliation to anyone who observes them, much less bothers to interact.

The Farmer style consists of a pair of reinforced drawstring pants and flowing shirt, belted to keep the material out of the way. In colder weather add a vest and then skin coat. Boots ar worn almost all the time with hard soles. Males and females dress alike.

Woodsmen, those who live and survive in the woods of NewEarth, wear button pants with buttoned suspenders and a tucked flowing shirt that goes to hip length if untucked. In colder weather they go to knee high boots and a long coat. The coat has one side that is oiled to be water repellant the other is fur. The coats are heavy and can also make up a bed on the ground or be combined to make a shelter. Males and females wear the same styles.

Miners wear tight fitting button fly pants with loops for tools, cuffed sleeve shirts with short collars and buttons. Clay crafted buttons with figures or faces are a family symbol of status, only the patriarchs have them. Leather vests are common with pockets and coats of different lengths and weights with hard boots and laces. Females wear similar shirts, pants, coats, only with fewer loops and smaller pockets.

Those are just three of the families and their clothing differences. Once Grabon establishes his territory and Jamie and Janie design Hanna a whole new kind of clothing, the style for the Dragonmen clan is set for the females. It takes longer for them to find the right set for the males, but by the end of book 2 that is set as well, making all the human members of their clan easily recognized as different.