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Hi! I wanted to ask you what's your take on clothes and how wizards dress? I've been thinking about this since the 'gettin ready fot the party' scene. What's a typical wardrobe for typical wizard in te 90's? I always imagined that they just dress like muggles (or maybe the younger generations?), and i when i read the books i always had a hard time imagining them when they are trying to pass as muggles, you know? Like what, they don't understans which clothes are for a specific event? Because Harry says that he could tell thay dress a bit diffrent, like out of place. I mean, it's probably just meant to be funny, but, how isolated are they to not knowwhat muggles wear? I guess it also has to do with how they are raised, i imagine blood-supremacists (is that how it's called?) use only 'robes' (whatever that is, and, also, what's under those robes? like, a thong? do they wear muggle underwear? SO MANY QUESTIONS)
So, i was thinking about this instead of working🤠.
I liiive for that part with tonks' clothes, i even got a litlle "oh i wanna be thereeee and try everything and make everything fit with magic!"
And this how i imagine wizards dress (according to jkr) in the muggle world
ok please know that this image made me howl
thank you for the super interesting question! i have thought a bit about typical wizarding wardrobes and familiarity with muggle fashion among wizards in the 90s as a worldbuilding question in beasts. it's definitely true that wizarding familiarity with muggle dress is another one of those worldbuilding points in canon where the text is unclear and at times inconsistent. i know people have different views on how much wizarding and muggle culture interact, especially in matters of popular culture and fashion. i've heard very convincing arguments that the cultural insularity and physical remove of the wizarding community from muggles would mean most children raised in wizarding households, especially pureblood families like the weasleys, wouldn't know that much about how muggles plausibly dress, what they listen to, or what forms of media are popular (books, music, sports, even less so tv and film).
while i do agree with some aspects of this, in my approach to wizarding youth culture in the 90s, i think young witches and wizards on the left know more about muggle fashion than they do about many other aspects of muggle culture, and that interest and ability to pull off muggle fashion depends on a person's background, politics, gender (because mostly, it does all seem to be about trousers - i reckon pureblood supremacists, as you say, are in their undies most of the time), but especially generation and the politics/patterns of consumption in the time period when they were a teenager. i think your desire and ability to wear muggle clothing varies a lot if you're born in 1950 vs 1980, partly because of changing wizarding politics and the difference between growing up in peacetime vs a world at war, but partly because muggle fashion changes as a market in the second half of the twentieth century.
basically, i think these young progressive millennial wizards would wear more muggle clothing because of changes in muggle fashions/consumption that allow for greater availability and access to muggle clothing by the 1990s, as well as access to information about fashion and trends, and i think they would want to because willingness to embrace muggle fashions would be a way of showing their commitment to their own politics and forms of teenage rebellion that were distinct from those practiced by generations prior living through the first wizarding war. a longer discussion with my reasoning for this is below the cut!
so - in general, in canon, gen X wizards and older (so the youngest of them born in the 1950s thru 70s, and everyone older than that) seem to dress in muggle clothing really only as a protective measure to prevent exposure/risk breaking the statute of secrecy. when bob ogden goes to the gaunts' house in the 1920s, even as the head of a major ministry department dealing with law enforcement, he does a terrible job dressing as a muggle (the bathing suit, pls bob, i beg). if you look at all the wizards trying to dress as muggles for the world cup, it's clear that the adoption of muggle clothing, for most wizards, is a strategic, defensive move more than anything else. in PoS, mcgonagall - herself a progressive woman in her politics - disdains wizards who are celebrating the end of the first wizarding war by celebrating in the street "not even wearing muggle clothes", which she thinks is reckless and risks wizards' exposure (love when mcgonagall dresses like a muggle briefly at grimmauld place in OotP and it freaks harry out lol). there is no enthusiasm or interest in it - there's just conformity for self-preservation.
for that reason, i think you can see why those on the wizarding right in the mid-twentieth century, especially those drawn to pureblood and wizarding supremacy, would come to see dressing like a muggle as a disgrace, a sign of submission to a lesser people, in a way that would become extremely loaded in the years preceding and during the first wizarding war (1970-1981). when harry sees snape in the flashback to his first trip on the hogwarts express in the early 70s, he notices snape is already wearing his wizard robes very early on in the journey, which harry's narration supposes is because snape's happy to be out of his 'dreadful Muggle clothes' (DH). those muggle clothes were a sign both of snape's poverty but also his outsider status in muggle tinworth: special, because he's a wizard, but otherwise socially inferior to other children in every other way. snape, of course, is raised in a wizarding household with knowledge of magic but has been wearing muggle clothing to avoid detection for his entire childhood, in ways that imbue the wearing of wizarding clothes and casting off of muggle garms with great political significance. in canon, we see that the vast majority of wizards, while not death eaters or rabid pureblood supremacists, tend to be small c conservatives in their view of wizarding cultural norms and tend to think they're better than muggles even if they don't necessarily want to go out and kill them all. for that reason, they remain loyal to wizarding traditions, and continue to wear robes, partly as a symbol of their proud cultural identity as wizards, in ways that they would likely only cling to as their society moves towards open war over muggle-wizard relations (as you say, robes seem to be worn without trousers underneath, so most wizards are just wearing underwear under their robes and going about their day. slay, honestly).
so, if the right hate muggle clothes, then the willingness of gen z+ wizards to engage with and adopt aspects of muggle attire and culture might map onto a progressive political outlook and a disavowal of wizards-first ideology. but a person's politics alone doesn't mean they know how to pull off muggle clothing, and in the years of brewing tension then open war, most wouldn't bother risking their lives to be caught wearing a pair of bell bottoms. arthur weasley is the best example of this. arthur is theoretically interested in muggle clothes because he's a progressive man who disavows wizard supremacy and believes in principles of tolerance towards muggles. now, he's not good at knowing how to pair a plausible muggle outfits. this is because he still lives at a reasonable remove from wizards, he's extremely busy with a demanding job and seven children to be staying up to date with changing fashions, and at the end of the day still spends most of his week among wizards in a civil service that demands a certain level of professional conformity. but i think it's also because arthur weasley is born in 1950 and therefore spent his young adulthood trying to raise a young family during a war. arthur instead channels his politics into support for muggle protection legislation rather than in wearing muggle clothing, which he might see as a limited individual act of symbolic resistance that would put his family at risk and also cost time and money he doesn't have. (if we look at the marauders, as an example of a progressive bunch in the interim generation between arthur and arthur's children, especially someone like sirius with greater financial freedom, it's very telling that sirius shows his politics off through riding a cool muggle motorbike and sticking up muggle soft porn on his bedroom walls, but not noticeably through fashion, as far as harry's photographs show).
but if you look at arthur's children, progressive wizarding millennials, it seems like more confident familiarity with muggle fashions and culture is generally more common. i think we can include someone like tonks in this, raised in a mixed marriage household by a blood traitor and a muggleborn dad. harry says that the weasley children are better than their parents at dressing like muggles. when harry sees bill weasley he doesn't think 'this is a man who looks like he's done a bad job dressing for a muggle rock concert' he thinks 'this is a man who looks like he could be going to a rock concert'. this suggests to me a difference, say, between bill and his dad. arthur likes muggles and believes engaging with muggle culture is important, but doesn't really succeed at it, but his eldest son manages to marry both a political commitment to embracing muggle culture with an ability to dress plausibly as a muggle so much so that he's able to ape a subculture in a way his dad doesn't really try to often and has never succeeded at.
why? i think there's a few things going on. one is that the majority wizarding millennials grew up in peacetime, after the fall of voldemort, in the 1980s and 90s, where wearing muggle clothing was less likely to get you killed and more likely to symbolise an individual act of rebellion against more low-level societal norms and cultural pressures rather than against a murderer in a mask. this, plus having the time and disposable income to follow muggle fashions more closely, as well as the opportunity to access about muggle fashions and celebrity styles, has a big part to play. bill weasley has more time and ability than his dad to stay up to date about muggle clothing tastes, as do his siblings. characters who went to hogwarts in the 80s and 90s also did so at the peak of a mass print consumer culture (one that was already on an upward ascent since the 60s) that was designed to be be accessible, inexpensive and create an appetite for following trends among consumers, and that could very easily be of appeal to progressive young witches and wizards. this is why in beasts i have ginny know about the spice girls and their iconic lewks from a copy of smash hits magazine because that seemed like the kind of inexpensive and highly portable source of information about muggle culture that a muggleborn or halfblood student (or even a pureblooded student with a parent with a progressive interest in muggle clothing) would be able to take to school and pass around a dormitory. on the gender point, too - donning muggle clothes, especially the more permissive and sexy clothing of the 80s and 90s would be a great way for a rebellious young woman raised in a wizarding household - eg. tonks or ginny - to stick it to the conservative gender norms in the wizarding world.
moreover, the changes in fashion as a market in the muggle world would make a certain base style of comfortable and inexpensive muggle dress much more readily available to younger witches and wizards than ever before. for kids born in the late 70s/80s, changes in muggle clothes consumption - aka. the globalisation of mass factory production of textiles, especially garments, and the early forms of fast fashion we now recognise today - would also have an impact on the ready availability of certain basic forms of cheap muggle fashion, including the ubiquity of cheap jeans and trainers/sneakers, that emphasise comfort and ease of daily wear at a low cost point produced in such high volumes such that if you wanted a pair of jeans, you could easily get your hands on one. this would have made a plausible muggle clothing a lot more accessible (there's only so wrong you can go if you're just wearing jeans, t-shirt, a jumper, and a pair of trainers, really), and explain why the clothes harry wears in the muggle world don't seem all that different from the clothes he wears in the wizarding world (admittedly usually under his robes), or indeed that different from what ron seems to wear most of the time. passing as a muggle in 1920 with little effort - à la bob ogden - would be a lot harder than doing so in 1990.
so - yeah. that's my take! i think it's mostly about generation, but also about politics, about war and peace, a bit about gender and a lot about capitalism. i hope this helps!
#wizarding culture#meta#analysis#wizarding clothing#beasts#hp meta#loved answering this thank you so much!
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what i drew on halloween! werewolf marina and vampire pearl
#i had done a couple drawings where i gave marina the furry ears and i just didn't fw how it looked fjlds#i honestly would like to do the other way around as well of vampire marina and werewolf pearl#it's interchangeable in my brain#perhaps another drawing to come if i get the energy cos i'm feral for this dynamic#i still love knight and wizard this is just what i personally wanted to get on paper#some of these clothes are incomprehensible i know#purely had fun drawing the strange heels#zimzamzom#splatoon#splatoween#off the hook#marina ida#pearl houzuki#splatoon art#artists on tumblr#halloween
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they're out for the evening!!! Simon isn't great with parties but Magus is helping him find his footing!
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#MAGUS'S OUTFIT TOOK ME FOREVER BUT I'M VERY HAPPY WITH IT!!!!#right amount of Weird and Wizardful and Fashionable I think.#I LOVE HOW CANONICALLY MAGUS PRIDES THEMSELF ON BEING STYLISH AND KNOWING A LOT ABOUT FASHION#they DEFINITELY chose simon's outfit for the night#magus's outfit is COMPLETELY made up off the top of my head#I mean. so is simon's but I went NUTS with magus's outfit#if you look closely I used different golds!!#magus is wearing all warm golds and simon's golds are a lot cooler#life giving magus#simon petrikov#adventure time#atimers#adventure time fanart#fionna and cake#simon adventure time#wizards adventure time#lgm adventure time#magus adventure time#life giving magi#ancient sleeping magi of life giving#(simon's clothes aren't springing to life because magus enchanted them to be immune to their magic. or something)#let that wizard grab his midriff!!!!! cmon!
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“absent” - Jegulus microfic - @into-the-jeggyverse - 268 words
Sirius loves Hogsmeade weekends when the whole group gets together for lunch at the Three Broomsticks. He’s looking around the table at the smiling faces of all his friends when he realizes two faces are notably absent.
“Hey Marls. James walked down with you guys, right?” Sirius asks.
“He said he needed to stay back and work on new strategies for us to practice this week to use in the match next weekend.” Marlene explains.
Sirius furrows his eyebrows, but it does make sense. James is obsessive about Quidditch, and next weekend’s match is a big one.
“Oi! Crouch!” Sirius calls to the other end of the table. “Where’s Reggie?”
“Revising. He says he likes the library on Hogsmeade weekends because there’s nobody else there. Swot.” Barty says with an eye roll which Sirius returns.
Regulus hates noise and crowds when he studies so it makes sense that he would want to go to the library today.
Sirius shrugs it off and goes back to his lunch.
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Sirius is sitting across from James at dinner when he notices a trail of love bites running down his neck.
“Prongs, are those hickeys?” Sirius gasps but before James can answer–
“Oi Reg!! Are those hickeys?!” They hear Barty yelling from across the hall.
James’ eyes go wide with fear and Sirius’ eyes narrow to a murderous glare.
“I err… I have to…” James stutters as he slowly stands up.
Once he’s on his feet, James sprints from the Great Hall with Sirius close behind him.
Just before the doors close, Sirius thinks he hears Regulus yell, “Please don’t kill him.” Which only makes Sirius run faster.
#sirius pov#sirius finds out#they would have been good excuses guys#just keep the marks under the clothes next time#regulus loves james#james loves regulus#jegulus#jegulus microfic#jegulus fanfiction#marauders fanfiction#regulus black#james potter#marauders#james x regulus#regulus x james#marauders era#harry potter marauders#harry potter#hp#hp marauders#dead gay wizards from the 70s#dead gay wizards#starchaser#sunseeker#jeggyverse microfic#sirius black#barty crouch jr
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you’re telling me Excalibur gets stolen from France and there’s a little wizard going around shopping malls? I’m TELLING YOU thats merlin and arthur don’t even play with me right now.
#merlins the wizard and is using this to steal clothes for arthur#arthurs a baby who wanted his toy - aka excalibur - back#bbc merlin#merlin#arthur pendragon#merthur#merlin emrys#merlin bbc#merlin and arthur#arthur pendragon returns#tiredcowboyys shenanigans
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I don’t know what to do—I have to trust someone—I don’t know who to trust
massive, massive props to aabria for this episode (here at this point and after!!)…to all of them really, but it was about here that I was driving yesterday morning and had to frantically try to hold the image in my head for the rest of my commute. I only kind of succeeded but it is what is. wow. what an episode
#worlds beyond number#the wizard the witch and the wild one#wbn spoilers#wwwo spoilers#the wizard sky 😭😭😭😭😭#here and everything after this did in fact break me thank you!!!#as ever suvi I love you SO much#also look. I know I fucked up eursulon’s clothes but I was initially using his first art as a reference bc it shows him fullbodied in his#spirit form which is what I needed but I got too deep in the drawing before remembering he had a clothing change so………..I half did it#ALSO I meant to include the fox in this if not ame but by the time I remembered that intent I was done rendering and like hell was I going#to go back and add in two more characters#so here we are#god#ignore that it’s nearly 5 I work stupid hours lately#my things
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Buggy bodies :P
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Okay now I really wanna see grantaire in one of your cool outfits :DD
Here you go! >:)
(+ bonus Enjolras 👀)
#les mis#exr#enjoltaire#enjolras#grantaire#my-art#les amis de l'abc#asks#smoking cw#smoking#thank you pumpkin for the suggesting Enjolras wearing his clothes >:)#ily sm <3#also for anyone who wants to know#that beanie's got a Frog Wizard on it#it's my very favorite
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So where do you fall on the skirt alignment chart? 🤔
✨witchvamp.com✨
#witch vamp#wizard skirts#jester x wizard#wizard#wizard posting#wizardcore#wizard aesthetic#mage#sorceror#magician#magic man#magic#fashion#online shopping#clothing#indie fashion#skirts#plus size friendly#skirts with pockets#mini skirts#skater skirt#midi skirt#maxi skirt#Halloween#halloween vibes#alt fashion#artists on tumblr#🧙♂️
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It’s called character development darling~
#bloodweave#bg3#astarion#gale dekarios#gale of waterdeep#bg3 astarion#that one meme….#character development for gale too#act 1 astarion: stupid sexy wizard 😠#act 3 astarion: my Stupid Sexy Wizard 😍#unsung hero: gales clothes#hanging on for dear life#shhh let go friend#just let go…#To you Astarion I bestow my greatest gift#*Button says “All my hang ups"#stuff by me
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misunderstanding
#MAGUS IS STILL TALLER THAN SIMON. they're bending down a lot in the first image for dramatic effect#something something how to talk to short people#if anyone needs the joke explained! simon means 'many clothes' as in 'many different outfits/clothing items often'#because he usually wore only a few outfits so he wasnt super aware of the fashion trends at the time#MAGUS however. thinks he means 'many clothes' as in. a SINGLE outfit. I HOPE THATS CLEAR#I MAY HAVE WORDED IT WEIRDLY.#ancient sleeping magi of adventure time#life giving magus#simon petrikov#simon adventure time#magus adventure time#lgm adventure time#magikov#simon and magus#fionna and cake#wizard city#atimers#adventure time fanart
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whats he drawing???
#attack on titan#jean kirstein#jean kirschtein#aot#aot fanart#digital art#snk#artists on tumblr#art#pushs art#he and his wizard clothes#pushs daily jean
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🎃Happy Halloween from the Bad Kids! 🎃
#fantasy high#riz gukgak#fabian seacaster#adaine abernant#gorgug thistlespring#kristen applebees#fig faeth#halloween#happy halloween#my art#btw I do art!#i was half tempted to do a monster mash with them but decided on costumes they might actually wear#Fig and Gorgug are in their halves of a couples costumes with zelda (bride of frankenstien) and ayda (howl)#they all razz riz for basically wearing his normal clothes despite him “dressing up” as Agent 47#he couldn't find any bald caps in his skin colour :(#For adaine's I just think she'd think it be hilarious to dress up in sterotypical wizard costume#she has the beard on standby#and Fabian?#what can i say?#He's Just Fabian
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Wolfstar going to the Yule Ball together!! ✨✨
Theyre having a romantic moment!!!!!
#marauders fanart#marauders era#marauders#hp marauders#my art#wolfstar#wolfstar fanart#sirius black#sirius black fanart#padfoot#remus lupin#remus lupin fanart#moony#mwpp era#mwpp#dead gay wizards from the 70's#yule ball#i had so much trouble with the clothes waaaa#did my best!!
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