Fashion And Worldbuilding: 50 Questions For Creatives: Way With Worlds, #12

By Steven Savage

Clothes and jewelry, colors and gems, tell stories about the culture and people who wear them.  If you're creating a fictional world, it's time to get real about fashion - knowing why people dress the way they do.

This book is a helpful series of 50 questions, as well as follow-up exercises and more, to help you think about fashion and setting. From traditions to materials, religions to government, everything is here to make the fashion in your world more believable!

Build your world, and put fashion into action!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Steven Savage
• Release date: Jun 8, 2019
• ISBN: 9781393460091

Steven Savage

Steven Savage is a biologist, natural history writer, lecturer, and an associate member of the Institute of Biology in England. He teaches about ocean biology and has written more than thirty-seven natural history books for children.

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Fashion and Worldbuilding:

50 Questions For Creatives

(The Way With Worlds Series)

(First Edition)

By Steven Savage

www.WayWithWorlds.com

Copyright © 2019 by Steven Savage

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Table of Contents

Fashion and Worldbuilding:

Other Books by Steven Savage

Keep Up With The Author

Introduction

How To Use This Book

The Questions

Past influences

People

Culture And Influence

Authority

Practical

Materials

Fashion Professionals

Current Pressures

About The Author

Other Books by Steven Savage

A Bridge To The Quiet Planet: A Tale Of Dead Gods And Living Stories

Her Eternal Moonlight: Sailor Moon's Female Fans In North America, An Unauthorized Examination (with Bonnie Walling)

The Way With Worlds Series www.WayWithWorlds.com

Way With Worlds Book 1: Crafting Great Fictional Settings

Way With Worlds Book 2: Details And Discussion

Way With Worlds Minibook Series

The Creativity Series

The Power Of Creative Paths

Agile Creativity

The Art Of The Brainstorm Book

The Focused Fandom Series

Focused Fandom: Cosplay, Costuming, And Careers

Focused Fandom: Fanart, Fanartists, and Careers

Convention Career Connection

The Career Series:

Fan To Pro: Leveling Up Your Career Through Your Hobbies

Epic Resume Go!

Resume Plus

Quest For Employment

Skill Portability

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Introduction

Clothes and jewelry, uniforms and badges, styles and fashion make up a lot of our lives. We are expected to dress a certain way, or we want to signal what we enjoy with a t-shirt, or a job requires a given outfit. It’s going to be the same for our fictional worlds – at least in most cases.

How people dress – and what they look like – should be part of any world we create. Outfits tell us about characters and their setting, from trends to enforced clothing codes. It’s another thing so commonplace we may forget to explore it at length.

This book is about exploring fashion in fictional settings in depth.

How did this come about? Many years ago, I published a column series on worldbuilding called Way With Worlds, taking what I'd learned from writing, gaming, and coaching people. Years later, I revived and rewrote it, including knowledge I'd gained from various projects and experiences. It became a book series after that rewrite because I wanted to preserve it in a more accessible form.

As I worked on those books, I realized that people may need very specific coaching on various subjects.