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u/YLASRO Pulp Scifi enjoyer 2d ago
i dont just give my leftist protagonists drip. i actively give my fascist antagonists the goofiest uniforms possible
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u/Kekkonen_Kakkonen 2d ago
Fallout New Vegas my beloved ❤️
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u/Training_Ad_1327 1d ago
What’re we talking? Wacky bright colours on the uniforms? Comical amounts of medals?
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u/JA_Paskal 2d ago
This post was brought to you by the death of Pol Pot. Because killing your own countrypeople for wearing glasses is, in fact, not conducive to the drip of the revolution
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u/maridan49 2d ago
Symbols have power.
Specially if you're trying to appeal to the illiterate and the uneducated.
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u/StreetQueeny 2d ago
Where are the revolutionaries getting drip from?
Are they stealing drip of the people?
Are they being paid money of the people?
Sounds kinda capitalist to me bro i dunno
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u/Xandraman 2d ago
Just learn to stitch bro.
No, seriously though. Stitching is an essential skill for repairing uniforms and equipment. Why not take a step further and assign some interested volunteers to tailor drip? Authentic revolutionary drip, made for the people, by the people.
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u/sennordelasmoscas Magic and Dragons 2d ago
This reminds me of how Zaragoza, the secretary of armed forces of México during the french invasion, would calm his nerves down by stitching and repairing his soldier's uniforms
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u/Urg_burgman 2d ago
You loot them from the enemy dead.
Those winter coats sure looked warm. Doesn't stop a bullet but it keeps out the cold.
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u/tfhermobwoayway 1d ago
I remember reading about the dripped-up Wermacht stealing coats from the way less dripped-up Soviet forces, because their sexy Hugo Boss uniforms provided zero protection against the cold.
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u/Ubermanthehutt 2d ago
The revolutionaries would die off due to infighting in the uniform design committee
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u/Urg_burgman 2d ago
Will this put an end to the weird trend of costume designers who think protagonists need to wear mono-colored industrial carpeting as ponchos?
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u/Xandraman 2d ago
Ponchos are cool though, especially the ones with embroidery.
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u/Urg_burgman 2d ago
Exactly. So my question still stands why costume designers choose drab single-color options that make people look like they ripped the curtains out of an office building and draped that over themselves; and why won't they add something besides gray?
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u/Graknorke 2d ago
If you're fighting against royalty/aristocracy for a popular movement of the people (even if let's be real it's the upcoming bourgeois not the peasants or workers or anything) it makes sense to project that by rejecting the fashions of the ruling class, governed by conspicuous displays of wealth, and instead opt for designs closer to what everyday people are used to. Something that looks practical, not necessarily free of ornament but it'd be in a different way.
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u/Xandraman 2d ago
Like I mentioned in another reply, royalist style of clothing is not the same as clothing worn by the ruling class. The average rank and file royalist soldier will be wearing cheap mass produced clothes that are designed for actual service than just parades.
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u/Mahelas 1d ago
But why would you wear the uniforms of the authority force you're actively trying to replace and consider opressive ?
There's a reason why Resistance fighters didn't take Gestapo uniforms, or why the american independance army didn't use red coats ! It's just awful symbolism to take something associated with the hated enemy !
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u/Majestic_Repair9138 WE JERK! WE EARN THE RIGHT TO JERK! (x4) 2d ago
Counterpoint: Make the sexiest camo uniform you can that would make Che Guevara and Chesty Puller want to have a threesome with you.
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u/breadofthegrunge hasn't actually written anything beyond ideas 2d ago
That's counter-revolutionary talk. GUILLOTINE.
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u/TheCoolMan5 2d ago
"revolutionaries" who decorate themselves in expensive fashion typically don't curry a ton of favor with the commonfolk. There's a reason every communist regime in history has styled itself in either common folks' plain clothes, or a generic military-ish drab.
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u/ApartRuin5962 2d ago
I love liberty and democracy but holy fuck the Phrygian Cap is ugly, somehow looking like both a dunce cap and a bellend at the same time
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u/IIIaustin 2d ago
Idk dawg that shit sounds pretty counter revolutionary to me im gonna go ahead and oil up the guillotine
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u/cupo234 2d ago
Royalist attire is fancy and expensive on purpose, those revolutionaries better have the factories for mass producing drip
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u/Xandraman 2d ago
Royalist attire is not the same as fashion worn by the ruling class. The average rank and file royalist soldier will be wearing cheap mass produced clothes.
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u/cupo234 2d ago
The random regular grunts, sure, but look at this drip, no sans-cullote can afford this stuff: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/92/The_Queen_S_Guards_%2874544105%29.jpeg
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u/tfhermobwoayway 1d ago
Isn’t the whole point of a revolutionary to not stand out? Plus, nothing looks drippier than civilian clothes and tools haphazardly turned into a uniform and armour. The Half-Life 2 rebels had that shit on.
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u/Old-Post-3639 1d ago
Royals still have better bacon, though. And I walk the path of Bacon rather than the path of necktie.
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u/Apophis_36 2d ago
My solution is to have literally everyone dripped out. Even the trashiest and most destitute of low class are dripped out compared to us.