Question Put on some pants!

Had a wardrobe question: What are the dress code rules for the likes of Mezzo or Pony? Do the still have to 'wear' skirts some how? What about those of the 'funny animal' persasion, Howard the duck, or a Ducktales duc?

They do make certain concessions for anatomy. Take Shisa, she is essentially physically similar to a feline, so she has a collar and harness that fits her, even though she prefers to go naked when possible.

Rose Bunny wrote: They do make certain concessions for anatomy. Take Shisa, she is essentially physically similar to a feline, so she has a collar and harness that fits her, even though she prefers to go naked when possible.

forgot about her.

Not only Shiksa. Gen1 has Lupine, who walked around in wolf form essentially nude (well, before Compiler made her special nanotech morphing harness).

As for Mezzo, I sorta can answer it. In her initial "mermaid" form, she was very embarrassed at first, so she wrapped stuff, skirt-like, around her lower body. Eventually she got over it when she realized that nobody reacted like she was naked, but more like she was wearing a costume. By the time she became capable of assuming centaur form, she was used to it and became somewhat of a nudist -- although not quite: basically, she feels embarrassed if her "naughty bits" aren't furry enough to be naturally covered (or far enough from human shape that people don't think of it as nudity). Oddly enough, she found that wearing clothing in her "animal" half draws more attention to them -- like wearing anything around her centaur hindquarters serves mostly to remind people that those ARE her "naughty bits,' and not just... background noise, like we tend to think around horses. And, well, her tail covers quite a lot.
So, her clothing needs vary. In bipedal forms, like catgirl, squirrel-girl and such, she will wear something closer to regular clothes (although, due to the fur, usually of a cooler sort than other students -- like shorts/skirts in late fall, when everybody else is already bundling up).
In centaur or mermaid form, she usually only wears clothing in the human half. But there are exceptions. Very cold weather, for instance. She wore long skirts and blankets over her mermaid lower half when coming from Brazil, so she might be taken by just your average "poor paraplegic girl." And she wears full-body coverings when working in the kitchens -- pants, not skirts -- for food hygiene reasons, although it is quite a job to get dressed in those.

Sir Lee wrote: Not only Shiksa. Gen1 has Lupine, who walked around in wolf form essentially nude (well, before Compiler made her special nanotech morphing harness).

As for Mezzo, I sorta can answer it. In her initial "mermaid" form, she was very embarrassed at first, so she wrapped stuff, skirt-like, around her lower body. Eventually she got over it when she realized that nobody reacted like she was naked, but more like she was wearing a costume. By the time she became capable of assuming centaur form, she was used to it and became somewhat of a nudist -- although not quite: basically, she feels embarrassed if her "naughty bits" aren't furry enough to be naturally covered (or far enough from human shape that people don't think of it as nudity). Oddly enough, she found that wearing clothing in her "animal" half draws more attention to them -- like wearing anything around her centaur hindquarters serves mostly to remind people that those ARE her "naughty bits,' and not just... background noise, like we tend to think around horses. And, well, her tail covers quite a lot.
So, her clothing needs vary. In bipedal forms, like catgirl, squirrel-girl and such, she will wear something closer to regular clothes (although, due to the fur, usually of a cooler sort than other students -- like shorts/skirts in late fall, when everybody else is already bundling up).
In centaur or mermaid form, she usually only wears clothing in the human half. But there are exceptions. Very cold weather, for instance. She wore long skirts and blankets over her mermaid lower half when coming from Brazil, so she might be taken by just your average "poor paraplegic girl." And she wears full-body coverings when working in the kitchens -- pants, not skirts -- for food hygiene reasons, although it is quite a job to get dressed in those.

She needs to get acquainted with Ribbon then bribe her to manifest her a set of pants every day!

Oh, yes. Sandra (Diamondback) is known to wear a skirt around her snake lower half.

And there's a mermaid-girl (Sylene). I don't remember if it was ever mentioned whether she wears a skirt or not.

If I were a snake person or had tentacles for my lower half, I'd probably wear a skirt most of the time for the sake of fashion and personal expression, regardless of whether or not I felt immodest without.

If I were a merperson, I might wear a skirt, but it would depend on whether or not I had those Disney-style belt-fins, which would make clothing awkward. It would also depend on how chair-bound I was. If I could more or less function as a snake person over short distances (getting up and moving about on my tail) I'd go with a skirt. If I were mostly using my chair to get around, even at room-scale, I'd be more likely to not bother with a bottom. It would also depend on how the transition looked and how low it was. A very low transition to a tail could easily be more skin than I'd be comfortable with, so a skirt or sash could be warranted.

If I were a centaur, I'd probably leave the horse portion uncovered most of the time since dressing would be too much of a pain to be worth it. I would wear some custom tailored horse pants during formal enough occasions, though, because a fancy formal top over a naked horse body seems half-assed. I'd also put together a variety of goofy outfits just to be silly on occasion. An Elvis suit, a drider costume, a costume that makes it look like I'm two humans pretending to be a centaur, and a ridiculous poofy skirt covering the entire horse part of my body, stuff like that.

Then there's the matter of pockets. In any scenario where I'm going without a bottom, I'd probably have a utility belt or equivalent unless I had sufficient pockets in my top. Even if I were confined to a chair and used the chair itself as my primary on-the-go storage, I'd still want some holdouts on my person in case I got knocked out of it.

Kettlekorn wrote: If I were a centaur, I'd probably leave the horse portion uncovered most of the time since dressing would be too much of a pain to be worth it. I would wear some custom tailored horse pants during formal enough occasions, though, because a fancy formal top over a naked horse body seems half-assed.

I've liked the way that Donna Barr handled the clothing for centaurs in Stinz

Sir Lee wrote: Oh, yes. Sandra (Diamondback) is known to wear a skirt around her snake lower half.

And there's a mermaid-girl (Sylene). I don't remember if it was ever mentioned whether she wears a skirt or not.

And Grabby. And Thuban.

Most seemed to be more anthropomorphic.

Diamondback's official picture has her in a skirt.

I can just picture the production it is for Razor to dress.

As for Sandra's anatomy... I think there was something back in Birthday Brawl about one of the Fury Twins going lingerie shopping with Sandra (while the other twin went to Boston for Ayla's party). That might give a hint or two.

Sir Lee wrote: As for Sandra's anatomy... I think there was something back in Birthday Brawl about one of the Fury Twins going lingerie shopping with Sandra (while the other twin went to Boston for Ayla's party). That might give a hint or two.

Sandra woult have 'just' been after bras, and the twin for the whole set, as Panty Their has Sandra thinking to herself after Whitman is hit that she was one of the few unraided.

Cryptic wrote:

Sir Lee wrote: As for Sandra's anatomy... I think there was something back in Birthday Brawl about one of the Fury Twins going lingerie shopping with Sandra (while the other twin went to Boston for Ayla's party). That might give a hint or two.

Sandra woult have 'just' been after bras, and the twin for the whole set, as Panty Their has Sandra thinking to herself after Whitman is hit that she was one of the few unraided.

Why not camisoles and slips as well? Slips especially, because depending on where the torso ends and the scales begin, one might easily finding a skirt being worked down as she moves along. Maybe a nice bustier, if she has eyes on one of the boys?

In Sandra's case, the scales go all the way up, including her face.

null0trooper wrote:

Cryptic wrote:

Sir Lee wrote: As for Sandra's anatomy... I think there was something back in Birthday Brawl about one of the Fury Twins going lingerie shopping with Sandra (while the other twin went to Boston for Ayla's party). That might give a hint or two.

Sandra woult have 'just' been after bras, and the twin for the whole set, as Panty Their has Sandra thinking to herself after Whitman is hit that she was one of the few unraided.

Why not camisoles and slips as well? Slips especially, because depending on where the torso ends and the scales begin, one might easily finding a skirt being worked down as she moves along. Maybe a nice bustier, if she has eyes on one of the boys?

So I didn't nit pick what she could have bought.

OK, here's the relevant quote from "Birthday Brawl":

Go, have fun, we don’t need you to tag along while we try to hunt up clothing, electronics, occult-y crap, and feminine hygiene products for Sandra. And if you drop out, that frees up a spot for Deimos. Covered.”

Jericho grimaced, “I just don’t feel right leaving Sandra and...”

Caitlin dropped the grin. “If you go all martyr complex on me, I will smack the shit out of you. Me’n Razor have it covered, you nitwit.”

Jericho opened his mouth to debate the issue, but Diamondback cut him off. “Don’t be an ass. I can shop for bras without you hovering around, annoying the salesclerks. I appreciate you want to be there for me, but honest to God, you can’t ditch everything else in life. Go! Have fun! Eat more than you’re supposed to, and come back and tell us how great the food was. And if you aren’t sold yet, think about this. Phobos will be there without any support if you stay here.”