Talia is routinely in some of the worst clothing we see humans wear. But she usually ends up in the bland end of the spectrum, rocking monochrome. This is probably for the best .

…but that’s beside the point. Talia is so gorgeous and she’s just put in the most atrocious clothes in the show. I was also thinking of Willow from Buffy though, because some of her outfits were just inexplicable. Shows from the 90s seem particularly prone to this. :P

and I actually quite like this suit even with it’s bizarre collar…

heh, as it happens I was talking about Talia Winters from Babylon 5, who is most often seen in this weird mustard yellow and black…thing…

valendiles said: Do I want to know who this is referring to?

A new Earth-inspired fashion trend is spreading to the worlds of the Narn Regime. It is not uncommon these days to see masked Narns walking the streets of their capital city with huge utility shells strapped on their back. Back here on Earth, these fashionable Narns are mostly transient and have been found roaming the sewers, typically emerging only for pizza and skateboarding.

“Human ways are often unfathomable. But, in time, one learns to deal with them.” “If one has an exceedingly strong constitution.”

“The War Prayer” is an episode about tolerance. A lot of season one is about tolerance, actually, but this is an entire episode devoted to it. There’s a joke to be made somewhere about this being a blog devoted to tolerance of unique fashion choices but it’s not, not really. “The War Prayer” includes such sartorial highlights as wearing bathrobes to fancy dinner, potholders as floor-length vest inspiration, and incredibly attractive suits worn by unattractively racist men. Oh, and a truly wondrous sweater that has to be seen to believed.

Why, yes. It is new. Thanks for noticing.

Delenn breaks out a different set of robes for the occasion of her friend, the poet Shaal Mayan, coming onboard. We typically see Delenn in some variant of lavender (except for the dress robes), so it’s nice to see her jumping on the bandwagon of “let’s see how well we can blend into the walls.”

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