Honey, it’s a cultural thing
When it comes to clothes that royals wear within a culture, a couple things are taken into consideration; climate, resources and the message.
Here they live in a warm climate, but clearly have an abundance of natural resources, so instead of layering on furs and cottons they show this through intensive detailing work like embroidery, and precious gems.
Additionally, a lack of footwear sends a message, like "I do not have to walk for myself". We see the Sha are largely transported via litters (palanquins without covers) and therefore aren't expected to use their feet outside. This is similar to how in East Asian cultures, fair skin was established as a sign of status because it meant you could afford to stay inside all day as you weren't a labourer.
My apologies for the long reply, but this is actually a really interesting topic. If you look at what British royals wear you can see it's all made of materials from their various overseas territories because they were bragging about their empire!
Hoe are you slow ??
not actually considering this seems to be inspired by egypt under roman rule and i wouldn’t really care if it was servants but royals absolutely had longer clothes and layers because they were rich. I can ignore the no shoes though. But it’s whatever cause it’s fiction and it’s like a stereotypically thing in fiction to have your Egyptians in this clothing so it doesn’t really matter just a personal pet peeve!
I like long replies so need to apologize! the years and stuff of the story confuse me because the westerners have like a British empire look and the people we see look like Egypt under roman rule and they were quite conservative. but i don’t expect authors to research every little thing for their fantasy comic. But i’m really into fashion so to see them go the easy way out of beautiful North African/Middle eastern traditional fashion peeves me a little. I can get over it though but always in the back of my mind I’m thinking, “There’s barely any trees how do these people not have any skin protection. It’s not like they live in a tropical area??” but thats cause i’m a nerd lol
No, and I don’t know you so don’t reply to me if you’re going to insult me for a personal pet peeve of mine. Thank youuu!!!
no tf it isnt
Okay do tell how?
I think my only pet peeve for this story is that the Gods wear less clothes than the servants and The literal main God is barefoot…Like what…aren’t you rich??
Still looking forward for more updates thoughhh