Observe the local fashions

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From: Day of Rest

Dressing with ostentatious luxury is discouraged here. But that doesn't mean one doesn't dress for something.

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Description summary:
The first paragraph of the description varies based on the city's Style, while the second varies based on its Chosen Site.

Style	First Paragraph
First City	Many [...] still wear Tracklayers' uniforms [...]: overalls, boots, work helmets. But there is something archaic in the cut and the shape. The jewellery – made, generally, from cheap materials – echoes the shapes of the Second City, chunky and theriomorphic.
Bethlehem	[...] it is important to confuse the eyes of the city. To that end, people dress suspiciously alike, and in the streets wear featureless masks, as though that could discourage a nightmare from following them home.
School of Beatrice True Beatrice	Tracklayer uniforms [...] remain popular. But it is considered proper [...] when one is enjoying a day of leisure [...] that some of the city is enjoying its leisure [...] Day-Off wear is looser and more fluid [...] not expensively made, but designed to claim space for the wearer.
Porous	As far as possible, the city emulates the modes of Venderbight, except that no one is bandaged [...] The effect is somewhat disconcerting: linens in white and brown and grey, cut for a Tomb Colonist, but here worn on bodies still fit enough for work.
Ivory	People still wear Tracklayer uniforms, but now sometimes layered with laboratory coats or with the leather gloves and boots required for training a wild beast.
Attenuated	Many people still wear Tracklayers' uniforms [...] augmented here and there with patches and pins[...] And there is a trend [...] to wear cuffs or collars or anklets: as though the buttresses and arches of the city map to braces on the human body.
Remembered	The fashions of your childhood are subtly evident: the cut of a sleeve, the shape of a cuff. They would look foolishly old-fashioned or preposterously prelapsarian in London, but here they seem merely [...] a reference to something universally recalled.
Celestial	The fashions of your childhood are subtly evident: the cut of a sleeve, the shape of a cuff, the broad brim of a straw hat. Here there is no summer sun to keep away, and yet people dress as though they were farming in a Surface July.
Auroral	Phosphorescent beetles are worn in place of brooches; the cloth is cut white or pale grey, better to capture the shifting hues of the city.
Bazaarine	Is there anyone in this city who does not belong to some arcane fraternity? Even a modest work-shirt will have some sigil worked into the collar; even the commonest work-glove will be embroidered with the sign of the Horned Whelk.
Mycologene Terpsichorean Heliconian Cartographical	FATE
Cenotaphic	Black, deep purple, lavender, mourning grey: [...] the cloth is still plain [...] Where brown is unavoidable, it is generally a very dark brown, or else a brownish grey, as these too are considered to be suited to tragic memory

Chosen Site	Second Paragraph
Ealing	Those most influenced by Ealing tie false tentacles to their chins. The older Tracklayers scoff. The Rubbery men themselves look confused: what is the purpose of limbs that cannot move or gesture? But the fad persists.
Evenlode	To all this, a few of the more adventurous – or those who really did escape the Evenlode – wear stolen prison garb; sometimes in its natural colour, and sometimes dipped in peligin, the better to proclaim its outcast monstrosity.
Balmoral	The more avant-garde now and then layer over this a cloak edged with moonlight scales or lined with tartan plaid. The conceit is that they all have sweethearts down by Balmoral who give them these tokens to wear, though most of them must be feigned.
Station VIII	Workers [...] from Station VIII have number identification patches [...] the fashion is to wear them upside down or across one's posterior. One young man adopted an even more eye-catching mode, until it was suggested that a six-digit number was flattering himself.
Burrow	Not a few people also carry an instrument with them when they are at leisure: something small and portable, a rattle or a pennywhistle if nothing better serves. But no one wants to hear the beat and be unable to answer.
Moulin	Now and then, someone will augment the dress with some curious old artefact picked up in the wastes: medals from a war long forgotten, epaulettes of a defunct brigade.
Marigold	As for the devils, they are as always impeccable in sharp edged gowns and suits, and no one else will be ready to ape their ways for another twenty years at least.

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