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    oy She Tine Tee ees Aiwenae Vardevinerr ack. “Tom Detorty Asoe New Yorke Als TROUSSEAU: FASHION FOR TIME TRAVELERS Genevieve Valentine 1's. a mistake to go. Lets stat there. TO ii yt Jumpsuits. Jumpsuits for Forward motion. ‘Now you're thinking about some movies you've seen or some ads you've read fon the rail about a future where everyones in skintight white. You snickered at how silly it looked, or admired how immaculate, this world where no one is ever carrying coffee and no one sweats and if they have subways instead of personal transport pods then the rain cars get wiped down every ten minutes, and nothing ever touches you. If that’s why you're traveling Forward, you should rethink ‘Cleanliness is forthe people who can afford it. Whatever fature you jump to {and the ads are incorrect, there’s never just the one}, on whatever orbiting body _, you end up, there is going co be a ruling lass, and you are not going to be ini. The numbers are against you, and the future's a treacherous place even if this isn’t your very first jump. Even if you chanced it with a bespoke bioluminescent evening ensemble and lucked out in che ight climate to sustain itand enchanted the right social echelon so that they'd take a stranger in to dinner, cunning with the rich and the beautiful is more than you're ready for. if you run with them now, congratulations, and it’s no wonder that you're aiming high, but the practials will undermine you in ways no one has trained you to think of. Depending where you land, the bios that make up yous jacket have a labor union, and you're screwed for keeping them out past sunset without paying overtime, Be safe. Stay low.) ‘You need work boots that don't jog anybody's memory; you need a jumpsuit, Lt l3 unmarked and dark and baggy, with some pockets outside and some pockets inside where no one can reach, The future isn't safe. Have a backup plan stfapped t0 your thigh. If you think that means a weapon, rethink. SeTSAVaG SH Wu NotHsvs :avagsnouy Backward isn’ any better, to be honest. You have to be able to aim before you can plan for the journey, and your ist time will be a wash, no matter what they ell you. Nervous people end up on the outskirts of remote Viking camps or out too far in the Dead Sea and have to use theie callback ina hurry. Don't worry. Sensors get sharper every day, and any couture house worth its salt has a satisfaction guarantee, (Give no money to an establishment that won't accommodate.) House of Lewis, the now-vanished icon of the trade, distilled theirs into only six words: “Come back. Look forward. Start again.” Remember that moving through time i a skill; no matter who's holding your hand when that bright machine powers up, there are no chauffeurs for what thisis, Boys a5 witch if you're not careful. ‘Along linen tunic wll pass about sixty-five peseent of the time. eaught out, I claim you were set upon and divested of the rest. Its a prime opportunity 10 appreciate the immersive experience of being in another place and time as you do labor to earn other garments. (These are no guarantees that even that cover story will work; the world’s a funny thing, You'll be allright in Cleopatea’s Egypt, bat if you land in feudal (A Tape and they slice you open for direspeting the presence of the Emperor, r ‘When you're headed Backward, wear natural fibers only, Rayon gets you burned ] you're on your own.) Your second-best bet is wool. Wool isn’t fancy, but you shouldn't be ~ sump- tuary laws shoot to kill, in some places. Make your sleeves wider than you think you'll need, hems longer than you think is safe. You'll be surprised how cold rights can get in the Andes. You're traveling light; every half-yard of wool you can use is your insurance. Silk is softes, sometimes fines, but a risk. Make sure your Arabic or Hindi or | Chinese dialets are up to snuff, and even then, be prepared to claim the garment. is a gift from someone who's dead, and to pee it off to give whoever’s asking. ‘Adornments of any kind should stay out of sight until you havethe lay of "= the land, No exceptions. It doesn’t matter when you are or who you're trying to impress. There are no definitive census numbers regarding those Travelers who go missing, killed every year on the roadside, or in alleys, or in dark rooms 7- fs by someone who knows you're a stranger and will never be missed, No Travel , agency is willing co release them. Think about why chat is; leave anything that glitters out of sight. Ie impossible to disappear into your dees. ; Everything you wear betrays you —its make, its cost, its cut its age. Why you have it, or why you don't. Think what a thin gold band on a single finger means; ies NE lS aS ea where you're going, wherever that is, every stinch will give you away. ~ You might ~ if you're confident enough to jump, if you aim as you hoped, if. ‘you land where you're powerful ~be in a place where you can almost disappeat “Arman ina well-cut dark grey suit can go fifty years from now in either direction, across thousands of miles, and avoid the sort of notice that gets you poineed out ‘to constables. Es (les easy when you're powerful, Anything is. If that's the reason you're trav cling local, rethink.) In eighteenth-cennity France, a heel less than two itches high ig for aman) ‘lth plrationd past his abilities. An Ethiopian habesha kemis in’ white signal ‘guest at a formal occasion. A man in Tokyo in 1872 is a toady or a traitor, whether he wears a kimono or a waistcoat. An uamarried Russian wears her okoshnik open in she back, and to close i claims a thing you might not mean, ‘Clothes speak for yous go carefully.

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