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lokiwholockfactory:helshades:naxiu5:helshades:sifsdottir:thetomhiddlestoneffect:Loki slippers…that is all.And you didn’t think we were going to see those slippers? Oh but we did!1. They are light shoes2. He usually wears knee-high boots so these might even be standard for Asgardian men3. They are not the infamous slippers that T. Hiddleston was wearing in the infamous B-roll footage. Those were in leather, plain and backless; these cover the whole foot.Asgardian shot glasses look bigger than Midgardian shot glasses.The seam placement on his pants look very similar to the ones on the pants he wore in Avengers and in the rest of TDW, minus the criss-crossing layers over the knees. Asgardian pattern drafters must love complicating their own lives. Or maybe Loki just magicks up his clothes.Either way, I want pants like that IRL.Wait, wait…does his blanket have a polka dot pattern?What’s more, a gold polka dot pattern. Obviously.So, concerning the trousers and the shoes, we have two other images that I’d find very useful for reference, taken from the Art Book:(Click to see full-scale.)Let’s take a closer look at those “slippers”, shall we.First, let me quote Charlie Wen from the Dark World art book:« While Loki is in captivity, he wears something very similar to his ‘walkabout’/casual look from the first Thor film. The original direction from Alan Taylor was that his prison look could be was wearing underneath his Avengers costume. Unfortunately, as I began exploring that, we found it to be overly complex and cumbersome.So I used that idea as a starting point and simplified it, creating sleek and elegant lines that mirrored the idea that everything has been stripped away from Loki. He is barefoot and completely powerless. I also kept some of the design motifs we used in the previous films, including the interlocking wraps of leather and cloth that can be seen on his arms and legs. »When we were first shown the photograph of Loki intensely reading in his cell, I ventured the hypothesis, with much excitation I might add, that the Asgardians had woolly green socks. So interest! Very worldbuilding!But I also remarked somewhere that the trousers seemed to have those leather straps, to fasten it to the shoes or boots perhaps, or maybe they were the type of trousers I would call “spindle” in French, or jodhpurs: in other words, stirrup leggings, with under-straps to help the trousers from rolling up.Which does make sense if you consider that these leather leggings are the same Loki’s been wearing since The Avengers—they modified the coat a little, along with the metal armouring, but not the bottom of the outfit, which actually suits Alan Taylor’s primary direction of having Loki wear in his cell what he could have been wearing under all the leather.For the record, I’ve always found that Alan Taylor’s idea was as sensible as it was interesting, and above all coherent and worldbuilding-compliant which certainly explains why it never made it to the movie. I reckon that this below was their closest attempt:And yes, he is barefoot in that scene. So, socks? Oh, but wait:Nah! Under-straps. I see that the convoluted leather straps are the cuffs of his trousers, by the way, so the “caligae” are probably worn under, adding another layer of leather to the ensemble.The key notion with Asgardian outfits is the interlocking of fabrics, and the men’s clothes seem to be even more complicated than women’s, because they meld fabric with leather intricately.(Click to see full-scale.)So, this above was evidently the primary design, which finally explains us (well, sort of) how the jerkin is fastened—no, fanfiction writers, I keep telling you, no buttons and definitely no zip, you nonnies—but also that the green shirt could be hidden beneath all the layers of green wool and the leathery result of Loki’s tailors’ last raid on a small planet’s very last herd of cattle. I imagine that the trousers go just like the sleeves: fabric probably forming padding underneath the leather.The sweat must be pooling under that thing, something wonderful. I do hope that über-advanced space civilisations have invented a good way to cool down everybody’s privates on the battlefield.PS: for future reference, I’m going to add this on the relevant page with all the other long-ass Loki-related costume design posts. Pfeeew, takes me way back, nostalgia, sniffles.*costume design nerding**the artist froths at the mouth* -- source link

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