12-06-2007, 04:27 AM
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#1 | | Senior Member
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| I submit to the FIE: Custom Uniforms
So in light of the stunning decisions handed down from the FIE in Madrid I suggest a much more media friendly change: Allow customization of uniforms...crazy colors, new cuts, completely welcome. It would SUCK to be on weapons test at those tournaments, but it SURE would be entertaining.
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....Okay, okay so I'm not really serious, but it would be entertaining.
However, just for the sake of discussion, if you could customize your uniform, what would you do? 
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12-06-2007, 04:30 AM
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#2 | | Épéeist Hive Queen
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| Not much. I might add blue panels under the arms on my jacket.
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12-06-2007, 04:56 AM
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| I'd stay the same, because when everyone else wears something bright and funky, suddenly the stark white uniform really stands out. | |
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12-06-2007, 10:49 AM
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12-06-2007, 10:53 AM
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Originally Posted by TangMan  I'd stay the same, because when everyone else wears something bright and funky, suddenly the stark white uniform really stands out. | Darn it, that's what I was going to say.  | |
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12-06-2007, 11:38 AM
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#6 | | the dark one
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| No, no... BLACK. Black is so slimming, and goes with everything. I would wear all black. Or mix and match, black with scarlet.
And maybe some big old horns soldered onto my mask, Viking-style. Though from what I vaguely remember from history class, and with apologies to ZZ, Vikings didn't have horns on their helmets, other invading hordes did.
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12-06-2007, 11:40 AM
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| I'm with SW. I'd go all black. But I'd have some blue and silver mixed in for accents.
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12-06-2007, 01:51 PM
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12-06-2007, 05:06 PM
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| chain mail.
although that might get me electrocuted 
so maybe some sort of shimmery optical illusion type of thing to totally screw my opponents distance 
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12-06-2007, 05:08 PM
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| Something red. Because red is the color of winners, apparently.
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12-06-2007, 05:09 PM
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12-06-2007, 07:25 PM
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12-06-2007, 10:46 PM
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12-06-2007, 11:15 PM
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Originally Posted by swordwench Vikings didn't have horns on their helmets, other invading hordes did. | No one did. They would be distinctly nonutilitarian. Your enemy's sword clips it and suddenly your helm is either off or tilted, maybe over your eyes...
There are a very few existing examples of helms with projections, and they are all thought to be ceremonial or parade armour. Quote:
Originally Posted by fencingfrog chain mail. | It's just 'mail'. The word itself means 'chain' in Old French, so 'chain mail' is really a tautology... Quote: |
although that might get me electrocuted
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12-07-2007, 06:22 AM
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| I want the women's uniforms to look like the lvl 60+ female armor in WoW.
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12-07-2007, 08:32 AM
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#16 | | Épéeist Hive Queen
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Originally Posted by sabreur I want the women's uniforms to look like the lvl 60+ female armor in WoW. | You need to reread the original question. It was how you would customize your uniform...
Perhaps you could add some fake wolf fur and a little tail to your uniform. 
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12-07-2007, 10:00 AM
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#17 | | the dark one
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Originally Posted by Zilverzmurfen Perhaps you could add some fake wolf fur and a little tail to your uniform. | Unless the rules for international fencing are different, he'd have to tuck his tail under his lame, totally ruining the effect.  Woof!
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12-07-2007, 10:10 AM
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Originally Posted by Zilverzmurfen Not much. I might add blue panels under the arms on my jacket. |  ZZ wants to be a florida gator?? ewww..that's what their uniforms look like. you break my heart..
i seriously hate too much colour on uniforms. all i'd do is have adidas style stripes down the sides of the arms, legs and down the socks (pretty much what US and France did for '04 olympics), all the same colour (depending on nationality).
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12-07-2007, 10:22 AM
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| Black velvet faux vest, dark purple satin sleeves-nipped at the wrist. Or military influence with fringed applets and brass buttons and gold cording going between the buttons.
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12-07-2007, 10:41 AM
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| Flames.
Or, skulls.
Or, flaming skulls. Flaming skulls with coiled snakes below them and lightning shooting out of the eye sockets while blood drips off of the jaw/teeth and venom drips from the snakes fangs.
Well, that might be too busy. Guess I'll pretty much stick to the white.
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