It's more than just learning how to dress sharp, you also have to be able to afford it. Older vampires have had time to amass some real wealth and a serious wardrobe.
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"Few creatures of the night have captured our imagination like vampires.
What explains our enduring fascination with vampires? Is it the overtones of sexual lust, power, control? Or is it a fascination with the immortality of the undead?"
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Compounding interest must feel like a cheat code for them.
Nope, it's all learning what looks good on you and what's comfortable enough that you feel and act naturally. Clothes in the first world are so cheap as to be laughable. I've had to ask my wife to stop bringing home kick ass clothes for me. "It was only $1!"
Only items I'll spend $10 on are maybe shoes and maybe pants. OK, I have two tuxedos, $110 on Amazon. One for my wedding and another for I forget what, but I'll have those forever.
Posted this before, in response to people saying fashion costs money or is uncomfortable. Top, $2. Vest, $2. Pants, $4. Watch, $2. Necklace, homemade from scraps. You get the idea. (And BTW, the top and vest were from the women's section of the thrift.)
Ew Amazon
How does one learn what looks good in them, if they have no reflection?
They got a glass mirror instead of a silver one.
Well that's fucking brilliant. I never considered vampires vs. silver vs. silver nitrate glass before. 𫨠I feel this deserves a short story, no idea where to start. Anyone got Neil Gaiman's cell number?
He's definitely not up to much these days, at least professionally.
Vampire? Gotta use 2 mirrors. Do NOT use 3 or more in a circle or you may get trapped.
Your wife is a lucky woman, sir
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There was this about vampires : they could never look scruffy. Instead, they were... what was the word... deshabille. It meant untidy, but with bags and bags of style
Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment
Fashion is cyclical and vampires have the good fortune of being around long enough that some fit will eventually be couture.
Or maybe real vampires (duh, not the TV kind, obvs) only turn people who already have a certain style?
So toreador are the only real vampires, and all the other clans are TV vamps?
I suppose when you live hundreds of years, you'll probably pick up fashion as a hobby out of nothing more than boredom at some point. It's also something that's just been around for a long, looong time, even if it's always changing. So, like, yeah, I'm sure when some bargain bin office floozy gets his middle-class jugular slurped like a straw, he'll still have all the style of a corpo puppet. But like, just give him some time to marinade in eternity. His fashion'll shine through eventually.
Have we reached the point in time where the Twilight series isnβt commonly known about?
Known but actively ignored.
I know that it exists, but I have no basis for using it in this context.
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As a very powerful vampire, I intentionally dress down to make the point that my own vanity is not in any way part of what commands your respect.
This question was answered authoritatively by famed Vampirologist Stephenie Meyer in her seminal, though short, biography- The Short Life of Bree Tanner.
Bree was a young vampire of only a few days in the story, and she was a shit dresser.