WRITING OBSTACLE
Create a detailed description of clothing designed for a culture that prioritises touch over sight, focusing on textures and sensations rather than appearance.
Element Clothing
The damp bodysuit will cling to a person like a second skin. Out of the water, it will feel grainy, rubbery, and heavy. Once it’s subermeged, it will become light, airy, flowy, and slick almost like slime. It would be hard to grab ahold of another person in the water.
These suits will allow the people of the Deep to never resurface until they wish to. They can be under the surface for days straight. The suit is warm, durable, and comfortable.
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The sheer shirts and pants are light and thin. Once on the skin, it flows on its own with the slightest movement, almost floating. It’s a gentle caress or even a tickle. Some of the clothing items have tiny holes to allow for more air to lift and sway each draped fabric. When I run my hands across those pecies of materials, I enjoy the wavy and satiny feel.
These feathery fabrics are perfect for the people of the Wind. Each item will allow them to move in the air like a breeze. It will feel like wearing air, like being air.
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Inside the dark bodysuits are gritty crumbles that gently move against the skin. Each movement feels like rolling in the dirt. The sleeves are rough and ridged that are long to cover each finger. It feels cool and almost damp.
When the suit is connected to a plant or item of the Earth, it will dampen and sprout flowers, fruits, vegetables, and other things depending on the area. For example, in a burned field, one could raise a forest in its wake.
The suit makes the wearer feel like they are the Earth, full of life. They can move and create. And to be the people of the Earth is to grow and be free.
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Both matching shirt and pants are bumpy with little ridges here and there. It feels rough and smooth at the same time, almost cold to the touch. It almost makes you think it’s covered in little pebbles.
Once in motion, the suit begins to heat. Inside the suit, it’s never too hot against the skin. But to touch the outside would mean to be burned.
This rocky and firey suit is perfect for the people of the Sun. It will feel like being inside the fire pit before it’s lit. And once in motion, they’ll be able to be fire and blaze bright and hot.