Uod: Trends in the Cities
The wealthy are always bored. The wealthy always want to engage one-upmanship. Here are this season's trends and fads in the cities of Jegeldumuth, Imphomonee, and Minkaraph. Other nearby communities try to emulate the stylings, but are always a season behind. Sad small-town plebes.
- Wearing extravagant fake moustaches to legal and formal social events (proclamations, mayoral speeches, mass weddings, etc), similar to the modern British use of wigs by judges and barristers.
- Wearing live iguanas as scarves. They haven't discovered the concept of ectotherms yet so this works better than you'd expect. Your iguana being a little sluggish isn't a bad thing (unlike the sexual expression, "Is your iguana a little sluggish?"). The weather isn't terribly cold so this is more for fashion than utility. The truly wealthy will have servants paint patterns on the iguanas.
- Shaving the left side of the head. Shaving the right side of head is so last season.
- Black-clad (including masks) youths huddling in alleys together. No common activity is noted and the participants make no statement as to why they congregate.
- Use of toucans or similar large, colorful billed birds to pick up food from a plate and drop it into one's mouth during meals.
- Frogspawn - eating clusters of frog eggs, often with a touch of pungent brassicaceae paste. While the paste is a recent addition, the dish is a fashionable appropriation of "rustic" Chlendi cuisine.
- Any heliotrope colored clothing.
- Hats made of whole birds (feather and beaks), often those retired from the above food service.
- Three-tiered hats. Two tiers are for the poors. Four tiers is gauche and excessive.
- Immature hammerhead worms being sanctified in back-allies and placed underneath the tongue. In the blinding pain and disorientation that follows many claim they can see the face of a god and experience glossolalia. Some people just do it for the buzz.