Bodhi also has a great poncho but i couldn’t find a good pic.
excuse you, Lando Calrissian is not a member of the aristocracy
He bought his spot, and the “real” aristocracy doesn’t respect him, even when he sells out his old friends out of misplaced loyalty to his new class. He turns against the Empire by instigating his wotkers to rise up. Notice he’s not wearing it in RotJ.
In fact, notice that Leia starts out wearing a hooded cape which she has taken from her. And Bail is wearing a poncho-cape hybrid in R1.
This theory has legs!
yes! i’d been thinking about this because Lando and Leia both kind of transition between the two sides.
Lando wears a cape when he’s governor of Cloud City, but changes into Han’s clothes after he officially joins the Rebellion.
Leia wears ~princess clothes at first, but wears more practical costumes in the later movies, including a camouflage poncho on Endor.
the traditional Jedi robes have sleeves, so technically they don’t fall into either category. but they look more like cloaks/capes due to their voluminous hoods and aura of Drama, symbolizing the Jedi’s subtle resemblance to the “aristocracy” side of the Star Wars costume divide. ie, the Jedi meant to be neutral, but actually wield a tremendous amount of cultural and political power.
Just saying, George was a genius with this kind of stuff. Dialouge was his weakness, and it’s a shame it dragged down the prequels.
Being overly-familiar with a series is such a weird burden sometimes because like
you’ll see some theory being passed around that you instantly know is wrong. Like it’s surprising to see people supporting it because the flaws in its logic are so glaringly obvious. Until it hits you that, yeah it’s wrong, but only because you were able to immediately remember the 5 second conversation between two background characters 17 minutes through s2e13 that definitively disproves it. And no casual fan would have any reason to remember that off the top of their head and it’s you who’s the weird human encyclopedia with a shot-for-shot memory the entire damn series.
Like at that point you don’t even know anymore whether to argue your point or just…maybe go outside for a little bit.
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