Talk:Carmine Esclados/@comment-27144409-20190621024202/@comment-35434444-20190621141757

If they started bringing out practical outfits at this late stage, they would look out of place the other way. Plus would nessessarily concede that the outfits are perceived as impractical in-universe and therefore unessessarily emphasize each character's choice in clothing.

RT can't win.

That said, I think all of the wardrobe absurdities could be acknowledged and work to the story's advantage if it was played off for comedy or given some kind of utility. Like all of that humor that never manages to manifest outside RWBY Chibi.

They could joke that bikini armour actually works because more revealing clothes allows your aura to function better, like how wearing robes in TES games improves your magic efficiency. Or maybe each huntsman's rank is based on reports by people they've saved since grimm don't leave any remains, so they wear ridiculous outfits in order to stand out.

Part of the problem with ridiculous fashion like this is that don't go all-in on it. Nobody makes fun of all the hero clothes in My Hero Academia or One Punch Man because everything is so exaggerated that the audiance intuitively knows not to take it seriously.

(Come to think of it, Saitama almost has the opposite issue. Barring the ankle-length cape, his outfit is very conservative if not practical, and yet he's clearly meant to be an outlier in an organization of heros where everybody is trying to look cool so they can advance based on popularity.)

I think the main reason people contest these choice is because the seires, knowingly or otherwise, keeps presenting these outfits to us as though it's taking itself seriously.