Talk:The Next Step/@comment-199.231.179.194-20171227092714/@comment-26397825-20171227131307

Well, Ruby's cape is a bit tattered. She may have had her aura drop a few times, which would mean her clothes wouldn't be as protected and would have gotten worn and maybe a few holes. Plus she was 15 in her old outfit, and is 16 now. She's still growing (though admittedly not very much), so she could have just grown out of it.

It's easy enough to just ditch the old outfit in a rubbish bin as you pass it. It's not rocket science; take off old clothes, put on new clothes, dump old clothes in rubbish bin as you pass by one. Or give old clothes to villagers to use as cleaning rags. Or donate them to charity/poor unfortunates as you pass. Or hell, even just keep old clothes in the bottom of that big backpack each of them seem to be carrying around and tear them up for makeshift bandages, ties to hold stuff together (using strips of fabric as ribbon/really thick string basically), tie strips end to end as a knotted rope...

It really isn't that hard to get rid of an old outfit.

Nora is basically just wearing her old outfit with a baggier shirt and a bomber jacket instead of the vest she had. Ren's is different in cut but similar in design; he could have gotten someone to take it out after growing a bit as payment for a job. Jaune is literally still wearing the same outfit with Pyrrha's sash around the waist.