Lorica Clothing
@loricaclothing.bsky.social
Clothing inspired by armor and art history.
History ⚔️ Fashion ✨ Rants
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History ⚔️ Fashion ✨ Rants
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I'm like months behind schedule on Youtube what with travel, freelance work, and managing Lorica production — but I finally squeezed out a new video! Turning my art director x-ray vision to gaming: how does the visual approach of a game elevate the experience of playing it?
youtu.be/YuOuU2wP0XM
youtu.be/YuOuU2wP0XM
Art Direction in Video Games: Reviewing Songs of Silence
YouTube video by Lorica Clothing
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October 15, 2025 at 12:11 AM
I'm like months behind schedule on Youtube what with travel, freelance work, and managing Lorica production — but I finally squeezed out a new video! Turning my art director x-ray vision to gaming: how does the visual approach of a game elevate the experience of playing it?
youtu.be/YuOuU2wP0XM
youtu.be/YuOuU2wP0XM
I make size-inclusive leggings based on historical armors. They're now available for preorder for projected delivery in November!
loricaclothing.com/collections/...
loricaclothing.com/collections/...
September 11, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I make size-inclusive leggings based on historical armors. They're now available for preorder for projected delivery in November!
loricaclothing.com/collections/...
loricaclothing.com/collections/...
Historical objects are often viewed from a purely functionalist perspective, where every minute detail is hypothesized to provide some sort of secret tactical advantage. What if function was not the sole driver of form? What if delight could shape design just as meaningfully? youtu.be/VIbSa1o98pE
A Beautiful Purpose: Violence vs. Aesthetics in European Armor
YouTube video by Lorica Clothing
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August 21, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Historical objects are often viewed from a purely functionalist perspective, where every minute detail is hypothesized to provide some sort of secret tactical advantage. What if function was not the sole driver of form? What if delight could shape design just as meaningfully? youtu.be/VIbSa1o98pE
Every time I finish a video I'm like, "surely the next one will get easier"—but I keep picking topics that should be PhD theses rather than 20 minute video essays. 🙃
Anyway, here's the latest! If today's menswear can have regional tailoring styles, you KNOW armor can too ✨
youtu.be/reU4aLabm8Q
Anyway, here's the latest! If today's menswear can have regional tailoring styles, you KNOW armor can too ✨
youtu.be/reU4aLabm8Q
Identity in Steel: Regional Styles of Armor in 15th Century Europe
YouTube video by Lorica Clothing
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June 6, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Every time I finish a video I'm like, "surely the next one will get easier"—but I keep picking topics that should be PhD theses rather than 20 minute video essays. 🙃
Anyway, here's the latest! If today's menswear can have regional tailoring styles, you KNOW armor can too ✨
youtu.be/reU4aLabm8Q
Anyway, here's the latest! If today's menswear can have regional tailoring styles, you KNOW armor can too ✨
youtu.be/reU4aLabm8Q
My latest video is about how to start learning about armor in earnest when you're just starting out. What should you read? What should you look at? Where on earth are people getting all these sources they keep talking about it?? I gotchu, babynerd.
youtu.be/B_oz4JyAHKI
youtu.be/B_oz4JyAHKI
How to Study Armor When You're Still a Wee Geekling, 2025 Edition
YouTube video by Lorica Clothing
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May 23, 2025 at 8:55 PM
My latest video is about how to start learning about armor in earnest when you're just starting out. What should you read? What should you look at? Where on earth are people getting all these sources they keep talking about it?? I gotchu, babynerd.
youtu.be/B_oz4JyAHKI
youtu.be/B_oz4JyAHKI
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Europeans take for granted that history is written in the bones of their cities. Part of the American malaise is that we are deeply disconnected from the shared tapestry of time: most of us grow up in buildings the age of our grandparents at most. And what we newly erect is soulless and expedient.
May 6, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Europeans take for granted that history is written in the bones of their cities. Part of the American malaise is that we are deeply disconnected from the shared tapestry of time: most of us grow up in buildings the age of our grandparents at most. And what we newly erect is soulless and expedient.
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At long last someone has identified RFK Jr.'s support base: the 9% of people who have a favorable opinion of the Black Plague
April 24, 2025 at 4:29 PM
At long last someone has identified RFK Jr.'s support base: the 9% of people who have a favorable opinion of the Black Plague
Quite a bit later to finish than I anticipated, but here's the latest video! If you've ever asked yourself why Art Nouveau looks like it was made by elves, and Art Deco like it was made by dwarves, I have just the 13 minutes for you! youtu.be/d9nbkQtrqyc
Elves vs. Dwarves: Art History as World-Building
YouTube video by Lorica Clothing
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April 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Quite a bit later to finish than I anticipated, but here's the latest video! If you've ever asked yourself why Art Nouveau looks like it was made by elves, and Art Deco like it was made by dwarves, I have just the 13 minutes for you! youtu.be/d9nbkQtrqyc
Oh wow I forgot about BlueSky for a few weeks, then my Warhammer video made the rounds, and now I’m not talking to myself anymore! Hi friends, thanks for following! :) New video next Friday: how did we assign Art Deco to Dwarven Culture, and Art Nouveau to Elves? Let’s talk art history and fantasy ✨
April 11, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Oh wow I forgot about BlueSky for a few weeks, then my Warhammer video made the rounds, and now I’m not talking to myself anymore! Hi friends, thanks for following! :) New video next Friday: how did we assign Art Deco to Dwarven Culture, and Art Nouveau to Elves? Let’s talk art history and fantasy ✨
Why does everyone in the gritty used future have a mohawk? Why do all intergalactic militaries look the same? Why is Barbarella wearing a chainmail bikini? Let's discusssss
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March 21, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Why does everyone in the gritty used future have a mohawk? Why do all intergalactic militaries look the same? Why is Barbarella wearing a chainmail bikini? Let's discusssss
youtu.be/bFkaPN_zUo0
youtu.be/bFkaPN_zUo0
I bought Age of Wonders 4 on Steam Sale and then proceeded to play 80 hours in two weeks so now we must all suffer the consequences of my bad decisions: 20 minutes of analysis of silly costumes.
youtu.be/Sy5rhkRysuA?...
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Let's Judge Costuming: Medieval Fantasy Tropes in Age of Wonders 4
YouTube video by Lorica Clothing
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March 13, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I bought Age of Wonders 4 on Steam Sale and then proceeded to play 80 hours in two weeks so now we must all suffer the consequences of my bad decisions: 20 minutes of analysis of silly costumes.
youtu.be/Sy5rhkRysuA?...
youtu.be/Sy5rhkRysuA?...
Not related to armor pants but my goat gave birth to four little peanuts and never have I felt more called to ✨fashion design✨
February 24, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Not related to armor pants but my goat gave birth to four little peanuts and never have I felt more called to ✨fashion design✨
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Genuinely worried about mine and every other artist's small online business 🫠 USPS is what keeps shipping affordable and if it's privatized rates will skyrocket and only places like Amazon with their own fleet will be able to offer free/reasonable shipping rates.
Been anticipating something like this, especially with DeJoy leaving, but it still just makes me so, so angry www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Trump expected to take control of USPS, fire postal board, officials say
The move threatens to upend trillions of dollars in e-commerce business and the 250-year-old Postal Service.
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February 21, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Genuinely worried about mine and every other artist's small online business 🫠 USPS is what keeps shipping affordable and if it's privatized rates will skyrocket and only places like Amazon with their own fleet will be able to offer free/reasonable shipping rates.
It's okay if your entire closet is earth tones, you can blame Robespierre and Kant. Check out my new video on why men's fashion is kinda boring. ✨
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Did Modern Warfare Ruin Menswear? On the Great Male Renunciation and Drab Masculinity
YouTube video by Lorica Clothing
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February 19, 2025 at 1:11 AM
It's okay if your entire closet is earth tones, you can blame Robespierre and Kant. Check out my new video on why men's fashion is kinda boring. ✨
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC2y...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC2y...
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Mr Rogers and Sesame Street taught me love, kindness, compassion, and empathy. Star Trek taught me to dream of and aspire to help create a better and more diverse world. Star Wars and Tolkien taught me to fight for freedom, even in the face of overwhelming odds and great evil.
February 11, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Mr Rogers and Sesame Street taught me love, kindness, compassion, and empathy. Star Trek taught me to dream of and aspire to help create a better and more diverse world. Star Wars and Tolkien taught me to fight for freedom, even in the face of overwhelming odds and great evil.
If this ain't the entire experience of being a woman posting history content on the internet.
(severely condescending tone) Umm let me explain something to you sweetie: [objectively the wrongest information you've ever heard]
February 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM
If this ain't the entire experience of being a woman posting history content on the internet.
Some people didn’t grow up watching Captain Planet, Kim Possible, Magic School Bus, or Recess, and it shows.
February 6, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Some people didn’t grow up watching Captain Planet, Kim Possible, Magic School Bus, or Recess, and it shows.
My first stab at long-form armor rambling! Hope you'll get the same respite out of watching that I did making a little bit of fun educational content while the world is burning. 🔥🌎🔥
youtu.be/Wc0C01cWB2s
youtu.be/Wc0C01cWB2s
Parade Armor is a Lie: A Brief History of Armor as Fashion
YouTube video by Lorica Clothing
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February 3, 2025 at 6:13 PM
My first stab at long-form armor rambling! Hope you'll get the same respite out of watching that I did making a little bit of fun educational content while the world is burning. 🔥🌎🔥
youtu.be/Wc0C01cWB2s
youtu.be/Wc0C01cWB2s
I'm new to this whole just-like-Twitter-used-to-make thing but my entire feed is 50% ✨ YAY ART! ^.^ SUPPORT A SMALL BUSINESS! ✨ and 50% "tuck your pants into your socks boys and girls, fascism has arrived" and geez the whiplash from post to post makes me feel literally insane
January 28, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I'm new to this whole just-like-Twitter-used-to-make thing but my entire feed is 50% ✨ YAY ART! ^.^ SUPPORT A SMALL BUSINESS! ✨ and 50% "tuck your pants into your socks boys and girls, fascism has arrived" and geez the whiplash from post to post makes me feel literally insane
Just here to remind you that bamboo fabric is just viscose rayon, and any brand that's pitching you on how "sustainable" it is as a material is blithely omitting how toxic it is to produce. Choose Tencel lyocell instead, a very similar fiber whose process is less harmful to the people who make it.
January 27, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Just here to remind you that bamboo fabric is just viscose rayon, and any brand that's pitching you on how "sustainable" it is as a material is blithely omitting how toxic it is to produce. Choose Tencel lyocell instead, a very similar fiber whose process is less harmful to the people who make it.
When I was at the Met last week, I overheard a kid asking his dad why the shoulder was so big on this armor. Dad didn’t know, so I butted in that this is specifically an armor for the joust. Many questions and facts later, dad asks, “how do you know all this?” Well, sir… I’m a nerd. 🤷♀️
January 26, 2025 at 4:51 PM
When I was at the Met last week, I overheard a kid asking his dad why the shoulder was so big on this armor. Dad didn’t know, so I butted in that this is specifically an armor for the joust. Many questions and facts later, dad asks, “how do you know all this?” Well, sir… I’m a nerd. 🤷♀️
Someone in a local photographers' group was advertising with flagrantly AI-generated images. I advised that she label her work accordingly. She fired back that I was one to talk when my work was also AI, which tickled me. Just my beautiful friend, my sword, my armor apparel, and my Nikon D850.
January 25, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Someone in a local photographers' group was advertising with flagrantly AI-generated images. I advised that she label her work accordingly. She fired back that I was one to talk when my work was also AI, which tickled me. Just my beautiful friend, my sword, my armor apparel, and my Nikon D850.
If you went to college:
1. What was your career goal when you started?
2. Your initial major?
3. If you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. What do you do now professionally?
1. Graphic Design
2. Business (Marketing)
3. Added Fine Art (Design)
4. Graphic design, art direction, fashion design
1. What was your career goal when you started?
2. Your initial major?
3. If you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. What do you do now professionally?
1. Graphic Design
2. Business (Marketing)
3. Added Fine Art (Design)
4. Graphic design, art direction, fashion design
If you went to college:
1. what was your career goal when you started?
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. what do you do now professionally
1. Writing
2. English
3. Double Majored in Art
4. Illustrator, concept artist, general art stuff like merch designer
1. what was your career goal when you started?
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. what do you do now professionally
1. Writing
2. English
3. Double Majored in Art
4. Illustrator, concept artist, general art stuff like merch designer
If you went to college:
1. what was your career goal when you started?
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. what do you do now professionally
1. Animation
2. Animation
3. Nope
4. Videogame concept artist, art generalist, cinematic storyboard artist
1. what was your career goal when you started?
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. what do you do now professionally
1. Animation
2. Animation
3. Nope
4. Videogame concept artist, art generalist, cinematic storyboard artist
January 24, 2025 at 11:00 PM
If you went to college:
1. What was your career goal when you started?
2. Your initial major?
3. If you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. What do you do now professionally?
1. Graphic Design
2. Business (Marketing)
3. Added Fine Art (Design)
4. Graphic design, art direction, fashion design
1. What was your career goal when you started?
2. Your initial major?
3. If you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. What do you do now professionally?
1. Graphic Design
2. Business (Marketing)
3. Added Fine Art (Design)
4. Graphic design, art direction, fashion design