Yes, this exactly! And Christmas colors are bad enough--can you imagine if your favorite color was orange or something? With a green shawl?? Yikes! "Sartorial freedom for Aes Sedai" is my campaign slogan, I guess, haha!
WHAT
Today I: became a citizen, learned how to insert images, learned how to tag people, joined the Discord, AND learned how to change thread titles to excellent puns??? Good day on the ol' Tee Vee Dot Net!
Channelling equivalent of the Jedi mind trick? lol
DANG IT I KNEW I SHOULD HAVE GONE WITH IT!!! There's nothing I love more than a ridiculous portmanteau, but I figured: no, I'm new here, let's not be QUITE so absurd yet
Another very excellent point: shawls are coded as feminine in a way that probably doesn't jive with everyone's gender presentation! I do like the jacket idea, but I admittedly have extremely short hair. :D
In your defense, I was the one who brought up the TV show, so it makes perfect sense...
True confessions: I probably wouldn't have posted this thread at all, except that I came up with this joke when considering this question and liked it too much to not use it :D
Yes, this was sort of the basis for my entire thought process, haha! As in, the sequence of events in my brain was:
1) Accepted get rings, Aes Sedai get shawls, that's how it is
2) Huh, looks like they're doing things differently on this TV show, INTERESTING
3) Gee, now that I think about it, it...
Sorry, upon reviewing my original post, I think I wasn't clear (you mean the meandering wall of text I produced while drinking coffee and listening to a podcast wasn't a model of perfect clarity?? SHOCKER)
I guess the conversation I'm trying to have is:
If you were suddenly in charge of WoT...
In the trailer for the TV show, it appears that the Aes Sedai don't have shawls--at least, I'm assuming so because no one has a shawl in the Hall of the Tower, a place in which I imagine all book Aes Sedai would definitely be shawled up--but, rather, exclusively wear dresses in the color of...