sadfishkid:

thank you so much! 

here’s what i managed to came up with, hope it’s at least somewhat informative:

as you can see, the uniform itself is rather plain-looking, except for the sleeves. i get asked sometimes what’s the deal with the sleeves on my hogwarts uniforms, why do they look like that, how do they work and so on.

the thing is, i really wanted to make it look somewhat traditional, a little bit outdated like everything wizards wear, but also i didn’t want to go for oversized bell sleeves that are commonly depicted on wizard robes (if you’re wondering about the reasoning behind this, there’s none: i just have a very deep and irrational dislike for bell sleeves), so i did some researching and stumbled upon medieval hanging sleeves:

that’s where i ended up drawing my inspiration from. i think they look really neat, plus, as one of my followers later pointed out, with these sleeves there’s a lesser risk to get them dirty while brewing potions, haha

regular sleeves that i draw underneath them are part of the robes, not casual clothes (shirts, tees and whatever is worn underneath the robes is not visible unless you unbutton the collar). the design without them seems more sensible, now that i think of it, but i got used way too much to drawing both hanging and regular sleeves as parts of the robes (although hey, robes without regular sleeves can be a thing for warmer weather)

since i’m no clothing designer, i used to have doubts whether this design is functional/comfortable/sewable/wearable at all, but then a group of really cool people actually managed to cosplay it (click: 1, 2, 3), so i guess it’s not as unrealistic as i initially thought

i’m not very consistent in drawing them and i keep changing little things here and there (fastening, sleeves’ length, etc) all the time, but overall that’s pretty much it!