A Refutation To Hufflepuff Fashion Aesthetic Posts
No, no, no, and no.
Hufflepuffs are the ones who actually dress sensibly for what they’re doing. Gryffindors are always choosing their outfits on impulse and having to borrow a sweater or a pair of shoes. If there was a formal event, the Gryffindor would either be underdressed or fantastically overdressed and looking like royalty. Slytherins dress to be seen and to impress, always appropriate for the occasion and the impression they want to make, often understated, tasteful and if possible, expensive. Ravenclaws come up with a fantastically unique, eye-catching outfits with a style all their own, very aesthetic and often very impractical. Hufflepuffs dress to get shit done. We’re talking comfortable shoes, fingerless gloves, comfy sweaters, and warm socks, because it’s more important to be practical and comfortable than to be cute. Not that we don’t enjoy cute clothes, but looking good doesn’t take priority over being prepared for our day. Yellow and black high heels with badgers on them are not very Hufflepuff! We might buy them out of house spirit, but we’d hardly ever actually wear them.
A Hufflepuff wardrobe is light on the short sexy dresses and spotless yellow converse shoes and heavy on the fun, colorful pairs of knee socks, interesting hats, long cozy sweaters, and the one beloved pair of shoes that have been through everything and survived, a bit scuffed and stained and bedraggled but still so perfect you forget you’re even wearing them. If we polish our nails, the polish gets chipped the first day and we fully expect that.
We lend each other our clothes so often that there are articles of comfy, useful clothing in the Hufflepuff dorms that have seen generations and are still being passed around as someone outgrows it or someone else needs it more. Whose coat is that? Who knows, I think Professor Sprout said it showed up when she was at school. Take it for a while if you need it. There’s a toad named Sam living in the left breast pocket. He sleeps most of the time, he won’t be any trouble, just make sure not to squish him.
Hufflepuffs love pockets. Cargo pants were probably invented by a Hufflepuff. They will sew more pockets into their clothes if they don’t come with enough. They always have some sort of candy or food on their person, a pocketknife, a bit of string, a band aid, a pen, bottle of water. If you ever need a snack, first aid, or a condom, a Hufflepuff has got it in one of their pockets or their knapsack, which is incredibly heavy but which they lug around without complaining because they NEED to be prepared to feel secure. And since they ARE prepared, they are perfectly secure, a rock of calm in any disaster and the first to notice and see to any need.
... uh, you got us on the flower crowns though. There is a flower crown only a few feet from me as I write this.
(feel free to add to this)
