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Random thought about "furgonomics"
a year ago
So, tail holes. As in the kind that clothes have for putting one's tail through. The concept is simple enough but it's always come with the question of how, exactly, the tail gets through them without being super uncomfortable. One common answer is for it to not be a hole, as such, but a second fly that has a button but no zipper. Which works for pants and skirts. For bikini bottoms, it can be as simple as having yet another place where the string is long enough to tie up (as I've already depicted once).
Well, today I think I figured out how it would work for underwear. This is going to sound really obvious in hindsight but I've never seen anyone draw it before. Just use the same type of clasp that's on bras! This even works for men's underpants because there are already bras with wide bands and multiple clasps (in fact, mysteriously, an image search for "bra clasp" just now turned out almost nothing but).
Yes I know there are people who don't have to think about any of this because they draw the tail coming out of the small of the back, above the whole waistband. Those people are wrong, I'll have you know. That's not how spines work! *shakes fist*
Well, today I think I figured out how it would work for underwear. This is going to sound really obvious in hindsight but I've never seen anyone draw it before. Just use the same type of clasp that's on bras! This even works for men's underpants because there are already bras with wide bands and multiple clasps (in fact, mysteriously, an image search for "bra clasp" just now turned out almost nothing but).
Yes I know there are people who don't have to think about any of this because they draw the tail coming out of the small of the back, above the whole waistband. Those people are wrong, I'll have you know. That's not how spines work! *shakes fist*
Seats on planes, trains and automobiles -- not to mention chairs at home and work.
So having asked if furries would wear clothes, now to design the clothes.
In short, I love that you are putting real thought into it, and keeping real anatomy in mind.
Yes I know there are people who don't have to think about any of this because they draw the tail coming out of the small of the back, above the whole waistband. Those people are wrong, I'll have you know. That's not how spines work! *shakes fist*
Thank You!
Second "How the @?!! does this work!?" has driven me insane, and been the subject of "Almost get my ass fired" art studies of "Dude, no one will EVER see that character in their underwear, what is WRONG with you?" at work.
I'm sorry, but how tf is the character going to *move* when they walk? Stiff and oddly uncomfortable because their tail is making a zig-zag from hell over a waistband and up and out the pants? Wouldn't you see the waistband depending on how the pants work? What if there is no waistband? How would that work? On and on.
I never really did come up with a good answer, and instead decided that everyone just went commando under their pants as a kind of mind-hack workaround.
This is an absolutely fantastic solution, and you deserve commendation for it, too.
Great tail-hole solution!