Cloud Strife’s Purple Dress from Final Fantasy VII
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This demure-seeming dress is actually not as innocent as one might think. It belongs to a videogame character named Cloud Strife; with each successive post-Final Fantasy VII appearance he makes, he becomes cooler and cooler. It’s as if to help us all forget that in FF7, rather shortly after you first meet him, you had to dress him up like a girl to gain access to the red light district. (The first time I played that part, I had my mom watching. Awkward.) Your female co-conspirators Tifa and Aeris have plunging necklines and bared arms in their chosen dresses, but with Cloud we are spared that vision…
FF7 has been on my mind recently on account of Brian starting to play it again, but our PS2 is now quite thoroughly kaput, and I don’t think he’ll have the heart to start it up again just to have it crash once more.
Tags: dress, lace, long sleeves, pearls, puffed sleeves, purple, red, video games
games, geeky stuff, gowns, paperdolls | Liana April 13, 2008
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By Krysti, April 13, 2008 @ 12:22 am
Okay, at first I didn’t look at the pictures you linked to, and then I saw where you said: “with each successive post-Final Fantasy VII appearance he makes, he becomes cooler and cooler.” And I’m thinking, “he”??? Typo, gotta be… then I looked at the pictures, and I was just… oh… :D
Anyway, nice dress, if I can avoid remembering the story behind it… just kidding. ;)
By bettafish, April 15, 2008 @ 8:38 pm
I swear to god, “taking Cloud off to become a crossdresser” was one of my formative teen experiences. This dress is awesome. So dainty! So feminine! So very Cloud!
In the FFVII universe in my head, he still has it in his closet.
By Rachel, April 16, 2008 @ 10:18 am
Stupid PS2 mine went kaput for ages before my dad fixed it. Still you can get em quite cheaply nowadays.