>You're in a better position to answer that question than I am, but I'd
>suspect it was mostly subconscious if so, and also somewhat
>coincidental

Yeah, I was just kind of thinking out loud, after the notion popped into my head. It's similar to the way the general vocabulary for times of day and night get flopped in vampire life (which I'm not always good at remembering to do when I write their lines).

>I'm not sure Remilia would have an all white wardrobe purpose
>created using the suddenly limited household supplies, but selecting
>her existing outfits that closest fit her mood would make sense.

Mm. I think that's what I had in mind more than "she's specifically still dressed in formal mourning"—the idea that vampires would consider white a somber color, and so the fact that she wears it a lot is, or at least started out, as a reflection of the fact that her life has been pretty depressing for quite a while.

>"By the time G enters the picture, clothing color choice was
>probably almost totally out of habit, and what had been maintained
>over the decades and thus was available."

Indeed. And to be fair, we saw her in pink much more often than white in TTW. The narration mentions that some of her regular clothes were white, and of course her formal outfit was, but almost every time it's specifically mentioned, she's wearing pink. ... I think she just likes pink. :)

(The running joke in the fandom, of course, is that all of her pink clothes used to be white, but, well, fandom. :)

OK! Overthink complete! Back to work! Thanks for coming to my TEDx talk about vampire color sensibilities. Next time we'll talk about how the personal floral emblems of her parents dope out in flower language. (Spoiler: the variety of black, actually very dark purple, tulip that was her mother's personal calling card is a real-life cultivar called Queen of the Night. And she wasn't even a vampire! And people said Remilia the Elder had no sense of humor. :)

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