Ah, perhaps I misspoke? I meant that I thought I remembered seeing a place where a witch was dressed that way, despite not being a combat witch or anything adjacent to such, and thus not really needing to worry about whether their clothes would work with a striker unit.

However, it's entirely possible that I have a reference crossed over in my head; unsurprisingly given the focus of the story, most of the witches involved do seem to be members of the military, so at this point I'm not sure just who I could have been thinking of.

(Or, given the paragraph quoted below, I could have it right after all, but I'm still not sure *where*, since the only example I could think of made no mention of the outfit worn by the witch in question.))

>Anyway, inconsistencies in the source material (and possible errors on
>my own part) aside, my thought process in OWaW has always been that
>the no-pants thing is a Witch Thing and has been since before the
>advent of aviation, its origins lost to history--but that times are
>slowly changing, which is the main reason why witches from some
>countries sport different gear in this war. For instance, they say
>that Suomi and Orussian witches wear tights because it's cold in their
>countries, but witches' powers make them largely indifferent to that
>sort of thing, and does that apply to Gallia too? Meanwhile, Imperial
>Fusonese Navy witches are well-known for their swimsuits, not
>underpants. Likewise, Captain von Preußen has the excuse that
>she doesn't operate a Striker, and her skirt is very short by the
>standards of the 1940s, but she does wear one as part of her
>Reichsmarine uniform.

Huh, interesting. I hadn't thought about the "tights because it's cold" thing being silly (in part because I can't keep track of real world geography let alone Strike Witches geography), but that does feel like it makes things sort of more plausible. ('Sort of' being the upper limit of plausibility allowed for something that still looks like Strike Witches.)

>Flan already doesn't mind showing her knees, but whether she'll be of
>a mind to take it beyond that stage is unclear.

I'm mostly imagining her doing it once to tease her sister, but deciding to skip out on it henceforth for comfort reasons.

-IA.

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