Emerstarian dress

The Duke of Osterland wearing a maud with his clan patterns in 1892.

Emerstarian dress is the traditional attire worn by men and women in Emerstari; specific styles or variations are sometimes considered the national folk costume. The colors and patterns on clothing in Emerstari are often based upon one's clan and familial affiliation.

Formal wear

There are several levels of formal wear in Emerstari, but all of them are traditionally based upon the garbs worn by the gentry and peerage. Tweed (Emerstarian: tvaldt), especially in herringbone patterns, wool (Emerstarian: ul), and linen (Emerstarian: hør) are the conventional materials in Emerstarian dress, all being native to the country unlike cotton, which, first imported into Emerstari in the 1750s, is commonly used in less formal clothing.

Mådkladder

Lorens Olaf Ekkeloff, Duke of Hogland wearing slektentrys with his måd diagonally over the shoulder and over the back in military-style.

Mådkladder, which translates to maud clothes in Emerstarian, is the highest level of formality in Emerstarian dress, named after its primary feature in both men's and women's clothes: the måd or maud. The maud is a large piece of cloth with one's clan pattern on it; by men, it is wrapped around the shoulders with the excess either being equal on either side and left to hang or being wrapped around the arm and elbow of one's dominant side, and by women, it is wrapped over the shoulders and clipped at the neck by a brooch, usually one with a clan or familial engraving of some sort.

Men's mådkladder consists of, from top to bottom:

• A Sallian bonnet (Emerstarian: Salleshatte) in clan patterns with a red and white cockade.
• A maud wrapped around the shoulders, unless a frock jacket is on, in which case it's wrapped around one arm.
• A black, brown, or gray double-breasted tweed frock jacket, which is usually taken off once inside of a building (and the maud is then wrapped around the shoulders).
• A matching-colored high-cut single-breasted tweed Karlian jacket.
• A matching-colored high-cut tweed single-breasted waistcoat with buttons in the same color.
• A white shirt with a turndown color, cuffs, and cufflinks with a necktie in clan patterns.
• A belt with a belt buckle engraved with your clan or familial seal. Members of the peerage or landed gentry and leaders within a clan may hang a scabbard off their belt with their slektensvård inside.
• A pair of high-waisted slektentrys in clan patterns.
• A pair of knee-high socks the same color as the shoes.
• A pair of flat full brogues in black with black tweed or brown otherwise.

Women's mådkladder is more simple and consists of, from top to bottom:

• A red and white cockade in their hair.
• A maud wrapped over the shoulders in clan patterns, clipped with a brooch that is engraved with a clan or familial seal in front of the neck.
• A dress of varying sorts.
• A pair of flat or high-heeled open brogues.