At the end of my last Equestria dream I was confronted with the fact that not only did we need to purchase new outfits for Carousel and Petina for the upcoming Canterlot Music Festival http://www.furaffinity.net/view/7461577 but I was going to need new threads for it to. It was a mental blind spot on my behalf, but now I had three mares staring at me and deciding what "they" thought I'd look good in for the different events we would be attending. Petina particularly looked like she was going to have fun dressing me up.

For the Symphony it was decided that a deep navy blue jacket of wool with a matching felt top hat were just the ticket. The jacket and the long sleeve white silk shirt that went with the ensemble were carefully tailored so I could technically still fly in them. Of course I would be walking unless I wanted to have the hat fly off my head when I took off. It had no chin strap. A pale yellow ascot and gold cuff links finished off the outfit.

For the Garden Recital Rarity and Petina selected a white jacket of heavy cotton and light violet silk shirt for me. A deep violet bow tie finished that part of outfit. To provide the shade for my eyes while strolling through the sunny garden, a woven havana style white broad brim hat with deep blue hatband would be perched rakishly on my head.

It was for Scratch's performance that all three of mares started rubbing their hooves together in glee. After a whirlwind of options and clothing decisions Rarity settled on what she thought would be a show stopper ensemble. A black oil cloth overcoat with wing cutouts was the foundation garment. Under it I wore a snug vest of deep chocolate brown wool. The vest had numerous pockets of various sizes and looked like it was meant for an engineer on a ship. Which I found out later it was originally meant for. Sheathing my lower legs were stout boots of brown leather that was so dark it almost looked black. They were festooned with more buckles than I had ever seen on boots. I figured it would take me five minutes to put each boot on. Petina said she'd help. She is good with buckles and stuff. glasses with tinted square lens would give me that steampunk gentleman look. The one thing that Petina and Rarity went back and forth over was whether to include the helmet of hardened leather and brass as final finishing touch to my get up. I don't know if it was an actual military helmet originally or not, but it was black and had a brass pegasus head and wings that formed a shield plate on the front of it. A heavy brass chain served as a chin strap. After much debate it was abandoned and it was decided to spike my mane like Petina's. She said it gave me a rather Matrix-look which got a rather odd stares from Rarity and Carousel.