Ponies who always wear clothes, and why it seems weird to us humans when they don't wear them

[Toastypk 927]

Here's a weird one. This one of those things I've noticed a lot, and is one of those human perception things. It isn't something that's only a pony thing, either.

95% of the characters in the show don't wear anything, and it's perfectly normal and no one notices anything.

But imagine taking a character who always wears clothes, and take his or her clothes off. All of a sudden it seems like you're doing something inappropriate, why are you taking off his or her clothes? ...but no one thinks anything like that when it's any one of those other 95% of characters.

This is something I've noticed not just in a pony sense too, but I was inspired to talk about it when I had a weird feeling about something a couple of days ago.

This Nightmare Knights comic (which if you don't know, Nightmare Knights is about Luna and four other former villains teaming together) has Stygian on the cover, and I found it adorable and funny; I commented on how since he isn't wearing his trademark cloak, he just seems more naked than he usually does. This got me the idea to try to do an image edit to remove the carousel garb, and see what it looked like, but when I thought about it, I felt I might be doing something... wrong. (you're undressing him?)  But that idea comes only because he's one of those very few who always wear something so it seems weird to us humans who place importance on always having to wear something. It's one of human norms that's pretty ingrained.

Edited October 22, 2018 by Toastypk

[EpicEnergy 23,245]

I think a good example of this is Applejack, she looks different without her hat!

[Splashee 28,599]

It is weird because of the rule that one is naked if not wearing clothes, while wearing clothes by default.

Princess Luna's bra was removed in the beach scene (S09E13), and I pretend to not look through my hands blocking my eyes.

[Landi 602]

Yeah, it can be weird sometimes; the main one that pops into my mind is Spitfire. We always see her either wearing her Wonderbolt suite or he instructor uniform, But there have been a couple scenes where she isn't wearing anything. It seems both weird and cool. It makes you wonder how different a character can look just if he/she is wearing clothes or not. It's quite the funny observation.

[Happy Heart 376]

Tempest Shadow is never seen without her trademark black jumpsuit, to the best of my knowledge. Though, I think we might have seen her take it off and replace it with a black striped scarf. That...feels like she's not the same edgy mare we know if she doesn't wear the jumpsuit. 

[Vefka 1,503]

I think it's about taking-off-cloth action itself. When you see character initially clothed/nude you don't find it weird unless it's part of the character like AJ's hat

[Toastypk 927]

I'll just leave this here.

[Ittoni 538]

I think it comes to how the pony themselves would theoretically feel about it. I would think it would be weird for them too. It's kinda like when (I don't want this to become political but hear me out) when a Muslim woman wears her hijab. I've heard that some of them wear it because oppression of course but others just do it for many other reasons like religious beliefs, tradition, even because they just feel more comfortable using it because of their culture. Now, the last group I've seen some of their opinions on it and yeah some say that not wearing it is not wrong but they feel naked without it, and well.. there's nothing strange on showing off your hair but they just feel better if they use it, like anything you get used to have all the time. I'd imagine that if you like hats you would feel naked if you forget it somewhere. 

The same could apply to dressed ponies. There's nothing strange for their culture to not use clothes but I'm sure they would feel weird about it simply because it's become a custom ir a habit for them. And in that sense yeah I would feel vicariously uncomfortable too.

[Jesse Terrence 2,971]

21 hours ago, Splashee® said:

It is weird because of the rule that one is naked if not wearing clothes, while wearing clothes by default.

Princess Luna's bra was removed in the beach scene (S09E13), and I pretend to not look through my hands blocking my eyes.

Dude, horsies have crotch tits :v

[Splashee 28,599]

1 hour ago, Jesse Terrence said:

Dude, horsies have crotch tits :v

Not Princesses! 

[Jesse Terrence 2,971]

22 minutes ago, Splashee® said:

Not Princesses! 

They probably have none at all, so no need to cover your eyes.

[Toastypk 927]

Scandalous! Hide the colts' eyes!

[Evil Pink One 13,550]

To me i think they consider clothes as make up to us....