Court Fashions

I like variety and there isn't much of that to spare in vanilla Skyrim. The courts of the Jarls are very important in Skyrim, containing some key movers and shakers, but one thing I can't get over is the recycling of the same clothing without much to differentiate the wealthy and powerful. For 'immersion', I need to believe that they have a bit of individuality and so I have taken a variety of open source outfits and distributed them in (I hope) a logical way to reflect the personalities of those affected which I will detail below. I like to think this is fairly vanilla+; nothing skimpy or outrageous here I am afraid. Those already wearing suitable gear like the Jarls and various servants haven't been touched, nor their generic guards.

Most outfits are not added to levelled lists or craftable (The housecarl armours and noble Nord are craftable), this is just to provide some spice of life to otherwise uninterestingly garbed individuals  - all pieces are fully functional and have beast race support where applicable if you get a bit stabby stabby or pickpocket them (or additem menu/console). Many of the outfits use vanilla textures so visuals will depend on your set up.

First and foremost, CREDITS. I did not make these assets and have relied entirely upon the generous open permissions of various authors as follows:

SFORZINDA - This talented individual has made a great collection of clothing and armours that fit very naturally into the game. A large (read huge) percentage of the assets came from their work - please drop by their blog and say thank you. The mods can also be downloaded from here and I highly recommend them! sforz makes mods (tumblr.com)

NordwarUA - A true heavyweight in the Skyrim modding community. I have borrowed the fur collar from Sons of Skyrim

Odelaly - Responsible for the marvellous Breton Mage Robes Breton Mage Robes

Northborn - Beautiful hood textures in Sforzinda's mod came from here Northborn Fur Hoods

gearshout A master of lore friendly armour, I borrowed the Black Bear Armour Black Bear Ancient Nord Armor

Many of the assets in Sforzinda's mods are reworked from common clothes and Brigandage by FranklinZunge so if you have that mod (SE Port here Common Clothes and Armors) there will be some crossover. Credits for this at the bottom as there are a fair few.

alanovichromanov for a couple of textures from Romanov Couture

powerofthree - For SPID and all the other ground breaking mods.

Zzyxzz for the awesome SkyPatcher

Xtudo - For the inspiration with their carriage driver, ferrymen, stablemaster and bard Spid mods.

TLDR; Many outfits to many NPCS - I didn't make them. Give kudos and endorsements to those that did.

If you are prepared for a wall of text and have nothing better to do then read on.

Now the substantial list of NPCs affected, what they are wearing and my reasoning