#I have alternate outfits in the works since he collects windbreakers

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Headcanons on how the guys shop for clothes? I mean Hiei just wears his ragged goth bathrobes, but Yusuke clearly has a VISION. An AESTHETIQUE. He picks his clothes carefully but pretends he doesn't. Kuwabara also cares for his appearance! I have to believe Kurama, prideful demon that he is, cares about his appearance and picks his outfits carefully but I have no idea what he thinks human fashion is

HIEI

This guy doesn’t go shopping at all, TBH

Picks one outfit to wear until it falls apart, then gets new clothes 

Does own like two dozen belts he keeps in a hollowed tree for emergencies, though

Probably steals clothes and cloth off a clothesline most of the time; targets similar pieces each time

Oddly, actually knows how to hand-sew a little; it’s a survival skill

Has NO tailoring abilities but can put a cloak/unfitted pants together from raw material and actually makes his simpler items most of the time

So doesn’t shop ever, if at all, unless it’s for a sword or something like that he doesn’t have the resources to just whack together himself

The only reason he had alternate outfits during the Dark Tournament is because Kurama took pity on him and brought Hiei some old clothes Kurama grew out of…

OR maybe Hiei just looted some hotel rooms; he IS a thief, after all…

KURAMA

Oh god

OH GOD

our eyes, they bleed

He is the biggest fashion disaster of the entire group.

You know that one aunt you have who’s stuck in the 1980s and won’t let go of her bad leopard print spandex?

That’s Kurama, just with East-Asian inspired fighting attire that originated from the bowels of Demon World where color blocking is just… not a thing, apparently???

I don’t head-canon him as “color-blind” so much as “color-willfully-oblivious”

HE CAN’T LET GO OF WHAT USED TO LOOK GOOD ON HIM AS YOUKO!!!

Kurama just can’t wrap his brain around the fact that his red hair clashes with so many colors.

His white hair matched ANYTHING, and he’s so damn prideful he won’t admit he’s no longer the perfect physical specimen who can rock any color of the rainbow.

So he tries.

Goddammit, Kurama, he tries.

BUT HE NEEDS TO STOP!!!!!!

And nothing in the shops suits his tastes, so he learned how to use a sewing machine when he was seven to make his first fighting outfit.

Sometimes it sounds like someone is running a sweatshop out of his bedroom, he’s up so late sewing combat pantaloons.

For his civilian outfits, his mom does all his shopping for him. 

Poor Shiori just can’t figure out why her son looks so terrible when she buys him nice things, but it’s because his human clothes depress him, so each morning Kurama gets dressed in the dark and just… prays.

This is proof that there is no god, just fyi, since clearly no one is listening.

YUSUKE

Absolutely picks and chooses his clothes with utmost care, you’re so right, anon!

And as for his ~aesthetique~?

It’s WHATEVER WILL ANNOY KEIKO THE MOST

Like seriously, his famous Fashion Disaster™ outfit of many colors?

It was chosen specifically to annoy her, because she’s matchy-matchy to the extreme.

He absolutely wants to look like a garbage pile to piss her off, so he shops with that in mind.

“Oh fuck, it’s so ugly, Keiko will hate this—I HAVE TO HAVE IT!” he yells before shoplifting a pair of yellow plaid parachute pants and a day-glow windbreaker.

(Also Yusuke doesn’t shop. He shoplifts. This is canon and I refuse to take criticism.)

Sometimes he wants to look cool, though… but he spends so much time putting together terrible clothes, he forgets what ‘cool’ looks like.

Yusuke played himself, and he has no one to blame but himself (though he tries to blame Keiko, of course).

KUWABARA

Have y’all noticed that the boy is a total fashion plate?

He’s got dusters and custom trench coats and signed baseball jerseys and all kinds of random outfits in between, and the colors don’t clash nearly as often as the rest of the cast!

Kuwabara nearly has PANACHE!

Shizuru used to shop with him all the time, so he inherited a solid style foundation from her.

(Have you SEEN her menswear collection? Genius!)

Now he flies solo, though, and visits all kinds of shops on the hunt for new pieces when he thinks he wardrobe needs a refresh.

(Or when he gains muscle mass, which is weekly in his teens.)

He keeps his yankee/punk aesthetic in mind at all times, crafting outfits that coordinate with his overall vibe.

Check out the sarashi in the GIF above; boy clearly knows his fashion history, or at least the yankee fashion history in Japan, which means he’s done the work to research his aesthetic.

Always makes his wardrobe complement his bleached hair and pompadour, of course.

Not afraid to thrift for vintage items and have Shizuru tailor them for him (he can’t sew worth a damn, though).

VERY PICKY about his clothes and laments when they get torn up in fights.

(THIS ASK WAS SO MUCH FUN OMG)

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