Sparked by the artwork posted by @spookyshoosh envisioning Data’s off-duty outfits, being the anorak that I am I have gathered together all of the occasions where Data appears in the show out of uniform.
There are surprisingly quite a few but what is intriguing is none of them (apart from Sherlock Holmes) were his own choices. So I give you:
Carlos (The Long Goodbye)
Sherlock Holmes (Elementary Dear Data)
Standup comedian (The Outrageous Okona)
The hideous but nicely figure accentuating purple creation (The Most Toys)
Friar Tuck (Q-pid)
Henry V (The Defector)
Prospero (Emergence)
Ebenezer Scrooge (Devil's Due)
Romulan civilian disguise (Unification)
Psychiatric Doctor's outfit for stage play (Frame of Mind)
Assortment of 19th century costumes to blend in (Time's Arrow)
Barkon IV pre-Industrial garb as his uniform was banjaxed (Thine Own Self)
21st century civilian dress (First Contact)
B'aku civilian dress (Insurrection)
In his off duty life aboard the Enterprise Data always wears his regular uniform, even under his holdeck outfits. The only deviation is the dress uniform in a few episodes and a command red uniform in Chain of Command (in which to be fair did look hot AF) However I don't count the red uniform in Future Imperfect or the black "commando" outfit in Frame of Mind as it's implied these images are in Riker's imagination. Ditto the various ensembles in "A Fistful of Datas" as this was a holoprogram glitch not Data himself.
So to sum up, it seems Data never wore any civilian clothes of his own choice, probably because he had no need for it. But to end this post with an amuse bouche, here's a snippet on Quora from a few years back:
"In the episode, “In Theory” Data describes to Jenna how he arranges his wardrobe by type and then color to make it easier to find what he wants. This implies that, at minimum, he changes clothes occasionally and that he owns a sufficient amount that they must be organized.
Ipso facto, he must change his uniform often enough, most likely for basic cleanliness, wear and tear, etc. Even if he himself does not perspire, his regular contact with organic beings and their surroundings means he must eventually get dirty and clean himself or he would become Typhoid Mary of Starfleet."
Ibi habemus eam...
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i have to say, i have had EXTENSIVE conversations with my friend about genderbend aus. specifically how people never do they actual character justice and just make them Pretty Girls Who Are Pretty. but you. you understand. i love you girl soukoku designs so much, they fit their actual personalities so well AND they are pretty girls.
idk i have seen a lot of girl skk designs that have REALLY put me off because they feel like. gratuitous sex appeal, and that seems really really wrong. Daz and Chuu are already purposely designed to be /androgynous/ as males, it'd be nice to have that work in the reverse too wouldn't it? That's not even accounting for genderbends that aren't strictly following the male-female binaries. It would be nice to not have to push gendered stereotypes into designs where they're entirely unnecessary right?
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Öykü, 24
“I’m wearing a vintage top, B Sides jeans, Burberry coat, Melitta Baumeister bag, and Nike x Martine Rose shoes.”
Sep 12, 2022 ∙ Lower East Side
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▴ — @dutifulsilence replied ;; "I could absolutely top you."
"The red tunic does not give you the power to do that."
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