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Clothing Name Generator

Generate names for armor, cloaks, robes, boots, gauntlets, helms, masks, and uniforms that say who the wearer is.

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Origins and Meaning

What inspires Clothing Names

Naming items of clothing has as much nuance as a weapon or magic potion. Regardless of the material behind the cloth, culture, history, and purpose heavily influences the names.

What’s more, names might apply to an individual helm, or an entire category of clothing.

Naming a new garment

Writers looking to develop a new culture might want to design entirely new garments, to protect characters from the environments that they live in.

Many garments carry the name of where they originated from. Cashmere is named after Kashmir, and the tuxedo after Tuxedo Park in New York. Fantasy follows the same pattern. The Fellowship in The Lord of the Rings are gifted elven cloaks in Lothlórien, and the cloaks are known by where they came from rather than by what they do.

Other garments are names for their function; sweaters were worn to make athletes… sweat, and raincoats protect the wearer from rain. In Dune, the Fremen wear stillsuits, which recycle the body’s moisture so they can survive the desert.

Significant Items of Clothing

Sometimes one individual item stands out and requires a distinct name. RPG games adopt highly descriptive names (Gauntlets of Ogre Power, Boots of Elvenkind) that describe either the powers of the item, or the creators.

Descriptive names are not limited to RPG. Seven-league boots, from European folklore, let the wearer cover seven leagues in a single stride. The Norse god Thor wore Megingjörð, a “power-belt” that doubled his strength. Fiction utilises this, with the Cloak of Levitation (Doctor Strange), Links Hover Boots (The Legend of Zelda), and the Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses (The Restaurant at the End of the Universe).