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Why the fuck would octopuses have to wear clothes?! Come to think of it... why do humans have to wear clothes?
Many octopodes can change the color and pattern of their skin at will.
Our clothing and tattoos are but crude facsimiles of their capabilities. Cephalopods have no need of such frivolities.
There is no suitable place for an Octopus to wear either pants or a skirt. Octopuses are almost entirely made of face. There is no torso, no waist, no lower body. We call the appendages around the mouth “arms” (not “legs”) but they are more analogous to prehensile whiskers. I think they would be more likely to wear a cap or headband. A balaclava would be interesting.
They'd wear swimsuits, of course. Who wears skirts or pants in the water?
Why wouldn’t they just wear stylish hats?
Now that's a proper hat. Shelter yourself and 6 of your friends from sun or rain!
England would still force them to change into trousers on the mainland.
Octopuses have 8 arms and no legs. They'd probably wear halter tops.
I guess an octopus skirt is more like a poncho.
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Pants are a status symbol in octopus society. Custom tailored, and you have servants to help you put them on.
I think servants to help put them on are pretty much a necessity.
They'd wear four pairs of jeans and older octopuses would criticise them for sagging their waists.
Ain't nobody got time to put 8 legs though 8 pant legs.
No they would wear an octuple of jeans.
They could always wear garter belts and suspenders
Yeah, checks out.
octopodes ~~or octopi~~,
I mean octopuses is correct too, but less fun
octopi is wrong because octopus is Greek and not latin
I prefer the original, more correct, "octopizzle."
TIL: I thought it was acceptable
That gets down to what you mean by "acceptable". Octopi is not a natural derivation of octopus as the plural is octopodes just like "aint" is not a natural derivation of any form of the verb "is" BUT in both aint and octopi's case most understand those words so they might be acceptable depending.
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