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The Acolyte - Jedi Temple Uniform

The Acolyte - Formal Temple Uniform

Description

The Acolyte formal temple uniforms are worn by Jedi in the later High Republic era at the Jedi temples and on official business. They are generally clean, luxurious, and elegant. 

The colors are ivory or white for the outer tunic and the under tunics, obi, and cape, rich gold for tabards, and tan for the pants. 

This template was developed independently from the Rebel Legion Costume Standard.  It is advised that any applicant or member looking for cross-approval review both standards.  It is our intention to NOT have any costume element that outright contradicts the Rebel Legion standard.  Where the standards do not 100% agree, we have left an option for a Rebel Legion compliant color or item.

Minimum Requirements 

  • Outer Tunic 
  • Inner Tunic 
  • Tabards 
  • Obi 
  • Jedi Belt with The Acolyte style lightsaber clip on a leather strip 
  • Pants 
  • Boots 

Optional Item

For the purposes of Saber Guild, the cape is optional for both Jedi Knights and Padawans.

If going for cross-club approval include the cape. 

Colors

All items not made of leather or metal share similar color schemes of gold and white/cream across temple outfits except where otherwise stated. Tabards should be a rich gold ranging from honey to turmeric to gold. Outer tunics and obis should be an ivory or off white color and capes should be of a matching color and fabric. Inner tunics are also off white to ivory colored but should be a different shade from outer tunics. Pants should be light brown or tan.

For Padawans only: obis are a dark green color to indicate padawan status.

No three color rule exists within the Later High Republic (Acolyte) 

White/Ivory/Creams

Used for inner tunics, outer tunics, obi (for Knights and Masters), and cape. Inner and outer tunic should have variation between the two shades. 


Golds

Used for tabards and trim.  Tabards should be a rich gold ranging from honey to turmeric to gold.

Dark Green

Padawans have a dark green colored obi to indicate their rank within the Order. 

Light Brown

 Used for pants. Most commercially available tan and khaki pants would fall either in this range or slightly lighter. 

  

Materials

Materials should be fine quality silks and linens, particularly silk matka. Boots and belts should be leather or leather like. All clothing parts should be of a durable material of medium weight and not be see-through in any capacity. Materials used should not have additional patterns.

Fine linen, silk matka

Disallowed Fabrics include:

Anything thin enough to be see-thru, shiny, has a sheen, or has a raised pattern. No quilting cotton, cotton sateen or sheer linens. Rough, worn fabrics including homespun cottons and slubby linens and wools.

Smooth satins including habutais, velvets, velveteens, most other cottons (including cotton gauze and osnaburg), leather for items other than boots/belts/belt accessories, any other fabrics referenced in the main addendum as being unapprovable

Belts, pouches, saber holsters, and boots must be leather or leather-like. 

Outer Tunic

Outer tunics are worn over the inner tunic and pants, but under tabards, obi and belt. The outer tunic should be a shade of ivory or off white. Outer tunics should have a crossover neckline with an optional approximately 2” border of the same fabric and top stitching along the border o

f the neckline. Some tunics can also have a crossover front with no border trim and no top stitching. Outer tunics should follow all construction rules of the main addendum unless otherwise stated. Outer tunics must be long enough to cover the crotch/backside and may extend to the knee. 


Inner Tunic

Inner tunics in the High Republic era are white or off white. They are long sleeved and should be tucked into the pants or skirt. They share the cross-over design of the standard Jedi over tunic. When worn with a standard cross-over outer tunic, the inner tunic’s collar should be visible. They can include pleats running the length of the neckline.

Tabards

Tabards for the Acolyte temple robes are made of gold silk or fine linen, self lined, and with a visible, but neat texture. Tabards are decorated with a gold border trim along the outside edge and inside neckline, front and back. The trim should be spaced just inside the outside border of the tabards. A military style trim with raised edges is preferred. 

Tabards can be shaped as one of two styles for Jedi: The standard draping over the shoulder tabard or apron style tabards. Padawans must use the Padawan style vest tabard.

Standard Tabard

This is the ‘modern Jedi style’ draping over the shoulder tabard. This style can be worn as standard parallel lay or y-shaped. Tabards should be the same length as or longer than the outer tunic and range in length between the mid-thigh and knees.

Y Front Tabard 

Tabards may also be Y-front with apron bottom front and back. If this style is used, the top back portion may be cut as a medieval style or also as a crossover, falling into the apron bottom below the obi. Tabards should be the same length as or longer than the outer tunic and range in length between the mid-thigh and knee.

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Padawan Tabard

Padawans exclusively wear vest style tabards, which are cut in two pieces draping down in the front and a solid top and bottom in the rear. Tabards should be the same length as or longer than the outer tunic and range in length between the mid-thigh and knees.

Obi

Obis are square in design and are larger than the belt up to 2 inches past the edge of the belt. They match the ivory of the outer tunic. They should include two narrow strips of the same fabric, set on either side of the belt in front and back. They hold the belt in place and are held in place themselves by brass rivets just above and below the belt.

Padawan Obi

Padawan characters may choose to wear a dark green instead of ivory obi.  The canon fabric for the padawan obi is wool felt, but any similar style fabric is suitable. Obis should be of similar construction including the strips running perpendicular to hold on the belt.

 

Belt

Construction and Design 

High republic belts are brown leather with metal accents and gold buckles. Buckles may be round, oval, or rectangular and are embossed with the jedi order symbol. The leather of belts is not embossed with patterns or heraldry. 

Belt construction should be based on prequel based belts, featuring the classic two-layer construction with a wider belt and a narrower belt. The wider belt should be between 3 and 5 inches. Note this is wider than standard prequel belt sizes. Wider belts also include parallel lines of etching along the upper and lower edge. Both the narrow belt and wider belts end in the back, overlapping to close with stud attachments through punched holes. The wide belt closes first and the narrow belt closes over the top of it

Lightsaber clip

Belts must feature a lightsaber clip. The clip hangs from a short brown leather strip, attached just under the narrow overbelt and has a silver covertec style lightsaber at the bottom. The covertec clip should hang just below the bottom edge of the belt.  

Boots

Boots follow all rules of construction and fit from the main addendum. The exception being that wrap boots are not allowed for this template. Boots of the acolyte era may include a narrow strip of matching leather that covers the inside zipper, but it is not required.

Pants

Pants follow all rules from the main addendum EXCEPT: They must be in shades of tan or light brown.

Saber

Sabers follow all rules from the main addendum. High republic features such as gold ornamentation are permitted but not required.

Cloak or cape (Optional for Saber Guild)

Capes are cut as a half circle with an attached hood. Hoods should include pleats where attached to the cape and should fall to just below the shoulder blades.

Capes include a 2 to 3 inch border trim of matching fabric along the front edge. Cape can also have a 2 inch border trim around the bottom edge optionally.

They may end between calf length and ankle length.

Capes and cloaks may fasten with a white or similarly colored hook and eye closure just below where the hood meets the cape edge in the center front.


Less commonly capes could be a straight cut rectangle that falls down the back just below knee length. The top of the cape fits over the shoulders in an oversized cowl neck collar. Cape should be made from the same material and ivory color as the outer tunic. 



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