Distal - Boo Monde by Anarchostar

Fashion was a weapon of the mind. From the French ‘beau monde’ meaning ‘Fashionable Society’. The fashionable wealthy inherited the century-long modification of the word into ‘Boo Monde’ from the people planet-side who looked upon them as wandering ghosts from an earlier, more prosperous time. Their fashion seemed foreign to the planet-dwellers, although they were still humans underneath. They weren’t aliens but rather phantoms. The style of the wealthy citizens was often angular, bright and, unlike their human counterparts on land, was overly ambitious when it came to showing skin. The military and political elite wore dark, smooth, and conservative clothing that harkened back to earlier planetary tyrannical regimes. Often those in power would pay for surgery to turn their eyes red to instill fear among those below them. Warfare against and among the people began first in the mind. Keeping the people on the brink of starvation was the only way to control the masses. Fashion played a heavy hand in the war.