Alelou wrote:Show. Off. Her. Figure.
Well, that's the meta explanation.
My personal "in universe" explanation is that her choice in clothing was another indication that, compared to other Vulcans, she was a little ... off. Sure, they could admire aesthetically pleasing colors, but it seemed like most of them wouldn't be caught dead in anything that bright. T'Pol, on the other hand, started wearing bright "look at me" colors as soon as she told the VHC to get stuffed, although based on her PJs seen in earlier seasons, she was likely secretly wearing those colors to begin with. I thought it was intended (in addition to highlight Jolene's most awesome curves) to show that T'Pol was a rebel who didn't want to toe the party line and be a dull as dirt, run of the mill Vulcan. She wanted to live life rather than just experience it, and her taste in clothing with their bright, primary colors was a sign of that.
Plus? I blame her dad.
And her desire to screw with Trip's head 'cause he was drawn to shiny things.
Especially since she seems to be the only Vulcan female in the entire series to wear skin-tight outfits when she's out of uniform.
That's part of a long-running experiment she has been conducting about whether its true that human males can trip over their tongues.
Heh. "Trip" over their tongues.
And yes, desert peoples do tend to cover up, and for good reason -- but not in heavy layers including something that looks like leather, which wouldn't make sense for vegetarians, or vinyl, which is just tacky.
Well nobody can accuse the Vulcans of having
good fashion taste. I mean, look at that godawful carpet suit they put T'Pol in during seasons 1 and 2. I swear, her great grandmother, T'Mir, had a better uniform than Polly did.
I do think she generally had more fashion sense than Trip.
Heh. I actually liked his fashion sense
because it was so bad. It reminded me of a cousin of mine who wears those kinds of atrocious shirts and seems to think they make him look sexy.