Style Houses

Fitat’femax (loose helovx translation: noblest of the femmar) is the term given to the fashion-consciousness of hizaki cultivated into a vocational culture by bizaki, the first to recognize hizaki vanity* and create an industry around it.

The term ilo’femax/beauty of the femmar/ refers to the natural or cosmetically enhanced attractiveness typically applied to the breeding castes.

Among the original subjects, surface hizaki were the first to have their hair “iced” into molds by their bizaki peers and partners. Hair Molding began as a way to hold their thick hair in place against the tundra winds but soon became a style choice even for those hizaki working beneath the ice.

When bizaki began producing clothing, they noticed that color-blind hizaki could not discern attractive options. Entrepreneurial bizaki began producing intricate patterns, fulfilling the hizaki need for distinction.

Generation Prime (Gen#0) bizaki created the first hair wraps and turbans, allowing hizaki to keep their molded hairstyles for more than a day. First-Gen Bizaki formed into groups outside hizaki occupational centers, offering their talents as hair, nail, and hide keepers (kaltzin). Others, called bizrituxi, set up shop in populated settlements and offered individualized tailoring.

In the era of the Second Generation, the Bizakaxi (collected unions) played a crucial role in recognizing aestheticians (kaltzin and bizritux) as legitimate post-castehood trades. The Third Office of the Committee issued licenses to select Bizaki, allowing them to open establishments called Style Sits. These Sits offered cosmetic treatments and clothing services for Hizaki clientele.

Fifth-Gen bizaki innovatively combined walk-in salons and fashion houses, birthing the exclusive Style House. Here, the affluent hizak can engage a single bizak skilled enough to cater to all their fashion needs.

Hizaki continue to venture out daily (weekly for those hizak in the lower credit spectrum) to Style Sits or Style Houses; her hair is molded, along with other generalized services related to the care of her hide, feet, face, and nails.

Zaxiri and Subaki also have fashion needs and engage in cosmetic and hide care practices. However, no industry is built around them because beauty and wellness are considered private affairs performed amongst themselves.

Fashion & Beauty | Bixat (Textiles)