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| - The costumes of most major characters in the Game of Thrones TV series are covered in the main region-by-region sections. A few characters, however, go through such extensive or unique costume changes during the course of the series that they defy simple categorization, and/or have such lengthy notes that it is more convenient to treat them separately. Daenerys Targaryen is on the eastern continent Essos, sampling pieces from several different cultures there, but fusing them to create her own very unique style. Brienne of Tarth, unusually for women in Westeros, is a warrior who most frequently wears full armor - which has to be customized due to her large height and feminine shape, and is therefore unique. Cersei Lannister is actually the trendsetter for the styles of both the Westerlands and King's Landing; Margaery Tyrell is similarly the trendsetter for the styles of the Reach, and her style starts displacing Cersei's once she arrives in King's Landing. Cersei and Margaery are therefore exemplary cases, with so many variant dresses and subtle fashion details that there are extensive quotes and notes for each of them, which warranted giving them their own section separate from the main regional guides. Sansa Stark goes through a major fashion transformation: similar to how Daenerys moves across Essos and shifts into the different fashions of each new region, Sansa is the one character in Westeros who has shifted between the most regional fashions: Sansa starts out wearing Northern-style clothing, then gradually shifts to imitate Cersei's Westerlands-style, then moves away from Cersei's style by subtlely imitating Margaery's style slightly (though not enough to overtly offend Cersei), then finally makes a dramatic shift to her disguise as "Alayne" with Littlefinger, a variation on the Vale-style of her own devising.
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