Elephant on the Cuff

I have been working on Théophile Gautier's La Morte Amoureuse this winter, which requires certain ecclesiastical knowledge, especially some allusions, and did conduct some research for it. Though tough, I always enjoyed it, but got a little complicated today.

Days before, I decided to write something about Beelzebub and therefore did some research. A page from Moegirlpedia introduced Beelzebub in Helltaker, a game I once enjoyed, which cited its Artbook, mentioning that Beelzebub's cuff was designed after Princess Diana's elephant suit. I skimmed over it but soon returned to my mission again.

Pic from Helltaker: Artbook

Embarrassingly, I mistook "elegant apparal" for "elephant apparal" in my reading today and plumbed into it at once with a thought of "see? I am destined to have to figure it out".

In such a process, I encountered a post on Bilibili about the art design of Helltaker, which also discussed the elephant suit (but the author capitalized it, why?) and attached the exact photo of Lady Diana. It made me convinced that there was once a popular clothing style coined "Elephant suit" and encouraged me to invest another half an hour on it, with it returning me with..

Pic shot by Syl in Microsoft Edge

NOTHING.

I mean... I read ten articles about the attire of Lady Diana or more, with more than half of them were in English, some of them even compared the black pantsuit of Lady Diana and that of Meghan Markle but none of them mentioned "elephant". Even seemingly more perplexing, Bing could returned the photo of interest when I search "princess Diana elephant suit", only without useful explanations to banish the mist for me. Almost in despair, I checked the novel for another time and it suddenly occured to me that the text was "elegant apparal" rather than as my delirium.

Pic shot by Syl in Adobe Acrobat Pro

I organized my experience to share with friends of mine as a somewhat thought-provoking joke and doubted that whether the producer of Helltaker could have made the same mistake as me. And, during my complaint, unexpected noticed the elephant pattern on the cuff of Lady Diana. After a double check of all the materials in hand, I finally realized that no one made mistake except my whimsy. But I was amazed and somehow smoothed to find the fly pattern on cuff of Beelzebub in Helltaker.

And I decided to pay for the artbook of it out of the blue when I was composing this.

by Syl & Sylvia @ 2023-02-05 21:00:16 @ Wuhan, Hanyang District
originally posted @ https://www.cnblogs.com @ 2022-2-5