The avoidance of security cameras could also have been do to just plain luck.It seems strange they would have such calculated avoidance of security cameras, yet choose to wear such an unique ensemble…for example how did they know a neighbor wouldn’t spot them? Their choice in clothing is unusual, would offer more of a risk to be able to be identified.
That aside, I do agree that wearing distinctive clothing while committing a pre planned crime is not a good choice.
At the same time, clothing can become part of a persons identity to the point that it is worn with out thinking about it, even when it is detrimental. For example, Blood gangsters doing a drive by shooting while "flamed up" in red. Or, Out Law bikers seeking out rivals while wearing denim 'n leather- even if they took the "precaution" of being in a car.
I don't think the perpertrator had a gang mentality, or was a member of a gang. Rather, I think they might be given to wearing partial costume habitually like former romantic interest "R" was:
"Cold night? I automatically reach for my pseudo Elvin cloak. Spent alot of time on it- and my friends like it". This habit is then reinforced because her friends also wore partial costume from time to time .
For example, I remember another girl mixing purses with a hand stitched, embossed "wanderer's pouch" and a guy sporting a billowing white shirt ala Three Musketeers on occasion. (Unlike the very costume strict 501 legion, imagination mattered far more than theme accuracy in the SFCA).
Come Monday, "R" could show up in tennis shoes or.... the neat looking (but costumey) low boots bought at last year's Renaissance Faire. Both were habitual.
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