Saori, Regarding your #1 wardrobe idea, the IRC Round Robin team did do a Soulmates fanfic set in Nagasaki, Japan in 1603 as part of their Soulmates Chronicles. The story is called
The Tai 
Look under the letter "i" in the Authors section for IRC Round Robin for the other SoulMates stories (and many others like the Unintentional 5th season stories). Plenty of scope for the wardrobe imagination in the SoulMates stories.
AmyN
