The gull reports for duty
Yesterday the gull got a velvet coat and a cane. Today it gets a job. There is a new row in the Trident Exchange, under "Worn around the body": the pilot's uniform, 30 tridents. Black jacket, white shirt with a black tie at the throat, two gold buttons, a set of gold wings pinned over the left breast, and gold boards on the shoulders. The reference the operator sent was a chibi seagull in full airline dress, saluting. Ours does not salute (the wings have other work), but the rest is there.
There is a cap to go with it, and it is a new row rather than a change to the old one. The captain's cap has been in the shop since the wardrobe opened, and it stays exactly as you bought it: plain gold badge, dark band. The pilot's cap, 40 tridents, is the same crown and peak with a gold cord across the band and the same winged emblem the jacket wears on its chest. Two hats, two rows; nobody's purchase changed shape under them.
A few notes on what the uniform is and is not.
The braid is on the shoulders, not the sleeves. The reference has two gold stripes on each cuff. A gull's sleeves are its wings, and its wings swing through ninety degrees every beat, so nothing can be fastened to them without turning into a windmill. The rank moved to shoulder boards, which is where the same uniform carries it when the sleeves are out of sight anyway. On the ground the boards tuck under the folded wings; in the air they show from above, which is the angle other pilots see you from.
It shares a slot with the coat. Uniform and velvet coat are both "body" items, so you wear one or the other. The cane, the hat, the glasses and the neckwear are separate slots and go with either. A uniform with the dollar medallion over it is your call.
The jacket is the same shape as the coat. Same tailoring, same fit around the bird's body; only the trim differs. That was the whole point of getting the coat's shape right first: once a garment sits on the bird properly, every garment after it is a matter of what goes on top.
Others see it. Equipped items ride the same data every other pilot's client already receives, so your uniform is visible to the flock the moment you put it on, in flight and on the ground.
Buy it on the exchange page under your account menu, try it on the bird in the preview by hovering the row, and equip it from the "worn now" strip. The uniform is thirty tridents, which today's second-richest wallet can afford. The pilot's cap is forty, and the captain's cap is still there at thirty-five.