There's two reasons for the material. One, Rita's looking to recomplete a certain outfit she once had, and shock resistant latex/pleather was the order of the day back then. The other is that silk definitely won't work and other than the anti-shock and anti-acid treatments it's a mostly cheap yet striking outfit for some street brawl games. Going without would be like<em>zenra</em>paintball; you could, but why?<br/><br/>One thought that runs through the group, at least as far as stuff and repairs go is to get a degree of self-sufficiency up and running. Power's one thing, but water and food are both way bigger. And water's bigger than food, if prioritizing is the focus. So from there it would be make a list of things to do that, case contacts and fixiers to find those things, and then do a faux escrow for runs to reach that goal.