"Clad in shimmering armor the color of winter snow at night,"
Or you could just say she wears blackish-gray. Much easier.
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figurative language, makes story worlds more vivid to the imagination.
"Clad in an old garbage bag that glimmered in the light of the Walmart sign, she shifted her loyal cardboard home and ran fingers through her long, silver tresses. Tomorrow would be another day to beg change from people under the overpass, and she needed only endure it a few nights longer before she could afford the orange cart that would turn her life around."
Do not ask me why I felt compelled to write this, but you are now imagining Diana in that scene. ADMIT IT!
I'm still thinking about Pantheon's crimson cape. I searched it and I can't find 'crimson blue' anywhere >.< Is it supposed to be blue at the top and red in the back?
His cloak was deep crimson, though in the twilight it seemed as if stars gleamed in the shimmering fabric.