Humans often assume yinrih have no fashion because they don't wear clothes as a rule. This isn't true. Yinrih are not overwhelmingly visual creatures the same way humans are. They exist in a world of subtle and complex odors and sounds and haptic sensations as much as forms and colors, so their fashion is multisensory.

Yinrih use their musk as the primary means to identify one another and to communicate general mood. Perfumes are an extension to this natural olfactory communication system. Perfumes fill the social signaling role that clothes do for humans. They indicate things like social status, rank, and occupation. Some scents are even regarded as amusing in the same way humans might find the incongruous application of plaid or polka-dots to be funny.

Just like humans have items of clothing that indicate occupation such as a doctor's lab coat or a policeman's badge, certain occupations have associated scents. Clerics of the Bright Way wear a perfume that, to a human, smells like decades of tobacco smoke that has permeated the carpet and walls of a Motel 6 from the 90s. Healers often wear a perfume that smells like lavender (though their fulessness is the primary mark of their profession). Veterans wear a scent that smells like spent fireworks.

Visual adornment isn't completely absent. Both men and women frequently paint or score text or other designs onto their writing claws, which are flatter and broader than the claws on the other digits. Tail rings are also seen, which are usually flexible cloth sleeves slipped over the tail rather than rigid metal rings. These rings can bear abstract patterns, passages of text, or religious icons among other things.

Much like human clothing, some practices can go from utility to fashion statement. In colder regions, some yinrih smear a black insulating cream onto their ears to keep them warm. Over time, dying one's ears black came into vogue as a means of self expression. This was eventually associated with vanity, and vanity eventually became stupidity, and dying one's ears black became merely having black ears at all, which can occur with certain coat patterns. Yinrih thus have a "dumb black ears" stereotype that functions much like the "dumb blonde" stereotype in certain human cultures.

Finally, because healers shed their fur for hygiene reasons, they're the only yinrih to regularly wear clothes, in order to protect against cold and sun. These can be simple loose flowing cloaks that cover everything but the snout and paws. Occasionally these cloaks are actually the pelts of other healers who were sufficiently well regarded on death to have their hide preserved as a relic. These garments are called hames and are quite rare, as the healer from whom the hame is made has to have retired from actively practicing medicine and regrown her fur before dying. To be given a hame is the highest honor a living healer can attain, and to have one's pelt made into a hame is the highest posthumous honor a healer can attain.