Clothes

Different types of clothes are worn by Link throughout the Zelda series. For the majority of each game, Link wears the iconic Green Tunic, although he can sometimes obtain new types of clothes that grant new abilities, such as breathing underwater or decreasing the damage received from enemies. Each type of clothing has a similar style despite varying in color and name: a long shirt that reaches above the knee, having short or no sleeves.

Green Clothes
The Green Clothes is the default type of clothing worn by Link throughout the majority of each of his adventures, and because of this, it has become a symbol of the hero who saved Hyrule from evil. Unlike the other types of clothes, it does not grant the young hero any abilities. In some games, such as and SS undefined, Link wears a chain mail underneath it to further protect himself.

Defense-Enhancement Clothes
First introduced in as the Blue Ring and Red Ring, the Blue Mail and Red Mail increase Link's defense, cutting the damage he receives from enemies by one-fourth and one-half, respectively.

Special Ability Clothes
Certain types of clothes provide Link with special abilities. In, the Red Clothes double the attack damage of Link's sword. The Zora Tunic and Zora Armor grants the young hero the ability to breathe underwater, while the Goron Tunic permits him to resist extremely high temperatures. In, the Magic Armor allows Link to lose Rupees instead of Hearts when he is hit by an enemy.

Others
In some games, Link does not start out with his traditional Green Clothes. Games such as and  feature the young hero wearing clothes that are typical to his homeplace, such as the Ordonian Outfit and the Engineer's Clothes, respectively. Like the Green Clothes, these do not give Link any new abilities or an enhanced defense.

Super Smash Bros. series
In the Super Smash Bros. series, Link, like every other character, has a variety of color options that don't have any effect on gameplay whatsoever. For Link, these options modify the color of his tunic.

In, Link has four tunic choices: the Kokiri, Goron, and Zora tunics, as well as a tunic the color of which resembles a very light lavender.

brought more color options, giving Link the Kokiri, Goron, Zora, white, and black tunics. These tunic colors were reflected with Young Link's character.

In, Link has six tunics available to him: the Kokiri, Goron, Zora, the white tunic, and features a new golden tunic. The sixth option is a full color-scheme change that causes Link to resemble the Dark Interlopers. Toon Link features a similar set. In addition to the green, red, blue, violet and dark ones, the sixth one gives him his color scheme from the first game, even changing his hair to a more brownish color. The Toon Link dark color is most likely based on Shadow Link from.

Soulcalibur II
In Soulcalibur II, Link's choice of tunics is similar to that of the Super Smash Bros. series; however, he only starts off with the Green and Red Tunic. To obtain the Blue Tunic, the player must buy it in the Castor Shop for 21,000 Gold, found in the Extra Chapter 1 of the Weapon Master mode. Only after buying the Blue Tunic can the player buy the Blue Ring Tunic from the original, which is sold for the same price as the Blue Tunic.

Trivia

 * In, the color of both Princess Zelda's dress and the clothing on merchants will change depending on which ring Link is wearing (if he has one; default is green). Similarly, has Nabooru's Second-in-Command's clothing affected by the color of Link's Tunic, but only in the Nintendo 64 and Virtual Console versions.