Hail and Well Met Friends!
What do you do when the Sims 4 got you down? Load up your 50 gbs medieval cc and find brand new ways to break your game! No? Just me?
Anyway ~ I cut this dress together because I wanted a simpler, about town dress for my merchants, and well-to-do peasantry to walk around in.
THREE VERSIONS:
V1: Simple and Clean
V2: Brocade with a textured fabric design
V3: Piratey with embroidered leather stays
!! There's also a Shirt Color Overlay in Rings if you're feeling spicy, but all the dresses have been designed to look nice even without it!
@chere-indolente has from the start been one of my biggest historical simming inspirations, and her L'arrosoir set makes up a significant part of my kiddos' wardrobes - so I thought I would make my own addition!
This set features three tops and two skirts. The tops are all my own mesh edits, and the skirts are recolors of the skirts from the L'arrosoir set. The skirts REQUIRE the original mesh (ChereIndolente_Arrosoir_child_skirt_petticoat) to function, so make sure you have it in your game.
These items are ONLY designed to work with this specific set. They will look WEIRD with any other items. Be warned!!!
Item info / unedited previews below the cut!
Download on my Patreon HERE (Always free, no join)
And the required skirt mesh HERE
Elsie Apron Top, Elsie Apron Skirt, and Suzie Skirt-
The Elsie set and the Suzie skirt come in 51 swatches - 27 in my usual palette, and and 24 of Trillyke's lovely plaids. They're designed to be worn like one dress, but also to be mix-and-matched with Chereindolente's coats, skirts, and the other tops in this set. The Elsie Apron Top has been updated since I took these screenshots, and the white now matches the white of the apron on the skirt.
Petronilla Peacoat and Jessie Jacket-
These two jackets each come in my usual 27 swatches, with various accent colors. These meshes are not PERFECT. I'm still new to weight painting, and they can clip a little bit with the skirt waistband when the sim bends really far forward. Weight transfers did nothing to help this, and I'm not experienced enough to know another way to fix this, so for now they remain imperfect. It's not super noticeable thankfully, so it shouldn't cause too much trouble.
Historical CC - Vintage Catalogues (Purchase Upgrade Parts Off-the-Grid)
Now your Sim can order upgrade parts without computer access! Simply click on the stack of catalogues, choose "Purchase Upgrade Parts", and presto!
It comes in two versions. In the base version, the items appear in your Sim's inventory automatically; in the alternate version, they arrive via mail in a day or two. The files conflict, so you can only choose one version!
Stats:
♢ Basegame Compatible
♢ Works Off-the-Grid
♢ 3 Swatches
♢ §250. Find it in Build/Buy by searching Vintage or Naunakht
NOTE: This item contains custom coding and may break after an update. Always keep content like this in a separate folder, so if something goes wrong, the likely culprits are all in one place. It will NOT conflict with mods that re-categorize upgrade parts.
I got it into my head this morning that I should recolor the blouses from @vintagesimstress's incredible Working Girl set, and I somehow managed to squeeze my 30-swatch palette into six packages and 214 swatches. GOD HELP ME.
This blouse comes in two mesh variations and three pattern variations - split up into six total packages. Each blouse variation comes in: 30 solid swatches, 60 striped swatches (30 with a white base, and 30 multicolored stripes), and 24 of @trillyke's plaids. Previews of each variation below the cut, but no swatch previews because I don't hate myself.
Download my recolors HERE (Patreon, always free, no join)
And the REQUIRED meshes HERE (top1 and top2 -> v1 and v2 respectively)
Aka my first time making a whole collection, instead of just dropping things as I make them. Wowie! I feel like a real creator now. Maybe it's finally time to sell out and institute 3-month early access and join the marketplace!!!
Anyway–
I've been rewatching Anne with an E and planning a little historical gameplay-ish project, and as always the 1890s-1900s have been heavily on my mind. Today I bring a humble offering of pastoral countryside fashions - including a BGC conversion and mesh edit of the new boater hat, as well as a set of dresses for girls, and some daywear for ladies.
9 items, BGC, disabled for random. Individual item info below the cut!
Three variations of the same basic dress, for girls of varying levels of fancyness. The ruffle around the collar of the Diana dress is ripped straight from @vintagesimstress, so many thanks for her open TOU!
The Ruby and Anne dresses take their textures from Diana, so the Diana dress is required if you want the other two to work. Each dress comes in my 30 solids and 24 of @trillyke's plaids, as per usual. Located in the long dress category. The Ruby dress has had the top ruffle removed, and the Anne dress has slimmer sleeves and a less poofy skirt - because we can't all have nice things, even when we really really want them. Sorry Anne.
The apron overlay is found in rings, and it works with all three dresses - as well as possibly with other dresses, though I haven't fully tested it. The overlay for the collar ruffle won't show up on Ruby and Anne, as seen in the cover image, but it may clip with textures if you try and use it on other dresses. This overlay also comes in 30 solids and 24 plaids!
Marilla Blouse / Prissy Dress / Boater Hat
As I was making my Marilla sim for my save file, I found that I really didn't have a lot of good options for simple, plain Victorian-ish blouses, especially given Marilla's open disregard for puff sleeves. So, I made one! This is a recolor of a blouse from L&D, but it has been made BGC so everyone can enjoy! This comes in 30 solids and 24 plaids.
The Prissy dress is a combination of the ever-beloved Edwardian dress from Get Together and the ruffly top from the sleepover kit. It's perfect for tea in the garden, strolling around town, and abandoning an ill-advised marriage to go to University. It comes in my usual 30 solids with a white base, 6 colors with a black base, and 10 extra pastel swatches.
The boater hat is instrumental to the turn-of-the-century-pastoral-aesthetic, and I really loved this one from the prairie kit, but the crown was just awkwardly tall. I shortened it as much as possible, recolored it to hell, and converted it for children and toddlers. 30 ribbon colors on a beige base, plus 8 of them also on black.
Other cc by @simverses @simstrouble @ice-creamforbreakfast @shandir @laeska @zurkdesign @pralinesims @historicalsimslife and @zx-ta. Poses by @helgatisha and @simmerberlin.
Special thanks to @misschipsa for the kids' sword training animation. It was sorely needed.
So, I had big plans for a set. But it was quite some time ago, and I finished only these three items, and everything else is now at the stage where I open the .blend file and think, "what the hell is going on here?" So I hope I will finish whatever there is to finish, or redo, or do something else… one day. But at the moment here is my version of a 1700s nightshirt and an untucked shirt for your pixel guys. For historical inaccuracy I'll blame all the "Getting Dressed in the 18th Century" videos on YouTube. Just joking - it's all me.
These are basically two items - the shirt comes as a fullbody outfit and as a top in the "blouse" category. Just because I planned it as a fullbody first, but then I thought that it's supposed to be not quite a night garment as it is, but more like something someone wears when they fall asleep half undressed. So it should be a top in the first place. So I decided to do two versions. But I do not like that I had to resize the diffuse map to fit it into the "top" section of a sim texture. Anyway, have fun.
Known problems: With some animations the legs can go through the bottom part of the shirt. This happens because the legs mesh is underneath the shirt mesh, and sometimes it just… happens.
My inspiration behind this dress was Kate Middleton's love of an extreme shoulder pad & then Sentate made the top I used in this frankenmesh, so I had to snatch & edit it for my sim, Eloise.
22 Swatches
Base Game Compatible
Don't need orginal meshes.
Disabled For Random
Teen - Elder sims.
Everyday, Formal, Party, Hot & Cold Weather categories.
Here’s v. 2 og the vintage dress for your extremely luxurious Sims — perfect for dramatically fainting on chaise lounges and attending suspiciously dramatic garden parties. Historical accuracy not guaranteed, but the vibes are immaculate. Enjoy.
Comes in the original 6 swatches (feel free to recolor it!)
Custom thumbnail
~5.8k poly
Download here (Patreon, free)
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I originally planned to make this set much bigger, but due to life circumstances, I had to leave it as it is. I’m a little sad that I didn’t get to finish it the way I wanted, but… it is what it is :)
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