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Glamour Plate 5: Town Casual

I'm not sure when I actually made this plate. The screenshot of the Plate Selector and the full body view from the Aetheryte Chamber at the bottom of this post are from September 27, 2023, and the other screenshots are from one of the Hildebrand storylines I did with Arel on September 29. However, I think I made plate 5 around the same time as the original plates 2, 3, and 4, which would have been more like early September.

In any case, I have fallen in love with that Red Dahlia Corsage. It's still on this plate, and I've used it elsewhere as well.

And I just generally like this plate. It feels very versatile. I can wear it for lots of different occasions.

Head: Red Dahlia Corsage Body: Riviera Doublet, no dye Hands: False Nails, General-purpose Metallic Red Dye Legs: Best Man's Slacks, no dye Feet: Collegiate Shoes (Tall Socks), no dye

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New Glamour Plate 3: Warrior Princess

On September 30, 2023, I wiped out Hideous and made a new plate 3. Arel had been giving me gear and accessories, and I had also been shopping, won some things on missions, and traded for things at the Gold Saucer, so I had plenty more stuff to work with.

I was and am pretty pleased with this one. It just looks cool.

The image at the top of the post as well as the following ones are /gpose pics from October 7. The top one is from a little trip I took to get the Black Summer top and bottom. This pretty pool is Apkallu Falls in Old Gridania. The others I just took in Ul'dah.

I wasn't bothering to change my facial expressions or poses yet, but these are still pretty decent. The only thing I've done to them outside the game is crop two of the Ul'dah ones.

Head: Exarchic Circlet of Fending, Gloom Purple dye Body: Manor Scale Mail, undyeable Hands: No.2 Type B Gloves, Soot Black dye Legs: Bunny Chief Tights, no dye Feet: Glade Shoes, no dye Ears: Aetherial Silver Ear Cuffs

The only change I've made since creating this plate is adding the "Emperor's New..." jewelry to the empty slots.

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Glamour Plate 3: Hideous

I mean, I guess it's not that bad, but after creating it on September 13, 2023, I never wore it anywhere except for this /gpose picture on September 27, when I was documenting all the plates I'd made to date.

I didn't have the Rainbow Cosmos Corsage when I originally made this. At some point between those two dates, I bought a bunch of corsages and went back and added them to all my plates. (I got hats and other options later.)

Head: Rainbow Cosmos Corsage Body: Hempen Acton, Gloom Purple dye Legs: Uraeus Skirt, no dye (it's barely visible) Feet: Hard Leather Caligae, Gloom Purple dye

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FC Group Shot (Not a Glamour Plate)

On September 17, 2023 our Free Company did a themed group shot wearing varsity jackets. I just put it on top of what was then plate 4. This was the day I learned about /gpose, but not until after the shoot. For the above picture, I cropped an in-game screenshot and blurred out everything that wasn't Arel and me.

I tried /gpose out a little at the FC's house afterwards:

I didn't do anything to this screenshot except crop it. Looks like /gpose's depth of field option was having trouble with my hair 😅

As you can see, I was still stuck in the hip-thrusting pose. Far better /gpose sessions are coming, don't worry!

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Glamour Plate 2 Revision 2

I really like this plate; see the previous posts about it here and here, or check out the plate 2 tag.

On September 30, 2023 I changed out the head and feet on the plate, resulting in the following:

Head: Thavnairian Headdress with Ceruleum Blue Dye Body: Oasis Doublet with Ceruleum Blue Dye Hands: False Nails with General-purpose Metallic Red Dye Legs: Hempen Trousers with Charcoal Grey Dye Feet: Anemos Expeditionary's Boots with Ceruleum Blue Dye

All the jewelry slots were empty, as I still didn't know about the "Emperor's New..." items that hide your regular gear and I also didn't have any jewelry, so the Augmented Cryptlurker's Choker of Fencing that is part of my standard gear set was still showing in-game. This is visible in the /gpose screenshots, which were taken in Ul'dah and then cropped. (Also, I had learned about /cpose!)

At this point, my feelings about the plate were 1) I loved how the headdress looked, but I wished it was silver instead of gold, because nothing else is gold in the outfit; and 2) I was much happier with the new boots than I had been with the Woolen Dress Shoes.

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Glamour Plate 2 Revision 1

I've posted about plate 2 already, but as it's one of my favorites, it's been tweaked some since it was first created.

Here's the first tweak, from September 27, 2023. (Literally all that changed was I added a hat.)

Head: Straw Capeline, no dye Body: Oasis Doublet with Ceruleum Blue Dye Hands: False Nails with General-purpose Metallic Red Dye Legs: Hempen Trousers with Charcoal Grey Dye Feet: Woolen Dress Shoes, no dye

The picture at the top of the post was taken in /gpose in the Ul'dah main Aetheryte chamber. All I did was crop it.

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Glamour Plate 2: Village Magistrate

I just came up with that name, but I first made this plate on September 13, 2023. I feel like it's business casual for a fantasy world. I'm definitely not working on a farm while wearing this, but it's also not super fancy.

The image at the top of the post and these other two are how it looked the day I first made it:

In the first screenshot, it looks like I'm at Limsa Lominsa maybe? I'm not sure, but Arel and I had gone fishing there a few days prior, so maybe we went back. I can't remember 😅

In the second two we're in Ul'dah. These are the best images I have of the plate at the time. (I wanted to include the second shot because Arel's plate was gorgeous. I'll see if I can get the details about it into a separate post.) These two images were just in-game screenshots, but I edited them to blur out things that weren't us.

(All of my early screenshots have me in that hip-thrusting pose because I didn't know about /cpose yet. I also only recently got the "Emperor's New..." items that allow you to hide your gear. I'm excited to get some nicer-looking pictures on this blog!)

Head: empty (lol) Body: Oasis Doublet with Ceruleum Blue Dye Hands: False Nails with General-purpose Metallic Red Dye Legs: Hempen Trousers with Charcoal Grey Dye Feet: Woolen Dress Shoes, no dye

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Glamour Plate 4: First Wedding Outfit Attempt

My partner was eager to get married in the game, so one of my first glamour plates was a wedding outfit. I had already been playing around in plates 2 and 3, so this one went in plate 4.

The first image above is what the standard "male" wedding outfit looks like. I wanted to wear the jacket with a short skirt and high heels, but I couldn't find exactly what I was looking for.

The two "Fitting Room" images below are some things I tried; it seemed that the wedding outfit's white couldn't really be perfectly matched with dye, so I was testing out dyeing the wedding outfit.

Ultimately I thought these didn't look elegant enough, and in the case of the pink one, the colors didn't match each other closely enough.

In the end I chose a pleated skirt and the "female" wedding shoes, and then I dyed everything the same white, resulting in what's shown here:

This is what I thought I would go with; however, I ended up changing my mind. The actual wedding outfit will come in a separate post.

The "final" glamour plate:

Head: White Hyacinth Corsage Body: Tailcoat of Eternal Devotion, Pure White dye Hands: Set of False Nails, Metallic Red dye Legs: Collegiate Skirt, Pure White dye Feet: Bootlets of Eternal Devotion, Pure White dye

I started work on the wedding outfit on August 28, 2023. These screenshots were taken September 3rd and 13th, 2023 in FFXIV. I adjusted the curves and levels on the first one to brighten it and add some depth. The others have only been cropped.