Today I'll be sharing more game shots and information about the Little Sister Residents' spring festival costumes, which I made for my Farming Town: Tropical Vacation series. As I would like to discuss the gender accessory differences in one post, I decided to use the Scott family for this purpose. Above, they are pictured in the following order: Tariq, then Linda, and finally, Chandell.
Just to get this out of the way, the Scotts are the only household with a true teen variation outfit. I say 'true teen' because I've been pretending that Ferdi and Pepper (shared last week) are teens when they're actually young adults. I also want to note, that like Sean's, Joel's, and Ashley's 'official' outfits (shared previously), Chandell's costume was limited. I could not find very many EA or cc pieces that fit the style I was going for (Seriously, if @venusprincess-ts3 is cool with someone age converting their tribal and historical stuff I would very, VERY much appreciate that). I concluded that her current outfit was the best I could produce, despite using it many times across games.
Alright, so let's get to the accessories.
As I mentioned in the first post featuring the costumes that make it into the main story, all of the women and girls have on cloth crowns* interwoven with fake pearls, regardless of how they've mixed and matched their garments, colors, and any additional accessories. Similarly, the men all have a fan comprised of bird feathers, regardless of what else they are wearing.
Some time ago I read that in many cultures, the women keep the traditions and history. I don't know how true that is, however I applied that concept to the crown. The pearls represent what the people could preserve of their culture and their past in the face of colonization. They are made of plastic, as oppose to being real pearls because only the natives saw the culture as valuable. The crown in itself also draws back to how the Little Sister residents survived 'The Last Battle' (and in truth attempted genocide) that resulted in Isla Paradiso's colonization. More details of this event will be shared in the story. Just as a hint, I will again note that the Little Sister residents did not have a hierarchal structure to their society.
The bird feather fan carried by the men is a reference to Isla Paradiso's 'official' history of the islands' colonization. According to Little Sister oral history, there were two attempts to conquer the people. The first by a group who also claimed descendance from a mythological bird of prey. These individuals were thwarted, or as it is told, their feathers were plucked. The second group, the descendants of the islands' current elites, are said to be the illegitimate children of the first. That is mixed born survivors, whose maternal ancestors had affairs with Little sister paternal ancestors. The feather fan is worn as a reminder of the battle that was lost, and the war won via inter breading. Although that last bit is recounted in stories, the current Little sister descendants do not believe that to be true. They believe the battle took place, that the first group lost, but they do not consider themselves relatives of the Central Island folks.
A personal note regarding accessory choices: When I was initially turning the notion of the festival around in my mind, and trying to come up with ways to use cc I hadn't before, the crown is one of the items I thought of. However, later, as I was just learning how to check polycounts, I discovered that those items were upwards of 20k. Thus I made two costume versions. One with the crowns, which were worn before the ending party at the ruins. Then a second costume without the crown. I was trying to pre-empt any potential crashes during the final event. It's also possible (can't recall off the top of my head) that I also made a second costume for the guys, without the fans. If that's the case, I either did that to kind of match the women, or because they were also high poly items.
