Oh god gimme a minute to dig for sleeves okay. Houppelandes are ridiculous but I actually like them better on men than on women. I like the wide cuffs on this cote because if anybody makes a good glove accessory, they could possibly safely be combined. (Also cos I find one of the models very attractive, I think.) Bag sleeves are awesome but I have no idea how well they'd animate. Still, Besen managed to make it work (check the Italian Renaissance tunic). These are awkward to link, so, Baggy Sleeves gown and Hanging Sleeves cotehardie and I don't actually know what an Esclavine is but I like it and these are all a little late for my purposes but they're right in line with the Romeo tunic (early 14th century Italian. Later outside Italy, except the stuff from Burgundy). There's not much for men here and what there is is fairly basic, but hey, it's a link, right? (Please note I am not asking, merely hurling suggestions.) For sawing things directly off existing meshes, there's the Count D robe, Aligeth's Lord of the Manor nightgown, Cynnix's laced-sleeve gown might replicate some of those late-period sleeves, and Cocomama's fur coats (or the Glamour Life Stuff fur coats, really) would make good fur-trimmed sleeves, but I actually think that'd look funny without a fur-trimmed hem.
Shoes. FR's poulaines are really good, the Plantsim shoes would allow for lots of these ankle-boot variations, not to mention some of these, and as for a thigh-high boot... couldn't you do a plantsim-shoe foot, then sort of add a flare like turning the cuff of the pirate boot upside down somewhere on the thigh? Fold-top boots got their start as thigh-high riding boots, just rolled down once the gentleman got off his horse.
I've seen similar necklines on reproduction undershirts, at least, so yeah, as far as I can tell it's quite passable. (Usually I think it'd be an even simpler keyhole neckline, but hey, wealthy men wore undershirts, too.) And boy do I hear you on swimwear and sleepwear and other such scanties! There wasn't such a thing as a swimsuit until the Victorians decided one needed a special bathing costume; in the middle ages, you went swimming in a) whatever you fell into the water wearing b) whatever quick-drying layer you stripped down to or c) nothing. I've got Bloom's sexyfeet true-nude classified as underwear, sleepwear, and swimwear for all ages and both genders in my game. And all my chausses. I've actually decided that any outfit I'd sooner use for nightclothes/underwear, done in a dyed color instead of white, gets to be swimwear, and for my ladies any chemise or shift with a full sleeve is a nightgown, not underwear. Which at least helps me spot the different categories when I'm using the clothing tool.
And that bit about chausses? That depends entirely on how many linen colors you want. I don't even do my own chausses with varied linen colors on the braises because I do twenty colors available from child to elder and sometimes there are women or bodyshapes and there's a lot of button clicking there and I'm still trying not to be tempted to take my beige chausses and hit them with Volatile and do the eighty-two combo I used for all those Robin Hood tunics. (Besides, I usually do a minimum of four and a maximum of twelve linen variations. Do you really NEED eighty-to-two-hundred-forty nightshirt-and-chausses combinations?)
Yay for morphs! And I will assuredly be doing recolors at some point; I wasn't looking forward to messing with the meshed collar on the Sim Ages nightshirt. (Still might use it for swimwear, though.)
Now to go see what that other comment you left on my entry was.
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Date: 2012-07-30 12:02 am (UTC)Shoes. FR's poulaines are really good, the Plantsim shoes would allow for lots of these ankle-boot variations, not to mention some of these, and as for a thigh-high boot... couldn't you do a plantsim-shoe foot, then sort of add a flare like turning the cuff of the pirate boot upside down somewhere on the thigh? Fold-top boots got their start as thigh-high riding boots, just rolled down once the gentleman got off his horse.
I've seen similar necklines on reproduction undershirts, at least, so yeah, as far as I can tell it's quite passable. (Usually I think it'd be an even simpler keyhole neckline, but hey, wealthy men wore undershirts, too.) And boy do I hear you on swimwear and sleepwear and other such scanties! There wasn't such a thing as a swimsuit until the Victorians decided one needed a special bathing costume; in the middle ages, you went swimming in a) whatever you fell into the water wearing b) whatever quick-drying layer you stripped down to or c) nothing. I've got Bloom's sexyfeet true-nude classified as underwear, sleepwear, and swimwear for all ages and both genders in my game. And all my chausses. I've actually decided that any outfit I'd sooner use for nightclothes/underwear, done in a dyed color instead of white, gets to be swimwear, and for my ladies any chemise or shift with a full sleeve is a nightgown, not underwear. Which at least helps me spot the different categories when I'm using the clothing tool.
And that bit about chausses? That depends entirely on how many linen colors you want. I don't even do my own chausses with varied linen colors on the braises because I do twenty colors available from child to elder and sometimes there are women or bodyshapes and there's a lot of button clicking there and I'm still trying not to be tempted to take my beige chausses and hit them with Volatile and do the eighty-two combo I used for all those Robin Hood tunics. (Besides, I usually do a minimum of four and a maximum of twelve linen variations. Do you really NEED eighty-to-two-hundred-forty nightshirt-and-chausses combinations?)
Yay for morphs! And I will assuredly be doing recolors at some point; I wasn't looking forward to messing with the meshed collar on the Sim Ages nightshirt. (Still might use it for swimwear, though.)
Now to go see what that other comment you left on my entry was.