Charmingly Massive 18th Century Clothing: Sets 14, 15, 16

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Set 14:
"Definitely Not the Dauphine"

And now for some teen dresses. These are simple gowns started off the idea of the caraco jacket- of which there are lovely museum pieces in embroidered patterns, but for today we get our simple 32 block colors. Yet in the end the style mimicked the peplum skirt jacket, so think it a vaguely period mix of everything. Fantasy rococo. I did spice up the variety a bit by alternating two skirt options- one is a simple white petticoat skirt with a double layer of ruffled ribbons, the second a coordinating plain skirt open in the front to show a plain white underskirt. I categorized it for both everyday and formal, because for our less affluent girls this would be their fanciest gown.

Then, because I hadn't made any dresses with aprons yet and the default for cashiers is a teen, I made a version with an apron for each color using the opposite skirt option. Young ladies would often go into service as a maid before returning to their smaller villages or families to marry. Even the fanciest version of this outfit is remarkably plain for nobility. And the apron versions are everyday, only.

I made two aprons- one long and plain, the other short and fancy. Unfortunately my previews only show the fancy apron, but the next set down borrows the plain apron texture. Plus- it's a plain apron. So you get two outfits (apron is just for everyday): a possibly of one of two styles for non-apron, and two styles each for the alternate. (If you're following your math, there are six styles and four combinations. But for each of the 32 colors only one per set.)

Mesh is by Lidiqnata.

Download Set 14 with Aprons

Download Set 14 without Aprons





Set 15:
"Letters from Braintree"

So here's some proper fancy embroidered or patterned fabric jackets paired with a solid petticoat. I added a sheer white undershirt to cover the rest of the arms and a gauzy fichu or neckerchief for warmth and modesty. Therefore these outfits are for everyday and outerwear. Most gowns also have a pair of ribbon bows. They, in my personal taste, work well for the lower middle-class. Especially the half or so with aprons- either a full length apron pinned to the top of the stomacher piece or just a bit of white apron to protect the skirt. Bourgeoisie ladies can feel lovely as they run their stores, tend their town homes, or toil in their family farms.

 

All the recolor options



Name alludes to the long and charming correspondence between one Mr. Adams and his Dearest Friend, a.k.a. the real-life 'you-two-are-just-too-adorable' married couple of early United States history. One can only imagine what any hypothetical British officer intercepting the letters back and forth between future President Dos and Mrs. Vice President thought of all the pet names...



Teen version as well. Both meshes by me.

Download Set 15 Adult

Download Set 15 Teen





Set 16:
"Petit Trianon"

Fun fashion item: chemise a la reine! Marie Antoinette, poor dear, had some culture shock when suddenly removed from the informal Austrian court where little was demanded of her to the highly rigid, controlling, and frankly surreal French court. Attempting to escape the madness she had a 'country farm' built away from Versailles where she could unwind. Which annoyed a court that already despised her as the 'frivolous' Austrian 'dog'. Among the outrages she inadvertently provided was posing in pictures wearing the new court fashion that was a rejection of the massive, overblown court styles with the rococo's giant wigs and over-decorated silk gowns. But this simple white muslin gown looked too much like just a petticoat to ordinary Frenchmen (The Queen had her portrait taken in her underwear! Scandalous!) Plus the material was English, not from French silk, so unpatriotic too! So the moniker for this style became chemise a la reine (the queen's chemise).

Whatever. I agree with Marie and Georgiana; it's a pretty look. And I wish I had adult chemises a la reine for my goddess of healing who spends the daylight hours sleeping in the center of a garden. Update: My Secret Santa G-Knee did just that. Now Este is dressed for her peaceful gardens. :)

An older teen mesh had the perfect shape for these gowns- but the mapping and other foibles of the alpha layers meant I barely got the few recolors I did made and that the colors for various sections still match up as reasonably well as they do. Nightmarish.

Five white chemise gowns with different colored sashes and three more versions in some warmer off-whites with slightly varied sashes. In all there are six dresses that fix the description of fluffy white flouncy gown.

 

Download Set 16

Categorized for everyday, formal, and activewear.

Comments

[hat_plays_sims]

I feel a certain random need (okay, I'm taking a brief break from beards, everything needed to reload) to mention that Ginevra-- the gal in my icon concerned about visible cleavage-- is wearing a chemise dress. ... But that makes sense. Bite Me is set in the French Revolution. (A surprisingly well-researched comic! Sure, the hemlines are far too high, but it's stylized enough that I can forgive the artist wanting to spend more time on drawing the boots and cheekbones and wacky facial expressions that she obviously enjoys drawing.)

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Fun!

Yeah, I could tell you that not all the fabric colors or use (and not-use) of patterns are accurate, and some of the elements really wouldn't have been combined that way for everything, and the mesh isn't giving the triangle corset with the bossom either flattened or smushed up together.... And some of these styles are from 1760s or 1790s...
But honestly I don't care. :D

[hat_plays_sims]

Ah, but the thing is, you know what's accurate and where you're breaking from it, and there are perfectly good reasons why ('I don't want to fight with it' or 'but I LIKE Royal Blue' count as perfectly good reasons). It's like none of my meshes give that soft-cup or sports-bra look that Medieval women's clothes ought to have, and I don't use NEARLY enough belts in an attempt to make things cross-class (dear world, accessory aprons? Love, Hat), but for me the rule is look it up, then make it up. I'm not convinced Hollywood knows these rules.

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Yes, and that's why I start to get a little nervous going back to renaissance and medieval, because I've picked up quite a lot for the rococo and even regency, but there's only so much I can say with accuracy for the pre-Guettenburg Press Era, and I want to avoid Hollywood History.

And then I run into the headaches of a world with physics more messed up than Discworld or my least favorite world-building culture "Wood Elves", because nothing about hunter-gather societies matches nicely... and IDK, I like fantasy, as long as the crazy rules keep to some internal consistancy.

Hey, my rule breaks are with the totally valid excuse of "These are really practically astral projections of god-like beings trying to mimic human shape, only purposely more awesome, who cares what they look like."

[hat_plays_sims]

I used to be good at the Renaissance, but not so much anymore. The Middle Ages, though, are LONG. Luckily, if you're into the Burgundian stuff? You're into the best-documented clothing. (Also I know you hate sleeve swaps, but if you ever decide you want a proper full-sleeved houpplelande? RunQun V3 plus Sim Ages gown. They have bone assignments! They obey gravity! In the same limited way Sim hair obeys gravity, but still!) Ahem.

... What year or so are your Wood Elves? I can think of a couple of possibilities, but I know it's your humans who're Medieval and your gods who're Rococo, so there's a lot of room inbetween. But I hear 'hunter-gatherer' and 'period clothes' and my brain wants to say 'frontier and pioneers,' even if I know it's really late for you. But the log cabin French trapper look is something I can picture.

But they live in clothes that are more than up to snuff as far as period accuracy, and get photographed in environments that are, at a glance, at least not anachronistic as far as the whole look goes. Thus, success! ... You can't help that they have water balloon fights in those outfits. (My critical research fails begin with subhoods. Downtown is basically a B-picture set in the Middle Ages, with attendant research; there are Sherahbim gypsies and vampires and werewolves (and plantsims and probably fairies, too, but it's those other guys who give it the look). Twikkii Island has no real-world equivalent, but it's basically 'Hat should've gotten Castaway Stories.' Most of my clothes for the Far East are Japanese... but most of the hairs are Chinese. Probably Chinese. Maybe 'Chinese movie fantasy.' It's hard to tell, nobody cites their sources. And while I'm totally going out of my way to get awesome Viking clothes for Three Lakes, the style of the place is probably going to be an even blend of Viking Answer Lady and How To Train Your Dragon (the woodworking was actually amazing in that movie) with a smattering of Thor. Because who doesn't love smokin' hot gods, I ask you.)

Beard Progress: 340 files so far; 140 to go. I had to stop partway through Necrodog's Amish beard because I realized a weird highlight was not, in fact, due to Bodyshop lighting.