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hat_plays_simsThe thing about the Middle Ages as a period is that a lot of the things Hollywood and RenFaire makes us associate with period costume don't apply. Visible drawstring gathers and ruffles were just... not a thing prior to the Renaissance-- or at least they were not a thing you were meant to see. Drawstrings hold your braises up, gathers and ruffles are a waste of good fabric if you're not just making yourself a frilled veil.
Once I got picky enough to get frustrated by things like painted-on gathers and criss-cross lacing and nightgowns on meshes that poke through bedding, I decided it was time to update my clothing catalog. I viciously culled everything with a corset, and stared longingly at ZoeJ's nightgowns-- I liked the texture (not 100% accurate but it looked so soft and warm), but the Parsimonious AF Rengown clips bedding like crazy if you use it as a nightgown.
I got all excited when I saw this Liana mesh edit by Needlecream, but it lacked any morphs whatsoever. The inimitable Cynnix came to my rescue, and the result is before you, warm and cozy and close-fitting and ready for bed.
![](https://i.imgur.com/XbsZFqe.jpg")
"Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine." --Thomas Aquinas
So... Yup. Chemises!
The chemise (or shift, but I tend to default to French fashion terms unless they are hard to spell or involve more accents than I want to type out) is a very important garment, really. It's where women's underwear starts, historically-- even if she were busty enough to need breast-bindings for support, those went on over the chemise. The chemise protects the kirtle (a gown or under-gown, depending on your layering preferences), from the woman's skin... and sometimes the woman's skin from her kirtle, too. If a lord's cook was going to be sweating over the fire, better she sweat right up against her linen chemise than her nice wool kirtle; if that same lord's wife was going to be wearing a kirtle deeply dyed red with madder, better the new dye bleed onto her chemise, of which she'd own several, than directly her skin.
Most Medieval chemises had deep keyhole necklines, for ease of both dressing and nursing; I made mine as deep as I could without it looking improbable on the mesh. The original ZoeJ nightgown had criss-cross lacing, which I carefully erased because it looks smokin' hot on a man's pirate shirt, but it's kind of impractical if you're trying to open it up to feed the baby at three in the morning.
You get twelve colors; the only one not arranged by saturation is ZoeJ's original grayish color. The chemise, like bedsheets and shirts and braises and headcloths and nappies and veils and really a lot of things, would generally have been made of undyed linen. Linen has some interesting properties when exposed to UV radiation; wet linen left in the sun will bleach to white, while dry linen will start to yellow. Wealthier folks had whiter linens, because they could afford to pay servants to take their clothes off the line the minute they were dry, while your average goodwife got the laundry down when she had a minute.
These are the lightest colors; Time Bomb would be the most expensive to achieve. The lady in the title card is wearing Oyster, to match her coif.
These have been left on the line a bit longer or were never bleached in the first place; Primer might be an older gown that used to be a lot whiter.
And I'll admit... to me these could be either old-and-yellowed or deliberately dyed; Dove looks like it might've gone through the same wash-water as black and gray clothing at some point and just gotten dingy, while Custard looks more like it got a very light dye-job in mustard.
So! When you download, you get the above twelve chemises, categorized as both nightgowns and underwear. They have fatmorphs, pregmorphs, and are bump-map-enabled, and you can choose between townie-friendly and regular versions. You can only have one version of each gown, but if you want the peasanty colors townified and the bright whites present but not something your farmers' daughters can grow up into, that'll work just fine.
The fantastic mesh is originally by Liana, with Bloom's sexyfeet added by Needlecream, and with preg and fat morphs and a mapping fix added by Cynnix. The Cynnix version of the mesh is included. The textures are by ZoeJ, but I beat on them quite a bit to make them fit the new mesh properly.
I used both Pooklet's Project Mayhem and CuriousB's Any Color You Like actions on these gowns, so no paysites on this one.
As ever, I have to thank Lyn for making sure I had a working copy of Photoshop, Quaxi for SimPE because otherwise my tooltips would be indecipherable, and DJ for the Compressorizer, because oh I like compressorizing things. (These have been compressorized. Clear your cache files after installing.)
... Yup, that looks like everything.
DOWNLOAD TOWNIE-FRIENDLY on Mediafire | on Sims File Share
DOWNLOAD NON-TOWNIE on Mediafire | on Sims File Share
Wanna help me feed my cats?
In case you feel like dropping me a buck or two, should you have a buck or two to spare. Donors get two things at the moment: a) a link to the Super Secret Cat Gallery, full of pictures of the cats you'll be feeding, updated sporadically when the cats do something photogenic and I'm fast enough on the trigger to catch it, and b) a link to the list of content I have done-but-not-screencapped, nearly done, partly done, or in the planning stages, and the option to suggest what ought to be in the next batch of things I focus on.
Once I got picky enough to get frustrated by things like painted-on gathers and criss-cross lacing and nightgowns on meshes that poke through bedding, I decided it was time to update my clothing catalog. I viciously culled everything with a corset, and stared longingly at ZoeJ's nightgowns-- I liked the texture (not 100% accurate but it looked so soft and warm), but the Parsimonious AF Rengown clips bedding like crazy if you use it as a nightgown.
I got all excited when I saw this Liana mesh edit by Needlecream, but it lacked any morphs whatsoever. The inimitable Cynnix came to my rescue, and the result is before you, warm and cozy and close-fitting and ready for bed.
"Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine." --Thomas Aquinas
So... Yup. Chemises!
The chemise (or shift, but I tend to default to French fashion terms unless they are hard to spell or involve more accents than I want to type out) is a very important garment, really. It's where women's underwear starts, historically-- even if she were busty enough to need breast-bindings for support, those went on over the chemise. The chemise protects the kirtle (a gown or under-gown, depending on your layering preferences), from the woman's skin... and sometimes the woman's skin from her kirtle, too. If a lord's cook was going to be sweating over the fire, better she sweat right up against her linen chemise than her nice wool kirtle; if that same lord's wife was going to be wearing a kirtle deeply dyed red with madder, better the new dye bleed onto her chemise, of which she'd own several, than directly her skin.
Most Medieval chemises had deep keyhole necklines, for ease of both dressing and nursing; I made mine as deep as I could without it looking improbable on the mesh. The original ZoeJ nightgown had criss-cross lacing, which I carefully erased because it looks smokin' hot on a man's pirate shirt, but it's kind of impractical if you're trying to open it up to feed the baby at three in the morning.
You get twelve colors; the only one not arranged by saturation is ZoeJ's original grayish color. The chemise, like bedsheets and shirts and braises and headcloths and nappies and veils and really a lot of things, would generally have been made of undyed linen. Linen has some interesting properties when exposed to UV radiation; wet linen left in the sun will bleach to white, while dry linen will start to yellow. Wealthier folks had whiter linens, because they could afford to pay servants to take their clothes off the line the minute they were dry, while your average goodwife got the laundry down when she had a minute.
These are the lightest colors; Time Bomb would be the most expensive to achieve. The lady in the title card is wearing Oyster, to match her coif.
These have been left on the line a bit longer or were never bleached in the first place; Primer might be an older gown that used to be a lot whiter.
And I'll admit... to me these could be either old-and-yellowed or deliberately dyed; Dove looks like it might've gone through the same wash-water as black and gray clothing at some point and just gotten dingy, while Custard looks more like it got a very light dye-job in mustard.
So! When you download, you get the above twelve chemises, categorized as both nightgowns and underwear. They have fatmorphs, pregmorphs, and are bump-map-enabled, and you can choose between townie-friendly and regular versions. You can only have one version of each gown, but if you want the peasanty colors townified and the bright whites present but not something your farmers' daughters can grow up into, that'll work just fine.
The fantastic mesh is originally by Liana, with Bloom's sexyfeet added by Needlecream, and with preg and fat morphs and a mapping fix added by Cynnix. The Cynnix version of the mesh is included. The textures are by ZoeJ, but I beat on them quite a bit to make them fit the new mesh properly.
I used both Pooklet's Project Mayhem and CuriousB's Any Color You Like actions on these gowns, so no paysites on this one.
As ever, I have to thank Lyn for making sure I had a working copy of Photoshop, Quaxi for SimPE because otherwise my tooltips would be indecipherable, and DJ for the Compressorizer, because oh I like compressorizing things. (These have been compressorized. Clear your cache files after installing.)
... Yup, that looks like everything.
DOWNLOAD NON-TOWNIE on Mediafire | on Sims File Share
Wanna help me feed my cats?
In case you feel like dropping me a buck or two, should you have a buck or two to spare. Donors get two things at the moment: a) a link to the Super Secret Cat Gallery, full of pictures of the cats you'll be feeding, updated sporadically when the cats do something photogenic and I'm fast enough on the trigger to catch it, and b) a link to the list of content I have done-but-not-screencapped, nearly done, partly done, or in the planning stages, and the option to suggest what ought to be in the next batch of things I focus on.
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Date: 2012-07-15 03:30 am (UTC)And might I say, I am super glad to see you back! Your stuff is always so awesome so I'm happy to see you posting again. :3
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Date: 2012-07-16 03:50 am (UTC)So, um, just out of curiosity ... how do you feel about your clothes becoming defaults? I make no promises, but these are so darn versatile I might just have to give into temptation.
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Date: 2012-07-16 08:06 am (UTC)I'm totally fine with folk defaulting my content so long is credit goes where credit is due! I prefer hiders to clothing defaults (except NPCs) because I am weird or something, but default away! These only have one group, so they should be relatively easy to default.
Bonne Nuit
Date: 2012-07-20 08:20 pm (UTC)Hi Hat
Welcome back! I think its great to take a break, not only for "business", etc. but because I do believe that any creative activity can benefit strongly from periodic time outs. But of course I'm also glad to see you sharing your great stuff with us again! And I do worry about anyone who leaves the community for an extended period, if they are doing OK, etc.
This is a wonderful collection, and I really appreciate the thought that went into the colour selections. Having mix and match between towniefied and regular versions is also a great idea, and I will do so in my own game too.
If there is no cost to you, could I ask you to consider sending me a Dreamwidth invitation so that I don't have to logon anonymously?
All the best
David
Re: Bonne Nuit
Date: 2012-07-21 12:39 am (UTC)I'm glad you like the chemises. The only places I ever seem to have enough Medieval clothes are YA/AF Casual and Formal, and that always bugs the heck out of me. Someday, I'm going to have to make some swimwear for all ages and both sexes-- I tend to go for chemises, shifts, and skirts in dyed colors for my ladies.
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Date: 2012-07-21 05:56 pm (UTC)Yes, I also find the over-abundance of YA/AF Casual and Formal frustrating!
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Date: 2012-07-21 10:17 pm (UTC)If it weren't for the fact that I've sort of promised myself some front-lacing and peasant styles, I'd probably swear of YA/AF Casual and Formal and just do everything else-- but at least most of my AF meshes have TF conversions, and can work for elders or have EF conversions, so that's more mileage. I need to make more stuff for men (cotehardies instead of loose tunics), for kids, for toddlers especially... And for women's underwear, sleepwear, and swimwear. Particularly swimwear, since I'm sort of making that up as I go. Medieval swimwear was pretty much underwear, your own skin, or whatever you fell into the water wearing. It wasn't a specific kind of outfit.
I should make a list.
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Date: 2012-08-16 08:25 am (UTC)would look amazing on it. Would you use something like that? The plain ones are what I'm aiming for personally, but doing a few more couldn't hurt!
Also, would you use this mesh: http://www.medievalsims.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=4024&p=43908#p43908
in all of the recolors you did for this set?
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Date: 2012-12-14 02:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-01-24 12:46 am (UTC)...back to the drawing board...
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Date: 2013-08-02 06:23 pm (UTC)Thanks for sharing!
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Date: 2013-08-02 09:44 pm (UTC)