Seeking opinions!

[hat_plays_sims]

Le Chausseur la Troisième Partie is proceeding apace, but I'm of two minds about something. See, part of the next installment of Hat's Chausserie is top-only shifts for to go under bottom-only dresses. Eighty-two of them will have plackets with matching stockings (my wide-laced kirtles won't have stockings on the alpha, so you'll get an extra bit of coordination in the sock area), but I'm not sure what to do with the eight chausse-less recolors for more usual tops. Stockings to match the shift? Stockings in neutral shades? Stockings in a variety of reds, arranged in order of richness to coordinate with the shifts? (Red stockings seem pretty popular.) Feel free to weigh in and help me out; I'd like to do the blank ones before I move on to placketed.

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[morgaine2005.wordpress.com]

Well, first of all, I want to say -- you can do that? Damn. I wish I had known when I did my placket tops, because if I had, that would have satisfied some of my more OCD impulses.

But that wasn't your question. Hmm. I don't think I'd do stockings to match the shift. If it were me, I'd go probably with the neutral shades. But I'd throw a couple of reds in there, just because. One of my bottom-only dresses is in Pipe Bomb with I think Maple stockings. I really liked that look. Still, that's just me.

Hope that helps (and that you get a few more opinions soon)!

[hat_plays_sims]

You can totally do that! With single-group separates, the bottom's texture always goes over the top's texture, so if you black out the alpha in the sock area on the skirt, and put stockings on the top, you can change your sock texture! It does make things incompatible with sexyfeet bottoms... but you can pretend sandals are pattens.

Maybe I'll do two sets, one with neutrals in increasing dinginess and one with reds? They can be texture-referenced, so that makes things lighter-weight, and I do want to make some simple solid color short-sleeved kirtles, but I haven't decided if I want to make them as separates or full-body dresses. (IE, this is the current project and this is a possibility.)

[eefje00704]

I'd say neutrals are slightly more important, but of course I'd still downloaded colours if you did them ;)

[hat_plays_sims]

I did two sets of plain shifts, one with browns and one with reds, arranged by how expensively-dyed they look (richest colors with the whitest shifts). I tried to do beige-y colors, but I didn't want to use the two Pooklet blonds that are already in the shifts and so couldn't manage eight neutral beiges. Luckily, I have exactly eight browns and eight kermes/madder reds in my big ol' color palette.