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[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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[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.