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I am not dead or unaware of the date!
Just a quick heads-up:
There IS some kind of Large Early January post bonanza coming. Much content.
Will it land on Epiphany?
I sure hope so. But possibly not.
Reality started kicking my ass right around the middle of August, and my post bonanza will include a state-of-the-Hatvent post about how many ways it has done that, but.
This is just a warning: There WILL be fresh content. It may not be on the sixth, but if fortune smiles it should be before the 10th.
In the meantime, please enjoy a video break!
So, today's videos are loosely on the theme of That Gives Me Ideas. I do sew (mostly doll stuff), so seeing real garments, whether just worn or a whole video on construction, really helps me to figure out how to treat the textures like fabric and get them on the Sims in a historically-adequate manner.
The Welsh Viking (Jimmy is a delight and, as is much to be desired in a viking-age historian and re-enactor, certified non-yikes-inducing) wears his re-enactment gear out in the winter weather, and I link to this partly because it's fun to see how it holds up, partly to go "Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy, of course your feet hurt, this is what pattens are for," but mostly because starting at about 3:27, there are clips of Jimmy getting dressed.
And those Vikish braes look a lot like pajama pants. I am sure useable meshes for something like that exist somewhere.
(Also the braes are so long because they don't go under hose, they go under baggy pants and leg wraps! Anyway just a couple of seconds in this video gave me ideas for Viking-specific underwear, which is great because as far as I know, the Sims 2 community doesn't have any.)
Here, Morgan Donner (who makes a lot of entertaining things, some very historical, some... well, when 'historically accurate Disney Princess' was a thing among costuming youtubers, Morgan did Ariel... but not in her pink dinner gown or blue touring costume or wedding gown or even her slinky little glitter number, oh no. Morgan made the sail) tackles the Lengberg Bra... as the upper half of a bathhouse dresss.
It did not turn out quite how I did mine (though both of us skipped the sprang lace across the top, but Morgan filled hers out with linen where I left mine open), but danged if I don't want to find some bottom-only skirts and mess around.
Morgan also always wears just the cutest darned Medieval-inspired jewelry. Someday!
English Heritage continues their Homes Through History series with Prince Henry Tudor, son of Henry VII. Prince Henry here rather condescendingly explains aspects of how his family celebrates Christmas.
His clothes are a little out of date-- too late, really. He's dressed as he would after he started putting on weight as an adult, trying to hide his expansion with layering, and not as he would have done as an athletic youth.
Eltham Palace, however, has a lot of really beautiful paneling and carving, and since I am... honestly not one of young Henry's biggest fans, that's much more what I focused on in this one.
Prior Attire is a reenactor and costumer who sells her work, and what excites me about this video is-- well, look at those first layers! That's my gartered chausses, my pull-on Cynnix shift, my wide-laced kirtles (well, the lacings meet. I should do kirtles like that, too), my Got Clout, something very close to FantasyRogue's poulaines (though hers have cutouts)... And then she starts putting on things I would make if I had the meshes.
I know the sound is... not great (I can hardly understand a word), but reasonably enough, she's not exactly micced. But she films in such great locations, and there are stills at the end, and the Middle Ages aren't her only period.
... But she does do a lot of the Middle Ages:
500 years of Medieval fashion all in one video, with some tantalizing glimpses of the husband, too. This one is packed with a lot of things I already kind of vaguely want to do-- that buttoned kirtle with the tippets, particularly. (I also like how you see her getting into everything on her own or mostly on her own.)
This one is just. The tapestry on the walls, the throne on the dais, and the color of the houppelande! I thought that was an inaccurate, impossible color, but I'm so happy to be wrong; Kingfisher and Teal are historically adequate! And showing how the collar works-- the collar closed up high all the way looks like amazing winterwear.
I would love to make houppelandes and Burgundian gowns, but as far as I know, only almost-workable meshes exist.
... Speaking of 'alas for meshes,' one more by Prior Attire...
So the neat thing is, this tunic is effectively made JUST like that houppelande, only front-opening and short. (A men's houppelande was made the same way as a women's houppelande, too, but I usually see them with the collars closed or standing, and the hem could vary more wildly.) This tunic is also something I'm always keeping an eye out for in men's tops-- even with a straight sleeve with no fancy padded shoulders, that flared minidress look is really hard to find.
... Maybe after Epiphany Or Whenever, I'll work on something about tunics...
... Max Miller of Tasting History does not make me want to make clothes.
Max Miller makes me want to make plates.
I don't make Sims food, but I really enjoy learning about Medieval food, and while usually I end up learning from, like, Ruth Goodman demonstrating that pottage-and-herbs actually got you a pretty varied diet as a peasant... Max works from cookbooks and written sources rather than archaeological ones, so he's making things fit for a king.
And you can tell by the sheer quantity of spices he uses.
... And as I post this, I notice: Aw no, all the Prior Attire videos aren't embeddable. (I'm leaving them, the links are clickable and if I use inline links they won't stand out as much.)
So here's one more Morgan Donner to make up for that:
Heraldic clothing is absolutely also on my to-do- and to-release list! Like Morgan says, it's more an artistic convention than a thing actual people actually did, but I really like the idea for a LOT of in-game things, and also?
Parti-colored clothing was a thing!
And although it wasn't a huge thing in the Middle Ages, so was livery-- usually in the form of badges, little bits one pinned onto one's clothes to show off what a valuable servant ou were to the person whose heraldry you had a scrap of, but honestly?
"It was an artistic shorthand in illustrations" and "there was something kind of like it for a servant" is way less justification than I need to make up heraldry.
There IS some kind of Large Early January post bonanza coming. Much content.
Will it land on Epiphany?
I sure hope so. But possibly not.
Reality started kicking my ass right around the middle of August, and my post bonanza will include a state-of-the-Hat
This is just a warning: There WILL be fresh content. It may not be on the sixth, but if fortune smiles it should be before the 10th.
In the meantime, please enjoy a video break!
So, today's videos are loosely on the theme of That Gives Me Ideas. I do sew (mostly doll stuff), so seeing real garments, whether just worn or a whole video on construction, really helps me to figure out how to treat the textures like fabric and get them on the Sims in a historically-adequate manner.
The Welsh Viking (Jimmy is a delight and, as is much to be desired in a viking-age historian and re-enactor, certified non-yikes-inducing) wears his re-enactment gear out in the winter weather, and I link to this partly because it's fun to see how it holds up, partly to go "Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy, of course your feet hurt, this is what pattens are for," but mostly because starting at about 3:27, there are clips of Jimmy getting dressed.
And those Vikish braes look a lot like pajama pants. I am sure useable meshes for something like that exist somewhere.
(Also the braes are so long because they don't go under hose, they go under baggy pants and leg wraps! Anyway just a couple of seconds in this video gave me ideas for Viking-specific underwear, which is great because as far as I know, the Sims 2 community doesn't have any.)
Here, Morgan Donner (who makes a lot of entertaining things, some very historical, some... well, when 'historically accurate Disney Princess' was a thing among costuming youtubers, Morgan did Ariel... but not in her pink dinner gown or blue touring costume or wedding gown or even her slinky little glitter number, oh no. Morgan made the sail) tackles the Lengberg Bra... as the upper half of a bathhouse dresss.
It did not turn out quite how I did mine (though both of us skipped the sprang lace across the top, but Morgan filled hers out with linen where I left mine open), but danged if I don't want to find some bottom-only skirts and mess around.
Morgan also always wears just the cutest darned Medieval-inspired jewelry. Someday!
English Heritage continues their Homes Through History series with Prince Henry Tudor, son of Henry VII. Prince Henry here rather condescendingly explains aspects of how his family celebrates Christmas.
His clothes are a little out of date-- too late, really. He's dressed as he would after he started putting on weight as an adult, trying to hide his expansion with layering, and not as he would have done as an athletic youth.
Eltham Palace, however, has a lot of really beautiful paneling and carving, and since I am... honestly not one of young Henry's biggest fans, that's much more what I focused on in this one.
Prior Attire is a reenactor and costumer who sells her work, and what excites me about this video is-- well, look at those first layers! That's my gartered chausses, my pull-on Cynnix shift, my wide-laced kirtles (well, the lacings meet. I should do kirtles like that, too), my Got Clout, something very close to FantasyRogue's poulaines (though hers have cutouts)... And then she starts putting on things I would make if I had the meshes.
I know the sound is... not great (I can hardly understand a word), but reasonably enough, she's not exactly micced. But she films in such great locations, and there are stills at the end, and the Middle Ages aren't her only period.
... But she does do a lot of the Middle Ages:
500 years of Medieval fashion all in one video, with some tantalizing glimpses of the husband, too. This one is packed with a lot of things I already kind of vaguely want to do-- that buttoned kirtle with the tippets, particularly. (I also like how you see her getting into everything on her own or mostly on her own.)
This one is just. The tapestry on the walls, the throne on the dais, and the color of the houppelande! I thought that was an inaccurate, impossible color, but I'm so happy to be wrong; Kingfisher and Teal are historically adequate! And showing how the collar works-- the collar closed up high all the way looks like amazing winterwear.
I would love to make houppelandes and Burgundian gowns, but as far as I know, only almost-workable meshes exist.
... Speaking of 'alas for meshes,' one more by Prior Attire...
So the neat thing is, this tunic is effectively made JUST like that houppelande, only front-opening and short. (A men's houppelande was made the same way as a women's houppelande, too, but I usually see them with the collars closed or standing, and the hem could vary more wildly.) This tunic is also something I'm always keeping an eye out for in men's tops-- even with a straight sleeve with no fancy padded shoulders, that flared minidress look is really hard to find.
... Maybe after Epiphany Or Whenever, I'll work on something about tunics...
... Max Miller of Tasting History does not make me want to make clothes.
Max Miller makes me want to make plates.
I don't make Sims food, but I really enjoy learning about Medieval food, and while usually I end up learning from, like, Ruth Goodman demonstrating that pottage-and-herbs actually got you a pretty varied diet as a peasant... Max works from cookbooks and written sources rather than archaeological ones, so he's making things fit for a king.
And you can tell by the sheer quantity of spices he uses.
... And as I post this, I notice: Aw no, all the Prior Attire videos aren't embeddable. (I'm leaving them, the links are clickable and if I use inline links they won't stand out as much.)
So here's one more Morgan Donner to make up for that:
Heraldic clothing is absolutely also on my to-do- and to-release list! Like Morgan says, it's more an artistic convention than a thing actual people actually did, but I really like the idea for a LOT of in-game things, and also?
Parti-colored clothing was a thing!
And although it wasn't a huge thing in the Middle Ages, so was livery-- usually in the form of badges, little bits one pinned onto one's clothes to show off what a valuable servant ou were to the person whose heraldry you had a scrap of, but honestly?
"It was an artistic shorthand in illustrations" and "there was something kind of like it for a servant" is way less justification than I need to make up heraldry.