Ohhhh my god that looks amazing. Pardon me while I do a happy little dance because-- amazing!
I wish I could help you on the hair-- I recently rediscovered that my hair-texturing skills reach exactly as far as pushing the buttons on Pooklet's color actions. I have hoods plotted, and hennins, but actual hair escapes me. I don't think the braids really need to wrap all the way around the cauls-- it looks fine, like the braid comes out one end and tucks in the other, which is what happened. I can't wait to see your ideas, for all it looks pretty spifftacular to me!
Historical costuming is a tricky, sly mistress. There's a lot of unreliable information out there, especially if you're looking to reproduce a look the way it would have looked back in the day-- whether that's for Sims or dolls or peopleclothes or anything, basically. Surviving garments are the best bet, then period photography, period artwork, and after that? Re-enactors. The Society for Creative Anachronism and Civil War re-enactors are really, really serious about their clothes, from the skin out. I've learned enough about Medieval underwear in the last week or so that one of the project sets on my "Simple projects that will not vex me too much" list is 'chausses and braises, sundry colors.' Good luck with your Egyptians-- I know of a (sadly morphless) mesh that might be good for a few things. Everything I've ever seen in period artwork has been white linen, but I know most people were depicted in their best clothes, so.
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I wish I could help you on the hair-- I recently rediscovered that my hair-texturing skills reach exactly as far as pushing the buttons on Pooklet's color actions. I have hoods plotted, and hennins, but actual hair escapes me. I don't think the braids really need to wrap all the way around the cauls-- it looks fine, like the braid comes out one end and tucks in the other, which is what happened. I can't wait to see your ideas, for all it looks pretty spifftacular to me!
Historical costuming is a tricky, sly mistress. There's a lot of unreliable information out there, especially if you're looking to reproduce a look the way it would have looked back in the day-- whether that's for Sims or dolls or peopleclothes or anything, basically. Surviving garments are the best bet, then period photography, period artwork, and after that? Re-enactors. The Society for Creative Anachronism and Civil War re-enactors are really, really serious about their clothes, from the skin out. I've learned enough about Medieval underwear in the last week or so that one of the project sets on my "Simple projects that will not vex me too much" list is 'chausses and braises, sundry colors.' Good luck with your Egyptians-- I know of a (sadly morphless) mesh that might be good for a few things. Everything I've ever seen in period artwork has been white linen, but I know most people were depicted in their best clothes, so.