Buy Mode Blitz: Michelle's Plain Vanity Mirror

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Michelle's Plain Vanity Mirror is a tiny delight, sitting on the floor, the table, the counter, the shelf, and still being usable! It comes with 20 Pooklet Project Mayhem Natural recolors using the SDA/Piggi Wood 03 blend I used on the Sims Design Avenue Castle Kitchen. (The wood is small here, it needs the brightness.) Wanna see how small it is?



Next to the Measure of a Sim sculpture!

I may have repriced this? I forget. But I love this mirror not only because it's small and usable from various surfaces, but because it's SMALL and therefore looks more affordable for my humble peasants and such. Sure, this is still a big enough mirror to be fragile and expensive-- Medieval mirrors were usually made of polished metal and a really big one was about eight inches across-- but compared to the big cheval mirrors, it's positively affordable.

So, yeah, regarding the historical accuracy of mirrors? For a long time they were mostly polished metal (silver and lead were popular because they showed truer colors, but any metal that could be polished to a high shine was used) because early glassmakers couldn't get the clarity right, and when they DID get the clarity and went to apply molten metal to the back of the glass, thermal shock would shatter the whole thing. In the early Renaissance, Venetian glassworkers started figuring out a low-temperature method for getting lead backing onto glass so the glass stayed in one piece, and the more modern method for spraying a mirror with a thin layer of silver or aluminum was invented in 1835.



So really, this modest little mirror is only modest in an age when making a bigger mirror and transporting it from the site of manufacture to the site of sale to the consumer is fast, safe, and easy. Still, a simple little mirror like this is a nice alternative to Pescado's clothing tool, for basic appearance-changing functions. Or practicing charisma. Sometimes historical accuracy has to take a backseat to in-game functionality.

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Yeah, I'm reading these backwards, but yay, a humble mirror, too! Just a history note to add, early Renaissance mirrors were sometime convex, giving a fish-eye look to things. --rugrat0ne