Le Chausseur
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hat_plays_simsThere is never enough Medieval underwear... okay, for anyone, but especially for males... especially-especially for children and elders. It's not that nobody knows what they wore (even if most people assume they wore thin, stretchy joined tights, like pantyhose), but I think it's considered too easy, not challenging enough.
Well, I never met a challenge that was too easy!
Well, my husband's admired wherever he goes
And all the maids look well upon him
With his well-turned legs and his flashing eyes
(But he still hasn't got any courage in him!)
Okay, quick costuming lesson: For the overwhelming majority of the Medieval period (which starts between 400 and 600 CE and ends in the mid-1400s), men's hose were split hose-- which is to say, two different pieces. Hose is singular, hosen is plural... or, if you like French, chausse is singular, and chausses is plural. They were tied to underwear, called braises or breeks (a garment probably worn by women, as well, at least for one week out of four), which was plain linen and had several ties around the waistband, used to keep the hose from falling down.
Someone who makes chausses is a chausser or chausseur (because I like French, that's why)-- and it's a possible source of the name 'Chaucer,' like Chandler means candle-maker and Cooper means barrel-maker.
That right there, though, is something interesting to know-- in an era when even a noblewoman might make some parts of her own wardrobe, when the household clothing could be sheared or harvested, spun, woven, cut, and sewn at home, you didn't just get your hose from a tailor if you were going to buy them. You got them from a chausseur, because they were incredibly hard to make.
They were wool, brightly-colored, cut on the bias, and hand-sewn. If they were cut poorly, they would sag, or worse, split. If they weren't sewn exactly right, the wearer could be walking on seams all day and end up with sores on his feet. They had to fit snug at the calf and through the foot without bagging at the ankle or knee, and they had to do all this in an era before sewing patterns, spandex, lycra, elastic, or the idea that you could knit socks.
You had to pass an apprenticeship before you could become a chausseur.
Luckily, I can do it with Photoshop, so our Medieval Sims can have their legs properly covered.
A snug fit for all ages! True, it's a bit posh to put hose on a child so young as that-- he might outgrow them before he wears through the heels.
They bend and move without gapping or sagging (because they're made of pixelwool)!
Great for bedtime (or for swimming or as underwear), no matter what sort of fusty old toy you like to take to bed with you.
Not bad for messy work, either, although it'd probably be smarter of that lad to leave his shoes on.
Well-made hose should flatter the male leg-- it's considered one of a Medieval man's best features.
And they work no matter how sexy your feet are!
Okay, more talking for a minute.
About The Chausses
There are twenty colors in four ages (child through elder), male only, on Bloom's blockfoot meshes-- which are included. Nothing looks sillier than hose with toes, after all. I do not have a standard version for those without sexy feet defaults, because I've done eighty of these fool things.
The colors are based on actual Medieval dyes; Everything except the Emerald Green was eyedroppered from pictures of traditionally dyed wool and linen thread on Haandkraft or Medieval Silkwork. The braises were nicked whole cloth from All About Style's Historical Undies section, which is well worth a visit. If you want to learn more about the construction of chausses in reality, I learned a lot of fun stuff from this page.
All chausses are categorized for sleepwear, underwear, and swimwear. Everything's been compressorized.
Boilerplate Crap
My policy's in the sidebar and it stands as usual-- do what you will, just know what you're in for if you're asking to be paid for it (unlike TSR, I won't hack your site, I'll just call a lawyer), credit me, Bloom, and All About Style. Feel free to make your own recolors, too, or slap some mud splatter or worn spots on these.
Downloads
But first, more pictures! There are twenty colors, and I got sick of trying to get pics of all of them in-game.
Navy, Walnut, Black, and Charcoal have all been run through SimPE to remove pixelation. None of the other colors really seemed to need it.
Townie-Friendly
That's right, I went through and made a set of these townified, which means they'll randomly pop up when your Sims age up, in CAS, in body shop, and on townies.
DOWNLOAD FULL SET on Mediafire | DOWNLOAD FULL SET on Sims File Share
21.66MB, don't say I didn't warn you.
DOWNLOAD ADULT on Mediafire | DOWNLOAD ADULT on Sims File Share
DOWNLOAD ELDER on Mediafire | DOWNLOAD ELDER on Sims File Share
DOWNLOAD TEEN on Mediafire | DOWNLOAD TEEN on Sims File Share
DOWNLOAD CHILD on Mediafire | DOWNLOAD CHILD on Sims File Share
Original Recipe
So you've got a Medieval neighborhood, not a Medieval game? No worries, I kept a copy of the original set, too. You cannot use both at once. Don't try it. The townie-friendly versions are just edited versions of these. On the other hand, if you want to mix and match and only have the townies able to use the dull colors, knock yourself out!
DOWNLOAD FULL SET on Mediafire | DOWNLOAD FULL SET on Sims File Share
Another 21.66MB file.
DOWNLOAD ADULT on Mediafire | DOWNLOAD ADULT on Sims File Share
DOWNLOAD ELDER on Mediafire | DOWNLOAD ELDER on Sims File Share
DOWNLOAD TEEN on Mediafire | DOWNLOAD TEEN on Sims File Share
DOWNLOAD CHILD on Mediafire | DOWNLOAD CHILD on Sims File Share
PSD Files
I quit at twenty solid colors, but particolored hose-- each leg a different color-- and vertically striped hose (and even particoloring THAT, one solid leg, one striped) were very popular. I just got tired of Photoshop. If you're not tired of Photoshop yet and want to muck around, you'll get much better results starting from my PSD files.
DOWNLOAD PSDs on Mediafire | DOWNLOAD PSD on Sims File Share
Wanna help me feed my cats?
In case you feel like dropping me a buck or two, should you have a buck or two to spare. Donors get two things at the moment: a) a link to the Super Secret Cat Gallery, full of pictures of the cats you'll be feeding, updated sporadically when the cats do something photogenic and I'm fast enough on the trigger to catch it, and b) a link to the list of content I have done-but-not-screencapped, nearly done, partly done, or in the planning stages, and the option to suggest what ought to be in the next batch of things I focus on.
Well, I never met a challenge that was too easy!
Well, my husband's admired wherever he goes
And all the maids look well upon him
With his well-turned legs and his flashing eyes
(But he still hasn't got any courage in him!)
Okay, quick costuming lesson: For the overwhelming majority of the Medieval period (which starts between 400 and 600 CE and ends in the mid-1400s), men's hose were split hose-- which is to say, two different pieces. Hose is singular, hosen is plural... or, if you like French, chausse is singular, and chausses is plural. They were tied to underwear, called braises or breeks (a garment probably worn by women, as well, at least for one week out of four), which was plain linen and had several ties around the waistband, used to keep the hose from falling down.
Someone who makes chausses is a chausser or chausseur (because I like French, that's why)-- and it's a possible source of the name 'Chaucer,' like Chandler means candle-maker and Cooper means barrel-maker.
That right there, though, is something interesting to know-- in an era when even a noblewoman might make some parts of her own wardrobe, when the household clothing could be sheared or harvested, spun, woven, cut, and sewn at home, you didn't just get your hose from a tailor if you were going to buy them. You got them from a chausseur, because they were incredibly hard to make.
They were wool, brightly-colored, cut on the bias, and hand-sewn. If they were cut poorly, they would sag, or worse, split. If they weren't sewn exactly right, the wearer could be walking on seams all day and end up with sores on his feet. They had to fit snug at the calf and through the foot without bagging at the ankle or knee, and they had to do all this in an era before sewing patterns, spandex, lycra, elastic, or the idea that you could knit socks.
You had to pass an apprenticeship before you could become a chausseur.
Luckily, I can do it with Photoshop, so our Medieval Sims can have their legs properly covered.
A snug fit for all ages! True, it's a bit posh to put hose on a child so young as that-- he might outgrow them before he wears through the heels.
They bend and move without gapping or sagging (because they're made of pixelwool)!
Great for bedtime (or for swimming or as underwear), no matter what sort of fusty old toy you like to take to bed with you.
Not bad for messy work, either, although it'd probably be smarter of that lad to leave his shoes on.
Well-made hose should flatter the male leg-- it's considered one of a Medieval man's best features.
And they work no matter how sexy your feet are!
Okay, more talking for a minute.
About The Chausses
There are twenty colors in four ages (child through elder), male only, on Bloom's blockfoot meshes-- which are included. Nothing looks sillier than hose with toes, after all. I do not have a standard version for those without sexy feet defaults, because I've done eighty of these fool things.
The colors are based on actual Medieval dyes; Everything except the Emerald Green was eyedroppered from pictures of traditionally dyed wool and linen thread on Haandkraft or Medieval Silkwork. The braises were nicked whole cloth from All About Style's Historical Undies section, which is well worth a visit. If you want to learn more about the construction of chausses in reality, I learned a lot of fun stuff from this page.
All chausses are categorized for sleepwear, underwear, and swimwear. Everything's been compressorized.
Boilerplate Crap
My policy's in the sidebar and it stands as usual-- do what you will, just know what you're in for if you're asking to be paid for it (unlike TSR, I won't hack your site, I'll just call a lawyer), credit me, Bloom, and All About Style. Feel free to make your own recolors, too, or slap some mud splatter or worn spots on these.
Downloads
But first, more pictures! There are twenty colors, and I got sick of trying to get pics of all of them in-game.
Navy, Walnut, Black, and Charcoal have all been run through SimPE to remove pixelation. None of the other colors really seemed to need it.
Townie-Friendly
That's right, I went through and made a set of these townified, which means they'll randomly pop up when your Sims age up, in CAS, in body shop, and on townies.
21.66MB, don't say I didn't warn you.
DOWNLOAD ADULT on Mediafire | DOWNLOAD ADULT on Sims File Share
DOWNLOAD ELDER on Mediafire | DOWNLOAD ELDER on Sims File Share
DOWNLOAD TEEN on Mediafire | DOWNLOAD TEEN on Sims File Share
DOWNLOAD CHILD on Mediafire | DOWNLOAD CHILD on Sims File Share
Original Recipe
So you've got a Medieval neighborhood, not a Medieval game? No worries, I kept a copy of the original set, too. You cannot use both at once. Don't try it. The townie-friendly versions are just edited versions of these. On the other hand, if you want to mix and match and only have the townies able to use the dull colors, knock yourself out!
Another 21.66MB file.
DOWNLOAD ADULT on Mediafire | DOWNLOAD ADULT on Sims File Share
DOWNLOAD ELDER on Mediafire | DOWNLOAD ELDER on Sims File Share
DOWNLOAD TEEN on Mediafire | DOWNLOAD TEEN on Sims File Share
DOWNLOAD CHILD on Mediafire | DOWNLOAD CHILD on Sims File Share
PSD Files
I quit at twenty solid colors, but particolored hose-- each leg a different color-- and vertically striped hose (and even particoloring THAT, one solid leg, one striped) were very popular. I just got tired of Photoshop. If you're not tired of Photoshop yet and want to muck around, you'll get much better results starting from my PSD files.
Wanna help me feed my cats?
In case you feel like dropping me a buck or two, should you have a buck or two to spare. Donors get two things at the moment: a) a link to the Super Secret Cat Gallery, full of pictures of the cats you'll be feeding, updated sporadically when the cats do something photogenic and I'm fast enough on the trigger to catch it, and b) a link to the list of content I have done-but-not-screencapped, nearly done, partly done, or in the planning stages, and the option to suggest what ought to be in the next batch of things I focus on.
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Date: 2010-04-24 08:34 pm (UTC)Grabbing the townified versions for that medieval hood I never quite start.
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Date: 2010-04-24 09:38 pm (UTC)Thank you! I hope you enjoy them.
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Date: 2010-04-24 11:29 pm (UTC)Seriously Hat, these are amazing! My medieval males now have no excuse for going without proper undergarments. And there's even a variety of them! Woohoo!
Also, the tidbit about Chaucer -- wonderful. I'm writing a paper on the Book of Duchess, and now I can giggle inanely whenever I type his name.
Ah, maturity. You'd think I'd have some by now. ;)
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Date: 2010-04-24 11:40 pm (UTC)Inane giggles are the best kind. *Grins*
I'm so glad you like them! They were stupidly easy to do, except for the part where Body Shop decided to be a little bitch. I'd probably have done more if I weren't so sick of having to start new projects cos it wouldn't let me reload OLD saved projects.
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Date: 2010-04-25 01:49 am (UTC)What are the chances that two incredibly geeky people in a Chaucer class would be downloading Sims 2 medieval men's underwear from Hat's awesome blog? Apparently, pretty high.
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Date: 2010-04-25 03:30 pm (UTC)Want your Sims to be chausseurs? Make a whole mess of these with a Free Time sewing machine and sell them in an OFB shop.
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Date: 2010-04-28 08:33 am (UTC)Issie
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Date: 2010-04-28 06:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-29 03:18 pm (UTC)And all those different colors are great for the different social levels, becaust I don't think my nobles would appreciate having to wear undied or brownish braises. _Or_ hearing of their peasants frittering away money on under garments in rich colors!
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Date: 2010-06-29 03:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-30 12:51 am (UTC)These were actually really easy to make, it's just that BodyShop started misbehaving and I did twenty dang colors that got me tired of them-- it's amazing that nobody's taken on such a simple project before! I'll probably be using some of the textures again when I finally get around to making some tunic recolors, so underwear and outerwear can match.
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Date: 2010-07-27 11:38 pm (UTC)And I'm all glee every time I see one of my medieval males in one of these.
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Date: 2010-07-28 11:18 am (UTC)I'm glad you're enjoying them!
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Date: 2010-08-21 10:16 pm (UTC)(Late comment is very, very late, but I've been playing my medieval game again and wanted to mention how much I adore these.)
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Date: 2010-08-22 03:45 am (UTC)