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hat_plays_simsCOMBO BREAKER-- a brief break from Buy Mode Blitz for clothing, because I could get shots of the clothing but I noticed some things that I did not install properly so I couldn't get screenshots of them without restarting my game. Because that's how it goes sometimes.
And these have been sitting in my Projects Folder since 2016, not even started, which is terribly unfair because they were way easier than I expected.
So, my first stop for visual inspiration is always Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, especially the calendar section (showing not only the Duke de Berry and his companions, but commoners as well). January in particular is a gorgeous image for what I'm bringing you today, because it is full of richly-dressed noble men at a New Year's party. They got chains of state, they got chaperons and bag hats, they got some funky haircuts, they got kidney bags and bollock daggers, they got two servants in livery, they got dagged hoods and cowls, they got fur lining, they got damask and cloth-of-gold and embroidery, they got a greyhound in a collar, they got plaited rush mats on the floor, they got a wicker fire screen, they got a danged tourney happening in the background, and except on the two liveried servants?
Every visible foot is in soled hosen.
Two of them are in particolored hose-- I should say chausses and stick with my French-first rules, but the mesh says hosen and French or German, they mean the same garment-- and one of them even has embroidery circling his well-turned calf and ankle.
Wait lemme define terms.
Hosen or chausses are sewn tights, basically; Usually wool, sometimes silk, sometimes linen-lined, one source I have says they must have been a specialty-made garment (instead of visiting a tailor you would visit a chausseur or chaucer and that's how we get a certain byname), but then I watched Nicole Rudolph whip up a pair for Abby Cox in less time than it took Abbey to overthink drafting a pattern, so now I suspect rich people had their sexy fitted chausses professionally made by a hosier, while poorer people and probably middling people who were less concerned with how sexy their calves looked whomped them up at home.
Braises are underpants and I am using FantasyRogue's textures, as I always do.
'Particolored' means... multi-colored, basically, or partly-colored. Harley Quinn's original costume, quartered red and black? That's particolored. Particolored hose were pretty popular in the Middle Ages, because a) the Middle Ages loved a sexy manly leg and b) if you could afford two pairs of hose, it was a cheap way to follow a trend-- just wear one leg from one pair and one leg from the other pair.
(Okay, in the earlier Middle Ages, it was easy; later in the period, when joined hose start being the trend, you have to have them made that way-- so you're much more married to your color choices. But in the age of tied or pointed hose, it was pretty popular among anyone who could afford two or more pairs of hose, and would be totally appropriate with any other underwear or bottom-only hose I've made. I just haven't done it, because... stars? Not in position?)
Soled hosen are simply hose/hosen/chausses (possibly also trews? I know 'trews' is the root for 'trousers' so ???) that have leather soles stitched onto the bottom of the foot, so they can be worn without shoes.
Why would you do such a thing?
Long sexy legs!
So again the long, lean, well-turned limb was considered beautiful in the Middle Ages (for both sexes, actually), and anything that made your legs look longer and leaner, if you were a man, was going to be a fashion trend. First trend, and a lasting one, is a long pointed toe, originally a feature of knights' armor-- to fight effectively from horseback, a warrior needs a stirrup, and the human foot needs some help staying IN the stirrup. In some cultures this was the stacked heel, while in others it was an elongated toe box.
European knights noted how sexy the metal legs of their armor looked with those long pointed toes, and the basic turnshoe suddenly stretched out into the long poulaine. (And kept stretching, sometimes to the point where the points had to be wired and turned up, or tied to a garter around the knee, so the sexy sexy wearer did not trip and die, of embarrassment or because the staircase didn't have a railing to grab.) Sometimes these even had fancy cutwork, and that is on my list of things to try eventually.
But wearing shoes actually breaks up the line of the leg. Surely going without shoes in your snug, colorful hose would make your leg look even longer?
And it does, but you also skid around on clean floors and the less said about dirty floors or the outdoors, the better. So stitch a little leather sole onto your hose-- make your hose with those long poulaine-style toes, too-- and you have the Ultimate Sexy Rich Dandy garment:
It fits the well-turned leg very closely...
It has that long toe that makes the leg look longer...
It isn't broken up by a shoe or boot so it looks even longer...
AND
Any repairs (say, to a worn-out heel) are going to be SUPER visible so it's not practical for people (peasants) who can't afford to wear things a few times and then chuck 'em.
They were terribly popular, at least as something to wear to a rich-person party.
(House Greydragon says they were only worn by dandies, and only once short tunics and joined hose become popular. However, the Tres Riches Heures shows them every time the noblemen show up (though I will admit, wearing soled hosen on your August hawking trip or your April stroll about the gardens or your May ride with all your friends and musicians is probably more artistic license than the January New Year's party), and not only is every pair of hose we see the top of pointed or gartered rather than joined, the nobelmens' tunics are all very long, knee length or longer (October has a few in-the-distance examples of tunics hemmed just above the knee, right next to floor-length robes), even if they're sometimes split for freedom of movement, horseback riding, or showing off fur lining. When in doubt, I'm going to assume the primary source is correct, with a grain of salt because the Limbourg brothers were being paid by the Duke du Berry and thus would have wanted/been required to flatter him.)
Cynnix made the AM mesh, and Gwenke converted it to TM and CM-- and I am delighted to report that CM is mapped such that I could texture-reference all three ages! So that's delightful, even if I'm just now getting around to recoloring the dang things.
They use a tweaked version of my regular chausses/hosen textures (had to stretch the fabric texture out so it fully covered the toes) that's slightly brighter than the original, because if the Rich People want Flash Powder & Adonis hose, they want the blue in that blue-black to shine, right? They also use FantasyRogue's braises in my usual eight linens, and a strip of her poulaine leather for the soles. (I considered making the leather consistently leather-colored, but it looked better dyed the same as the wool. It's not like you can't dye leather fun colors, it's just expensive... but hey! These are a garment for people who like expensive things!)
I have made some parti-colored hoods (coming soon!), and like the hoods, the "main" color is on the Sim's RIGHT, while the complementary color is on the LEFT. We are sorted by the main color. (Clearly if/when I get around to doing particolored tunics, main color must go on the left.)
You get all 82 actions in my usual palette (20 Pooklet Project Mayhem Naturals, 20 Aelia Autumn, and 42 CuriousB Any Color You Like), flagged for Casual and Formal. These are not practical for Outerwear, and at least TM does not have a pregmorph. (I haven't checked AM.) Teen and Child files are texture-referenced to Adult files. If you want to age, gender, or bodyshape-convert, the resource file has the texture-reference copypasta; if you want to run other color actions it also has textures in Time Bomb and Volatile as well as select guides. (To select the LEFT leg, select the center (right leg) and then Select Inverse. Otherwise you're trying to put the right leg down with no anchor points.)
I, personally, have not found any top-only tunics (or indeed, top-only tunic meshes) fancy enough to go with these hose, which is part of why I didn't recolor them for so long... and part of why this post is long on words but short on pics. Like, we're looking for something as fancy as that New Year's party in the Tres Riches Heures, or something like this or that or this bad boy right here. Or if you're willing to scroll, look for the pleated tunic, giornea, Burgundian outfit, even the 'lawyer' outfit here, or on the next page (if they stay there,) the Piero della Francesca gown, the German-style buttoned gown, or the open-sleeves pleated gown. (Earlier centuries on that site skew either more peasanty or away from 'practical for separates,' but the cotehardies would work!)
And I've been looking! If you've got recs, let me know; my Faraday tunics work okay but only okay.
I have also done these in "heraldic" colors, because eventually there will be heraldic stuff; the actual color name combinations in the tooltips, but starting at the top left you have Sable et Or, Purpure et Argent, Gules et Or, Azure et Argent, Bleu Celeste et Sable, Or et Vert, Argent et Gules, and Vert et Argent.
Pooklet Project Mayhem Naturals: SWATCH | DOWNLOAD YAEM (leads) | DOWNLOAD TM | DOWNLOAD CM
Aelia Autumn: SWATCH | DOWNLOAD YAEM (leads) | DOWNLOAD TM | DOWNLOAD CM
CuriousB Any Color You Like: SWATCH | DOWNLOAD YAEM (leads) | DOWNLOAD TM | DOWNLOAD CM
Heraldic Pairings (any of the above): SWATCH | DOWNLOAD ALL
DOWNLOAD RESOURCES
If I have made a mistake pasting links (and it's possible I have), let me know! But also check out the folder here so you're not stuck waiting for me to fix it to get what you need.
Behold the Tip Jar!
In case you feel like dropping me a buck or two, should you have a buck or two to spare. I don't do pay content and I can't seem to get requests done in a timely fashion, so donors get a link to the Super Secret Cat Gallery (you help feed my cats, you get to see lots and lots of pictures of my cats) and my to-do list Google doc, in case there's anything on there that makes a donor go 'oooh, when are you working on that one?'
And these have been sitting in my Projects Folder since 2016, not even started, which is terribly unfair because they were way easier than I expected.
So, my first stop for visual inspiration is always Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, especially the calendar section (showing not only the Duke de Berry and his companions, but commoners as well). January in particular is a gorgeous image for what I'm bringing you today, because it is full of richly-dressed noble men at a New Year's party. They got chains of state, they got chaperons and bag hats, they got some funky haircuts, they got kidney bags and bollock daggers, they got two servants in livery, they got dagged hoods and cowls, they got fur lining, they got damask and cloth-of-gold and embroidery, they got a greyhound in a collar, they got plaited rush mats on the floor, they got a wicker fire screen, they got a danged tourney happening in the background, and except on the two liveried servants?
Every visible foot is in soled hosen.
Two of them are in particolored hose-- I should say chausses and stick with my French-first rules, but the mesh says hosen and French or German, they mean the same garment-- and one of them even has embroidery circling his well-turned calf and ankle.
Wait lemme define terms.
Hosen or chausses are sewn tights, basically; Usually wool, sometimes silk, sometimes linen-lined, one source I have says they must have been a specialty-made garment (instead of visiting a tailor you would visit a chausseur or chaucer and that's how we get a certain byname), but then I watched Nicole Rudolph whip up a pair for Abby Cox in less time than it took Abbey to overthink drafting a pattern, so now I suspect rich people had their sexy fitted chausses professionally made by a hosier, while poorer people and probably middling people who were less concerned with how sexy their calves looked whomped them up at home.
Braises are underpants and I am using FantasyRogue's textures, as I always do.
'Particolored' means... multi-colored, basically, or partly-colored. Harley Quinn's original costume, quartered red and black? That's particolored. Particolored hose were pretty popular in the Middle Ages, because a) the Middle Ages loved a sexy manly leg and b) if you could afford two pairs of hose, it was a cheap way to follow a trend-- just wear one leg from one pair and one leg from the other pair.
(Okay, in the earlier Middle Ages, it was easy; later in the period, when joined hose start being the trend, you have to have them made that way-- so you're much more married to your color choices. But in the age of tied or pointed hose, it was pretty popular among anyone who could afford two or more pairs of hose, and would be totally appropriate with any other underwear or bottom-only hose I've made. I just haven't done it, because... stars? Not in position?)
Soled hosen are simply hose/hosen/chausses (possibly also trews? I know 'trews' is the root for 'trousers' so ???) that have leather soles stitched onto the bottom of the foot, so they can be worn without shoes.
Why would you do such a thing?
Long sexy legs!
So again the long, lean, well-turned limb was considered beautiful in the Middle Ages (for both sexes, actually), and anything that made your legs look longer and leaner, if you were a man, was going to be a fashion trend. First trend, and a lasting one, is a long pointed toe, originally a feature of knights' armor-- to fight effectively from horseback, a warrior needs a stirrup, and the human foot needs some help staying IN the stirrup. In some cultures this was the stacked heel, while in others it was an elongated toe box.
European knights noted how sexy the metal legs of their armor looked with those long pointed toes, and the basic turnshoe suddenly stretched out into the long poulaine. (And kept stretching, sometimes to the point where the points had to be wired and turned up, or tied to a garter around the knee, so the sexy sexy wearer did not trip and die, of embarrassment or because the staircase didn't have a railing to grab.) Sometimes these even had fancy cutwork, and that is on my list of things to try eventually.
But wearing shoes actually breaks up the line of the leg. Surely going without shoes in your snug, colorful hose would make your leg look even longer?
And it does, but you also skid around on clean floors and the less said about dirty floors or the outdoors, the better. So stitch a little leather sole onto your hose-- make your hose with those long poulaine-style toes, too-- and you have the Ultimate Sexy Rich Dandy garment:
It fits the well-turned leg very closely...
It has that long toe that makes the leg look longer...
It isn't broken up by a shoe or boot so it looks even longer...
AND
Any repairs (say, to a worn-out heel) are going to be SUPER visible so it's not practical for people (peasants) who can't afford to wear things a few times and then chuck 'em.
They were terribly popular, at least as something to wear to a rich-person party.
(House Greydragon says they were only worn by dandies, and only once short tunics and joined hose become popular. However, the Tres Riches Heures shows them every time the noblemen show up (though I will admit, wearing soled hosen on your August hawking trip or your April stroll about the gardens or your May ride with all your friends and musicians is probably more artistic license than the January New Year's party), and not only is every pair of hose we see the top of pointed or gartered rather than joined, the nobelmens' tunics are all very long, knee length or longer (October has a few in-the-distance examples of tunics hemmed just above the knee, right next to floor-length robes), even if they're sometimes split for freedom of movement, horseback riding, or showing off fur lining. When in doubt, I'm going to assume the primary source is correct, with a grain of salt because the Limbourg brothers were being paid by the Duke du Berry and thus would have wanted/been required to flatter him.)
Cynnix made the AM mesh, and Gwenke converted it to TM and CM-- and I am delighted to report that CM is mapped such that I could texture-reference all three ages! So that's delightful, even if I'm just now getting around to recoloring the dang things.
They use a tweaked version of my regular chausses/hosen textures (had to stretch the fabric texture out so it fully covered the toes) that's slightly brighter than the original, because if the Rich People want Flash Powder & Adonis hose, they want the blue in that blue-black to shine, right? They also use FantasyRogue's braises in my usual eight linens, and a strip of her poulaine leather for the soles. (I considered making the leather consistently leather-colored, but it looked better dyed the same as the wool. It's not like you can't dye leather fun colors, it's just expensive... but hey! These are a garment for people who like expensive things!)
I have made some parti-colored hoods (coming soon!), and like the hoods, the "main" color is on the Sim's RIGHT, while the complementary color is on the LEFT. We are sorted by the main color. (Clearly if/when I get around to doing particolored tunics, main color must go on the left.)
You get all 82 actions in my usual palette (20 Pooklet Project Mayhem Naturals, 20 Aelia Autumn, and 42 CuriousB Any Color You Like), flagged for Casual and Formal. These are not practical for Outerwear, and at least TM does not have a pregmorph. (I haven't checked AM.) Teen and Child files are texture-referenced to Adult files. If you want to age, gender, or bodyshape-convert, the resource file has the texture-reference copypasta; if you want to run other color actions it also has textures in Time Bomb and Volatile as well as select guides. (To select the LEFT leg, select the center (right leg) and then Select Inverse. Otherwise you're trying to put the right leg down with no anchor points.)
I, personally, have not found any top-only tunics (or indeed, top-only tunic meshes) fancy enough to go with these hose, which is part of why I didn't recolor them for so long... and part of why this post is long on words but short on pics. Like, we're looking for something as fancy as that New Year's party in the Tres Riches Heures, or something like this or that or this bad boy right here. Or if you're willing to scroll, look for the pleated tunic, giornea, Burgundian outfit, even the 'lawyer' outfit here, or on the next page (if they stay there,) the Piero della Francesca gown, the German-style buttoned gown, or the open-sleeves pleated gown. (Earlier centuries on that site skew either more peasanty or away from 'practical for separates,' but the cotehardies would work!)
And I've been looking! If you've got recs, let me know; my Faraday tunics work okay but only okay.
I have also done these in "heraldic" colors, because eventually there will be heraldic stuff; the actual color name combinations in the tooltips, but starting at the top left you have Sable et Or, Purpure et Argent, Gules et Or, Azure et Argent, Bleu Celeste et Sable, Or et Vert, Argent et Gules, and Vert et Argent.
Aelia Autumn: SWATCH | DOWNLOAD YAEM (leads) | DOWNLOAD TM | DOWNLOAD CM
CuriousB Any Color You Like: SWATCH | DOWNLOAD YAEM (leads) | DOWNLOAD TM | DOWNLOAD CM
Heraldic Pairings (any of the above): SWATCH | DOWNLOAD ALL
DOWNLOAD RESOURCES
If I have made a mistake pasting links (and it's possible I have), let me know! But also check out the folder here so you're not stuck waiting for me to fix it to get what you need.
Behold the Tip Jar!
In case you feel like dropping me a buck or two, should you have a buck or two to spare. I don't do pay content and I can't seem to get requests done in a timely fashion, so donors get a link to the Super Secret Cat Gallery (you help feed my cats, you get to see lots and lots of pictures of my cats) and my to-do list Google doc, in case there's anything on there that makes a donor go 'oooh, when are you working on that one?'
