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Can we get more time period clothing?
Zeldaboy180
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A lot of use the Sims for story telling, myself included. Quite a bit of my stories are from different time periods, the majority being medieval. Yet there aren't really any clothes or hairs outside of CC for other time periods like Crowns, Dresses, Armor (Chain Mail, Plate, Leather etc) Or any futuristic stuff either.
I'd like to see more clothes/hairs for those so we us story tellers can tell more unique stories, just as City living finally let me create unique ethnicities.
Just want to say now though, I wouldn't want these to be randomly generated on townies. I think a Medieval stuff pack would be super cool though, or even a game pack with a world like Dragon Valley.
I'd like to see more clothes/hairs for those so we us story tellers can tell more unique stories, just as City living finally let me create unique ethnicities.
Just want to say now though, I wouldn't want these to be randomly generated on townies. I think a Medieval stuff pack would be super cool though, or even a game pack with a world like Dragon Valley.
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Trying to do those too, with pilgrims or farm girls and boys etc.
I'd like some really simple, but realistic stuff.
Underwear/sleepwear
Everyday medieval clothes
A simple sort of tunic for men
Basic sorts of button up type things
And slightly fancier versions
Realistic renaissance rustics
The sort of stuff that can look like peasant clothing, but in fancier patterns it becomes suited to the fancy folk.
- A pack with Witches could include gothic/medieval gowns, cloaks etc. Werewolves also fit with medieval clothing styles. (Stained, dirty, torn linen clothes and fancy old-fashioned cloaks etc.)
- A Pirate pack (as in my signature) would include clothing of the 1600's.
- A pack that allows us to play in Medieval times (probably through a time machine) would obviously have medieval clothes lol.
- A Farming pack wouldn't exactly have medieval clothes, but the dirty and stained clothes would serve quite well for "peasants" haha.
More of this style would be awesome, so I'm hoping to see it in packs that have suitable themes.
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For Werewolves GP I would love a 1750 - 1800s Aristocracy fashion
I'm thinking Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella.
For Sorcerers I would Love, and this is what I mean by romanticizing it. I want the 1500s, and Celtic, Gaelic fashions.
I love Reign the TV show, and Once Upon a Time I would love their fashion designs.
and I'm talking all of it not just the high end ball gowns, and formal wear, even wear for commoners, before I get attacked
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But I'd be ok with a bit of a middle ground, stuff that's somewhere between purely fantastical romanticised poo, and the real gritty stuff.
*Glares at that C word*
The clothing for the women in Reign is modern couture. There's nothing relating to the era about it... unless you mean the frocks have long skirts. I've never seen once upon a time, but I assume it's similar.
Speaking of attacks, I don't even like the clothes in vikings, nor the last kingdom, either.
I'm a history snob, and proud of it, cos those who fail to learn their history, are doomed to repeat it inaccurately.
The Hollow Crown, however, is very well costumed, as was Shakespeare in Love, and the 2013 version of Romeo and Juliet, and Anonymous, Wolf Hall (though the codpieces are severely lacking). There are plenty of movies that have spectacular costumes, that are also true to history.
There's also Kingdom of Heaven (without Eva Greens Character, the rest is pretty good), and The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (and like Gilles de Rais, I am in love with those siege engines. The film also has a lot of good peasant clothes, and some fantastic fashions of the french court in that era).
And then there are the comedy shows, that wipe the floor with the try-to-be-serious-but-have-terrible-costumes-shows.
I'm serious, just look at Upstart Crow, Blackadder, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Plebs, and from what I've seen from the trailer, The Little Hours. It's really odd that the shows that don't take themselves so seriously, somehow manage to have awesome yet accurate costumes.
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I guess that's what I like about Reign Fashion, They dress inaccurately. If they dressed the way in reign they probably would have been hanged, or stoned.
Once upon a time, is similar, but more fantasy, a little more edgy
Yeah I'm not really going for bland, Covered from head to toe.
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The thing is my "History" is sort of fiction.
My characters never really have existed anywhere outside my imagination. plus there is Supernatural, fantasy, and magic involved
However they just fit that time period, their story begins, in 1820 Paris, France. An arranged marriage between a rich (Greek/Italian) woman Still in the process of Creating her, Diane Fengári and Gideon Barbosa French/Portuguese well decorated Admiral of France.
the night of their wedding, poetically it was a Full moon. Diane the Young Alpha Werewolf, Killed her Husband, and his family, took their combined fortune. Conveniently found her True Love, also a werewolf relentlessly trying to get Drunk (drinking beer with a hint of wolfsbane) at a Tavern at the Docks, Adam Jordan, a Lord of his own right, sobered up, They also Stole a few Ships, and they and their followers fled to New England.
Where they built a city of their own.
Built a mansion
Unfortunately shortly after settling and establishing their city, the Civil War broke out, but it didn't really effect the city of Briarwood.
to keep spirits up they through parties had the money for protection... Adam was a Smart man, a Visionary, and Diane was cunning, together they really set the foundation of what there City has become.
That was until December of 1899, The Jordan House Raid. Lead by a woman named Alexandra, the Cover up Story was it Rival Companies dating back to the Civil War, It was Alexandra's Father, who did help protect the city when it went under siege for half a year. But once He saw who/what Adam really was(a werewolf), he abandoned the mission, (Hoping it would kill Adam) that backfired, Adam Succeeded in the mission, took the credit, Alex's father, was captured the occupants and killed. So Alexandra did her research, found out, successfully, wiped out the Jordan Family and took control of the City as the new wealthiest family, and the Clan of Magic Hunters was born with Her family.
So I'm more concerned with my own city's/sim's history, and how I imagine what it looked like, what they wore, not so much real history.
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No one said you had to, but some of us want pesant styles, for the common folk. It makes no sense for everyone to be dressed like nobility (even if it is just a fantasy version of nobles), there's got to be something for your cinder-soot to wear, or the stable boy, or the average farmers wife who really wants a child.
Same.
Heck, the history of one of my sims involves vampires.
But that doesn't stop me from wanting a bit more realism in the clothing.
That sim was the grandson of a baker, his mother worked in a kitchen, they were poor. And even though he became a count, the familys luck didn't last. He didn't spend his teenage years wearing fancy breeches!
I don't quite get that. But I guess it comes down to education. I'm educated in the reality of the history of western clothing, and like others who are educated in this field, many fantasy 'historical' shows just make me cringe. It's the story that I imagine, the clothes and lifestyle are closer to hisorically realistic, because of this:
Look at that frock you posted.
What is it made from? Where did it come from? How does it work? What goes under it? What are the sparkly bits made from? Who made them?
How does her hair stay like that? Is her lipstick going to kill her, or just send her insane?
I even write fantasy stories, with a heavy slant towards the economy of my fantasy lands. The more logic there is to a setting, the more immersed the reader becomes. It's what I love about GOT.
What I meant by Bland I don't mean just commoner wear. I've googled 17th to early 20th century clothing, ranging between low class and aristocracy, In select countries.
I found a decent amount of clothing that I loved, but mainly looking at casual wear the majority of it all, were bland.
And what I mean by "not real history" my stories are fiction but within those time periods (my stories pick up shortly after The French Revolution up to today. I'm only educated this history of history I found interesting. (King Henry VIII, Elizabeth, Mary Stuart, Versailles, Marie Antoinette, most of the French Revolution, and after that East American history mainly around New England.)
I mean I get having tools, I'm not particularly going to use bonnets and powdered wigs,but make it happen.
I'm just thinking about townies, sims that generate, and the setting sims are in now.
I just want it to look good, incase my sim is walking down Main Street with a petticoat, or crinoline. Kind of as if sims are doing a reenactment and it's okay if the Sim pulls out their phone.
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That's a good idea.
I wish we could do it now. Getting tired of seeing certain outfits, out late at night.
Either your idea of bland isn't the same as my idea of bland, or you weren't looking at the really exciting stuff that really existed.
So, your stories are based on the nobility? Not everyone does that.
I like stories that climb from pesant to nobility, then get thrown back down again, only to make the climb again.
I am fond of the pastel wigs >.>
But the bonnets are ick.... unless you're talking jane austen era. In which case, from my modern view, they are comical but cute.
But surely, it wouldn't matter if some of the other sims generated look like pesants? You know, to flesh out your world some more. What's the point in being a higher up if you've got no one to be above?
Though I vaguely wonder if they'll make any spinoffs games for the Sims 4 much like they did with Sims medieval. Which was nifty even if it was a bit limited compared to sims 3.
Definitely agree for an option to be able for sims/townies to be locked to certain clothing type category too, style, pack. Maybe the majority of them in my game will stop trying to be hottopic vampire wannabe's.