Vintage Simstress

I've been reading lately Roger White's and Philip Barker's amazing book about Roman Wroxeter (a.k.a. Viroconium) - and one of the cool things about it was that it included a reconstruction painting of the mosaic tiles discovered in the baths basilica. Remember that build I shared some five weeks ago

❗❗❗ Requires Iconic's hat slider v2 and their custom rig override to work ❗❗❗ (don't worry, you don't have to do anything, just plop them in your mods folder) The moment I saw this crown I knew I simply had to make it... One day, that is. It's been a couple of months since then, but hey, better late

I'm sleepy today, so I'll keep it short this time. It's a ring. This ring. The inspo came from pinterest; the pin claims it's a 5th c. BC piece, but that's all the info on it I have. Looks like the photo came from some auction which got deleted from the database by now. Anyway, it's very similar to

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away... ...there was a village of Skeleton Green. (No, brain, not 'Dragonstone'. No one even said that it was a skeleton of a dinosaur, let alone of a jade dragon. Stop it.) Actually, it wasn't in another galaxy but in south-eastern Britain, in the later part of

19th December 2025 edit: I'd messed up the wooden textures 🙈 I'm really sorry, I know it's the 4th time in a span of a month, but please redownload! (Turns out I still had them attached to one of the new houses; once I removed them from there and tried to run on the separated textures only, wooden

08/04/2026 edit: Fixed the weights on the huts and their shadows. They seemed to be working fine anyway, but I'd recommend redownloading, just to be on the safe side. 02/04/2026 edit: Now the huts won't fade anymore, no matter how close in you zoom. It's no essential update, but if it was bugging yo

08/04/2026 edit: Fixed the weights on the huts and their shadows. They seemed to be working fine anyway, but I'd recommend redownloading, just to be on the safe side. 22/03/2026 edit: The huts won't fade anymore, even if you zoom in reaaaaally close. If it was bugging you, please redownload! Same fi

For the manufacture of braids, tablet weaving may have been practised. This is a method which requires the use of bone or wood plates perforated with two or more holes close to the edge to control the positioning and spacing of the warp. The technique was widely used in Scandinavia during the pre-Ro

There's probably altogether something like three people out there who might be excited about this, but as I already made it for myself, why not share? An override of the names the game generates for newly made sims, both in CAS and in game. Based on: this amazing page (most of the names are given in

I'll keep it very very brief today, as I'm hard at work on the woven belts and kind of in a rush (I'm going to visit my fams in Poland over Easter and will stay there for some 3 weeks, which means if I don't get the stuff done till next Saturday I'll be able to do it only in May - and that's somethi

I've been flooded with work the previous week (I'm a freelancer, so my workload tends to vary highly from week to week, and the last one or two have been BONKERS), so unfortunately - cc-wise - I didn't manage to do half of what I'd been planning to do. Le sigh. What I did get done is also of the 'lo

Two things before I move to the WIPs themselves: One, in case you haven't seen it yet, I made a 'where should I place the belts?' survey on my tumblr. Proper uv placement is very important for preventing any problems with overlapping textures , so if you're any interested in using those tablet-woven

As it's been quite some time since I published my last piece of CC, I thought I could give you a little update on what I'm working on behind the scenes - both so that you could have a glimpse of the process and so that I could share my excitement 😉 Those of you who follow me on Tumblr might've seen

Once my new colour palettes were ready, I could finally move to the thing which prompted their remake in the first place: meaning, a total overhaul of the tartan(-esque?) swatches I use for recolouring stuff. Remember my old set of tartan patterns? I've been gradually getting less and less happy wit

It's been almost exactly two years since I made my Iron Age Palette. To celebrate that anniversary... No, you know what, actually not, it's a total coincidence 😅 I was working on a new thing and started wondering about this and that; to not bore you with the details, let's just say that one thing l

05 January 2025 edit: both tartan versions updated to work with dx11 (i.e. to show proper swatch icons instead of llamas). Please redownload! *** It took me way much longer than it should've, but it's finally here. The first - hopefully not the last - cape from Crusader Kings 3, converted for TS4. A

05 January 2025 edit: both 'thumbnails' packages updated for dx11 (now 64x64 is the only of the three sizes I originally used which doesn't result in llamas). Please redownload! *** Just a couple of resources this time, both for your potential use and for future reference, so that I wouldn't have to

I love the dress Akogare made a year ago for TSR YeMedieval collab and have been using it on my little Celtic sims all the time, but originally it had only some 8 or 9 swatches. A big waste for such a pretty thing! Now it can have more... MUCH more. This time it's really just a recolour. Mesh not in

Happy New Year everyone! I woke up today and thought that a beginning of a new year is a good moment to finally release this dress, which has been sitting in my WIPs forever. Something new for a change: a wedding gown inspired by a rl one from 1925. It was originally made extra for Zelda Darlington

TSR's latest collection prompted me to finally finish a thing which was sitting in my WIPs' folder for months. I'd been hoping to make some more add-ons for it, but let's face it: I lost my steam halfway through, it's not happening, so the best I can do is to release it as is. Still pretty good, I h

Just a tiny thing I made for my own game. This wooden shack (a world edit item) is actually a really cool and versatile BG piece, but shines bright like a diamond in the night - too bright even if it was a modern house, let alone anything historical. Now that I learned how to edit light maps (no roc

23 November 2025 edit: I've only now noticed a weird problem with the texture on one of the gabled ends (S4S clearly had a hiccup; it wouldn't import just that one part of the mesh correctly, even though the house only has one mesh part? Huh?). This has been fixed. Please redownload! *** Hi everyone

We're supposed to get hit by a heatwave tomorrow, so I'm trying to quickly wrap up some old WIPs before yet another forced TS4 break. This beauty comes from Sketchfab, where it was posted by a user named Dragonjojo - you can preview the original in here! I lowered the polycount and converted it to T

After my months-long Celtic spree, the time has come to briefly return to my old era of interest... May I present to you a small 1850s set, made together with amazing Ali, the author of @theroyalthornoliachronicles! We're both so excited to finally share it with you all 💗 Make sure to check Ali's p

I don't care much for infant clothing, considering it takes them only a couple of days to age up into toddlers, but even during those 5 or so days they still have to wear something. Lately I was looking at the available in-game options, trying to find anything which could pass for my Celtic sims if

The moment I saw this gorgeous gown I knew I had to try to remake it in more Iron-Age-y style. It was just too perfect! And so - here it is. With a shortened hem, covered décolletage and non-gathered, slightly trumpety sleeves. Recoloured in all 40 swatches of my Iron Age palette. Polycount: ca. 9K.

The outfit which was originally intended as a default replacement for babies/newborns, then (after Nifty Knitting made the og plan impossible) converted for toddlers, now brought back (almost) to it's original form! Just as the toddler version, it comes in 2 lengths: almost floor-length, as seen in

Every time I look at Sifix' creations I cry a little bit inside, as they're all so beautiful and yet completely not suited for any of my gameplays - be it Victorian or Iron Age. Last time it happened I got determined to find at least a couple of meshes which maaaaaybe could work if I tweaked them ju

Despite being called 'Egiptian', this recolour of this dress by Simalicious has always been one of my favourite outfits to use in my GBSC save. The only problem I had with it was that it came in so few colours...! And so, after some time - and especially after I developed my Iron Age palette - I dec

Based on some Internet research and certain photos I took in the ancient village of Biskupin some... 16 years ago? 17? My my, time flies... I created a colour palette to use for my Iron Age creations/recolours. 'Iron Age' in a very broad sense - you could as well call it 'natural dyes palette', so y

08/04/2026 edit: fixed the weights on the fish. If you were experiencing any problems, redownload and try it out again! *** Just a silly thing I made for my own game, and campfire-related again (I warned you!). Because if your sims' diet consists mostly of roasted fish, and if you take lots of scree

14 December 2025 edit: unfortunately, it looks like Mirai's mod is currently badly broken, so same applies to my add-on. Please don't download until further notice! 08 January 2025 edit: the files have been updated, please redownload! *** Would you like to make your game a bit harder? Constantly wor

06 January 2025 update: This mod is now obsolete, as it seems EA fixed the bug themselves. I won't be maintaining the mod in any way, so please remove it from your mods folders! *** First things first: let's fix a bug which makes playing in the Iron Age... Well, maybe not impossible, but very tricky

Hello everyone! It's been 1,5 years. Wow, how the time flies! You might have seen me lurking around on other simmers' tumblrs/patreons, writing a comment or two every now and then, but only now I feel like the time has come for me to return to my own space. Here's a couple of announcements to get th

This post has been scheduled. I'm still very much on hiatus :] Surprise! We interrupt the hiatus to bring you part 1 of the Emma Collaboration Pack: a set of regency items - mostly pretty dresses - by Peebs, Bats from Westeros and yours truly. Make sure to check Peebs' and Bats' sites for their part

Hi everyone! Just popping in to share some of my basic CC making resources with you. By 'resources' I mean simple meshes in era-appropriate shapes, but without any specific details. That means you can (relatively) easy remake them into whatever you want. Just a bit of knife here and there, some text

In case it wasn't clear enough from my last post being a farewell gift, here's the proper announcement: for reasons explained in THIS post, I'm going on a hiatus. There will be no new content coming from me; I'll also be unavailable for instant messaging or tumblr asks. If you're currently my patron

Hello everyone! It took me some time, but it's finally here. The one thing I've always been saying that I want to make and yet I constantly kept postponing it: 1890s dresses for girls! As in my whole 'career' I made only one such dress, and a long time ago, I thought it's be nice to create a mini-se

Just wanted to let you know that I'm still here. The piece I promised for June got delayed a bit, but it will be released eventually, don't worry! I could publish it already now, but I thought it'd be cool to make something special for the big farewell - like... A set? A mini-set? Even if it's just

It’s been over a month since my big announcement post and I’m super late with this, but I just wanted to say... THANK YOU. Thank you everyone who hearted that post, who sent best wishes for me and the little one, who got excited with me, who wrote me such lovely comments. Thank you for all the love

Hi everyone! The moment I saw this beautiful dress from May 1896 I knew that as soon as May arrives, I'll have to make it. I feel like I still didn't do those sleeves justice - they are too extra to replicate them properly! Still, I think those are the biggest sleeves I've ever seen on a TS4 outfit,

Hello everyone! I think the time has come to share some big news with you all. Remember how I hinted a couple of times at some mysterious 'health problems' preventing me from meshing? At staring at the screen making me nauseous? How I disappeared in January and February, and mentioned while answerin

04.05.2021 edit: added an add-on with different colours of the buttons, found under tights. It's not necessary, but might come in handy if you didn't like the original colour combos! *** Happy birthday @theroyalthornoliachronicles! This dress is dedicated to my friend Ali who's probably not having t

Hello everyone! Here comes a little late Easter gift for you: a shiny 1895 dress for your vintage sims. The inspo picture shows the model in nature, so I assume it means it was supposed to be worn outside, as a walking/promenade dress. It comes from an 1895-97 collection - pinning it down exactly as

Hi everyone! Here comes another dress for your sims, inspired by a fashion plate from the very first day of 1890. To distinguish it from the previous one, I call this one 'the hornet dress'. Guess why ;) Comes in 26 swatches - mostly rather darkish, as the original was designed for winter: polycount

Hello everyone! The lack of vintage hats is sad, but the total lack of Victorian hats for non-adults is just depressing. I don't know about you, but I have literally one hat for girls in my game which kiiind of works - but it's pretty weird that every single girl in my save wears it. And as lately I

Vintage Winterwear Collection pt. 18 Hello everyone! Those of you who follow me on tumblr might have heard that I'm struggling with some personal stuff right now, but I still wanted to keep my promise of making at least one piece of cc per month. It was close, but somehow I managed to do it. So, her

Hello everyone! One of my biggest pet-peeves when watching others play the decades challenge (please don't hate me for it, I swear it's more of a 'sigh, again' than 'lmao you moron, what are you even doing') is when people put their 1890s sims in clearly Edwardian clothes, because 'it looks simpler'

Vintage Winterwear Collection pt. 17 Hi everyone! (And hello dear new patrons! I'm horrible at patreon communication, but I just wanted to let you know that I see you, I appreciate you and I'm always very grateful for your support, no matter how big or small :) ) So... I made a new thing. Another wi

Happy New Year everyone! Best 2021 wishes to you all! For sure you've already heard enough wishes of health and safety, so I'll go for something else instead: to quote ABBA, may we all have our hopes, our will to try, because if we don't we might as well lay down and die. Let's all do our best to st