Vintage Simstress

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

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! 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

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

Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays! Here's a little unexpected (even for me ^^) festive gift for you all :). I looked at the inspo photo and suddenly felt like that dress could be very easily done if I altered my 1830 mourning dress here and there - and I was right! From funerals through balls to weddin

Hi everyone! Here comes my second Simblreen treat and at the same time my first 1830s creation: an 1830 mourning dress. Yes, I know that the inspo picture clearly calls it a ‘walking dress‘, but the one I found especially for mourning looks almost exactly the same - and I decided to make this one ju

Some time ago (two weeks? Three? Is time even real?) I received an ask if I could make an 1840s ball gown - and as I'm slowly but steadily falling in love with this decade (so little crazy deco! Such simple patterns!), I decided to really do it. Yes, it's the same skirt again, I warned you :P. Now t

Hi everyone! I found a cute design of another 1840s dress (accidentally also from 1843) and thought it looks so simple that it should be easy to squeeze it somewhere in between other projects. Some fighting was needed after all, so it wasn't as much of a 'small side project' as I had anticipated, bu

Hello everyone! Most of you probably don't know it, but today Germany celebrates a national holiday, commemorating the fact that on 03.10.1990, after decades of split into East and West, it once again became one country. And so I thought: when could be a better time to finally make that dirndl my fe

03.10.2020 edit: updated with new CAS placement 02.09.2020 edit: It turned out the dress had some nasty problems with lower LODs, which should be fixed now. Please redownload! Hopefully now it'll look fine from any distance :) *** Hi everyone, It's been some time! I'm sorry for that long silence - f

Hi everyone! Lately I was working a bit on my decades challenge - more specifically, on my og sims and their background. I created extensive family trees for both of them, invented a whole bunch of new characters and in general was proceeding really well, but when I wanted to finally make those ance

03.10.2020 edit: fixed a problem of mesh getting spiky when watching a sim walk from a distance. Please redownload! *** Hello everyone! Today I bring you something I've been planning on making for ages: an artistic / aesthetic / reform(ish) dress for your sims. It's not a full blown reform gown - th

Hi everyone! I felt like creating more day dresses for my sim ladies and somehow ended up making an outfit for boys. Don't ask. I blame it all on that vaguely Chinese hat - I've already seen something very similar once and almost made it back then, so when I spotted it in yet another fashion plate I

Vintage Winterwear Collection pt. 16 Hi everyone! I got a bit bored with all the swimsuits (plus all of a sudden I feel a strong need to proceed with my save, and it's still winter there...), so I decided to finally convert two of my winter coats for boys into coats for toddlers. Come in the same sw

Vintage Summer collection pt. 4 Hi everyone! Remember my last piece? I converted it for children and edited a bit, so that it'd be more accurate. It seems that bathing suits for children always had shorter sleeves than the ones for adults: when adults wore long sleeves, children wore short, when adu

03.10.2020 edit: Fixed a problem with spikes appearing when zooming out. Please redownload! *** Vintage Summer collection pt. 3 Hi everyone! Yet another bathing suit, from yet another decade. Surprisingly, even though it comes from mid-1880s, it doesn't really have a bustle. Just an average, soft sk

03.10.2020 edit: Fixed a problem with spikes appearing if you zoomed out (looking extra nasty while sitting). Please redownload! Vintage Summer collection pt. 2 Hi everyone! It finally happened: I left 1890s for once and made a piece from another decade! You can thank Sims to Maggie ;). It was one o

03.10.2020 edit: updated with new CAS placement and some small changes to the mesh, just in case *** Vintage Summer Collection pt. 1 Hello everyone! Now that it's almost July, I have a good excuse to start yet another collection - this time a summery one! The Vintage Summer Collection will consist o

Hi everyone! And another folk piece - this time my AM outfit converted for boys. Converted and improved: the textures look way less cartoonish, there's zero clipping and the scarf, in contrary to the adult version, does not become a hot mess when the sim sits down. Looks like now I'll have to remake

02.10.2020 edit: improved lod3 of the outfit so that the pinkie wouldn't explode and updated with new CAS placement. Please redownload! *** Vintage Winterwear Collection pt. 15 Hi everyone! Just a quick edit of yesterday's outfit. A simpler version, without the collar and the apron, for more casual

02.10.2020 edit: improved lod3 of the outfit so that the pinkie wouldn't explode and updated with new CAS placement. Please redownload! *** Vintage Winterwear Collection pt. 14, kind of Hi everyone! Now that the skirt looks like it should, I could finally reuse it and make another Cuiavian outfit fo

Vintage Winterwear Collection pt. 13 Hi everyone! I finally dared to venture into the dangerous territory of toddler conversions. Here come both of my coats for girls, converted for toddler girls. Same swatches as the original pieces - you can check them HERE and HERE. It's my first toddler conversi

03.10.2020 edit: Fixed a problem with spikes appearing on sim's legs when zooming out. Please redownload! *** Hello everyone! It's hard to believe, but I've just reached another milestone today: over 3000 followers on Tumblr! 3006 as of now, to be precise. Thank you everyone so much! I could see thi

Hi everyone! Here comes another simple thing: a conversion of the Cuiavian folk outfit for girls. Nothing big, but it's my first female adult to child conversion, so it's still a new milestone! Converting stuff for girls is a bit trickier than for boys, because you have to readjust the chest area. O

02.10.2020 edit: improved lod3 of the outfit so that the pinkie wouldn't explode and updated with new CAS placement. Please redownload! *** Hello everyone! Here comes another variation of the folk dress which I published last week: very similar, but without the apron and the collar. Intended more fo

Vintage Winterwear Collection pt. 12 Hi everyone! Welcome to another episode of 'I have no time for proper meshing, so I'm just making quick stuff instead'. Here comes another coat for your sim boys - this time a perfectly simple and capeless one. If you have a feeling that you've already seen somet

02.10.2020 edit: improved lod3 of the outfit so that the pinkie wouldn't explode and updated with new CAS placement. Please redownload! *** Hi everyone! It's been a busy month so far, so instead of meshing something new I decided to give one of my first creations a quick upgrade. Originally I planne

Hi everyone! Lately I received an ask about vintage nightshirts for boys - if I could make one or if I know where to find one - and I realised that indeed, it's a much needed item for historical gameplay. Actually, it made me recall that I was struggling myself with sleepwear for my eldest boy since

03.10.2020 edit: Sims wearing v2 of the dress won't suddenly turn all glossy (and lose their hands) when you zoom out anymore. Fixed some unwelcome spikiness in lower lods of both versions as well. Please redownload! 30.07.2020 edit: Fixed a couple of issues with both versions of the dress: it won't

03.10.2020 edit: Fixed a problem with spikes appearing when zooming out. Please redownload! 30.07.2020 edit: Made some tiny changes to the mesh and added a new bump map, so that the dress would look smoother. Please redownload if the blockiness was bothering you! *** Hi everyone! The previous 1898 d

03.10.2020 edit: Fixed a problem with spikes appearing when zooming out. Please redownload! 30.07.2020 edit: The dress should now look good on sims of all body types - the weird crease under the belly is gone. I also made a new bump map, so it looks more natural, not as blocky as it used to. Please

Vintage Winterwear Collection pt. 11 Hello everyone! Here comes another winter coat for your Victorian boys. This piece has a kind of funny backstory: when I just started working on my previous coat for boys and felt utterly unmotivated to do it, I went to our Sims of History Discord, posted my refe

Vintage Winterwear Collection pt. 10 Hello everyone, happy April Fools! Wishing you all only genuinely funny jokes today and no silly / disappointing / annoying ones. Please don't forget what day it is if you read any unbelievably exciting news today, ok? I still remember last year's outrage after S

Back when I was looking for inspiration for THIS gown, I accidentally stumbled upon a morning robe for men and thought - hey, why not? I know we got a kind of similar one with Vintage Glamour, but somehow I can't get to like it, so I decided it wouldn't hurt to make my own version. The design comes

a.k.a. Vintage Winterwear Collection pt. 8 Hi everyone! Winter is slowly coming to an end (finally!) and so is my winterwear project (finally!). It's still not the last cold weather piece I've got planned, but it is the last one for men. This time it's supposed to be an ulster, so basically - accord

04.10.2020 edit: updated with new CAS placement, new colours for thumbnail (matching the other 1880s pieces), small corrections to the mesh (looked ok, but just in case...) *** Evening everyone! I'm a bit weary of the whole winterwear project, so this time I decided to make something else, which had

04.10.2020 edit: improved the mesh to get rid of spikes in lower lods + updated with a new CAS placement. *** Vintage Winterwear Collection pt. 6 Hello everyone! Here comes another coat for your ladies. This time it's a tad older, as the design comes from 1891 only (you can still see some slight rem

A.k.a. Vintage Winterwear Collection pt. 5 Hi everyone! Here's another coat for your 1890s girls. Now, if you're thinking 'but it looks exactly like the previous one!', you're not too far off - I did indeed use last week's coat as a base for this one, so the general shape looks very similar. There a

Morning everyone! Here comes another 1890s coat for your male sims. As you can see, even though it's made of wool, the cut resembles rather a suit than a coat - therefore, I'd say it's appropriate mostly for fashion victims, whose main goal, even during winter, is to look as handsome as possible. Or

Hello everyone! It's part 3 of my Vintage Winterwear collection. This time a little something for your 1890s girls! The original came from 1895, to be precise, but kids' fashion wasn't changing as fast as adults', so I think it should work for almost the whole decade. The only difference would be th

Vintage winterwear collection pt 2 Men need something to wear in the cold season as well, right? It's a cosy, woollen coat, I'd say appropriate for medium-rich male sims, whose priority in winter is first and foremost to stay warm. Basically, for anyone who lives in Windenburg, especially in the cou

04.10.2020 edit: improved the coat to get rid of spikes in lower lods + updated all pieces with a new CAS placement. The hat is no longer hat slider compatible - I reached a conclusion that it makes no sense considering it uses hat chops. *** A.k.a. Vintage Winterwear Collection pt. 1 (yep, there wi

After some 2 months I finally made a folk outfit for my male villagers! Everything I said about the female version still applies. Mid-north-west Poland, cornflowers, poppies. Cuiavian folk outfits quickly got out of use and disappeared completely after WWI - to the point where folk museums had probl

04.10.2020 edit: improved the outfit to get rid of spikes in lower lods + updated both pieces with a new CAS placement. The hat is no longer hat slider compatible - I reached a conclusion that it makes no sense considering it uses hat chops. *** First things first: my Tumblr statistics claim already