1896 puffy spring dress

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, so mission at least partially accomplished.

I started off with striped swatches, per original picture, but got bored with them quickly and switched to floral patterns instead. Therefore, watch out: the dress comes in two standalone, separate packages! I had to split them, as both designs needed slightly different uv maps to look any good. Keep that in mind if you want to recolour!

The striped package comes in 13 swatches, the patterned one - in 20:

Also, the colours of the stripes have been chosen especially to go well with Ruffle hat by Acanthus Sims and 1890s hat by Sims from the Past. The patterns are just me having fun with pretty stuff ;). I guess most of them come from Annett's page?

• polycount: ca. 7K for LOD0
• Base Game compatible
• HQ mod compatible (pictures taken with the mod - I highly advise using it, especially for the patterned version!)
• all LODs
• custom thumbnail, bump and specular maps, shine on (almost) everything
• tagged as everyday and hot weather
• found under long dress subcategory
• colour tagged
• allowed for random
• PDNs and PSDs for recolours included - you don’t need them for the mesh to work

Known problems: stripes can become blurry in game, depending on the camera angle and distance. I have no idea why it's happening - patterns don't come with this problem and they use exactly the same mesh (and only slightly edited uv map). I guess TS4 hates stripes in general? I had it happen to me already with some earlier pieces, with some border deco stripes. Other than that, nothing!

I hope this dress will help your sims enjoy the warmer days in style :). Enjoy!

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Don’t: claim it’s yours or monetise in any way

Do: convert, recolour, include the mesh, edit the mesh to create something amazing - just please tag me once you publish it, so that I could also see it!