Bavarian and Thuringian Folk outfits for Women

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 fellow German and Austrian historical simmers keep asking me for? And why make only a dirndl, a typically Bavarian piece? Why not be overambitious and spend 1,5 weeks on the project? Let's make it a proper unity day and make two outfits: one from a former western state, and one from an eastern!

And so this little project happened. As a western representative I chose Upper Bavaria (I'd gladly go for sth less mainstream tbh, but fine, here's your dirndl :P), and as eastern - Thuringia (more specifically, the area around Erfurt and Weimar), for the simple reason that it's one of my favourite places in this country. Fun fact: if you look at the map, Thuringia isn't located any further east than Bavaria - in fact it's reaching slightly further to the west. No one said that political geography must make sense ;).

My inspiration for this set comes mostly from the Alte Volkstrachten website. I tried to stick especially to THIS picture for Bavaria and THIS and THIS for Thuringia. Many thanks to @mrtri91 and @simstomaggie for providing me with other inspo pictures!

It's kind of a big set: 12 packages altogether (+ 2 merged ones if you want to simply download it all). Everything is base game compatible, hq mod compatible, disallowed for random, has lower quality meshes for the lower LODs and comes with custom thumbnails and specular & bump maps. Check below for more details on what exactly you get!

1) Bavaria:

• a full body outfit in 25 swatches (different combinations of the following dress & neckerchief colours)

• an optional deco fringe in 4 swatches, found under bracelets (won't work properly in laptop mode)

• a deco flower for the bodice, found under rings

• a hat slider compatible hat, in 2 versions: with and without deco chain

• a deco flower and feather for the hat, found under rings (flower) and bracelets (feather) - also hat slider compatible, so they move smoothly with the hat

All of the optional deco pieces belong to different categories, so they all can be used at the same time - as can be seen in the header picture.

2) Thuringia:

• a full body outfit in 22 swatches (again, different combinations of the following dress, neckerchief & apron colours). Because of the collar using alpha/transparency, it won't work properly in laptop mode.

• the same outfit, but without the transparent collar = will work in laptop mode

• an optional deco fringe in 5 swatches, found under bracelets (won't work properly in laptop mode)

• a decorative headpiece, in 3 very similar swatches (black, pure or with a tiny tinge of green or blue). Unfortunately I didn't manage to make it hat slider compatible (I guess it's too big?); the default placement is adjusted to the Lottie hairstyle by LeahLillith and it should work with any hair without much volume

• an optional front deco for the headpiece, found under bracelets

The fringe and the front piece deco belong to different categories (left & right bracelet), so both can be worn at the same time.

Everything has been playtested, but of course, with so many different pieces, it might be that I missed something. If you notice any problems, please be so kind to let me know what's going on!

I know folk stuff is kind of niche, but I hope at least some of you will enjoy those creations. It sucks that this year's holiday comes on a Saturday - what a waste of a day off! - so if you're German and upset about those sad circumstances, here's a little gift to cheer you up :).

And if you're from another country and would like to see a certain folk piece in TS4, let me know in the comments! Just please mention a specific region, not just a country - that can work only for Sweden afaik ;). I can't promise anything, but I might come back to your ideas after some time.