#works with accessory tops!

[buglaur]

floating heads but this time with shoulders

#i wanted to make these when i made the original one but didn't know how to go about it #works with accessory tops! #cute for little sim bios maybe?? #currently only working for fem frame because i can't get the masc one to look good :( #i'll figure it out #gonna sit down and catch up with simblr in a couple hours!

[gamebunny-advance]

Kun3h0 Custom Doll Repaint

So, here's what I've been working on for the past month or so. I've wanted to do a custom doll project for a long time now, and I finally got the opportunity to actually do it. I don't think she's bad for a first doll, but there's a lot I feel I could do better and differently.

Once again, my pictures hardly do her any justice... mostly due to color balancing.

I tried to edit these pics to make them a little more accurate, but it also yellowed out everything else, so... yeah. A photographer/image editor I am not.

That said, aside from the poor quality of the images, I'd say that the pics capture both her good points and her jank.

(More about the process and other thoughts under the cut.)

So, she started with a Cave Club doll as the base (I believe her name was Fernessa).

I unfortunately didn't take any pics of this doll with her clothes on, but I'm sure you can search pics of the original base doll yourself.

Besides being very cheap, I really liked the proportions on this doll for Kun3h0. I like the short torso with the long legs and the huge feet. Even the face is kinda Kun3h0-esque (though, a little more on that later).

I've had the idea to customize a Kun3h0 doll for a while, and I always thought the best base would have been an LOL OMG doll since they also have the big head, small torso, and long legs. But, I was always on the fence about them because their hips are a lot wider than Kun3h0's, and I felt like that would always bother me. But once I found out about Cave Club and also found out they're bascially cheap as dirt for the amount of articulation you get, I knew that this was the best match for Kun3h0.

Sadly, the hands aren't as big, and I did consider resculpting them to be more accurate to Kun3h0, but I lack the materials to make that look good enough to be worth doing, so in the end I just repainted the original hands. So I guess this doll is gonna have the non-standard 5-fingers XP. (I forgot to take pics, but the back of the hands do have the heart detail on them. )

Because I have to tie this back to NSR somehow, I think this doll would be a great base for some NSR characters, or really any other stylized character like this. I could def see a cute Mayday coming out of one of these (but not from me~ If I made a Mayday, then I'd want to make a Zuke to go with her, and I just cannot imagine how to make a Zuke doll without him becoming way too top-heavy).

However, I did resculpt the legs to become her boots, so she stands a little taller than the base Cave Club. While I think doing this works for Kun3h0 since she's a robot, if I want to make some alternate outfits for her, they're gonna have to include these boots, or I'm gonna have to get another doll to make some alternate legs.

Unfortunately, my only material I have for body mods is air-dry paper clay, and it doesn't transition as well into the plastic the same way something like apoxie sculpt probably would have. It's not super noticeable at a distance when they're painted, but under scrutiny, you can see a clear transition. I also forgot to detail her heel, so the shoes are flat even though they shouldn't be~ They do help her to stand on her own though, so I guess it's not the worst thing in the world~

While I was doing the sculpting, I also made the wig.

Finding a yarn that would properly convey Kun3h0's hair color is nigh impossible, given the cartoony shading of them, so I settled for a median between the dark rasperry and hot pink and got this regular raspberry yarn. The unaltered pics make it look a little more purple than it actually is. It really is a warm raspberry color.

(I'd say that this is closer to the actual color, maybe a tad darker.)

Let me tell y'all, brushing out yarn wefts is not fun. I also felt like I wasn't doing it right since I lost a lot of material brushing it out. From the little research I did, this seems to be a common problem, but it doesn't sit right with me for so much of it to get wasted like that~

Another challenge I had is that there (of course) aren't very many resources for getting yarn wefts curly or how to make curly hairstyles using yarn wefts. I know that this is relatively easy to achieve with actual doll hair through boil washing, but that wasn't really a viable option for a yarn wig like this. Since I really wanted the hair to look naturally curly as opposed to looking like it was curled after the fact, I curled the hair before gluing it onto the wig cap, which was a mini-nightmare. I followed a video tutorial about how to make a pigtails wig, I just applied the methods to the curly hair.

I don't know if I just didn't make enough wefts to make the tails poofy enough, or if this method just wasn't suited for curly hair, but I just didn't get the volume I was looking for.

To achieve the fuller look that Kun3h0's puffs have, I glued some scrap yarn fluff in the center of the original puffs and just tried to manage the shape from there. It's not perfect, but I think I've more or less brought her original hair to life. It's hard to see since they get lost in the mess of hair, but I was even able to get those stray curls that she has to look nice~

However, for some reason, the wig really doesn't like to stay on. I dunno if it's the ears pushing it off, or if something else makes it loose, but it really doesn't like to stay on her head. I might try applying heat to the cap to see if I can get it to reshape around her head properly, but I don't have high hopes for that.

Overall, having made the wig and seen it in real life, I've confirmed something that I've kinda felt for a while: Kun3h0 really needs something on her head between her antenna. I feel like her antenna and the top of her head create a sort of "empty box" that is just asking to be filled with something. I recently did a drawing of Kun3h0 where I have her an ahoge, and I think it helps a lot.

It's a little too late to add this to the doll (and I don't even know how I'd go about it), but I think from now on, she's gonna have a curl that sticks up on the top of her head.

Moving on: the face.

I really wish I could get some clearer pictures here, because the eyes really aren't as bad as the pics make them look.

While I am trying to keep her right covered as much as possible, I did still paint both of them with acrylics. I don't have MSC or watercolor pencils like most of the pros do, so I made use of what I had. I'm certainly not getting that "crisp lineart" look that Kun3h0 is basically built on, but I don't think the results are horrible. They're sealed with a gloss varnish, so they don't photograph well, but I do like how the texture is very different from the skin, it almost sells that they're made of glass.

As for the other details, I did do the lining in dark purple, like I usually do for her lineart. I'm on the fence on if this works IRL or not. On the one hand, I feel like the purple lineart is a part of the character design, it helps balance out all the pinks, but when I only use the purple on the doll for the face (and her stomach paneling), I do wonder if it looks strange, and if I would have been better off lining her with dark brown instead.

In fact, I did the original sketch with brown for the paneling.

(Right eye not canon.)

But when I made the actual doll, I wound up doing purple anyway to match the eyelashes, so they wouldn't look as out of place.

Other details I wanted to mention are that the upper eyelashes/eyelid is actually a piece of painted foam that I glued on. I really wanted to achieve that cartoony look of how I usually draw the lashes over her hair, even if it doesn't make logical sense.

I wasn't able to do the same thing for the brows, but I still did something a little "special" with them.

Instead of making myself cry trying to get an accurate color-match with paint, her eyebrows are actually flocked using some of the leftover yarn. I've hardly seen anyone do this for a doll repaint, but I don't think this look would suit most brows anyway~

Overall, I'm only a *little* unsatisfied by the face-up, but my disappointment is mostly in the eye-shape. I didn't want to go against the face mold too much, but that meant that I couldn't really make the eye taller like Kun3h0's actually are. If the eye was any taller, the brows would have been right against the hairline, and that wouldn't be a great look IMO. I feel like 80% of Kun3h0's identity is in her face, so having it be even a little inaccurate does bring her down a little.

Lastly, I think all that's left to talk about is clothes and accessories.

I am personally really in love with the shorts and it's why I chose them to be the preview for this project. I added the beltloops after I took that pic, and I think they turned out so cute, even if you can see the stitching of the belt to the shorts.

I went through quite a few patterns trying to get them right. The Cave Club dolls don't seem to be super popular in customizer circles, so there aren't many if any patterns out there for them. At first I was just eyeballing a shorts pattern from this video and going through some trial and error trying to adapt them to the doll's body.

I made 3 or 4 pairs of shorts this way, but they all ended up too tight. In the end, I wound up using the "wrap-and-tape" method of pattern making, and made the shorts from there. I honestly wasn't too confident in the results, so I very haphazardly made the trial pair with this new pattern, but they fit so great that I wound up using the test shorts for the final product.

The top was not as successful. Unlike the shorts, I didn't start making test tops until I'd already done the wrap and tape. So the pattern making wasn't actually the hardest part: it was putting it together that was a nightmare.

While I was making the top, I would of course have Kun3h0 put it on to test the fit, which stretched out the fabric to a noticeable degree. This was one of the last things I worked on, so I was getting really fed up with working on this for so long, so I told myself that I would probably just hide it with paint later.

That was mistake number 1.

As I should have learned from painting Green's face, the paint hardened the fabric tremendously, giving it almost no stretch. Originally the plan was to use velcro to close the top in the back, but the pattern didn't account for the lack of stretch, so it's actually too small to close edge to edge. So, I had to cut velcro to extend beyond the actual clothes to close it up. So basically, there's a gaping hole in the back of her outfit and is the main reason why I refuse to post back pictures of this doll.

For the time being, I do consider this top to be a "prototype" and I'll probably remake it in the future with some improvements. But, painting the fabric after stitching it together is not the only mistake I made.

Since this top is a prototype, there's a lot of other things that I did in a bad order: I really should have done the hemming and put on the accents before putting the pieces together, but since I wasn't sure if the pattern would fit first, and thought I would have the energy to make a second better top, I didn't bother with it. This included the cuffs of the sleeve.

That was mistake number 2.

The way I made the sleeves is that the arms are really just a large trapazoid with the shoulder shape at the top. The idea was that I would just sew the large side to a piece of shorter elastic band which would serve as the cuffs. I figured this would cause the sleeve to look "ballooned" at the end. And it kinda worked. You can kinda see how it turned out on her right sleeve in the first picture, but actually sewing it together was kinda terrible because the only way I could think of to do this was to sew the cuff and sleeve separately first, then sew them together, and that just seems ass-backwards to me, but I couldn't think of any other way to do it, and it came out with the cuff being mostly obscured anyway. I tried a different method on the left sleeve, so the cuff is more visible, but the sleeve shape is worse.

So if/when I remake this top, I'm still gonna do this in my ass-backwards way, I've just got to figure out how to keep the sleeve from eating the cuff.

Otherwise, I think the top would actually be pretty cute. I was really getting tired of working on it at the end, so a lot of the details are actually hot-glued on instead of being sewn. The faux-zipper pull is a *little* large, but it's something I had that I thought would work, and I actually really like the oversized look. It works for the proportions of the doll and helps bring in the heart motif that's getting a little lost in the sloppiness of my painting~

The last thing I think worth talking about is the mini GAB.

I thought I'd taken a pic of it by itself, but I guess not. Anyway, the only thing I wanted to say about it is that there's a little "clip" on the back made from wire that allows it to hook onto Kun3h0's belt and be held in her hand. I dunno, I just really like the little accessories, and that little feature amuses me~

But that's it for now. I am actually working on two other accessories for her:

The doll came with a pet dinosuar that I'm currently turning into her GAB.

It's just about the right size to be in scale with Kun3h0, and the hair is basically already the same as GAB's. I've already modified the base with clay and cut off the bits I don't need. It's mostly a matter of sanding and painting right now. I have no idea how or if I'm going to get the collar onto it without it looking bad, but I'll give it a try. If all else fails, I'll just make a tiny bow-tie like GAB!classic~

I don't have a pic of this one, but the doll also came with some sort of flower pot thing that I'm turning into her drill using a metal piping tip for the drill head~ I'll post about them in an "accessories DLC" when they're both finished.

But wait... if you've made it this far, and you saw my preview post, then you might notice that there's one accessory missing.

Well, this mask doesn't actually fit Kun3h0...

But it does fit someone else.

#gbunny draws #gbunny makes #OCs #kun3h0 #doll custom #custom doll #doll repaint #she's 'done' #she's finally 'done' #well I seriously need to remake the top #but she's practically done #i know that this post is gonna underperform compared to the amount of work i put into it #but i don't really care this time #i'm really happy that i get to hold my second child in my hands #(the first was GAB) #but this isn't the thing that I thought was going to haunt me #you'll have to wait just a little longer for that one #and then the accessories DLC wil hopefully be coming soon #ah i didn't mention it in the main body #but the reason some pics have her knee pads and others dont #is because i literally forgot about them until i started thinking about #how it was a shame that you could see the paint chipping at the knee joints #but then i remembered 'wait. doesn't she have something that covers her knees?" #so yeah. put those on last minute #Youtube

[ukulelegodparent]

grrrr why did people ever stop wearing mid-renaissance clothes

#yes I am mad bc I wanna go to fetes galantes with a friend in a few years #which will mean having to make a baroque gown and I just think Baroque dresses are so ugly 😭 #give me back my beautiful renaissance shapes please!!! I am crying I am shaking etc #and by renaissance I do not mean whatever rigid monstrocities the british had going on during the tudor and elisabethan era #I mean my beautiful German/Dutch renaissance soft shapes #with just absolute madness in the sleeves and in the details #like at least rococo is a little fun bc panniers but baroque? I want to throw myself off a cliff. #'Early 16th century is when Central European fashion peaked and honestly we should've just kept that' remains the hill I will die on #like it's so fun and so stupid. you want a big silly hat? have a big silly hat! you want the poofiest sleeves to ever poof? go for it! #You want an ornamented fake bulge that is very dick shaped that has a little pocket in it for treats to give to the ladies #(top 10 flirting tips they don't tell you about! Works every time!!!)? Boy do I have the accessory for you! #but no we must have weird flowy shapes and then not even commit to that also lets all wear the worst hairstyle anyone has #ever conceived of. that's a good idea! #just completely lost literally what were people on about back then? A fucking disgrace I'm telling you!

[fightaers]

sometimes i think abt how sakura's become so widely-spread and misinformed in that mass-production that she's almost become this caricature of the third female member in a trio who is a 'girl-boss who is so cool and is so sexy or so confident etc' when, in fact, she's actually a character with believable flaws and unique characteristic pertaining specifically to the experiences she's endured, and she's beyond someone everyone mass-ships or mass-hates, and in this essay i will—

#thinking about how many people mary sue'd her #including myself unfortunately before i reread part 2 #and like.......... god. #the way she has compassion and genuine goals and has her unique insecurity and flaws #and she has her strengths and her own determination #and the way the fandom either..... simplifies her or reduces her just. #it grinds on my nerves! #the other day i read fanfics where s.akura supposedly is just endlessly irritated by i.no bc shes ''suffering'' so much #[to get the attention of a guy and i.no's being 'unreasonable'] #and im like??????? #WHAT DO U MEAN #im not even gonna go to that rabbit hole because i have like. RECEIPTS on how much i.no means to her #i 100% believe i.no quite literally is probs the first to SAVE HER when team 7 was .... not around #and this is beyond mentorship. she has genuine PEERS bc of i.no! #AGAIN. i could go on and on about that #on how much guilt and gratitude she probs feels abt the rest of konoha 11 who /did/ take her in #on how much PART of why she worked so hard — catching up to nrt and ssk aside — is BECAUSE she wants to save k11 when they NEED her #ok imma quit now before i go full on rambling #i love her soooo much. and team 7 is messy yes but i love their messy dynamic too! #but i simply detest how she's either an accessory. an obstacle. or this dramatic over-the-top heroine that can do-all #funny how her main narrative is always abt her wanting to be an equal to her teammates #and even outside of the narrative she's almost never that. #gen: out of character.

[fell-court]

I have decided to give Lorenza even more wings~

#a voidsent voice 🜸 #lorenza (fell‑court) 🜸 #I'm very happy that I was able to settle on a combination that I liked #however at the same time this has now *severely* limited my post-endwalker clothing options #(I say post-endwalker because she's wearing her crown and the spider lilies here) #(I could probably get away with the lower set of head wings under the endwalker hat even if they do stick out of it a bit) #in order to have everything show up I need to be wearing clothing that allows every possible accessory to be visible #thankfully i've been making sure rings are visible the entire time with how lorenza's claws work so I don't have to think about gloves #and the uppermost set of head wings are tied to a hat so I don't technically have to worry about that either #it's just finding a chestpiece I like that lets both necklaces and bracelets remain visible #I may or may not have to forgo the spider lilies if I can't find something since they are tied to necklace visibility #also! it isn't visible here but lorenza has tail feathers now. however they are in place of her actual tail (and therefore ears) #technically it will still look like she has both during endwalker because her hat still has ear slots but still #but.. yeah. the top in the picture is a placeholder. and it's getting late for how early I have to be up tomorrow so #this can be a problem for the future =P

[swordsmans]

CON CRUNCH IS REAL I THINK IM GONNA JUST START HOT GLUING SHIT TOGETHER TONIGHT FUCK IT WE BALL!!!!!!!

#AAAAAAA #how important is peronas hat REALLY #months of work and i’m still putting shit together t-minus 72 hours before i gotta start loading the car #you know. the usual #me: haha i have plenty of time to get everything done #the last two weeks of july: TWO COWORKERS ON VACATION SO YOU GOTTA WORK 6 EXTRA DOUBLES ON TOP OF UR REGULAR DOUBLES #MULTIPLE SELF -IMPOSED AND ACTUAL IMPORTANT WRITING DEADLINES FOR EVENTS #OH ALSO STILL NOT DONE W/ THE COSPLAY FOR THE CON YOURE DRIVING 500 MILES DOWN THE COUNTRY FOR [[checks calendar]] IN THREE DAYS #AND SURPRISE!!!! YOUR IN-LAWS SHOWED UP TO SPEND THE WEEKEND BC THEY WANTED TO GO TO THE BEACH BUT DIDNT WANT TO GET A HOTEL #me: [[through gritted teeth]] haha i have plenty of time to get everything done #asdflhjhskdfhjls someone send help i need 8 extra hands and 30 more hours in the day. sitting at work going insane rn #i need to stop working 6 days a week. thats definitely not helping the ol' stress levels #i slept for 15 hours yesterday bc sunday is my only day off. which knocked out 15 hours i could have used to get stuff done unfortunately #anyway i’ll post test pics + closeups of my accessories before i hit the road #i’m doing a costume test wednesday night after work #I SWEAR TO GOD IM HAVING FUN ALL OF THIS IS FUN STUFF IT'S LIKE A GOOD STRESS!!!! except im also on fire at the same time #gyro.txt

[hotwaterandmilk]

Questions are being taken until after episode 8 airs!

Thank goodness someone already asked about the necklace so I don't have to do it myself. I enjoyed all the questions about Kongming's headwear logistics and Maezono Keiji's shorts too.

A+ great show, great fandom, great thighs on Sekiguchi Mandy.

#paripi koumei #ya boy kongming #ya boy kongming! #no but seriously i hope they answer the necklace question because i want to understand whyyyyy #you can go 'oh it's completing the costume' for kongming's inflitration #but it's the set kobayashi wears in every other present-day scene #so like ??? #did kongming NEED to wear both necklaces? or any at all? it's a flashy suit and besides does kobayashi have absolutely no others? #this is on top of the whole suit thing to begin with mind you #i genuinely want to know the non-gay answer #the idea of a talisman might work i guess? but idk man #anyway i'm really living my best life thanks to this drama #there were some good interviews out this week too like the one with the costume designer that was like #'you absolutely couldn't put kongming's outfit into a dryer like that and have it survive. at least use a bag!' #(not exact quote of course but you get the gist) #all the staff and cast interviews have been so good #what will i do in 2 weeks?? :( #i definitely want confirmation re: which items eiko wears that were actually moka's personal clothing & accessories it's all so cute #i need to shut up and go to sleep zzz

[n33k5]

I fell off the face of the planet lmao. I injured myself a few more times and now I am so behind on the blanket blocks. Like I think I am up to April maybe? Anyway blankets on hold made a bunch of random tops, ghost key covers, pumpkin pouches, animal face pouches, and cake net bags. I just sewn some cute sock plushies for my niblings. Please accept a clip of me playing with my Furby 2023 I got for my bday in October singing my favorite song as an apology for being dead to the world while I was working for Spirit Halloween for roughly 4 months. I may post pics of my Tamagotchi Uni later and some fun plushies I have acquired.

#update #handmade #crochet #sewing #sock plushies #plushies #crop tops #furby 2023 #accessories #sus #kawaii #I was missing because I was working outside my home for spooky season #I made friends outside!

[akkivee]

one of hifumi’s patrons was a fashion designer who asked him and the rest of mtr to model for her fashion show but in doppo and jakurai’s absence, wound up recruiting kuukou and saburo along the way but look what she made our boy wear lmao

#this is vee speaking #the arb chronicles #where’s that screenshot of those commenters roasting a vid alive like straight up ass bro 🔥🔥🔥 #lol i understand what she was going for and i too think kuukou looks great in tunic styles!!!! the middle eastern touch is also very nice!!! #it’s just……… it’s too much and not in a cute way LOL #let ME dress him up lol just switch some of these elements around #like you made kuukou show off his arms but then not put any accessories on them??? make the swirly pattern his bracelets #kuukou’s got a lot of piercings in his ears put some of those gems there #the sun centerpiece is GREAT but i think it should be higher up on the top and add a line of gems on the bottom of the shirt #and tbh i think a stole scarf would be good too to frame the sun centerpiece and maybe add some more sun gems on it #(a v neck tunic would be fantastic but i’m just that kuukou btch unfortunately lmao) #the necklaces………………… tbqh i love them for him but the swirly pattern really makes it cluttered lol #but since they’re his bracelets now i think they can work as long as they don’t block the sun gems!!!!! and maybe change the colours lol #it could have worked!!!!!!!! it could have!!!!!!!! she literally popped of on hifumi only lmao!!!!!! #i can do saburo too dammit!!!!! put some rizz on them sleeves ma’am!!!!!!!! #c: kuukou👑

[kath-artic]

thats the thing right. sometimes i forget im fucking awesome

#i juggle & ive done arch field work at a neolithic site in scotland (a unesco site no less) and i was top of my class in myth criticism #& i play theremin & have a storytelling mentor & make fun accessories & have sock puppets of tom and tommy from da lighthouse #AND i make punji pits when i get pissed off. im cool as fuck

[yeehaww-sims]

My husband and I keep getting frustrated with how most pieces of pride cc have so few flag swatches, so one again I am taking matters into my own hands sfdjkldfsklj

#wip #I only have the first 7 done and had to get Creative with that one [gay anarchy] #queer anarchy's flag is gonna look similar #it might not be 100 swatches when I'm done. it may be more. who knows #this is just my default palette for pride things #it's not gonna have 500 swatches don't worry!! 100 tops #this is a recolour of Trillyke's Paper Planes top! #and I'm recolouring a masc framed shirt to go with it don't worry #I'm also gonna make accessory sleeves/overlays for it so you can change the colours of the sleeves/add symbols to it #I went through and pulled out a bunch of potential tops and dresses to recolour #plus I did a personal recolour of littledica's masks the other day. but that I might need someone else to test #because I edited the original for personal use fdslkjdflk #what the fuck you can edit tags now #I'm gonna do so many recolours :) #anyway #enough tags from me back to work

[jupiterbyrd]

ive been playing sims 4 for YEARS now and i only just now had a baby with father winter

and it was twins

which was great because im doing the 100 baby challenge so i want multiples to help speed up the process

#im 15 babies deep #sims 4 #but also shoutout for the sims for adding medical wearables and top surgery scars and chest binders in the new update #the chest binders dont work like id want them to but the top surgery scars are great and i did give them to my current trans man sim #like the binder would work better as an accessory rather than its own shirt #so that we can have binders under shirts like how real binders work

[sol-flo]

the hunger games prequel is an aesthetic nightmare. a costume case study

^ fancy title for a glorified rant. idc.

hey so i watched the ballad of songbirds & snakes (2023) yesterday. if you don't know anything about the movie, it's bad. also it's the 10th hunger games and lucy gray is the district 12 tribute. she's culturally not really 12, but member of a roma coded nomadic group, and a well regarded (in the district) singer. we first see her at the reaping, and this is what she wears (she wears the same outfit for like half the movie because the games weren't fancy reality tv yet so she doesn't get costume changes or anything) (also kinda bad pic bc i wanted something horizontal also i can't find much better ones)

the second i saw this outfit i knew i was in for a bad time.

(btw i think this print on print blue dress over blue shirt on the left is great wish they'd gone for something like this instead)

here's the whole outfit, sorry for the vertical space i'm gonna take up:

(you can't tell from the pic but there are fairly tall heels on those boots. i'd estimate 5cm. pretty and good for performing, but you'd sprain an ankle really fast on that rubble)

now. why do i hate this. first off i think it's ugly. i don't really like the whole top being white because i think it looks a little disjointed — the swiss dot parts of the skirt look more off white / cream / ivory than the top part, and there's no lavender at all up top, and i think that looks awkward. not only that, but the dress coordinates very poorly with the stays. i think the stays are mostly nice (but you can tell they're not very stiff by the way they crease at the waist. which is nitpicky of me but i think they'd look nicer...); the cream is nice, but none of the colors in the print go together with the dress — blues and greens come out of left field, and the shade of pink is strange with the sunset-y colors too. the dark blue binding is very stark and doesn't match anything else in the outfit. the boots i have no complaints other than the heel, but they don't match the stays either.

anyway that's not the point though. a character can wear ugly poorly coordinated outfits and that's not a cinema sin. plenty of reasons to do that in fact, whatever, i'd just complain and move on. but what i actually take issue with is that she does not, in fact, have a reason to wear this specific combination of garments and it drives me up the wall. what she wears is distinctively fashionable to our 2020s eyes and entirely different from what every other district person in the movie is wearing. she stands out not only within her district but among all the tributes too (because they dressed the other 23 kids as street urchins).

here's the thing: the movie is kinda half-heartedly going for a more or less midcentury retrofuturism thing. kinda fallout-y. we don't linger for long at district 12 (and we barely saw it as of this first lucy gray scene), but they wear a lot of shirt dresses and 40s silhouettes in general (not too dissimilar from what katniss and prim wear for the reaping at the first movie). lucy gray might not be culturally 12, being forced to settle in the district by the capitol, but it's been at least ten years so the resources she has are gonna be similar. and even though the dress is her mother's, we see nothing like it anywhere else — when presumably other people would also still have access to surviving pre-war stuff.

so my pressing concerns with this are that these clothes look like they were made in our very own 21st century. i mean, they were, but uhh that's a bad thing for post apocalyptic speculative fiction set in an unspecified future?? the print on the stays looks digital (not hand painted, block printed or even silk screened). the tulle is synthetic, and the vibrant dyes look synthetic too. swiss dot, at least, can be cotton, but the outfit looks capitol, doesn't it? the other people on 12 are all wearing natural fibers, basically all cotton it seems, and blue is a common natural dye (shoutout to woad).

later on, she wears a bright purple dress. i'm talking very saturated. goldenrod crochet bikini. peasant-y boho blouse with clear machine embroidery and trims. also do you know how expensive broderie anglaise is? this bootleg 2006 vanessa hudgens shops at free people while everyone else seems unfamiliar with the concept of laundry.

and they don't even style her hair.

#can anyone hear me. it's so dark in here #effortpost #(btw my solution off the top of my head would be to simplify the textiles — give her chambrays and calicos for example — and use actual #handmade details for embelishment; she could maybe have simple bead and macrame accessories too for depth and texture; #and red would be a good color if you want her to stand out so bad. keep it looking fairly natural though and don't fully neglect the blues) #(stays absolutely have to go though. they're have such a specific silhouette i can't really see them working unless it's widespread yknow. #i think a quilted vest could fill their role well. or some other sort of bodice with hand-decorated elements #something she made herself for the stage that looks very distinctively her. but focus on the handmade) #(and of course background characters and other tributes deserved some attention. could be great for worldbuilding how the districts became #what they're like during katniss' era. even so close to the war they'd have some cultural differences and you just don't see that here)

[hellenhighwater]

You know what, since I'm thinking about it anyways, let's talk formalwear accessories. Most of these are traditionally menswear but a bit of gender fuckery is good for the soul, and frankly most of these are about making your mass-produced clothing fit and lay properly without having to go to the tailor.

Shirt stays: these go around your thighs to hold your shirt down, so that it stays smooth and tucked in. They're usually elastic, with 1-3 clips, and if you wear skirts frequently this is a GREAT way to make sure your top doesn't ride up. The clips will be visible if you're wearing something tight, so loose pants or skirts are where these do best. There's also an insane version that clips to your socks, but that is for lunatics. If you wanted, you could also use one of these clips to hold up thigh-highs.

These do a great job of smoothing and narrowing the waist area by keeping your shirt from bunching there.

Sleeve garters: usually metal, leather, elastic, or silk. These are usually worn with button-down shirts to adjust where your cuff falls on the wrist or hand. They're properly worn on the upper arm, and you pull the fabric of the sleeve above the garter until you cuff is where you want it. Because this creates a puff of sleeve at the bicep, it also broadens the appearance of the shoulders. It's great if you're working with your hands or if your sleeves are often too long for your preference.

Waistband clip or belt adjustment clip/buttons: Three different ways of tightening the waistband of a pair of pants or a skirt. You're not going to get more than an inch or so tighter without weird bunching, and for most of these you'd want them to be hidden under a shirt or jacket, but they do the job if that's something you're having issues with.

Collar pins: There are so many fun ones out there, both with and without chains. They're not terribly practical, though the slight weight may help keep your collar where you want it. Also consider collar tips, which pin (surprise) to the very tips of your collar points.

Sweater clips/guards: meant to hold your sweater or cardigan mostly closed. Great if your cardigan doesn't button, or if you don't like it to be buttoned all the way.

There's tons of other stuff out there like this--etsy is a great place to find this stuff. A lot of these are old solutions to the very modern problem of mass-maufactured clothes not being as one-size-fits-all as advertised, but they're also a fun way to put a bit of personality into businesswear.

#yes i know that's peaky blinders in there

[lijoue]

I'm excited to share my first cas cc collection! These are items I've been wanting for a long time, but I couldn't really find. Despite the fact that I have over 50gb of cc, I surprisingly didn't have these staples in my game. I plan to eventually make a second part to this set, but tbh I want to take a little break from cas cc. My next project I'm working on is a Paris-inspired world mod!

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10 new meshes, ~20-30 swatches each

"Accessory" pieces can be found in rings and can be layered with top/body item of your choice. (some clipping/layering issues can be expected.)

"Overlay" pieces can be found in rings and only work with the appropriate outfit.

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[robbiedaymonds]

i’ve reached that part of my life where i’m just buying stuff. i’m buying stuff to make myself feel better (aka shifting my wardrobe) and it makes me happy. i’m not buying a lot. just a few replacement pieces and i’ll be donating what i get rid of and continuing to fill out the rest of my wardrobe with thrifted items. but sometimes you just need something So Specific that you have to buy it new (from sustainable companies) and life is short and i want to try to enjoy what’s left of my life in a world that’s falling apart. i feel okay about it because i have a good chunk of savings that i don’t touch so i’m being responsible and yet i’m trying to get better at just doing things for me again and not hoarding my money like a dragon and never spending it on things that make me happy.

#this is a positive post! i am excited for the few things i just bought and now all i need to do is get a few more work appropriate tops #and then i'm golden #yay clothes! accessories! wardrobe! #i'm also chopping my hair off getting bangs and dyeing it black in like three weeks #can't wait to go back to my gothy roots it makes me feel so much more *me* #ashlee talks