Wilhemina's Blue Blouse and Capris


Wilhemina's Blue Blouse and Capris
SimsHost subscribers can click on the image to download from The Pearl. 179 K.
Unzip the file psaf_capri_001.zip and save the .package file in your Downloads or SavedSims folder.
Zip archive contains one everyday outfit enabled for Young Adult and Adult female sims.
Warning: Wilhemina likes thin tops, and she doesn't wear foundation garments. Your sim's anatomy will show through the blouse.

Wilhemina liked the capris that came with the game, but she wanted to wear them with a blue blouse that would show off the color of her eyes and a thinner fabric that would show off a bit more of Wilhemina! So we went shopping in campus town and found just what she was looking for: Wilhemina's Blue Blouse and Capris.

You may remember Wilhemina from Wilhemina's Sexy Top Collection. She's one of The Aardvarkians. The model in these pictures is wearing a new default skin tone that I'm still working on. Erm... I think.

Note for skinners: The magic lies in getting the alpha channel to match the folds in the fabric. If you can figure out where the stress points would be (which I have attempted to do), so much the better. The basic texture is a relatively simple recolor of the Maxis original. Note that the Maxis original is a pre-University skin, not enabled for Young Adults.

Although capri pants aren't my favorite outfit to see on a young lady, I'm really impressed with the quality of work in the original Maxis outfit. I think it's one of the best of the skins that came with the game. Accolades for the unknown artist!

I'm wondering if anyone would want a more modest version where she's wearning a bra underneath the blouse. If so, let me know. Changing the colors of the blouse, pants, and shoes would be quite straightforward so if you'd like to see this outfit in different colors, just post a note here.

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I've found in game play that I really like this outfit, and I will note that it is a very popular downoad. However, it is too revealing for many of my characters. So I made a variation on the theme, which is available in pink and blue in:






Oh dear! It would appear that I am Mrs Grundy!

But you're Gregsim and She too!

miros1 wrote:

But you're Gregsim and She too!

Maybe that's what it takes to write stories. You have to be a totally conflicted personality!


Well, in truth, I find that when I start writing a story, the characters take on their own personalities and eventually take over the story. Normally you only see the final, polished version of a story, but this method of posting stories bit by bit on the Hullabaloo is different. You see the characters' development as it happens.

That makes for an interesting challenge because everything that happens in the future has to be consistent with the past.

Opportunities to go back and do smooth-writing on the first chapters are very limited. I think I've done that only once, when it was a very easy fix. It's really a lot of fun to write a story this way, albeit very, very slow.

In this case, I had several characters who wanted to run around in that outfit but weren't too fond of advertising their mammalian heritage quite so dramatically.* So I made the outfit and then decided to post it. The idea for this chapter of The Aardvarkians came to mind after I started putting together the original post in the Hullabaloo.

'This is one of Wilhemina's outfits,' I thought. 'Now, just exactly why would she suddenly want to start wearing a bra when she has been firmly established as the chief proponent of Gernreichian glory in all of Happy Valley?'

And the tale grew in the telling.


*Or maybe they just didn't want to bounce.

hm. on characterisation - I like these outfits. But would Sheba wear them? I am not sure I can see her wearing the bra-version either.

Greg wrote:

the chief proponent of Gernreichian glory

There you go mentioning artists again and sending me off into Google!

Let's see, what size frame would this best fit into? *8)

dmchess wrote:

Greg wrote: the chief proponent of Gernreichian glory There you go mentioning artists again and sending me off into Google! Let's see, what size frame would this best fit into? *8)

Sort of. Rudy Gernreich was a famous fashion designer in the mid 20th century, but he is most famous for introducing an attention-getting line of topless swimsuits and evening gowns. That is, gowns and suits designed to be topless instead of just leaving out part of a garment. Ref: topless at the met from artnet.com and this article on topless swimsuits from Bikini Science.

In the scope of all human history this wasn't anything new. Minoans and Egyptians were bouncing around 5,000 years ago, and of course there are primitive tribes where this mode of dress is quite common even today. However, for the industrialized world in the middle of the 20th century, Gernreich presented quite a revolutionary idea.

It never caught on, of course. We could go on about it with arrogant sneering about Victorian morals, but we would be dead wrong in that assessment. The fact of the matter is that in a densely packed civilized community anywhere in the world, at any time in human history, women cover up in public. Exceptions to this rule are very rare and the uncovering ceremonies are only practiced in very specific, highly ritualized settings.

(The most elaborately ritualized version that I know of, in a semi-industrialized emerging society, is the Reed Dance in Swaziland, which provoked its own round of sneering from microencephalitic western social engineers. It is to sheesh.)

I think the only reasonable conclusions are that people do this because they want to and that it transcends any society's local mores.

Even in the loose society of Happy Valley and even looser society of Bonnyview Shores, with very few exeptions, women go topless only en famille or in the presence of water. (Water licenses boobies. Why is that?) Men, too, for that matter. Only infants are perpetually topless, and that is because the game is programmed such that there is no reasonable way to properly clothe a baby or even keep the little darlings warm with a blanket.

Sita wrote:

hm. on characterisation - I like these outfits. But would Sheba wear them? I am not sure I can see her wearing the bra-version either.

Nottachance. She definitely has a modest streak.

Just I wondered anout the one with a bra - but that didn't seem to make sense either

Never mind, I made some up and have plenty of outgoing ladies who will model them.

If She is the same She as in my game, I'm sure She will thank you for that!

On the other hand, She is adventurous enough to want to have those outgoing ladies around. She seems to have a deep-rooted appreciation for beauty.

Yup. I think She's happy now.