Bikini Top in Red


Bikini Top in Red by The Pearl
SimsHost subscribers can click on the image to download. ~528 KB.
The zip archive contains the bikini top shown. It's an everyday outfit top for young adult and adult females.
Unzip the zip and save the .package file in your SavedSims or Downloads folder.

Just back from the beach! Grab a pair of cut-offs for a coverup and you're ready to face life in comfort and style! If you attract a bit of attention in this outfit, so much the better!

Although the outfit is a top, it includes the matching bikini panties that you can see peeking out of the model's shorts. She can wear any everyday bottom with this top. Whether the panties show depends on the height of the waistline of her skirt or pants. Your sim's shoes will depend on what bottom she puts on. The outfit also has the necklace, rings, and fingernail polish shown in the picture.


Amusement: While waiting in line to purchase tickets for a movie last weekend, I saw a young lady wearing exactly this inspiring outfit. It seemed so much like something a sim would wear that I just had to do it.

So a "top" can include stuff for any part of the body? Who'd'a thought! Never even occurred to me to look for those limits in Body Shop. (And a skirt could include shoulder-pads and a choker?)

Very nice, Greg!

dmchess wrote:

So a "top" can include stuff for any part of the body? Who'd'a thought! Never even occurred to me to look for those limits in Body Shop. (And a skirt could include shoulder-pads and a choker?)

Greg did a long thread on this at some point...

dmchess wrote:

So a "top" can include stuff for any part of the body? Who'd'a thought! Never even occurred to me to look for those limits in Body Shop. (And a skirt could include shoulder-pads and a choker?)

It depends on what the meshes support. If the mesh used for a "top" includes other parts of the body, then yes, you can decorate that part of the body. I did quite a few experiments before I made this one. In general, the bottom goes on top of the top. If the two overlap, the bottom wins.

For example:


Chandra Bear at her Vacation Home in Lake Dorothy

In this picture, Chandra is wearing a "top" that's a full body stocking. It's really just a solid white alpha with the alphabetical reference texture. Her shorts and shoes are the "bottom" right out of the Maxis box.

The alpha for the bottom matters, too. If you only saw Inga's Knit Shorts on a light-skinned sim, you might not even notice that they are a bit transparent; however look at what happens when Chandra dons them over her silly alphabetical body stocking:


It must be time for Underalls, Chandra.

Here, her panties are actually part of the shorts garment.

Note that in all these examples, the "top" mesh is conformal to the body. If the "bottom" mesh is also conformal, it wins; however, I do not know what happens if the geometry of the top mesh places it outside of the geometry of the bottom mesh.