Expansion or Game pack idea: Time travelling

"ChampandGirlie;15680908" wrote:
I'm interested in the historic themes that have been listed - prehistory, ancient, dark and/or medieval, renaissance, classical (already has some elements in the game), Victorian, frontier, etc. It would be a bit weird with the current game style to see modern and historic people mingling in community spaces. I'm not sure how they would get around that. Maybe they could have a historic outfit category so that townies would switch into appropriate clothes in a historic world. That would be great.

this is making me think of westworld.

Many medieval women spent a lot of their lives sewing, including wealthy women, so I'd love to see beautiful, colo(u)rful fabrics, different necklines and different accessories.

But they didn't have lots of clothes.
They spent so much time sewing because they were making the clothes for the ENTIRE household!

The average medieval person had 2-3 complete outfits. Though, they usually had several sets of linen undergarments, which got changed pretty often, and laundered every week. Most people had an every-day outfit, and their sunday best. If they were lucky, they might have an older outfit for really dirty chores. Cloth was incredibly expensive, so most people would only get one complete new outfit each year.

Many of those who worked recieved the fabric for said new outfit each year, as a part of their wages.
There is plenty of records of this in household accounts from the era.

A Tudor woman looked different than a 14th C woman, for example.

to a degree, and mostly so for the wealthier classes. The basic fitted gown that women in the 14thC wore is quite similar to the kirtle of a tudor era commoner.

Different bodices which could be combined with different skirts as separates or worn as one coordinated outfit would be great.

Even though separates didn't become commonplace for women until after the elizabethan era, it would make a lot of sense to make them that way for the sims. It's a great trick to give a lot more looks, with a limited number of garments.

Men could have tunics of varying quality and leggings.

*hose. Men wore hose. And they weren't joined hose until the mid 1300's.
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Women often covered their hair so it could be a way to add hair veils for those wanting them.

The vast majority of medieval women wore their hair up, even when wearing a veil.
Here's some styles that look good with or without a veil:


I suspect women kept their ears warm with most of these hair styles


Men also had one heck of a lot of hat options, to the point where most men wore something on their head most of the time.



As for children: Infants were swaddled, toddlers wore long gowns (even boys), children were dressed as minature adults, and teens were sometimes married off (not usually before 16).





Ok... I know way too much about this sort of stuff.
I studied it when I was at art school, and when I did theatre design, and the history of fashion, and I've studied a lot of domesic life history.