The Fashions Of Sim 66
Hello. I write a sim lit story called Sim 66, you can find links to it in the Writer's Lounge of the Challenges and Stories board. It's set in the late 1960s and with the abundance of Sixties custom...
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THE GRIFFITH FAMILY
https://i.imgur.com/k77rwFk.jpg
Francesca, Rod and Stefanie Griffith are friends of Julia Epstein and Francesca works as a nurse at the Sim City Medical centre. She's Julia's friend, mentor and confidant. You might recognise her face: If you go into CAS enough times you'll get as a default template a red headed woman with a round face and freckles. This is her but "Sixtified". I changed her hairstyle to this fab design called "Dixie" by Simduction. Her dress is one of my favourite bits of Sixties cc by Unbichobolita: It comes in 8 different designs, each one great but this particular one is my favourite. Here, again, is another example of the "Total Look" where Francesca, her natural colouring being reddish-brown, wears a dress in those shades coupled with matching accessories and make up. That's what the Total Look is: Making sure everything from head to toe is co-ordinated and planned to create an overall effect.
Rod's suit is a cc outfit: The jacket, sweater and pants all come as one. It's called the "Sonny & Cher" corduroy suit and you can find it on Maxis Match CC World. His hair is a Beatle cut; yes, the Beatle haircut has been done as cc. It gives him a bit of an Ilya Kurayakin from the Man From UNCLE look.
Stefanie's outfit is a story in itself as to how children's fashion impacted adult clothes and vice versa. Back in the late 50s & early 60s the hemlines on dresses for little girls rose above the knees quite considerably. Mary Quant was inspired by this look to co-create the miniskirt (it's still disputed whether she or the French designer Andre Courrages invented it first). When the mini first gained mass popularity among young women in 1965 the effect was that it sent children's hemlines even higher. You might have thought it would have the opposite effect but, no, they went up and so high up they barely covered the bottom. By all accounts this was a hit with little girls who now could run around, climb and fling themselves around a playground as much as the boys, unencumbered by a long skirt but for modesty it became de rigeur for girls to wear thick tights. This trend began around the late 50s and was standard by the early 60s and that in turn translated into women's fashions as stockings were ditched in favour of tights and pantyhose as hemlines starting rising beginning mid-65. So to bring this bit of fashion history right back round to our Sim here, what you get with most base game and cc skirts for children are hemlines that are a little too long to accurately reflect the fashion for little girls from 1964-74. However, this dress is the nearest thing to an accurate one worn by children at that time. And to complete the look she wears the must-have thick, red, ribbed nylon tights that little girls all seem to wear in films, TV shows, magazines and photos from that era.
https://i.imgur.com/k77rwFk.jpg
Francesca, Rod and Stefanie Griffith are friends of Julia Epstein and Francesca works as a nurse at the Sim City Medical centre. She's Julia's friend, mentor and confidant. You might recognise her face: If you go into CAS enough times you'll get as a default template a red headed woman with a round face and freckles. This is her but "Sixtified". I changed her hairstyle to this fab design called "Dixie" by Simduction. Her dress is one of my favourite bits of Sixties cc by Unbichobolita: It comes in 8 different designs, each one great but this particular one is my favourite. Here, again, is another example of the "Total Look" where Francesca, her natural colouring being reddish-brown, wears a dress in those shades coupled with matching accessories and make up. That's what the Total Look is: Making sure everything from head to toe is co-ordinated and planned to create an overall effect.
Rod's suit is a cc outfit: The jacket, sweater and pants all come as one. It's called the "Sonny & Cher" corduroy suit and you can find it on Maxis Match CC World. His hair is a Beatle cut; yes, the Beatle haircut has been done as cc. It gives him a bit of an Ilya Kurayakin from the Man From UNCLE look.
Stefanie's outfit is a story in itself as to how children's fashion impacted adult clothes and vice versa. Back in the late 50s & early 60s the hemlines on dresses for little girls rose above the knees quite considerably. Mary Quant was inspired by this look to co-create the miniskirt (it's still disputed whether she or the French designer Andre Courrages invented it first). When the mini first gained mass popularity among young women in 1965 the effect was that it sent children's hemlines even higher. You might have thought it would have the opposite effect but, no, they went up and so high up they barely covered the bottom. By all accounts this was a hit with little girls who now could run around, climb and fling themselves around a playground as much as the boys, unencumbered by a long skirt but for modesty it became de rigeur for girls to wear thick tights. This trend began around the late 50s and was standard by the early 60s and that in turn translated into women's fashions as stockings were ditched in favour of tights and pantyhose as hemlines starting rising beginning mid-65. So to bring this bit of fashion history right back round to our Sim here, what you get with most base game and cc skirts for children are hemlines that are a little too long to accurately reflect the fashion for little girls from 1964-74. However, this dress is the nearest thing to an accurate one worn by children at that time. And to complete the look she wears the must-have thick, red, ribbed nylon tights that little girls all seem to wear in films, TV shows, magazines and photos from that era.
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