Formal/Party outfits

Female sims shouldn't be forced to wear a dress or skirt. Some nice formal trousers and formal jackets would be nice, perhaps some dressy tops to go with those trousers, i.e. lace tops or tunics. I for one don't own a cocktail/formal dress so it would be great if sims weren't forced into "girly" mode.

> @Tojax said:
> I was curious about this as well. Has EA specified what type of parties sims will be able to host?
>

I've done some research ;) and found that we can host dinner parties, birthday parties, gatherings with work colleagues, and we can also invite round everyone in the neighborhood who has the same traits as us.

"Mariefoxprice83;12436444" wrote:
Female sims shouldn't be forced to wear a dress or skirt. Some nice formal trousers and formal jackets would be nice, perhaps some dressy tops to go with those trousers, i.e. lace tops or tunics. I for one don't own a cocktail/formal dress so it would be great if sims weren't forced into "girly" mode.

Well, thankfully, they have added the ability to unlock any and all clothing categories for each category type. Even if skirts and dresses come up as the only option on the party tab, you can go into the menu and unlock all the everyday options (etc.) to use as well.

I'm really happy they separated them! More than once I was at a birthday party in a ballgown, and the opposite as well. I didn't know about the variety of dinner parties--that sounds kind of neat!

Thank you to all who answered my questions :) I guess I have a lot more CAS exploring to do.

From what I would understand, formal would be for more formal occasions, like a wedding party or something. And party clothes would be for house parties and birthday parties and the like.

"Aoralys;12436518" wrote:

"Mariefoxprice83;12436444" wrote:
Female sims shouldn't be forced to wear a dress or skirt. Some nice formal trousers and formal jackets would be nice, perhaps some dressy tops to go with those trousers, i.e. lace tops or tunics. I for one don't own a cocktail/formal dress so it would be great if sims weren't forced into "girly" mode.

Well, thankfully, they have added the ability to unlock any and all clothing categories for each category type. Even if skirts and dresses come up as the only option on the party tab, you can go into the menu and unlock all the everyday options (etc.) to use as well.

Yeah, that makes me happy, but I'm still hoping they include trousers as default in formal wear too. :)

"Mariefoxprice83;12436631" wrote:

"Aoralys;12436518" wrote:

"Mariefoxprice83;12436444" wrote:
Female sims shouldn't be forced to wear a dress or skirt. Some nice formal trousers and formal jackets would be nice, perhaps some dressy tops to go with those trousers, i.e. lace tops or tunics. I for one don't own a cocktail/formal dress so it would be great if sims weren't forced into "girly" mode.

Well, thankfully, they have added the ability to unlock any and all clothing categories for each category type. Even if skirts and dresses come up as the only option on the party tab, you can go into the menu and unlock all the everyday options (etc.) to use as well.

Yeah, that makes me happy, but I'm still hoping they include trousers as default in formal wear too. :)

Yeah, I wouldn't mind some women's suits added to the mix.

I love that we can just remove the filter from the different outfit categories and select whatever clothing we want in the demo. Sims 3 had some asinine clothing categorization on some outfits

@kael
I think it's great that they suggest clothing for the different categories but also give us the freedom to branch out if we want