This was inspired by my frustration with the Store’s “Morning in the Garden dress,” which is a decent approximation of a robe a la Francaise, if somewhat costume-y. The channels were poorly assigned, the mesh was nowhere near as wide as it ought to have been at the hips, there were no engageantes, but worst of all , there was no maternity morph for the young adults and adults! So I set out and made one. And then I adjusted the channels to make things much more fashionable. Because I can’t be the only one to look at extant examples with mix-and-match stomachers, robes, and petticoats and think “YES PLEASE!”

1. Option one (seen in picture four) has a channel for the robe, the petticoat and bows, the stomacher, and the tucker (1), choker, and engageantes (2).
2. Option two has a channel for the robe, the bows, the stomacher and bows, and the tucker, choker, and engageantes.
3. Option three has a channel for the robe and stomacher, the bows, the petticoat, and the tucker, choker, and engageantes.
4. Option four has a channel for the robe and petticoat, the bows, the stomacher, and the tucker, choker, and engageantes.

This dress is available for Everyday, Formal, Career, Makeover, and Maternity for Teens (Courante), Young Adults and Adults (Allemande), and Elders (Sarabande).

And then I made a vaguely Rococo dress for the children, because I was sick of putting them in the Tudor dress, and they couldn’t all wear Danjaley’s dress all the time! The style could fit anywhere from, say, 1680 to 1780, though the polonaise-style ruffles might be more suitable for the 1770s-80s. It’s darling , in my opinion.

1. Option one (not shown) has the original ~~yellow~~ gold rick-rack trim.
2. Option two has a new bronze rick-rack trim.
3. Option three has a new silver rick-rack trim.
4. All of the options have the same channels: bodice and skirt, sleeves, stomacher, and trimming.

This dress is available for Everyday, Formal, Career, and Makeover for Children (Gavotte).

There are some really harsh shoulder seams that I can’t smooth out. Additionally, the child dress has a strange gap between the sleeve cap and the sleeve that I can’t figure out; I may revise this when I’m more skilled at frankenmeshing.

All photos are unedited; what you see is what you get! You should not need the Store dress or Generations for these dresses to work.

Download them here. I hope you have a happy holiday season, and may this new year be safe, happy, and full of simming!

Credits

1. EAXIS for the original “Morning in the Garden” dress, as well as the “Dress With Bolero” and “Princess Dress Costume.”
2. KentConverts for the teen and elder female conversions of said “Morning in the Garden” dress, as I took those meshes and bonedeltas and ran with them; you can have my dresses and Kent’s at the same time, as they’re separate items.
3. Edorenel, whose Colonial Williamsburg palette I used to make reasonably-period but still visually distinct presets in CAS.
4. @danjaley, for the poses, inspiration photo, and the wonderful tutorial on bonedeltas.
5. @simlicious, for the patterns and troubleshooting my initial forays into meshing!

(1) The “tucker” is the trim along the inside neckline. I decided to put it on the same channel as the engageantes and choker because I like the look.

(2) The “engageantes” are the lacy sleeve trim seen here. One day I’ll make a set that actually is meshed…

(3) The self-stripe you see on the elder model is a pattern in progress of my own, borrowed from @simbury’s silk stripes texture for TS2. I’m a sucker for self-stripes.