#1860s cc

[esotericas-sims]

Simstomaggie's Amalia Recolored

Here's part one of my 300 followers gift! You guys were pretty split between more Victorian recolors and a build, so I thought I'd try and do both. First up is this dress, originally by the lovely @simstomaggie.

It comes in a whole 45 swatches this time - fifteen (mostly) plain solids, fifteen decorated ones (as seen above), and fifteen with a white base and colorful accents. I have once again included the PSD file, please feel free to use my textures for other things, so long as you provide credit! I'm quite pleased with the skirt & bodice textures for this one...

Also I'm sorry in advance for how pixely the "decorated" skirt textures look, there wasn't a lot I could do given UV sizing. There are lots of smooth skirts that look just fine though :)

Download links and unedited swatch previews are below the cut!

[ Edit: now has 50 swatches, with five extra pastels! I don't have fancy previews for them though I'm sorry :( ]

Download my recolor HERE (sfs) Download the mesh HERE (patreon/free) REQUIRED!!!

(Featuring the obligatory Christmas candy cane swatch. Is it accurate for this period? IDK!! Is it whimsical? Yes.)

The decorated version was originally inspired by this fashion plate sent to the Sims of History discord by @zeehasablog but clearly I diverged pretty soon after I realized how little texture space I had to work with... I think I managed to get the spirit of it though!

[cringeborg]

Eivor 1860s Children's Set

Happy New Year and stuff. It's 2025 over here at least. Here's a little something I've been working on for a while: an early 1860s-style dress for girls and toddlers, with matching accessory pantalettes to boot. And an overlay for the belt.

Note that since the pantalettes were designed to be compatible with this dress and this dress only, I can’t guarantee that they’ll work with any other dresses. With that said...

Eivor Dress

BGC

For toddlers and children

95 swatches (oh yeah. the packages are like...20 mb. sorry!)

Toddler version tagged as unisex, child version is feminine

Found in the Short Dresses category

Polycount (PU): 4844

Polycount (CF): 4682

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Eivor Pantalettes

BGC

For toddlers and children

3 files: short toddler pantalettes, slightly longer toddler pantalettes, and child pantalettes

29 swatches

Found in the Leggings category

Polycount (PU, short): 264

Polycount (PU, long): 550

Polycount (CF): 528

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Eivor Belt Overlay

BGC

For toddlers and children

31 swatches

Found in the Bracelets category

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Before you download, here are some known issues:

In the thumbnail and in CAS, the Eivor pantalettes for children look like this. See that weird greyness?

This is actually because of the default underwear for girls. Blue panties and a white tank top. The tank top conflicts with the pantalettes. However, if you put the Eivor dress on your sim, the weird grey bit on the pantalettes disappears, since the tank top isn't visible anymore. Ta-da! Magic. This is a side effect of the pantalettes being specifically designed for this dress. I could fix it but it would be 29 swatches of work for an issue that doesn't really matter. Eh.

As always with a massive skirt like this one, it's gonna look kind of awkward at times, especially when your sim is sitting down. There's not much to do about this. So your toddler sim's face MIGHT be completely covered by their skirt during some animations. All in the name of fashion?

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[theroyalthornoliachronicles]

Advent Calendar 2023, Day XV: Chemise de Nuit

Surprise!

We take a detour from the wonderful world of dresses and bring you a much needed piece of cc: Victorian Male Nightwear! Props to @buzzardly28 for helping once again with the fabulous texture! <3

We take a detour from the wonderful world of dresses and bring you a much needed piece of cc: Victorian Male Nightwear! Props to @buzzardly28 for helping once again with the fabulous texture!

Chemise de Nuit

An edit of an in-game top from My Wedding Stories

15 Swatches

Suitable for Teens-Elders

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Recolours are allowed, so long as you do not include the mesh and give credit where credit is due!

If you feel so kind, please tag me if you use them! Would love to see your sims! (@theroyalthornoliachronicles)!

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Changelog:

29 April 2024: Fixed squares that would appear on the shoulders and sleeves (Thanks @xandamonium for making me aware of it! <3)

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[moon-simmers]

Wedding Bells CAS Challenge

FINAL

Yeah I've been slow since the end of the @mickimagnum Challenge, but I liked the idea of Claudius and Jeanne as time travelers in love destined to meet in other lifetimes

[silverseaming]

croit bheag | a lot by silverseaming

i recently reached 100 followers (ahhh!! thank you all so so much <3), and in celebration of this i'm releasing my very first lot!

as a historical simmer who isn't american, i'm always on the lookout for historical builds based in britain, so i thought i'd have a go at building some of my own!

this build is based on a traditional scottish highland croft, a type of smallholding that emerged after the highland clearances. the highland clearances took place in the north of scotland between 1750 and 1860, and saw highlanders moved from the land that their ancestors had lived on for generations. those that were left may have moved into crofting communities on poorer quality land.

my build consists of a two-room thatched house with a kitchen on one side of the building and chamber on the other side, along with small amounts of planting and grazing land (aka ridged beds and a barn in sims hehe). in the chamber i attempted a little box-bed (where the bed is enclosed within a wooden cupboard). i tried to make it cc free but @lilis-palace's folklore collections were too perfect!

lot details

§23, 262 (i had to decorate a bit, sorry!)

30x20

uses item from horse ranch, cottage living, get together and vampires

simple living, off the grid

cc not included (please see cc list)

playtested to the best of my ability!

required cc

lili's palace folklore konyha part i

lili's palace folklore homestead set

lili's palace intarsia heirloom set

lili's palace folklore off the grid set

AmeyaSims better than a bush outhouse

psb old needlepoint samplers

thank you so much to the cc creators <3

download (free on sfs) | or my gallery id is blossomtrait (select includes custom content)

floorplan below the cut! ￬

[labuenosairesfrancaise]

Woodlawn House

Hi guys!!

I'm sharing Woodlawn House. This is the 14th building for my English Collection.

It is in fact an Irish house, built before Ireland became independent.

I had to make some modifications and had no images to copy interiors.

History of the house: The history of Woodlawn goes back before recorded history, with the pre-medieval Diarmuid and Gráinne mound, currently undated.

Originally known as Mota or sometimes Moote, the village was renamed by Lord Ashtown, apparently for the simple reason that his post often ended up in Moate instead of Mota.  The countryside was flat, boggy in places but largely well-suited to farming and was used for tillage up until the 1930s when it was put to pasture.

Forestry is more recent addition to the landscape, with Coilte owning large tracts of the old Woodlawn estate.

Woodlawn House itself is a three storey palladian style country house of about 30,000sq.ft. originally built around 1760 by Frederick Trench, the first Baron Ashtown.  It was extensively remodelled in 1860 by his son the second Baron Ashtown to plans drawn up by James F. Kempster, the local County Surveyor.  It was also the second Baron Ashtown who was responsible for the building of the railway station and ensuring that the railway line passed through the estate as it was being constructed.

The house was finally sold by the fourth Lord Ashtown to Frederick Le Poer Trench in 1947.  The current owner is engaged in planning a complete restoration of the house and estate. 

For more info: https://www.woodlawn-estate.com/

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Distribution

This house fits a 50x50 lot (I think if you lose the woods and entrance it can fit a 50x40 too)

I furnished just the principal rooms, so you get an idea. The rest is unfurnished so you create the interiors to your taste!

Hope you like it.

You will need the usual CC I use:

all Felixandre cc

all The Jim,

SYB

Anachrosims

Regal Sims

King Falcon railing

The Golden Sanctuary

Cliffou

Dndr recolors

Harrie cc

Tuds

Lili's palace cc

Please enjoy, comment if you like it and share pictures with me if you use my creations!

Early access: 07/18/2024

Download: https://www.patreon.com/posts/106463811

[whencyclopedia]

Kiowa Death-Origin Myth: Two Versions

The Kiowa nation has at least two different versions of their origin myth concerning death: How Death Came into the World and Why the Ant is Almost Cut in Two. Both explain the origin of death but differ significantly in characterization, especially concerning the sympathy shown by the central character of the trickster Saynday.

Red Sandstone Cliffs in the Black Hills, Wyoming, Former Kiowa Territory

Walter Siegmund (CC BY)

The Saynday tales of the Kiowa are similar to the Wihio tales of the Cheyenne or the Iktomi tales of the Lakota Sioux (and many those of other Native peoples of North America) in that they deal with the adventures of a supernatural trickster figure, Saynday in this case, who takes on different roles depending on the focus, plot, and final message of the tale. Sometimes Saynday stands in for the Creator God, sometimes he is a wise man, other times he is a hero, a rogue, or a clown. In every Saynday tale, however, there is an element of transformation, either of the central character, of another, or of the world.

The Kiowa & Death-Origin Tales

The Kiowa are an indigenous nation of the Great Plains Indians who famously allied themselves with the Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Comanche to defend their lands from Euro-American invasion in the 19th century. Their name is usually translated from the Kiowa language as "Principal People" though sometimes as "Coming Out People" or "Coming Out Rapidly" in reference to one version of their Creation Story in which they came up out of the ground quickly to the earth's surface until a pregnant woman became stuck; and so some Kiowa are understood as still living below the earth of their ancestral lands, remembered and honored by those who live above them. Scholar Adele Nozedar briefly describes their migration to the Great Plains:

Originally from the western part of Montana, the Kiowa gradually migrated south in the 17th and 18th centuries, finally arriving in the Southern Plains in the 19th century before being relocated to a reservation in the Indian Territory of Oklahoma in the 1860s. (245)

As they traveled, they carried their stories with them, tales of the past and of supernatural entities which helped define their culture. Among the more popular stories are the Saynday tales, including those dealing with the origin of death.

How Death Came into the World and Why the Ant is Almost Cut in Two not only explain the origin of death but also clarify how the ant came to look as it does today. The death-origin myths of many Native American nations follow this same model of providing multiple messages along with the central focus. These myths and legends also always include at least two characters arguing over the nature of death and what part it should play in the operation of the world.

One character will always advocate for death as a temporary state while the other claims it must be permanent. The one arguing for death's permanence is then usually faced with great personal loss, but, because the decision has been made, it cannot be reversed and so they must live with their choice of death as a permanent state.

Although the death-origin tales of North American Native peoples share similarities, especially the above-noted, they are significantly different. The Modoc nation has its own death-origin myth with the same title as the Kiowa – How Death Came into the World – but it is a very different kind of story with significantly varied detail. In many of these tales, if not all of them, animals and insects play a vital role and so it is with the Kiowa myths when Saynday encounters Red Ant.

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[cringeborg]

Kitty Day Dress

A cute little mid-1870s dress for children and toddlers, fit for any occasion, really. It was inspired by this 1874 fashion plate.

BGC

For children

Custom thumbnail

17 swatches

Tagged as feminine

Found in the Short Dresses category

Casual, Formal, Party, Hot Weather, Cold Weather

Polycount: 4954

All LODs

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BGC

For toddlers

Custom thumbnail

17 swatches

Tagged as unisex

Found in the Short Dresses category

Casual, Formal, Party, Hot Weather, Cold Weather

Polycount: 4803

All LODs

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The skirt on the toddler conversion can look a bit weird when the knees are bent. It's an unfortunate side effect of the dress being knee-length. In case it really bugs you, I made a V2 which is just above knee-length to minimize clipping.

[historicalfictionsims]

Civil War Nurse Barbie - BGC

As a belated celebration of Barbara Millicent Roberts' 65th birthday, I present the 1995 Civil War Nurse Barbie. This doll was part of the American Stories Collection, and her story was set during the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863.

Mattel took some liberties with historical accuracy, so it is not totally appropriate for 1863. The doll came with a nurse's cap and cloak that would not have been standard uniform at the time, and I left the cloak off because I couldn't find a good mesh for it.

The dress is a recolor of @dancemachinetrait's maid and VAD uniforms, with the mesh edit from my Ruth dress. Petticoat texture comes from @noriannsimblr. There are 40 swatches from no particular palette. Half are stripes and half are solids. Half have the caduceus symbol on the apron and half don't.

The bag that comes with the doll looks more like a field kit or tool chest, which I couldn't find a good mesh for. Instead I used Agnes Crumplebottom's purse, which looks more like a traditional doctor's bag. Swatches are in @waxesnostalgic's Vintage Neutrals palette. Half have the caduceus symbol and half don't. Functions as a decorative object.

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Feel free to tag me if you use them, I’d love to see! My TOU are here.

[theroyalthornoliachronicles]

1850: Night at the Opera (A Collaboration with Vintage Simstress)

Hello, hello!

I know it's been a while (between life and being a perfectionist) since I've last posted anything, but this time I hope you enjoy what is on offer!

If you follow my story, you may have noticed the grand affair that was the Gala d'Opera! Scenes which took months of work to put together, of which included dresses and suits not yet seen before! With the help of my lovely friend, @vintagesimstress, she helped to create a few lovely dresses for the event, one especially for Eleanor, and the other for another sneaky little sim as part of a homage to my lovely friend for all her help making that scene a reality!

For those dresses, you can find Vintage's contribution here!

For my own contribution, I decided to try my hand at making some evening suits for my Mid-Victorian men. There are two versions, one with a closed jacket and one slightly opened. Please enjoy! <3

Mid-Victorian Evening Suit 1

A Frankenmesh of the Get Famous Victorian Vest and Melonsloth's Victorian Royal Uniform Pants (File No Longer Available that I could find a link for)

66 Swatches

Suitable for Teens-Elders

Mid-Victorian Evening Suit 2

A Frankenmesh edit of Happy Life Sims Vincent Tail Coat and Melonsloth's Victorian Royal Uniform Pants (File No Longer Available that I could find a link for)

66 Files

Suitable for Teens-Elders

My TOU:

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Do NOT reupload my content.

Recolours are allowed, so long as you do not include the mesh and give credit where credit is due!

If you feel so kind, please tag me if you use them! Would love to see your sims! (@theroyalthornoliachronicles)!

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[thearwenschild]

I could list a lot of weird stuff Catholics do since I grew up as one, but it turns out that there are some things that I thought were normal on a catholic scale but turned out were a local phenomenon.

CW: skeletons, bones, mummified body-parts

May I present to you: Catacomb Saints

Von Richard Mayer - Eigenes Werk, CC BY-SA 3.0, Links

This is the first one I saw as a child on a school trip to a local abbey, and it made a lasting impression. The memory came back up recently, and I went on a deep dive.

One thing catholics love are their saints. If you are from a family who take them really seriously, you even got a gift on the saint day of the one you were named after, and my grandparents still tell me that it was more important than a person's birthday (I always got something small). Churches are pretty serious about their relicts and keep them in richly decorated Reliquaries.

You could guess what would happen when a church got hold of a whole saint skeleton: They decorate it. And turns out, the ones I knew are pretty "basic".

While a lot of them also wear clothing, they are usually covered in gemstones and gold.

Von © Jörgens.mi, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link Von DALIBRI - Eigenes Werk, CC BY-SA 4.0, Link

Some of them even have reconstructed body parts:

Von Mrilabs - Eigenes Werk, Gemeinfrei, Link Von Andrew Bossi - Eigenes Werk, CC BY-SA 2.5, Link

And of course: Skeletons wearing armor:

Von Dbu - Eigenes Werk, CC BY 2.5, Link

You may ask yourself: why?

Relicts are incredibly important. Even more if they connected to an early Christian martyr. The Catholic Church differentiates between three types:

First-class relicts: The best relicts. These are items directly connected to the life of Jesus. Most popular would be the Shroud of Turin, one of the several Veils of Veronica (Wikipedia lists 4), the Holy Grail or his foreskin (lost but in history claimed to have it often multiple at the same time). The physical remains of a saint, especially martyrs, are also First-Class with. These are often small pieces. Often single bones, hairs. If you are lucky, you get a full limb.

By Andrzej Otrębski - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=54797117

Second-Class relicts are items owned or used by a saint, think clothing (scraps) or crosses

Third-Class relicts are items that came in contact with a first- or second-class relict

And now imagine that your church could house a whole skeleton.

Starting in the 7th century, some churches got the permission to exhume the graves of martyrs. You had to get the permission of a bishop in Rome, and the skeleton came with a certificate of authenticity. Additionally, you had to contact a convent and have them prepare the Relict.

Important: These were (probably) real martyr skeletons.

Then the reformation happened. In the 16th and 17th century, a lot of catholic churches had their relicts (and paintings) stolen and destroyed. After the so-called Iconoclasm died down, the churches needed new relicts and the pope ordered to exhume thousands of remains from the catacombs in Rome. Some of these might belong to martyrs, but if they didn't know the identity of the buried person, they chose a saint and backstory. Most of them ended up in Switzerland, Austria and south Germany. Sale of them was (of course) illegal, but that didn't stop them to charge fees for the transport and decoration.

The trade with relicts was finally banned in 1860 and around this time people started questioning these relicts. Due to this, a lot of them were destroyed or hidden.

But they still exist. They are a bit hard to track down. The ones I saw as a child aren't mentioned on the churches Wikipedia nor on the churches' website. I found a church near me that houses two, but apart from a few articles they are mentioned nowhere. The German Wikipedia page has a list of churches, but after clicking through most of them, only a fraction mention their skeletons. My university library has a book on them that apparently contains a more complete list, and I need to check it out. Another great source is Paul Koudounaris´ Heavenly Bodies: Cult Treasures and Spectacular Saints from the Catacombs, that I need to get since it has a lot of photographs. And I need to visit some churches.

Additional Reading:

[heaveninawildflower]

‘Angel at the Sepulchre with the Marys.’

Stained glass window (1910-1935) designed by J. H. Dearle (1860-1932). Manufactured by Morris & Co.

 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

[thebitchforjemcarstairs]

okay I always assumed tessa was born in like june of 61 cause she says she’s 16 in clockwork angel then in clockwork princess kinda implies she’s 17 now? like I get if cassie put her birthday on a flower card she might have been referring to how old she’d be at her planned wedding but. I had ALWAYS read it that way

Well, in the 10th anniversary edition, CC said Tessa was born on the 28th of January 1862. In CP2, she does imply that she's 17 and Jem is 18. The wedding was supposed to take place in December, that's why I think, she was like Will, rounding up her age, because what is a month anyway. Funnily or not Jem never made it to his 18th birthday.

ALSO, "technically", there is only one year between Will and Tessa, since he was born on the 30th of December 1860. When he says he was 12 ,when he read Tatiana's diary on his second Christmas, in reality, (if we follow the timeline), he was 6 days away from his 13th birthday.

[ladyhindsight]

sorry to bring up character ages in tid again, but i wanted to run a theory by you about something i discovered.

in chapter 1 of clockwork princess, tessa is being fitted for her wedding dress and she says this: “he would look so young. they were both so young. tessa new it was unusual to marry at seventeen and eighteen, but they were racing a clock.”

clockwork princess takes place in september/october (i think??) of 1878, and their wedding was supposed to be in december. what i’m thinking that tessa must be older than what cc has told us (in both the family tree and the “new” canon she established with the 10th anni of ca). based on the quote, we can probably assume that tessa is either already seventeen when clockwork princess starts, or will be turning seventeen sometime between then and december. which assumes jem’s birthday is somewhere in there as well. so will and jem being born in 1860 is probably correct, but tessa was probably born in 1861.

Bottom line: cc can’t even keep her own canon straight XD. im gonna try to write my own time line to try to make sense of it sigjdnd.

Waait a minute. Wow.

So, yes. Tessa's birthday is said to be January 28, 1862. Clockwork Princess takes place from October to December, which means Tessa is sixteen and turns seventeen in January 1879, which is still a couple months away from the supposed wedding.

I guess they didn't have any confirmed dates of birth before the 10th anniversary edition of Clockwork Angel, just the birth years, but I found this part with Charlotte and Jem in Clockwork Princess, chapter 13 "The Mind Has Mountains":

You are still a child, Charlotte wanted to say, but she did not. He was only a few weeks short of his eighteenth birthday, after all, when Shadowhunters became adults, and if when she looked at him she still saw the dark-haired little boy who had arrived from Shanghai clutching his violin, his eyes huge in his pale face, that did not mean he had not grown up.

Which, of course, goes along with the whole

“Yes, though Charlotte’s rather fallen off in tutoring us lately, as you might imagine,” said Will. “One either has a tutor or one is schooled in Idris—that is, until you attain your majority at eighteen. Which will be soon, thankfully, for the both of us.” “Which one of you is older?” “Jem,” said Will, and “I am,” said Jem, at the same time. They laughed in unison as well, and Will added, “Only by three months, though.”

part in Clockwork Prince which takes place from July to August, but the rest of what was previously discussed gives the idea that they both have already turned seventeen in 1878, especially when juxtaposed with Gabriel's and Nate's ages and the rest.

Otherwise it does work that Will is born in late December and Jem's birthday is in November, other than that whole mess with being "three months" apart in age. But the language is weird, Tessa won't be marrying at seventeen no matter what, though Jem' would've recently turned eighteen.

Will telling Cecily that:

“You can’t be married, Cecily! You’re only fifteen! When I get married, I’ll be eighteen! An adult!”

Will turning eighteen a week or so after that Christmas when he proposed to Tessa works in that context as well. Though they apparently married two years later in March 3, 1880, according to the bonus content.

Though not exactly on topic, I want to point out that in said bonus content, Will thinks that "It wasn’t strictly a Shadowhunter wedding, because Tessa wasn’t strictly a Shadowhunter. But Will had decided to wear wedding gear anyway, because he was going to be the head of the London Institute, and his children would be Shadowhunters" though, at least according to the comic, James' conception was such a surprise because they didn't know if Tessa as a warlock could have children. And James was born in 1886, six years after the wedding.

Anyway, it's still a bit of a mess because, though some parts do fit, other parts of the text seem to have been written in another frame of reference in any case.

The timeline idea sounds fantastic!

[victoriansimmer]

Moderately Mournful : A Sims 2 CC Collection

Two in one day? Who am I? Where's the baby? This is one of my favorites. She's classy, elegant, and fashionable with her statement lace collar and detailed pearl buttons. The black fabric is a lightly-textured linen weave, although it's hard to see in low light like this. Mesh included is a fix of Sussi's 1860s gown by @simbury.

Download (SFS): Moderately Mournful - Eleanor

[theantiquatedgam3r]

Build Complete

The Native American/American Indian/Indigenous American settlement 🤎🤍 c.1860

I took some inspiration from my favourite video game, Red Dead Redemption 2 and the Wapiti reservation featured within the game.

I plan on expanding the settlement with some small log cabins just like you can see here.

I had to take some liberties to make the lot playable and liveable like including kitchen counters for cooking and some skill building items etc but tried to keep it as close to the reference pictures I had to hand as I could.

I will be uploading the lot onto the gallery once I’ve created a google doc containing links to the Cc used.