Winter clothing

[trudy]

I just noticed my poor sims all look alike in Winter. Anyone know good sites to look for nice Winter outfits?

[ZiggyDoodle]

About all you'll find are recolors.  http://www.hairfish.com/mermaidcove/html/2clothing_allages_SNSouterwear.html

Edited to add MTS2 link:  http://www.modthesims2.com/quicksearch.php?tag=maxis%20outerwear

[Zazazu]

I have some stuff from sims2sisters that I've recategorized as outerwear. The butts have joined the TSR brigade, but you can get their stuff in the booty. tsr/sims2sisters/clothing. It's pretty quality stuff overall, except that they of course feel the need to do 20 recolors of the same mesh.

[Emma]

http://modthesims2.com/download.php?f=497&showType=2 <----- male

http://modthesims2.com/download.php?f=498&showType=2 <----- female

http://modthesims2.com/download.php?f=499&showType=2 <----- unisex

The search feature at mts2 is seriously crappy

[purplehaze]

http://www.all-about-style.com/  Quite a few here. Some recolors and some new meshes.

[trudy]

thnx a lot, now i have a few :-)

[Gwill]

I've recategorized a lot of stuff from this site: http://hnote.net/ as outerwear for my own use.  Great site for menswear, btw.
lueppi at MTS2 has some clothes that look convinsing as outerwear.
http://www.sim2-fashion.de/ has some warm looking clothes, but I think those needs to be converted too.
http://www.simsecrets.biz/ also has some nice jackets for females.

minanna also has some nice jacets for men.  My only beef with them is that they lack a fat morph.

[akatonbo]

The link that ZiggyDoodle posted, btw, is excellent -- converts existing Maxis outerwear type clothes into actual in-game outerwear. Won't work on custom recolors of the meshes, but it still increases the available outerwear quite a bit, and SimPE or Body Shop will take care of that.

I also snagged some recolors from TSR, and made a few myself. (I love the women's cowled sweater.) Need to make some more, maybe I'll upload them.

[Gwill]

I shiver at some of the things people consider outerwear for females.  Maybe it's my Viking blood, but it would not cross my mind to go outside with bare knees.

[witch]

Oh exactly! I didn't get any of the ones with bare knees, I feel cold just looking at them. The raincoats for summer showers are fine, but for winter it needs to be warm clothing. 

Last winter in the south island it was the fashion to wear the low slung jeans and the midriff tops for the University girls in Dunedin - and probably elsewhere but that is our southernmost uni and these are supposed to be the smart girls. They wore hats and gloves and scarves, just with bare midriffs. I can imagine there were quite a few kidney complaints by the end of winter. I saw an item on the news, I presume it was true.

[J. M. Pescado]

Yes, and where are the Dead Animals? Everyone knows Dead Animals are the best winter clothing.

[floopyboo]

They're on mts2. Where else?

[akatonbo]

Yes, and where are the Dead Animals? Everyone knows Dead Animals are the best winter clothing.

There's always the fur coat from GLS. I did a recolor set of that, including one I called Pink Muppet. I should upload them.

[Berg]

A little bit'o shameless promotion here, but...    I have a military-style parka for male teens on my site (see siggy). It's a custom mesh but it only has one recolour so far.

[J. M. Pescado]

There's always the fur coat from GLS. I did a recolor set of that, including one I called Pink Muppet. I should upload them.

Yes, but that's "glamorous" factory fur. I'm talking about real dead animals, the kind you kill, skin, and eat.

[floopyboo]

Wasn't there something like that in the fugly furniture thread?

[Gwill]

Yes, but that's "glamorous" factory fur. I'm talking about real dead animals, the kind you kill, skin, and eat.

Not to mention it has bare ancles and high heels.
I suggest people go out and try walking on high heels in deep snow; it's great fun to watch.  The PSI of a stiletto heel is higher than under the foot of an elephant.  If it's sharp enough, it might actually be useful on ice, but never on snow.

[witch]

The PSI of a stiletto heel is higher than under the foot of an elephant.

Now that's interesting! I always think the bigger the person, the more silly stiletto heels look. Mind you, I think they look silly at any time, hard to run in too, bad for the back and feet - but hey, supposedly it makes the butt stick out, like monkeys advertising for sex.

[chordin]

I get shivers when I see their bare hands.

 I live in northern Europe and the temperature can be something from +5 to -20 at winter. I remember how shocked I was when people started to post pictures with sims making snowmen and snowballs and none of them had gloves. I really don't understand what EAxis was thinking when they put gloves in only few outfits. And most of the creators make the same mistake. 

Maybe they have seen snow only in pictures.