Unless you’re making clothes with a flat colour you will find that you have seam lines down the sides, arms and legs that depending upon what fabric/colour design you have can be quite noticeable.
I came up with an idea for what should have been a simple dress to create. It was a wrap dress effect, by drawing lines appropriately on the items of clothing to create the look. This dress turned out more complicated than I had envisaged.
The wrap dress is made up of a shirt, pants and non-prim skirt. Creating the shirt, pants and skirt shapes was a similar process to the one I used for My First Outfit. However, on this occasion I also used the pen tool to draw lines on the shirt, pants and skirt to provide the “edging” effect of the wrap dress. Unfortunately, I chose to draw one of those lines around the waist where the shirt and the skirt join together. The non-prim skirt doesn’t fit neatly together at the waist with a shirt and therefore creating any pattern or effect at that point is tricky and does not provide a smooth finish.
This is the first clothing I created in SL. It’s created from a shirt, pants and prim skirt.
Tip #1: It’s important to make “glitch” pants for any outfit you make that has a prim skirt, as if SL is being laggy the skirt can take a while to load, and you don’t want to appear half naked in front of everyone. (That sounds like a bad dream….)
The outfit is based upon the tutorials Creating Clothes with GIMP, Flexi Skirts Part 1 and Flexi Skirts Part 2 by Natalia Zelmanov.