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.
There are three main ways of creating clothes for your SL avatar:
Edit > Appearance menu within SL.Edit > Appearance menu within SL to complete making the item of clothing.There is also sculpted prims, but as I’ve not learnt anything about them and how to make clothing with them, that topic will need to be left to a later time. The use of sculpted prims for clothing isn’t currently widespread.