Men's suits

I've been working on this idea to provide quality products for free. I was about to start asking around to see if any designers were interested in such a cause, but my friend advised me that until I created a few quality items (she didn't think my RL photography counted ) it would be hard for people to take me seriously. So that brings me here, trying to figure out how to line up the pockets between a shirt and skirt. I'm very hard-pressed for cash, so I can't really do the trial and error thing, and I think that's what I'd end up doing, even with the advanced CMFF templates. I've searched the forums for a tutorial on the subject, but nobody spends too much time on men's clothing. So I'm really looking for a top-to-skirt pocket template or tutorial.

Thanks for any help you can give.

Eli, you have me scratching my head. If you want to do men’s suits, why do you want to align pockets on a shirt and SKIRT?

If I was to do a men’s suit coat, I would use the jacket approach. Here you have to use the shirt and pants template. The jacket bottom is just drawn onto the pants. I guess you could use the skirt template? And make it the bottom part of the jacket? I have never tried that although, it should work unless, there is some “gotcha’ on trying to use a skirt template for the bottom of a jacket.

Anyway, if you do use the skirt temple, Robin’s templates have vertical colored lines to help you line up pockets. You would line up the red on the top with the red on the skirt. However, here is a real “gotcha.” SL will cause the skirt to spread more and may mess up your carefully drawn pockets. I tried to draw a long sash that went from the cleavage to the bottom of a skirt. I finally gave up in frustration because, every time my avatar moved, the darn sash moved and distorted. Suit pockets are up higher and may not become as much of a problem?

I am afraid the bottom line is, you will have to experiment. Which, of course, requires upload and test, until it is right. There is no easy way. If someone were to give you a suit template, it would be their suit, not yours. All you will have done is colored it.

Wish I could help you more,

Jen

I read on another post somewhere that if you go on the preview grid you can upload all your test texturese since you get a large allowance. Not sure if it works since I haven't been there.

It will, except you won't be able to bring it with you into the actual current SL. I acidently, did that once with a texture. Couldn't understand why I couldn't find it later.

Jen