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Onyx for Genesis Female Dress Type

RCDescheneRCDeschene Posts: 2,816
edited August 2017 in The Commons

What kind of cut style is the one on the Onyx for Genesis Female called? As you can see, it's short in the front, but elongates in the back and I was wondering if there were any other products like it for any of the Genesis figures. The skirt part of the dress I am trying to use on a Genesis 3 Female character via Transfer Utility, but there's this one character I'm using it for where it warps on every time I save and reload the scene.

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  • Jonathan BJonathan B Posts: 114

    Not a fashion expert, but I've seen dresses with that cut referred to as a 'High Low' dresses.

  • Aave NainenAave Nainen Posts: 1,108

    I've also seen them called waterfall dresses.  There is this one in my store for Genesis 2 Female but I had no luck looking through PC+ finding any other one.  If all else fails perhaps you could paint a transparency map in an image editor to make a regular shape dress or skirt look like a waterfall style.

    https://www.daz3d.com/party-girl

  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,762

    I think it's just a variation of what we called sundresses when we lived in Florida. I think that style has it's origins in Spain's folk clothing & flamenco dancing.

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    edited August 2017

    From a one time Costumier and dressmaker   (ie Chohole)

    Asymetric, waterfall or mullet skirt in modern parlance

    Derived from Historical fashion of the 1870s/1880s, when the style would have been used as a layer over a full length underlayer.

    Forgot to add it was sometimes referred to as a fishtail bustle or overskirt.

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  • Jonathan BJonathan B Posts: 114

    Another G2F item in the store: https://www.daz3d.com/high-low-skirt

  • 3Diva3Diva Posts: 11,981
    edited August 2017
    Chohole said:

    From a one time Costumier and dressmaker   (ie Chohole)

    Asymetric, waterfall or mullet skirt in modern parlance

    Derived from Historical fashion of the 1870s/1880s, when the style would have been used as a layer over a full length underlayer.

    Forgot to add it was sometimes referred to as a fishtail bustle or overskirt.

    I didn't know that you used to be a dress maker. How cool is that!? My grandma used to sew skirts and stuff for us girls and on rare occasions a full dress. It was always stunning to me the amount of work, patience, and skill that goes into hand making a dress. Awesome! 

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  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,762

    Too bad dresses like that are sort of not practical for getting around cleanly and unsnaggedly nowadays.

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604

    They are wonderful to wear, very feminine.   I used to make crinolined day dresses and ball gowns for the Females in our reenactment group (ACW reenactment) but also made a few of the later Victorian style for those who preferred Western reenactment.   Both were very popular in the UK.  

    I cheated and used a sewing machine,  but back then those sort of dresses would have been completely hand sewn.   I can't imagine how long it would have taken to make all the ruffles.

  • 3Diva3Diva Posts: 11,981
    Chohole said:

    They are wonderful to wear, very feminine.   I used to make crinolined day dresses and ball gowns for the Females in our reenactment group (ACW reenactment) but also made a few of the later Victorian style for those who preferred Western reenactment.   Both were very popular in the UK.  

    I cheated and used a sewing machine,  but back then those sort of dresses would have been completely hand sewn.   I can't imagine how long it would have taken to make all the ruffles.

    That sounds lovely! Do you have any photos online of the dresses? I'd love to see your work. :)

  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,762

    I'd like to too. Here we have a lot of Amish & Mennonite communities that still make 1800s clothing styles sewing by hand. There are much simpler style though.

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