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I know, I love the Sexy Librarian outfit but it actually doesn't fly except in a comic context. Not that I want to get rid of the Sexy Librarian outfit because cornball comedy is a good and neglected art. Go to the freebie section and search for Wilmap's freebie section - she has many practical & realistic clothing.
As far as dresses in my area you get cotton and/or synthetic pants and shirts except for proms, weddings, church, and such events. It's really unisex for most life situations except for the coloring and patterns on the clothing.
In real life, this too small for me fashion sense makes gals and women look like a can of pop-n-fresh dough. Apparently that is the style on television on some shows I've not seen like Disney tween shows probably. That style got more popular where I live for a while but now it's receeding in popularity, probably because the truth is wearing clothing so small and tight that you make Daisy Duke look like she is wearing rap fashion is not really comfortable or practical.
@OP
Too short in comparrison to what? Your post suggests there is some arbitrary length
Nope, I am sure it isn't, but...
I visited a few towns and cities in the UK in and around christmas - short skirts on females of various ages: teens to fourties is normal. Indeed long skirts, were (outside of formal wear) completely absent.
For me: I object to a person's presumption on another based on their skirt (or dress in general).
It's like how most of the secretary outfits in the Daz store would get a real life secretary/administrative assistant sent home to change into something more appropriate for the office.
I'm quite certain most jurisdictions have laws about how much a person can expose of their naked bodies and undergarments via inappropriate clothing so people do have opinions and are free to voice them and have.
I predict this thread will escalate and get shut down soon. That tends to happen with this type of thread
Want not too short dresses / skirts? There's always Wilmap's site......
LOL!
In all fairness (and as a person who likes them a little more conservative in length)...there are quite a few nice options in the store for non-mini skirts. I think I have nearly all of them. LOL
Laurie
I always wore short skirts to work when I had a real job. It’s the fashion... I guess it comes down to supply and demand. Stores will carry clothes that people buy and it is bound to be different depending on where you live. Same with food. Lots of organic/vegan food here and I’m always shocked how outside of LA, how much less there is...
If someone gives me a burger and it doesn't have meat in it, they're gonna get clobbered. LMAO :P
Laurie
Wouldn't want it to get too - long.
10 points for you, great pun.
When I was in school, the minimum acceptable length for both skirts and shorts was "fingertip length". I have found very little female clothing in the store that meets that standard.
Have you seen my arms?
When you wear skirts, the hem's up around your waist?
There's a couple tricks around that though. its really easy to pull the skirt down and hunch your shoulders a bit. Also, generaly the male teachers wouldn't enforce the rules.. as one told me, the obvious response to being told a skirt is too short is "why are you looking so much at my skirt?"
Mind you I didn't wear short skirts in highschool. I wasn't nearly self confident enough. Now I'm all old and wise and have miniskirts and unshaved legs ;)
That's just what the gossips say.
If the skirt has its own material zone in the Surfaces tab, you can use the expansion and contraction settings available through dForce to make skirts grow longer during a simulation. I made a quick tutorial so you can see how here: https://www.daz3d.com/gallery/#images/504336 I like the look of a lot of the shorter skirts, except for their length, so that's the workaround I use to make a mini skirt more modest.
And I get grossed out by red meat LOL. I once saw a place where they slaughter cattle and it was really hard for me to eat meat after that. Then I went to a VR event and PETA was showcasing a VR thing about chickens being crammed in a truck to be sent to slaughter and it looked like they were about to be gassed at Auschwitz which essentially they were, so I couldn't eat chicken after that.... I like animals too much to eat them.
And I eat organic and things like quinoa, chia seeds and flax and kombucha and pretty much all health foods. And now I discovered and am in love with Himalayan Pink Salt Lamps! Oh , and I've been going to acupuncture for a weird pain in my shoulder and neck. I really am an LA cliche LOL. I don't think I could live anywhere else!
That's quite useful. Thank you. :)
<< wears a mini kilt and hands Lau Lau a tofurger
You know better than that....lol. Tofu? *shudder* I like the kilt tho *wink* :P
Laurie
My definitions:
Short - Just below the butt cheeks.
Long - Anything longer.
We got a heels thread last week. This one is about skirts. I'm not going to be surprised if someone makes a complaint about blouses and cutout holes next week.
My solution has been to find a long but simple skirt and layer it under the shorter skirts. I’ve also fixed it in postwork by copy pasting the skirt several times and created a longer skirt that way.
Ahaha while i dont mind cutout holes in my 3D content i am SO sick of seeing those stupid cold shoulder tops in the stores IRL. Like even sweatshirts have them! Why?! lol
I find about 80% of the current clothing here too immodest. I buy very little clothing here. I wouldn't wear them and neither will my characters.
I don't think that is as long as you think it is. I just measured. That finger tip length means that the skirt is about 13 inches total from waist to hem. That was the length I wore them when I worked at a big box department store about 15 years ago. Slightly longer than I wore them in the 70's when micro minis were all the rage.I always find it ironic that people are so worried about skirt lenghs now when their moms probably wore shorter ones in the 60's and 70's.
Greetings,
So...the shoulder top cutout is (1) useful because the shoulders are where the most problems with bending on weight-mapped clothing happen, and (2) shockingly enough that's actually a current fashion.
As for skirt length, you're just not seeing it. I work in a cold part of the country, surrounded by young urban professionals, with a reasonable ratio of women. You'd think they wouldn't wear much in the way of short skirts, short dresses, etc., to work... But they do. The trick is that they often wear leggings underneath, or dark hose, and so you really...just don't notice that the outfits are short. The dresses give the feeling of long shirts with some decoration/structure, the skirts are there to break up their body lines.
Lastly, the majority of renders are not of people sitting at their desk doing normal everyday things. Like the majority of novels are not about someone going to work, day in and day out, playing with their kids at night, and sleeping. You typically render to show a reality that is not the humdrum everyday. Sure, there's a market for that, but it's dwarfed by the people who want to render characters flying, furious, flirting, fighting, fearful, feasting, in the future, fierce, flaming, fencing, faceplanting, and even further fancies... Rendering is about fantasy, even when it's portraying something close to the real world.
If you want to make short skirts and dresses look more like everyday clothes, put leggings/pants on your characters underneath the skirt/dress and you'll find clothes like MOST of them on millions of professionals across every city in the world, every day.
I wouldn't pick on the length of skirts on virtual characters...let's just leave it at that.
-- Morgan
p.s. I don't have a moral leg to stand on, just to be clear. I get annoyed when skirts have a 'longer' morph with only positive values available, and don't have a 'shorten' morph at all. But I really do see people wearing clothes like a lot of the DAZ 'everyday' clothes every...well...day, just with leggings and other enhancements.
p.p.s. Oh, and "LA is sure not an indication of normal." is a mighty misinformed thing to say. I think the sheer variety of Los Angeles as a whole makes it more indicative of 'normal' on average than more...sparsely populated parts of the country. I might agree if you referenced something like the Las Vegas strip, where the most excessive of the DAZ-style outfits are bog common, but only because the strip is designed as a temporary escape from reality. Again, providing a fantasy world, like rendering. Despite having Hollywood within its borders, Los Angeles is a lot more than that.
I live in Tasmania, Australia and the women here wear a lot of this stuff and all ages too mini skirts, high heels boots, short shorts, tank/crop tops, and so on including women over 40 some 60+ and pierings -nose tongue lips multi ear piecings and even at work like banks, stores, business ladies, teachers, counselors, child care list goes on and this time of year more so being Summer though some do during Winter too, oh and in one of our states they have metre maids - male and female wearing bikinis and budgie smugglers
Actually I started the heels thread and I was looking for a legitimate fix. Unfortunately I got sick with the flu and returned to find it had become a rant thread and had been closed down. From that I learned that my future posts will be very carefully worded to get solutions and not encourage rants. Or morality questions either. I’m far from conservative and I LOVE heels and short dresses, I was just looking for a solution and frustrated by my lack of google results. The short skirts have been a problem for my renders too so I am very grateful for the creative answers I’m finding here.