Beyond the natural evolution of men's clothing, I would like here to refer to the star piece, the worthy successor to justaucorps of the seventeenth century, I speak of habit.What is the habit a la franaise? Technically, it's a menswear team, born in France (the queen of fashion as part of his international influence), consisting of coat, waistcoat, trousers, socks for men, ruffles, cuffs, and tie. This style of dress is implanted in the second half of the eighteenth century, and as evolving, is more functional: the vest is shorter, the sleeves are smaller, the coat is more discrete details,But according to the rococo style, clothing will not lose the precious stones, beads, embroidery, in short, will remain extravagant.It is impossible to imagine a true gentleman of the eighteenth century, our eyes are flawed by our current view, but we believe that any gentleman was a spectacular piece.Since SL I wanted to be as reliable as possible to try to copy a habit a la franaise, and despite my personal contributions to style, I think the result comforts me.However, we must take into account the many limitations of SL, not a few artists we are in the dilemma of sacrificing realism to make the coat, I've had to sculpt a skirt, but something more realistic rigid.Here are the changes I have observed in existing creations SL on the francaise habits:-Prim skirt made with a conical, with an opening in the middle. The advantage is that you move, the downside is that you have a way too geometric and unreal.-Full coat made with various prims, is cone-shaped but more detailed, realistic, and has some prims in motion, the advantage is its realism, the disadvantage is the complicated texturing.-Skirt made from a sculpt prim: as I do, the advantage is that the form can be very close to reality and is relatively easy to texture, the downside is that it has no movement, nor conical, so that compromises realism when walking. (I thought to include an AO in each suit, but that despersonalizara who wear my clothes).-Skirt made with all prims in motion: A great solution to correct the shape and texturing, the disadvantage is that the clothes seems torn in many cases.As shown, all options are correct, and all have to sacrifice something, it's a terrible dilemma to choose one method or another, and I consider that the solutions are better or worse. But what would the perfect solution? for the moment, I am investigating.Condedemontnegre Galicia, Duke of Losada and owner of LOL XVI
updated by @charles-juste-prince-de-beauveau-et-craon: 06 Oct 2016 01:58:51PM

Dear Coleague,Very interesting post. Really I think that you touched the main dilemma of all the period clothes designers, this is, realistic shape and texturing against clothes movement.In fact the problem is very diferent depending the kind of piece that we are talking. For example I had the oportunity of exam some real period justacorps from late 18 century and them had a rigid tail usually buttoned and folded, in one or two parts, probably to improve the movement of the soldier. Totally diferent is the case of other pieces, like the luxury coats designed to assist court events or balls, where is most important to get a graceful movement of the clothes.Really I think that don't exist a perfect solution, but continue looking for the most close solution for each diferent type of clothe. Also, we must pray to Linden gods to have soon a more precise controls for flexy prims and these desired flexy sculpty prims that speaks from old!!!Yours sincerely,Trasgo Beaumont.