Aztec Women's Skins


Some Aztec women's skins for the Sims, in the traditional outfit of huipilli (blouse) and cueitl (skirt). In reality the huipilli is an elbow-width piece of cloth folded over at the shoulders, and so drapes a bit; but there are limitations to Sims meshes (or there are limitations to this mesh-maker), so it got short sleeves instead. The same basic clothing forms are still being worn these days. A lot of the textile designs are taken from statues from western Mexico, from like a thousand years earlier, as oddly enough it was difficult to find strictly Aztec patterns. In medium skin tone. The heads can be found here. Click on the picture for the zip of the bmp(s); on the mesh-name under the picture for the zip of the mesh.
FAT:
B3AGfafat by me Aztec woman in red huipilli (blouse) with design down center and cueitl (skirt) with yellow and blue designs, both after statues from the Nayarit culture of western Mexico, about a thousand years earlier than the Aztecs. Triple necklace of turquoise beads.	B3AGfafat by me Aztec women's outfit in shades of dull indigo and cochineal red; cueitl has a fringe at the bottom. 'Plaid' huipilli after Tarascan textiles; gold jewelry from a drawing in a manuscript.	B3AGfafat by me Cochineal-dyed huipilli has a yoke in orange, black and white; cueitl has a design of gold rosettes. Gold pendant is Mixtec, who were famed for their artistic talents.	B3AGfafat by me Huipilli in shades of yellow, red and green is after a modern but traditional Mexican textile; striped cueitl is straight out of an Aztec manuscript. Worn with jaguar-skin sandals (no jaguars were harmed in the making of this skin). Gold drop Mixtec necklace.
FIT:
B3AGfafit by me Aztec woman in huipilli (blouse) and cueitl (skirt). The cochineal-dyed huipilli has a grid of flowers; her cueitl has a pattern straight off a statue of Chalchiuhtlicue, the Aztec Goddess of the waters. Turquoise necklace and cuffs.	B3AGfafit by me Aztec woman in ensemble with designs after a ceramic statue from the Chupicuaro culture, rather earlier than the Aztecs, but not too far geographically. Elaborately-woven cueitl has a multicolored fringe at the bottom; gold bracelets are proper Aztec, as is the necklace in the shape of pendant urns.	B3AGfafit by me Red, safflower and black huipilli after a design on a Nayarit figurine, from sometime between c.300BCE and c.200CE. Cueitl in a stepped design; gold bracelets and Mixtec pendant of the fire God Xiuhtecuhtli from a good thousand years later.	B3AGfafit by me Huipilli in shades of red and black on white, directly from a picture in the Florentine Codex, about 1576 CE; cueitl is after one worn by Chicomecoatl, one of the Goddesses of maize. Turquoise bracelets, necklace and anklets.
SKINNY:
B3AGfaskn by me White huipilli with black stripes with red rectangular woven ornament at neckline is straight out of a manuscript; cochineal-dyed cueitl has two borders and a bit of fringe at the bottom. Gold necklace; turquoise bracelets have gold spheres at top edge.	B3AGfaskn by me Deep indigo huipilli with designs in cochineal red and a lighter blue, after a figurine from Veracruz. Cueitl has a design taken from carved fretwork on the Hall of Columns in Mitla. Turquoise necklace; gold and turquoise bracelets.	B3AGfaskn by me Green, red, and off-white Aztec women's outfit has designs after those of Veracruz statuettes; cueitl has a border from a manuscript which I'm guessing is hanging white shells. Turquoise disk pendant from the same manuscript has little golden bells.	B3AGfaskn by me Aztec women's ensemble in shades of cochineal and blue; cueitl has a design from a Nayarit statuette, while stripey huipilli is from a manuscript drawing of a man's tilmatli or cloak. Turquoise collar after a painting of Nezahualpilli, the king of Texcoco.