Just For Fun What is the most basic outfit you've ever had on your doll?

The “toga” dress where you basically cut up an old shirt into some long rectangular strips and then tie the pieces around the doll’s body in a way that resembles something passable

 

Same for me! Recently even! My friend gifted me an SD body and I didn't have anything with me for her to wear so I wrapped her up in a bit of fabric this way didn't look all that bad!

 

A typical 'tube' skirt. Some times in the form of a straight sleeveless dress and others as a round skirt with a simple elastic for the waist to hold it up.

 

Undies. What can I say, they came with the body.

 

A simple sun dress which I hand sewn myself..

 

My very trollish friend egged me on to put my UNOSS in a sock tube dress as a joke, literally a cut and unadorned tube. I showed her the photo but did not end up posting it publicly.

 

the bathrobe he came in

 

When I first got Willow's head, I wasn't really sure about her style, but she was so pretty, I had to take some pictures and at the time we were living with my mother in law (the horror!) who still doesn't like my hobby (though she's very supportive of my creativity, go figure). So, I wasn't about to take nude photos in her living room. I had this really pretty star fabric that I had planned to make a dress from later that I safety pinned on her to look like a sleeveless overlong dress. That was about as basic as i could get.

 

I have old "rush shots" of Adhara in a hastily put together dress made out of a bandanna and leftover Christmas ribbon. =)) (String around her neck is from a bikini she was wearing underneath.)


DF-H + IMPL + Fantasia by Yela Gatchalian-David, on Flickr

 

The most basic I've got — poor guy — is Lirio. He's a 65cm fantasy assassin, so I need to make his stuff myself and I've just... not had the motivation.

So to protect his modesty, he's got the most basic outfit I could find...



(It keeps coming loose... new take on the red ribbon / string of fate I guess.)

 

My most basic outfit was a blue dress I improvised out of a square of material.
I just molded it on the doll to cover it up and hand sewed it in place.

... She's still wearing it but I finished the hems and added a small bustier later on.


Reaa in Spring by Annie Richer, on Flickr

 

Same here. I had an 80cm boy just sitting around in boxers for a month until I was able to get him some pants and a shirt that fit.

 

plain white tee and shorts.

 

A piece of fur wrapped around my boy.

 

a couple of pieces of ribbon to cover important bits because I had no fabric to spare at the time xD

 

A sock dress for a Little Gem. Two weeks later the sock dress became a very much not basic looking tube shirt for an SD sized doll.

 

This Catsy dress was just a wide, wire-edged ribbon wrapped around. The belt was from one of her Elfdoll outfits.
Medea wants a picture with her new friend by Nadine, on Flickr

 

When my Souldoll Vito guy came home I had a lot of trouble finding his outfit because so few places offer clothes for 50cm size dolls. For weeks he wore a trench coat from another doll and was naked underneath. The trench would never close in the front completely so he looked like a repeat-offending flasher!

 

For a story I used a plain white paper towel as a hospital gown. Poked holes for the arms to go through and folded it around the body.

 

I'm a big fan of relatively simple fashions like a t-shirt and jeans for boys and a simple stretchy dress in a fun print for girls.

 

... a leg warmer for a "dress". All my other girls' clothes fell off of her ... the leg warmer didn't. But she has her own clothes now.

 

A scarf, wrapped and pinned in the back.

Granado Sidonia by TFAsiduri, on Flickr

 

90% of the time my DC Bella boy wears nothing but a remnant of silk gauze chiffon tied at one hip.

 

Opaline is currently sitting naked in nothing but a thong, does that count? XD (Probably not, it's not an outfit!)

I think the most basic "outfit" I've had on a doll was on my first girl, Tierney, a Bobobie Pixie, almost ten years ago. Unfortunately, I don't have a photo, but it was a denim skirt (more like a strip of old jeans, stitched up the back) and a hot pink ribbon wrapped around her rib cage, crossing over her chest and tied behind her neck. She had a sock dress too, but it was much more elaborate.

 

Hmmmm probably what I first put Shiwoo in when he arrived: a t-shirt off a stuffed animal and a cut-off top of a sock (that I wore as a wristband) for a skirt.

 

A scarf, wrapped around him like a robe. It wasn't even pinned anywhere, just tied in one spot, and tucked in another.

 

Hmm...the halter top made of a square of knit net fabric with chain hooked to the net to go around her neck and a jumpring catching the corners together in the front...one of the first things I "made" for Acacia Rose to wear with a pair of jeans a friend gave us, long before she became Amelia Peabody with an extensive Victorian adventurers wardrobe!

 

It's easier to get away with basic stuff on tinies... (maybe!). On my Bambicrony Misty Blue Kumi on the left-- she's wearing two pieces of trimming tacked together for the top and a hair tie from Claire's for a skirt.
07-06Nightshade154a449w by aprilllee, on Flickr

 

My boy Cedron is wearing a simple ripped piece of linen cloth which I temporarily used to cover his male part for taking first pictures (actually I wanted to sew him nice loincloth!) ... well, after years he is still wearing this old ripped cloth with a safety pin in the back

 

When I first started this hobby, I was quick to buy a doll, and forgot all about the clothes! I was so eager to do a photoshoot, so I had to improvise. I made green overalls from a sock. It was inspired the green overalls Lee Hyori was wearing in the MV Hey Girl! I actually still have it, though it's hanging by a thread quite literally.

 

I once took a snapshot of Tien Jen wearing nothing but a towel. (I'd just finished giving him a good scrub after one of his darker outfits left some stains and he looked so dejected sitting there that I just *had* to take that picture. )

 

When a doll comes home, I usually don't have anything ready. I tend to look through the stash of clothes in their drawers. Most of them end up with a button up shirt and a pair of dress pants. They could end up with a bow tie it other small accessory if they're lucky.

 

I have one who wears nothing but a bit of sari ribbon looped around his legs a few time to make weird little mummy skivs and it actually kinda works. No one ever comments on the fact that he’s actually about 92% naked. He’s cute I’m sometimes reluctant to clothe the better-sculpted ones. The ugly ones, however, look like the textile equivalent of Chipotle burritos.

I’m an advocate of stuff like sock dresses, I’ve definitely done that just straight up with zero shame. And arm warmers, you don’t even have to cut those. Also you can make a really easy pair of pants for a big doll from the sleeves of a long-sleeved shirt. Hit the thrift store or clearance section, find a basic pajama pattern to peep how to assemble them, and now all your dolls have great looking OOAK pants.

 

WELL. For me, before I had any clothes that fit lol, I put my doll in a sock lol. Cut out the bottom, pinned the back and tadaaa. *magic swoosh* Like a scene straight out of Little Mermaid.

 

When I first started in the hobby I met a very friendly girl who did some trades with me. We'd make things and exchange. She made me a sock dress and I quickly learned that this is pretty much a right of passage. lol So the sock dress is the most basic thing i've had on my dolls

 

basically all my dolls I have ordered they were arrived with their clothes or part of them, exception for the last two, the Bermann and the Venitu....
I don't know who is the less lucky between them, But I think my poor Bermann... the first time that he was come out, he wered an outfit improvised like Christmas tree made with my old jumper and christmas decortation...
Now his basic outfit are the pair of trousers made at the meeting!

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I totally did the toga dress with a twisty-tie belt for my first tiny! This was yeeeaaars ago!

Tiny-- Modded 010 by Skye, on Flickr

 

Sock dress of course..lol.

 

A loincloth/kilt? made from red linen scrap.

 

A little fundoshi made from the hem of a big t-shirt for my little 1/6 scale doggo! It's the only article of clothing he has atm until I can find some good fabric and learn to sew him yukatas and hakama pants and whatnot

 

Right now, my new big boy Impldoll Nicolas is wearing American Girl riding pants, LOL, poor thing! I need to sew him something badly!

I agree with this. And if it looks uncomfortable to wear, like I wouldn't wear it, I tend not to want my dolls to wear it, unless it's so dang cool, I pretend it's comfy as well :P

 

Kaiki in just hakama and a bit of jewelry and going commando

 

When I got Inanna in 2006 she only had one shirt, one skirt, and no shoes for months, and I can't really sew well so I improvised a lot of outfits. One of my favorites was a piece of ribbon from a Christmas present that I strategically wrapped around her. It was one piece but from the front it almost looked like a two piece outfit.

Old, super early picture of Inanna in her ribbon dress.

 

Red boxers

 

One time I had a naked EID man on the table and no clothes for him and my grandma was coming over so I wrapped a random cloth scrap around his waist like a loincloth and pinned it with a sewing pin...lol

 

Probably the most basic outfit I've made is the nightgown I made for my first girl, Blaze. It's made from the back of an old t-shirt of mine, with the sleeves part of the dress instead of being sewn on. There's no closure since it's stretchy and the bottom was pre-hemmed.

Kali's first outfit was a Mattel Kelly shirt i already had-
100_1436 by Zoe Gold, on Flickr

 

My doll was naked, and I cut the sleeve off an old silk shirt to fashion a toga.

 

My little tree nymph's "outfit" consists of some tiny apple charms I attached to her branches.

That's it, lol. She's one with nature so

 

She's wearing a pair of (previously unworn) panties, just pinned together in the back.



I meant to make a dress for her out of this fabric… but then I sold the poor girl instead lol

 

I have no pictures of it but I think the most basic was I wrapped some cloth around them like a toga and hoped for the best.

 

My ringdoll sd boy first wore a sock skirt. It was an awesome Cheshire Cat sock and the smile made for a lot of entertainment. It took about a week for the outfit I ordered to make it home.

 

Oh fun story behind these... I had gotten this cute Halloween fabric and made Avery (blue hair in the chair) an intricate Steam Punk/Lolita inspired Halloween dress... And then I found these socks and found them jeans that fit and went "screw it"

It doesn't get more basic than sock sweaters from 2015 and jeans.

 

When I got my second bjd I didn’t have any extra clothes yet so I took some lace and ribbion and made a dressy kind of outfit for her so she wouldn’t be naked lol

 

My dolls have probably worn too many of these types of "outfits". My personal favorite was the first dress for my first 60 cm doll, a Supia Muse. It was basically a glorified pillow case with a couple lengths of ribbon to cinch it in and keep it on. It was at least a bit versatile and I think I even still have it somewhere.

 

Hah! My example is a literal hare krishna scarf/shawl as a temporary sari/toga type outfit when one of my guy's commissioned outfits took a wee bit longer than expected. (The scarf was unharmed btw!)

 

Jade wore a tea towel for the first two months I had her.



It started like this, but it got slightly less basic when I turned it into a chiton by tacking it at the shoulders and adding a pretty ribbon for a sash. Even then, still not exactly vogue.

 

This one:


It's literally just fabric pulled toghether with a pin.

 

His undies are pretty basic (though nicely made) and the Barbies won't let him change.

 

A Toga with a ribbon belt. I think that it's one of the easiest pieces of clothing that anyone can make to cover up the dollies.