Hi there! Welcome to How Do You Make Custom Clothes? by clairemarie1994. So, how did you come across this story anyways? Were you simply scanning over stories on the Exchange when you came across this very story. And, at that very moment, were you wishing that you knew how to make custom clothes. If you were, then this story is for you! My name is Grace and I will be teaching you how to make custom clothes for your sims! All you need is The Sims 2 Body Shop and Paint. If you are not sure how to open one or both of those programs, I will show you when we need them. Oh, and you will also need the internet. So sit back, relax, and read this wonderful tutorial!

Okay, to get started, open up The Sims 2 Body Shop. To get to Body Shop, go to Start< All Programs< EA Games< The Sims 2< The Sims 2 Body Shop. When Body Shop loads, click create parts. (I circled it in red at the top to make it easy to see.)

Note: Body Shop might take a little while to load, and it can not run while The Sims 2 is running!

Now, when this screen comes up, press START NEW PROJECT.

Then CREATE CLOTHING.

And now we have this gray manequin. In this tutorial, I will be showing you how to make a custom shirt, so...

... go to 1. everyday clothing, 2. Shirts, and then 3. A shirt. I am using this pink, Maxis-made one, but you can use whatever one you want. But, I would suggest using a flat shirt, in otherwords, without buttons or collars, or things like that.

After you click on the shirt you are using, press the button at the bottom of the screen. It is the EXPORT SELECTED TEXTURES button.

Now you will be asked to name your project. I named mine example_shirt, but you can name yours anything you want, as long as you can remember what it is. For example, for this you could use shirt or custom shirt, or pink shirt (although it wont be pink for long! ^_^ ). After you type a name in the box, click the checkmark.

A little bar will come up to tell you that it is exporting, and after it goes away, It is replaced with this screen.
Now click the "X" button at the BOTTOM of the screen. It is the cancel button I circled for you.

When you press that, this box comes up. It basicly says that you can reload your project later if you want to, which is what we will do later. Press the checkmark and then...

...you are back to this screen. We are going to minimize Body Shop now. To do this Press the button I circled at the top of the screen. It is the _ button. Be sure NOT to press the "X"!

Now, open up the internet. We are going to pick out the fabric that your shirt is going to be now! I like to use the website http://gotfabric.com/fabric_shop because there is so much to choose from. When you get there, there are all these different kinds of fabric and example pictures. I am using flanel for this project. It is the green picture with frogs. So just click on the fabric you want.

In flanel there is a lot to choose from. But I chose this blue checkered pattern. You can choose whatever print you want. When you find one, click on it and a bigger picture will come up.

Like this! Now right click anywhere on the picture and click COPY.

Now it's time to open up paint. Paint should already be on your computer. To get to paint, go to Start< All Programs< Acessories< Paint.

Go to File and then Open. Or you can press Ctrl+O on your keyboard.

Now your pictures should come up. You need to go to My Documents,so click to My Documents icon on the side. (I circled it in red.) Once your documents come up, go to EA Games<The Sims 2< Projects< example_shirt (or your project name).

Now this should be up. If it is not pictures like these, right click on an empty space and choose View< Thumbnails. Now click the Pink (or if the color of your shirt) icon. It should be the first one. ~double click to open~

Now your paint screen looks like this. As you can see, there is a back and front side to the shirt. The back side is the first one.

Note: All of the visible shirt needs to be covered with a different color, or there will be pink spots on your finished product. For more info, turn the page.

Your fabric you chose eariler should still be copied, so go to edit< paste, or hit Ctrl+V.

Now your fabric should come up like this. Now we need to cover the entire back side of the shirt.

Make the picture bigger and make sure that the entire back side is covered. To make the pictures bigger, click and hold a corner of the picture (which are circled in red) and drag to the size you want.

Now we need to do the front side of the shirt. Right click on the fabric picture and choose COPY.

Then right click on it again and choose PASTE (or hit Ctrl+V on the keyboard).

Now there are two of the same picture. Click and drag the top one over the other side of the shirt.