Also, be sure to have your Sim/Object Details set on High. 

My bad, Carl... didn't see your post until after mine posted. 

Ah, okay.    Then, it looks like you may want to check out Peggyzone for the mesh (or Sims Cave (registration required)... booty seems to be defunct at the moment Nevermind... Booty Link)  Haven't found the texture in particular yet, but I'm thinking it's either on someone's LJ or GoS.  (Hopefully, for your sake, the former one.)  

Have you just tried installing the items on the sim with clean installer?  All you need to do is uncheck all of the other stuff that you don't need and leave the mesh and texture checked, then click the Install button. 

Raven, I have a fix for that mesh... I just never really got a chance to share it with anyone due to the "situation" at hand.    I'll try to see if I can share it somewhere soon. 

If I've learned anything from the wait and speculation from 2 to 3, I'll tell everyone else this:  Don't ever let your hopes for the game hype you up for it... the higher your hopes, the harder you'll crash once you see what it'll really be.  Believe me, it hurts. 

As for online play idea, geez, they'll really want to nickle and dime the heck out of everyone if that happens.  There's just no way it'll survive if they decide to go fully online with gameplay, especially if they don't have a large and dedicated task force to keep the trolls in check.  (... since we've seen an example of bad modding in the first Sims Online and of course the BBS)  The whole thing smells of a disaster in the making. 

Have you tried over at Sims Cave?  (registration required)  There's a whole thread that was started when her site went offline, and some folks were kind enough to post meshes and textures starting here.  

Cute!!  Love how those textures turned out, Raven! 

In her defense, what she did was supposed to be used somewhat as a fun move, not anything offensive.  (unless the word used during the "cough" is offensive itself)  It's just like someone coughing and talking at the same time, usually done to "secretly" reveal something in a comedic manner.

TL;DR:  I'm sure there was no ill intent meant, seeing as the winking smiley is there.   

Instead of just leaving us all with just a smiley here, it'd be much appreciated if you can put more details of what particular emo/scene/skater/or messy styles (short or long) you are looking for and which gender you want the styles for.  It'd make it easier to help narrow down the results to your exact preferences.  

If it's a recolor of a bodyshop/"clothing" mesh,  you usually could just make the textures transparent.  (aka filling the areas you want to use the sims' skintone black on the alpha map).  Unless what you're talking about is completely different.

"Oversized" baggy ones are right here.    Though, if those are too big, I was working on a less baggy version recently before my laptop decided to give me graphics and BSOD grief.  If I don't get a better computer soon enough, I'm fine if someone else does a mesh edit for you. 

Please make sure you note next time if one has to be registered in order to see a certain thread on certain forums.   One won't be able to see the thread with the images if they aren't registered at Sims Cave already.  You will probably have better chances if you save the image and upload it to a third-party image hosting site, then editing the link into your thread if you run into a similar situation.  Remember, only a maximum of 3 images allowed.    

Oh, really?      I haven't been keeping up with the mods as much, just know of some that are mentioned in passing.  Probably going to tell my friend he might want to consider moddifying his game a bit if he's up to it.  (He's still not an active part of the online community, but I'm sure once he sees what's available and test the waters, he'll want to get into it more.)   Thanks, Niecy! 

I can honestly say that I finally got my chance at playing vanilla Sims 3 once at one of my friends' house a few days ago.  Let's just say I'm still not impressed overall, except for the scenery, (Water effects on the lakes/beaches could've been a lot better, too, but other than that, nice background stuff) but it's not overly abysmal as a game... though it is as just a Sims successor.     

I had a somewhat frustrating time with the CAS... anyone who knows my style of simming knows that my sims have a "cartoonish" look to them, and I just couldn't achieve the effect I was looking for, even after an hour and twelve minutes of playing around with it.  I'm pretty sure if my friend had the modified facial sliders, then I may have gotten what I was looking for.  (That and if there was more room for having custom skins instead of just one type of skin overall.)  Plus, it wasn't long after I finished the family that my friend's PC just conked out for some reason.  I suggested he look for that frame rate mod just in case that was the issue, since that has been discovered that EA's bad habits of "fixing" bugs tends to work the heck out of a computer.   

And surprisingly, create-a-style was sort of nice, seeing as it cuts back on having loads of junk files in the game.  The gameplay, however, just seemed like the same thing all over again, with added tweaks.  I'm better off just sticking it out with Sims 2, even though I know for a fact I can barely start that up without issues either.

With that, going back on topic:

If what the OP says is true, EA is going to have to do much more than just add on to the current Sims 3 to make it appealing to more simmers... if certain things about the game weren't so awkward and buggy without modding (in the vanilla state, the unwanted spawning/dying off of sims, lack of car animations, the frighteningly bad look of the offspring... not to mention their screwed-up patches), plus if they hadn't screwed themselves over in the past with the Securom fiasco and now with even more game patch issues, it would have been cool to have this particular game style as a stand-alone addition to the franchise.  The whole concept of the game seems more like what they would've put in console versions anyways, just not a proper successor to the Sims. 

I still say if they had a Sims 3 Bodyshop and the Create A World tool already available with the game they probably would've done better.  Wonder what the next EP will bring... although I'm sure the ad that's out now is definitely not showing what may not be included.  We all know how that works, as always.