The weather is getting cooler. Spending hours waiting for Tri-Met yesterday, I could have used this outfit, so comfy, so cozy, so very chic. With a very modern silhouette, the tweed pants outfit from The Annex is a Fall/Winter stunner.
The top is a coat-length tweed that mixes two very different tweeds for dramatic effect. That big, bold tweed on the sleeves would never work over the entire body, but as an accent on the sleeves, it is fabulous.
I’m sure like a ton of ppl have blogged the Glam Affair skins @ Horrorfest and I don’t curr cause I’m doing it too! There are several really awesome choices to choose from and I went with the pink one. The skin is perfectly pale and slightly phantasmal.
Wearing:
Glam Affair – Vera – Horror Edition II – 06
Alice Project – Willow
Ikon – Vanity Eyes – Banchee
Autumn is always the best season of the year back in Minnesota. Spring was wet and muddy, summer hot and muddy and winter dry and frigid. But the autumn, the weather was perfect – dry and sunny days, perfectly cool and fresh. The brilliance of the leaves changing, the birches to yellow, the sumac a rich burgundy, the maples a fiery orange and the basswood a deep mustard. This riot of color would play against the deep greens of the pines and the firs, a rich patchwork of dark and bright colors that, for me, was always the most beautiful palette of the year.
This dress from Kunglers calls that fall palette to mind – the flashes of leaves among the Norway Pine and Black Spruce with the golden tamarack and burgundy sumac and the olivine hemlock. Just looking at it makes me feel a little homesick for where I grew up.
Mami Jewell of Azul is one of the go-to designers for red carpet events. Her gowns are always luxurious, dramatic and perfect for grand occasions. So, I don’t have a grand occasion to go to and no one is laying out the red carpet for me, but I decided to wear it anyway – just because it is so gorgeous and I am thrilled to see her moving into mesh creation. I chose to wear the new Adam n Eve lace glove applier for SLink hands – not because of any problem with the Azul gloves, but just to make sure folks know they have this option for their Slink hands.
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I love a bit of glam. I’m travelling today, and it put me in mind of a more elegant time when people actually bothered to look nice before they got on planes and trains.
I wasn’t anywhere this elegant on my plane today, but I was in my mind.
gidge is wearing:
Lashes: Amacci – Eyelash Tattoo 6
Beauty Mark:{Luxuria} Les Mouches – Small Circle *Passonate* 1
Shades: MIAMAI_Lou glam glass (add me) Golden
Hat: MIAMAI_Lou glam hat (add me) – Flour
Hands: Slink Mesh Hands (av) Elegant S Right
Nail Color: FLAIR
Studio: VR Studio HUD
Eye control: [gi inc] Auto Focus 2.1
Skin: [Pink Fuel] Alyx – Pink/LidA (ltbrow)
Eyes: Nomine Stained Eyes – purple light
Pose: Pretense
Everybody knows the old saying “Patience is a virtue.” But how many have internalized it? How many people actually practice patience? This thought comes to mind frequently in Second Life®. I suppose it’s because we get seven days in a 24-hour period, so we expect everything to be seven times faster. Impatience is a systemic problem and it does not serve people well. Being a fashion blogger, of course I see most impatience in that world – with creators and with bloggers.
As a blogger, I cringe with embarrassment when a new blogger after putting up her masthead and clever name and writing an introductory post sends mass notecards to designers asking for review copies. At that moment they have an audience of one – and that one does not want to buy anything, does she? I blogged for six months before I got my first review copy and that was unsolicited. I did not feel I could ask for review copies until I had my blog on a couple feeds and knew it had good exposure to make it worth their while. I set a goal of 300 unique visits per day before I would approach anyone for review copies. That took seven months of patience, but it was worth it. When I asked a designer if I could blog something, that designer would know that I was dependable because I had proven it with time and patience. I would recommend bloggers put a minimum of three months into blogging with regular blog posts before even thinking of approaching a designer.
This may be a dress, but I cannot see myself wearing it that way. I don’t mind short, but if I don’t have to bend over to show off my panties, well, it’s a tunic, not a dress. But what a tunic! I love its simple lines and modern aesthetic. It zips up the back for a snug fit and the small center pleat gives it just the perfect bit of swing. I love everything about it once I quit thinking of it as a dress.
I’m afraid that after I walked myself to death shopping this evening, I had to just kick off my shoes and do nothing. There is a reason why I create my comfy, happy rooms. It’s for nights like this that I’m just quiet and thinking of how lovely this little world is. Getting ready for Halloween and all the shopping that goes with it has me in a tizzy.
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One of the reasons I enjoy Fashion Week in real life and Second Life® is the abundance of high fashion designs that are haute, haute, haute. Take the Liana gown from Zanze. There’s nothing practical or sensible about and that is why I love it.
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I had some fun making Projectors for my Gacha items for the HORRORFEST event that opens at 11:59 pm tomorrow night. That’s ALMOST the 19th but not quite. You’re very smart so I suspect you’ll sort it out.
There are five projectors that you can use independently or together in layers. The RARE is the terrible spider you can add or use on it’s own. Continue reading