Author Archives: Cajsa Lilliehook

About Cajsa Lilliehook

Santino Rice's little ditty "It's only fashion" seems a perfect title for my little fashion blog as you and i know that fashion means the world to him. Co-founder of It's Only Fashion and Blogging Second Life.

Golden Girl

Choosing something to wear while shooting a million hairstyles, I wanted a dress that would not interfere with the hair. No collars, ruffles or puffs – no prims, no sculpties. I wanted it to be relatively low cut as that tends to flatter most hair styles and really simple so it wouldn’t look odd with vastly different styles of hair. This dress pretty much fit the bill though it was a stretch for a few of the hats and fantasy hairs. It’s a lovely simple dress from Casa del Shai and really proved how flexible it is.

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Hair Fair 2009: Fantasy Hair

My last collection of Hair Fair pictures highlights the most fantastical and imaginative hair you can find. I believe all of these were promotional copies though I may be mistaken.  Several of these hairs are highly scripted, allowing you to customize hair color, fabric  and metal colors, the colors of jewels, shells, and thingamabobs. The Crustacean hair from Tekeli-li totally cracks me up. It reminds me of the scene in Farscape where Crichton says “Cross my heart! Smack me dead! Stick a lobster on my head.”  Most striking, I believe is the scripting in the Curio Oscura Pocketwatch that lets you change the time zone.  The most daunting hair is the Rococo Fantastico that actually has three pairs of dancers waltzing in a ballroom in the middle of the pompadour – and scripting can change their clothing and the decor of the ballroom – along with everything else.  To see full-size pictures of these hairstyles, simply check out the set on Flickr.

Ribbons & Bows: The Ordnance of Princessery

This is the set of hair that has been embellished with attached crowns of flowers, ribbons, bows, barrettes and all the other “make me look like a princess” equipment. Hence the Ordance of Princessery.   We make up lots of words here at It’s Only Fashion. As before, you can find the full size photos of any of the hair you want to give a closer look at its own set on Flickr.  The skin in these photos are from PXL Creations – the new Kim line.

Hair Fair 2009: Hat Hair and Men's Hair

As before, you can see full size photos of any of these hairs at the Flickr set. All are from Hair Fair and most were promotional copies sent by designers, though I also bought some of them. I sorted them all into a Hair Fair folder instead of into a separate promotional folder, so I lost track of which is which. The skin for all of the photos is the newest from PXL Creations – Kim.

Thar's Hair at That Thar Fair

And there’s likely some gold thar, too, in them thar hills. This is the composite of all the long hair styles that I have from Hair Fair (excluding ones with hats, ribbons, bows and skittles that are in another set.) Many of these are promotional copies, but they came so quickly that I lost track of which were promotional and which I purchased. Anyway, you can see the full shots on my Flickr, as before, I am using the composite to avoid flooding you with photos on the feeds.  The skin in all these shots is the newest release from PXL CReations, Kim!

Rebel Child

So Tenshi Vielle of Boutique (this is a new name) recently dropped this outfit on me and I had to share it because I love the fabrics.

So Tenshi Vielle of Boutique (Note: That’s a new name.) recently dropped this outfit on me and I had to share it because I love the lovely prints in the dress and the insouciant mix of contrasting prints. Putting it all together with the hat and jewelry that came with – I could not help but think of that tremendously earthy and powerful singer Gretchen Wilson and her song Rebel Child.

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Fabrics

When I first saw this dress at KA Designs I knew it was a must have because it reminded me so much of a dress my older sister had, one of my favorites. She’s enough older than me to have lots of cool retro dresses that she saved and one was very similar to this except it had capped sleeves and a brown sash waist. It was made with a blended wool challis that was so soft to the touch – imagine blending flannel pajamas with silk and you would get the approximate feeling of how soft and “pettable” this dress was. I am sure that is what explained the sly smile when she said is was her “best date dress.”

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If Wishes Were Horses…

beggars would ride and there would be no sick and dying children. But that is not the way of nature and the world and so there are many, too many children, whose lives are constrained and cut short by disease.  Adding to the pain and sorrow of disease, medical expenses often impoverish families and limit their options.  Sometimes it seems their only assets are love and family – and they are burdened with countless liabilities and limitations. Into that sometimes grim situation, one organization exists to bring joy – and frivolity. No, they aren’t seeking cures, they aren’t paying off the medical bills, they aren’t fixing lives. They are giving joy and making dreams come true and sometimes that is more than enough.

My assistant IRL has a daughter with a congenital heart defect who is awaiting a heart transplant – complicated by the lack of doctors willing to perform a transplant on such a small girl locally and the financial impossibility of moving an entire family to another state where there aresuch surgeons unless there were a job and a place to live waiting for them. So they hope and they wait and hope some more. They are poor – despite a good income – because even good insurance has copays and deductibles and taking 16 different medications means 16 prescription co-pays. Her siblings learn to do without and the family lives frugally with no vacations, no trips, no big events. But, next week they are all of them, every single one of them, going to DisneyWorld and spending a week of carefree joy – in a lovely resort, catered to and treated like royalty. They will get taken around by her daughter’s singing pop idol and for one week out of their lives, forget privation and enjoy some privilege. All because of Make-A-Wish Foundation – so when I saw today that Ryker Beck is offering her Exodi skins at 50% and that 100% of those proceeds are going to Make-A-Wish, my eyes welled over and they can’t quite stop. It’s a wonderful foundation from people smart enough and wise enough that families don’t just need the necessities, they also need dreams. Go to Exodi today and spend your hearts out because there’s nothing better than making wishes come true.

Dorothy Day

I cannot resist hair named after a real life hero – and most particularly I cannot resist hair named after a real life hero that is as gorgeous as this. I put it together with a practical outfit that the real Dorothy Day would have felt comfortable wearing.  She may have been a reformer, an activist, a world-changer, but she also was a beautiful woman. The foundation for this look is the perfectly lovely and stunningly executed Anoorea skirt from MichaMi.  I dithered over what jacket to wear, and chose the one from TOSL for it’s chunky, handknit homemade look.  That had me looking for a lilac shirt and this one from Zaara was made to order.

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