I am wearing this gorgeous dress from ICING for the Vintage Fair. I don't know why, but it made me think of that great old song from Louis Jordan. So there's no secret message in this post.
Oh, I got a man that’s always late
Any time we have a date
But I love him
Yes I love him
Back by popular demand! The word for this coming week is ABANDON.
Abandon: to leave completely, forsake utterly, desert, to give up, discontinue, withdraw from.
The pic is a bit hestitant Ophelia, isn’t it?
The SL Weekly Words Challenge is a weekly blogger challenge where I pose a word and you take that word and depict it with an image. There is no right or wrong way to do this challenge. Pictures can have avatars or not, it’s about what that word means to you.
There is a small but festive FLICKR Group to post your pics too as well.
So feel free to participate. And there is no deadline, no rules, just something to inspire you besides “what shoes go with this?” which is why I created the challenge in the first place. Thanks to you who left me comments asking me to keep going. I needed a kick!
Next weeks words for those who need time for ideas to brew- CRISP AND CLEAN.
Style Notes:
Shoes: Haut.Monde – Gossip Heels – Heels
Lashes: Amacci – Eyelash Tattoo 6
Lipstick: -Belleza- Chloe Medium Lips 7
Lashes The Second: Amacci – Eyelash Tattoo 3
Hair: >TRUTH< Abigail – swedish
Ring: Dark Mouse Statement Ring – Brilliance (Right)
Dress: [celoe.chelsea.dress.champagne.M]
Shape: Gidge ~Savoir Faire Shapes~
Skin: -Belleza- Chloe Med 30 Cleavage
Eyes: Ibanez Liquid Eyes – Dire Wolf
Pose: STaTUS
“Fashion is self-consciously sociological and frankly featherbrained. It’s classic and immediate. Nostalgic and now. Worldly and other-worldly. Whatever’s happening you are part of it and at last you can be yourself and look as you choose.” English Vogue, 1968
1968 was the year fashion run amok. Hemlines on the runway ranged from the mini to just above the knee to the midi and the maxi. Women wore midi-coats with mini-skirts and minidresses over bell-bottoms. Velvet jumped off the formal rack and raced over to casuals and was seen everywhere. Thrift store chic meant looking like you dressed in a thrift store, not actually dressing in a thrift store. Fashion became not just a way of looking good, but a signifier of political and generational divides. Tonight you can visit the wild and crazy 1968 at The Velvet from 7 to 9 SLT – as Rock per Annum moves forward one more year.
1967 was the Summer of Love and 1968 was the year of sorrow. Martin Luther King was assassinated. So was Bobby Kennedy. The My Lai Massacre revealed that the American soldiers were not always the “good guys” of the romanticized war movies. The Tet Offensive challenged the military superiority of the American army. Richard Nixon is elected president after derailing the Paris peace talks by contacting the North Vietnamese and promising a better peace treaty with him. But it was not a completely horrible year. Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised their fists in a black power salute when getting their medals at the Olympics in Mexico. The Civil Rights Act was signed. Yale University opened admission to women. Intel was founded and President Johnson ordered that all computers purchased by the government support ASCII encoding, paving the way for generations of ASCII artists. Elvis made a comeback and the Beatles released The White Album and Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In debuted.
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How did this happen? Should I call 911? I know tornadoes do strange and mysterious things, but I don’t see any other storm damage at Empress & Hierophant, but wandering the hills I came upon a three-sheep pileup and stopped to help. However, the sheep seemed immovable and I eventually left them there – stacked and waiting for rescue from someone with proper perms.
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I can probably thank Brigitte Bardot for the small rush of things that bear my RL name, despite the variations in spelling, at the Vintage Fair. Continue reading
I only have two speeds when it comes to horns. Total disinterest or SQUEEEEE ! Yeah I know, it’s the usual blogger malady of being too enthusiastic about something. But perhaps you’d feel differently if I explained why these horns HAVE THE AWESOME so hard? Continue reading
The portent of doom and caution from GAME OF THRONES seemed best set to a bleak backdrop. This location at Mystickal Tymes isn’t quite Winterfell yet it’s imposing and a great place to shoot. Continue reading
Hiya!
This is going to be a very short post ’cause i don’t have much time and you don’t have much time either! Why??? Well…in case you didn’t know, there’s a super sale going on at Sn@tch: it started last friday to celebrate the 11/11/11 one in a century day and it will end monday, which is…erm….tomorrow! 50% to 75% off almost everything (new releases not included), so you better run 😀
In the picture i’m wearing one of my purchases, which comes in six colours. I love it!
the top is actually less sheer than it seems in the picture
Ivey rocks!
CREDITS:
I usually do not shoot my photos with shadows enabled. They just are not important enough to me to bother with the hassles. There’s so many little aggravations associated with it like turning system skirts into solid black in one viewer and losing all my alpha textures in another. However, the new pose prop from Behavior Body told me it wanted me to shoot it with shadows and when pose props start talking, they cannot be denied. I decided to go with this cute day dress from Indie Rose for the Vintage Fair because the prop told me to go black and white. Give a prop and inch and it will take a mile.
I even found these Lotus Pumps with Dots from Baiastice because there’s no telling what the prop would have done if i could not find some black and white shoes. Of course, I was only speaking with one of the prop’s personalities. It comes with a HUD for communicating with its inner spirit and I could have called up different walls and floor textures and released a completely different character from the prop – there’s even one that probably went to Woodstock and hung out with Jimi Hendrix back in the day.
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So you wanna be a guest stylist?
Well, I have to warn you. It’s hard work. It’s grueling, taxing work. There will be notecards to fill out with your fashion details and there will be standing on pose stands and other stuff.
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