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This is the 3379th post at It’s Only Fashion – they do add up, don’t they? Why did I point that out? Mainly because I could not think of anything to organize this post around. I thought about writing about the effing brilliant Olympic Opening Ceremony – a democracy’s response to the despotic precision of China – but that doesn’t have anything to do with this outfit. I thought about writing about the ineffable presumption of some folks who are so quick to criticize others (creators, event planners, bloggers and photographers to name a few) and how that drip, drip, drip of negativity wears and erodes the spirit – but that doesn’t have anything to do with this outfit. I thought about writing about the fear of rejection that makes clicking an Add Friend button a fraught exercise in risk analysis – but that doesn’t have anything to do with this outfit either. But – I was wearing this outfit when these topics came up and somehow they came to mind when I started to blog.

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I even thought about blogging about the upcoming Vintage Fair. After all, the skirt from Peqe has a vintage flair. The fabulous print jacket is called Vintage and the set is Long Angel’s Vintage Picture Window set. I guess three vintages could make that work, couldn’t it? Even if none of the pieces are at the Vintage Fair?  So, yes, Vintage Fair is coming – opening August 4th and running to August 29th. I am excited and know many of you will be, too, but there are only a few peeks and previews on Flickr and elsewhere. I know it will be wonderful, but how wonderful is still a mystery.

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Candy Girl, you are my world!

I feel so totally cheery and energetic in this outfit. When I put it together I immediately felt like I needed to have a car with the top down, a pink poodle and 4 assistants to help me go shopping. Get outta my dreams, get into mah car BEEP BEEP YAH! Oh, remember the blonde chick with the big boobs that the stuck up housewives hated in the movie The Help? Yea, I feel like her. She was hot.

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balancing acts

Apparently I’m in the mood to blog, two post in one day, I’m on  a roll with a side of slaw. I was passed a skin from EiDOLAN Skins, which is a brand I’m unfamiliar with, called Nikita. I tried on the various eye and lip tattoos that came with it and found the combo I liked. I put on my truth hair called Bailey which I thought might look too bohemian for the corset I am wearing from Dilly Dolls but I think it works. Just because someone is wearing a laced up corset doesn’t mean they gotta look “hard”. I think it’s a good balance.

The corset called Dola Pinstrip comes in various sizes, normally I’m a size M when it comes to standard sizing but this corset is XS. It fits the breast well but also makes my waist super tiny, which is okay, it’s a corset.

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The Summer by The Sea Gacha – Opens July 1 !!!

The Summer By The Sea Gacha Festival opens in mere minutes and it’s been brought to my attention that I don’t mention enough that I have a pose store.

HEY!!! I HAVE A POSE STORE!

Now that this is out of the way, I’d like to let you know that STATUS POSES has an item in the SUMMER BY THE SEA GACHA, a big old beach towel with a smart phone and an appletini. The rare has a big eyeball beach ball. Becasue that’s awesome. Continue reading

I Leave You With I Love You

It always makes me sad that people don’t dress to travel. It’s not an occasion any more, it’s just something we do. I feel like it IS an occasion and do like to make it special.

So I drew an I love you on my bag, so everyone would know. Continue reading

My Second Box Launches – Showing Off Two of Five!

When I was growing up, we’d drive to the city to shop. We’d shop at Ayres, and at each department we’d tell the clerk, “for delivery.” Makeup was purchased at department stores, Bluegrass perfume (appropriate for young girls), an odd bob or doodle for your hair, and the items you NEEDED – nylons, new shoes, a sweater or two, maybe coats.

My grandmother and mom were usually with me. We’d eat lunch at the tea room, maybe finish up the shopping in the discount cellar for fun and drive home. Magically, the next day, a truck would arrive with brown wrapped packages with all of our purchases in them. Continue reading

Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps…

Rather than being responsible and working on my stuff for SL9B last night, I popped over to the Velvet to dance while Cajsa DJd. After about the third awesome and kind of random tune, I asked her what the theme was – joking “Just stuff I like?”

She said “yes that’s the theme, I couldn’t come up with one and as I flailed I decided to just make it stuff I like.” Continue reading

Bloody Mary

Bloody Mary

Alexander McQueen transformed fashion with his iconoclastic designs that overthrew fashion convention. He altered the gestalt of the fashion world before his tragic surrender to despair and suicide. But his influence continues, not only in Sarah Burton’s designs for his design house, but in the more theatrical fashion shows, the extreme silhouettes with fantasy hair and makeup and more diverse and interesting models that continue to bring excitement and vision to the runways. The rebirth of tailoring and the renaissance of rich textured brocades, prints and other fabrics all are part of his influence continuing. And here in Second Life we can see his influence with some of the work of designer Rollyn of Vangaurd. Vanguard is new to me. I saw the store at The Ashraya Project and fell in love with the fabrics and silhouettes. It has certainly been around since last December, but I only came across it this month. This rich, detailed dress with the amazing epaulettes is one of my favorites from her collection.

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