Men's Second Style

ecause my avatar is unusually short and slight by SL standards, the growing trend of shirts and jackets to have prim cuffs, collars and lapels (sensible as it is to use 3D objects to represent parts of RL garments that are 3D) is unsettling. But in a few pieces, Winter DiPrima of Laqroki has managed to create prim-based collars that work — at least for me.

Buying myself garments with important sections that are prims is a form of gambling. Laqroki‘s High Collar Coat in Navy Blue was, my friends, the jackpot. It’s available in a range of colours, white, beige, grey, dark grey, military green and black, but the navy blue version seemed to me an exceptionally deep and beautiful hue. As well as the garment, given to us on undershirt, shirt and jacket layers, there is a prim skirt, prim sleeve details and the prim collar, which also adds the 3D pockets. All the pieces are tied together visually not only wtih the navy blue colouring, but also with some very distinctive large metal rings.

I have a lot of coats in my inventory, but High Collar Coat has got to be one of my two or three favourites. Much to my surprise, one of my favourite features is the collar, which is just a wee bit exagerrated… just a wee bit manga. What a brilliant piece of artistry. Read the rest of this entry »

I know, I know.  It does seem like I take an awful lot of vacation, doesn’t it?  Well, actually…no, not really.  But it does roll around with some regularity, and so here we are again.  I’ll be away from 21 April through 5 May, eating drinking and carousing.  (In other words, all the usual stuff.)  Envy me and weep.  It’s entirely possible that Mr. Oh might have a thing or two to share with you in my absence.  I do have one post in the works and had hoped to have it ready to publish before heading out, but alas–it was not to be.  It’ll come together all the quicker upon my return.

Seeya in a couple of weeks! 

It is a sad and unfortunate truth that things sometimes sit in my inventory for…a while…before I get to them.  There can be any number of reasons for this sad state of affairs.  Time, that’s a good one, or rather the lack thereof.  Forgetfulness is a classic—I forget how great something looked in the shop and it doesn’t come properly to mind when I notice it in the vast array of inventory folders.  Lack of organization, though, is the culprit far more often than not.  No matter how valiant my efforts to impose order upon the giant heap of chaos that is my inventory, like Sisyphus I face a never-ending, impossible task. Read the rest of this entry »

Forget your fellow man
Offer no helping hand
Put a little glum in your heart
You see it’s getting late
Oh, please don’t hesitate
Put a little glum in your heart

Another day goes by
Hey, hear the children cry
Put a little glum in your heart
If you want the world to know
We won’t let gladness grow
Put a little glum in your heart Read the rest of this entry »

Nix Sands’s Impressionista line of waistcoats puts a museum’s worth of artistry into your wardrobe. There are currently 9 in the series, with more allegedly on the way, and each one is beautifully made. Some, like Monet’s Lilies and Van Gogh’s Starry, bring to mind whole paintings, cut into waistcoat shape. Others, like Klimt’s Kiss or Swirl seem more like motifs based on the painting rather than wearing the painting itself. Still others, like Lautrec’s plums or reds, look like more traditional waistcoats.

Nix generously includes some period-piece flap-fronted trousers and a dress shirt with each waistcoat, so you’re ready to go before you know it! Elsewhere in the Xcentricity shop, you’ll find bow- or string-ties to go with the shirt, if you so require. Read the rest of this entry »