Oxford Morning Suit by SF Design

December 12th, 2006 at 05:30pm Zebediah Godwin

High on my list of nice problems to have is “too many options”. Sometimes a designer creates several different variations on a theme, and it’s hard to choose which one of the many options you like best. Such is the case with the Oxford Morning Suit from SF Design, the next installment in my survey of formal wear for the holidays. swaffette Firefly has made this outfit in a number of color choices, and it was hard to pick just one. I was torn between the one with the black jacket and charcoal gray pants with gold vest (pictured here) and a variation with black jacket and pants with blood-red vest and tie. But since I already have several black-and-red suits in my wardrobe, I decided to go with the gold vest. No sense getting stuck in a rut.

The set contains pants, jacket (with lower jacket on the skirt layer), gold vest (on the shirt layer) and white shirt with gold tie (on the undershirt layer). The design of this suit is outstanding, and the workmanship is top-notch. Check out the crisp pinstripes on the pants, the realistic shading of the wrinkles, and the detailing of the vest buttons – the bottom vest button is left undone, a subtle but nice touch.

If the suit has one flaw, it’s minor – the very top of the pants tends to show through the skirt layer in the back, so I had to “poof out” the skirt layer a bit to fix that. This isn’t so much the fault of the suit as it is a problem with the design of Second Life’s male avatars.

SF Design advertises this as a “wedding tux”, but if the only time you ever wear a tuxedo is on your wedding day, you’re missing out on lots of opportunities to look great. Besides this version, the Oxford Morning Suit is available in the aforementioned blood-red variation, as well as one with a cream vest and tie, one with a burgundy vest and tie, one with royal blue vest and tie, one with red plaid vest and bow tie, and one with the jacket, pants, vest and tie entirely in purple; price per suit is a very reasonable $300L. As if all of that wasn’t enough, you can also buy the individual pieces of these suits separately at the SF Design store in Lotus, allowing you to mix and match to your heart’s content. So many options, so little time – a nice problem to have, if you can get it.

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Notes: Also on Zebediah: Skin: Nomine Brown 10.1 clean by Munchflower Zai | Hair: Inferno With Bangs Dark Brown by Tami McCoy

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