Suggestions, Please, Gentlemen (& ladies)
N A FEW WEEKS, I’d like to produce an article looking at Shirts & Ties in SL. Usually, when you buy a suit in SL, it comes with a shirt and tie. But I want to look at shirts & ties that you can mix and match with lots of suits. I imagine some of you, like me, will have started with the traditional classic: Blaze. Blaze Columbia’s simple yet suave Ultimate Wool Suits included a shirt and tie, but it was too tempting to grace them with extra shirts and a few choices from her wall full of ties.
More recently, we’ve seen the amazing packages of Performance Shirts from swaffette Firefly of SF. Each combination in this system can be worn in just about any way imaginable
I’d like to know which shirt & tie system you would recommend.
No shop does it all, currently, but an ideal system for me would sell a variety of shirts, plain and pattern, independently of a larger number of ties, also plain and patterned. The shirts should be available on a number of layers, the crucial one for me being undershirt. Ideally, it would include underpants layer as well, so I can wear suits with trousers that have lower waists. I’d prefer a simple no-prim collar, I think, but if not, one that fits a wide range of avatar shapes. The shirt should be available with options for the collar to be buttoned or loosened.
The ties should be available separately at a reasonable price, perhaps also in bundles of 3 or 4 recommended for each shirt in the range. The ties should match the shirt locations, obviously, for both buttoned and loosened options, and should be available at least as shirt-layer garments and probably also as slightly flexible prims.
No one does it all for me, but many do bits of it extremely well. Makers I expect to look at in my survey article include SF Performance Shirts, Blaze, King for Men, Dan Seynurt, and Schadenfreude. Please tell me who I’m forgetting and anything else you think is important. Thanks in advance.
Thanks mr. oh for doing this post – the performance shirt sets were born out of the requirements of my customers so posts like this are just what i like to see to help me improve my line. I will be interested to see the responses you get
It’s a prim collar/tie that sort of connected to the shirt, but Musashi Do’s InifiniTIE system with the HUD is pretty nice. Another, off the top of my head, Adjunct has a wide selection of bow ties and shirts.
Hoorenbeek, most definitely.
I agree with Marcus, Hoorenbeek
Baiastice
> Hoorenbeek
> Musashi Do
Sartoria, with their “Travel Shirts” line and several other suits.
Thanks, everyone. I will mention Baiastice, Hoorenbeek and Musashi-Do. I’ll look at Adjunct… but I think bowties and shirts are a slightly different genre and including them will include a lot more makers and the review is already going to be massive.
@Landaree: I am a big fan of Sartoria, but I don’t know a line of “Travel Shirts.” And zooming around the Main Store in the Velvet sim, I don’t see them… Are they a line of mix and match shirts and ties? Can you point me to where they’re sold? Thanks.
I think I just saw that @ Paddy’s. Shirts and ties seperate and on a load of layers! Ties even flexi
I like SF Designs, Hoorenbeek, Gabriel.
Mr. Oh, I’ve checked Sartoria and this line of shirts seems now to be retired, I can’t find them myself. But they surely were there, with the internal store prefixes ranging from S101 to at least S107 to designate colours (S101, white; S105, burgundy; S106, blue; and S107, black). Each one offered several models of the shirt, more or less closed from the neck, with or without prim collars, several layering options, and even a basic though nice tie.
Traveller Bade will surely be able to clarify where did these go, should you ask him; he’d probably be glad to have them featured in your upcoming article, and perhaps to put them back on sale.
Deffinatly try Lapointe & BastChild designs they have suits for all occaisions and youonly have to buy a suit once as they have add on packs that you can mi and match ties and shirts . deffenatly ono of my favourite places!
The dress shirts and ties at Blaze are excellent if you’re going for a classic look. Also, dress shirts at Muism.