::[Mr.Poet]:: at the Precious Ones Mall on J Island has taken things up a notch. I'm gonna give you the free first, but I'd encourage you to loose the wallet strings a bit and invest in some cool new looks.
The shop is small, offerings minimal, but what's there is choice. (Yes, I bought the whole shop save the skins -- and even the skins are nice, just a little on the young, bishy side for me, but nicely done nonetheless. There are two of them up on the lucky boards if you want to check them out, plus demos of the 20-something skins.)
There's several free gifts in the shop as well as the board. Up on the wall is the raised tank and plaid boxers pictured left. The tank comes in a couple of colors and the boxers are nicely fitted and detailed.
Next to them is another gift, a wrapped knit scarf (lower left), color change, mostly dusty aged colors that verge on pastels but still nice and really smooth color change (which is something -- the J Island sim is a bit laggy and the physics are a little jumpy. )
If you look to the right as you enter the shop, you'll see the open flowered Hakka shirt pictured upper right, hanging on the rack. It's free and when you try it on, you'll get an idea of why Mr. Poet is offering you something very cool: sleeve and collar sculpties are nothing new, but the ones in these shirts are incredibly well designed and, what makes them read like cloth, is that the sculpts seem to be carefully hollowed. So when you attach a shoulder prim for the upper sleeve or collar, there a flexibility to the fit that you don't find in block solid prim embellishments.
And that is seen best in the off the shoulder shirt pictured left. The shirts come with coordinating tanks and have short and long sleeves: You likely will, if your av has any upper body definition, have to tweak the sleeves and shoulder a bit, and maybe make the shirt a little larger. There's no resizer, so you have to use edit-click-stretch.
I'd also suggest you get at least one pair of the jeans. The fit and look is awesome and the belt detail is phenomenal. They also come in three wear options: boot cut, regular and roll up. Belt comes with and without extended tab at the waist.
The Tattoo I'm wearing in all picks is the Vintage Flair Hunt prize for men from V-Tattoo . It's a seriously nice full-body, full-color tattoo, given to you in multiple layers and multiple shades from dark to faded.
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Upper Left:
Vest & boxers-free gift
Upper Right:
Hakka printed cloth coat - $0L
Tattoo: V-Tattoo Vintage Flair Hunt (free)
Lower Left:
Leather woven pants white & belt camel $170L
Wide Scarf (color change) - free gift
Off shoulder shirt White $150L
Lower Right:
Knitted Coat Black $60L
Leather woven pants white & belt camel $170L
Poetic
Working at the Car Wash
It's time again for the $10L Cart sale at the Car Wash and The Wash sims. The sims may be retro but not everything you find on the carts is.
You're going to see a lot of familiar design names (Hell Bop, 22769, SD Wears) and some new players (Hey, Dark Water Designs). You can find everything from accessories to textures and a bunch of stuff in between.
Everything on the carts is $10L or less. The bulk of the clothing is for the ladies, but you don't have to look hard to find unisex and men's things as well.
Among the goodies are always some fun choices from Hell Bop. Their cart is located in front of their main store on the The Wash sim. I think I bought everything on their cart except for the sock-gloves and I may go back for those.
Upper left: Hell Bop - Wyatt - Black Cow shirt, Maloney & Hudson Grey Jeans with Belt.
Upper Right: GoodVibez American Pride henley, Hell Bop Manny - Black Dickies.
Lower Left: Hell Bop white tank, DarkWater Designs Vegas shirt (may need some adjustment via Edit appearance. close the shirt front), Hell Bop, Sammy B Black Board Shorts. Shoes: Kalnin's Milestones (from the Addiction Hunt).
Lower Right: 22769 Yellow Paisley scarf, 22769 Green long sleeved shirt (push up sleeves), Maloney & Hudson Leather Pants.
Taxi: Car Wash and The Wash
Eyes gone forever!
Casual Catches
Playing catch up, and this week netted some cool casuals. Equilibrium is offering their usual awesome range of jeans and shirts this month: Group gifts, Prize for Picks, MM boards, and their freebie of the week. They have put out a pair of jeans from their new grunge line, an open belt accessories on the MM board, Guitar hero shirts stepped up with collar and cuffs and a nice summer tank to keep things cool.
And you will need the EQ jeans to go with the bagful of shirts Cocora Lemon at Coco Designs is offering to her group. A fatpack of relaxed, soft-looking tees in 7 colors. If you've never checked out Coco Homme, this is great opportunity to do so. her male line isn't large but it is incredibly well done and not outrageous. Boots and belts, jackets and jeans...join the group, grab the shirts and talk a walk through and snap a few pictures on Cocora's interesting minimalist sim.
It might get a little cool in those fields too, so take and extra sweater: This Hip Woolen Sweater from Robbish from the 060MDN hunt settles easy on your hips, just in case a cool wind whips across the plains.
And while you are tromping through her open fields, you might need a pair of sturdy boots.
Last post I suggested you check out the lucky boards at Knights Innovations -- well if you took my advice and did so, you should have gotten these boots in your Hell's Warrior delivery. Solid tread, multiple textures, quirky embellishments, and a resize menu. You may not get boots every time, and maybe you don't really dig the Kilt and Cuirass look, but grunge, ghetto, or gas station attendant, these boots and the others offered through Knights Innovations with their sets are kind of worth the 2 minutes it will take to TP and slap the boards. But I do recommend you take a good look around -- because you may be seriously surprised at what you find. (click for larger detail)
Also up are t-shirts from [arnadi], but not just any graphic t-shirt. yeah, you get cool pop culture shirts but these come with a few extras: Multiple cuff and shirt bottom options. What I'm wearing here from their lucky board has 6 different sleeve options -- I'm wearing the double sleeve and double bottom, which gives the illusion of a plain white T underneath. you can wear them tight tucked into your jeans or loose and lazy as pictured here. The graphics are well done and fun and the fit for all option an easy edit if you need it.
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Pictures Top to Bottom, Left to Right
Top left:
Equilibrium: Green ripped jeans Midnight Mania Board, Punisher tank male gift
Top Right: Coco Designs: Homme Gift-Tee Black, Equilibrium: Bloodygrunge group gift (check notices for the next week or so), Coco Designs: Homme Gift-Tee Black
Center Left: Coco Designs: Homme Gift-Tee Coral, Equilibrium: Blue Jeans on group notices
Center Right: Coco Designs: Homme Gift-Tee Grey, Equilibrium: Darkmeted jeans Lucky board prize, Hip Woolen Sweater from Robbish
Boots Left: Knights Innovations -- Hell's Warrior
Bottom Left: Equilibrium Brown drawed jeans MM prize,[arnadi] - Tshirt Red Geisha boy- Lucky Board
Unintentional Hiatus - Classic, Couture, Casual
I didn't actually mean to be so long between updates. RL required some attention for a bit, however, here we are again with new stuff for you to look at.
If you are not regularly checking out the Midnight Mania boards at Knights Innovation, you are missing out. The content offering changes daily, the boards rarely fail to offer up their goodies and when they do, what you get are quality, highly detailed outfits suitable for your favorite Fantasy, Medieval or Post Apocalyptic adventures. Knights Innovation really do quality work, often offering full outfits down to the boots, nice side weapons (unscripted) a with multiple wear options: i.e.m the outfit shown here, Dark Warrior 2 Pack, has three kilt options - two long and one short, and multiple shirt options including the muscle style shown here.
Brocade Tiger (left) has changed locations and as an opening gift, Lexi Vargas is offering this tiger stripe version of his Black Snake outfit; laced up pants, cropped open top and sculpted collar; fashion and fun for free.
Lexi offers a wide range of men's and lady's wear that is fantastical, fun and reasonably priced. He specializes in rich textures, patterns, brocades and little extra flourishes.
Next to Lexi's shop on the celebration sim is VH Industry, (right) where you can pick up this grey logo'd pull for $1L. I matched it up with the group gift from Robbish, wader denim shorts. Denim chucks are from Akeyo (color change, resize, not free but awesome).
Glam, Grunge and Groovy man
I got a virtual and literal handful of advances from two of my favorite designers: 22769 and Equilibrium, and a new find, the discount room at Glam Affair on the Beauty Avatar sim. Not all free but definitely worth a look.
(As always, click for larger pictures.)
22769 is participating in several hunts: Go 4 the Goal, Groovy Love, Fallen Angel, and the Song Lyric Hunt. (Fallen Angel ends Sunday, the 20th.)
Also 22769 is giving out a skin, Julian, as a gift for the group hitting 250 members (pictured left and right). This is a nicely detailed skin, striking classical features, moderate body hair and and overall nice even skin tone, excellently shaded and with a skin texture that eliminate the bland perfection of a lot of skins.
Left: The June group gift is this Lounge Lizard casual look -- for those nights when Muzak and a bowling ball is all that you need.
Right: Child of the Sun should evoke every summer of love reference you ever heard. It's a unisex set, flamboyant and bright. I'm not sure how often I will actually wear the pants, but hey, everyone should have something flashy in their wardrobe for those club nights where the theme is peace, lovem and rock & roll. Comes with the belt, necklace and bracelet.
Below - Left to Right: 22769 - #1: Go 4 the Goal hunt gift #2: Modern Hippies hunt gift #3: Song Lyric Hunt gift#4: Living in the Seventies hunt gift.
Equilibrium has released an entire grunge line for your fashion pleasure. Six styles of grey gritty t-shirts and 6 versions of jeans at various levels of distressing.
The graphic Tees run $150L Each and the jeans are $250L.
I'm particularly fond of the Mug Grey jean and the N002284 shirt - I like the fit and stresses of them both, and overall I think Junior offers a nice addition to the casual wardrobe.
While you are there though, do check upstairs and get on the MM board and grab your prize for picks. EQ also has a Mystery Board as well, so you can try your luck at the prizes there.
For World Cup Fans, $10L gets you Brasil's yellow team shirt.
And if that wasn't awesome enough, someone tipped me off to the discount room at Glam Affair which, seriously, empty out your virtual piggy bank and take a look.(Glam Affair is formerly Beauty Avatar and some of the clothing still has that line name. Don't be confused)
Almost everything is $10L. A couple of the suits will cost you $20 -- separates and sets, there's a lot to choose from.
Left is one of the suit sets at $20L: Padborg 08, separate jacket and tie set.
Right: Caen Blue/white - one of several color combinations.
Fashion Fair
The 2010 Fashion Fair opened yesterday and runs through the end of the month. While the show itself has a lot of designers to offer, it was a bit disappointing to find so few offerings for men among even recognizable designers. There's not much offered in the way of free or promotional items, or even discounted ones. Sponsored by Simode, and boasting international designers, it looks as though they'll have a full schedule of events throughout the month.
Maverick Designs has a presence there with both their shapes and clothes, and they have a offering from Flavor Designs for hair for $1L just inside the door, but I wasn't actually looking to change my shape, so after a look around, I moved on and found La Rosa, which did have some bargains -- nothing extraordinary but most of their outfits include shirts, pants and shoes. The shirt in the menswear 002 I picked up, only has a jacket layer which, given the open design of the shirt, works okay for me -- I can toss a tank under it to change up the look and at $99L for the outfit including the shoes, I was okay with that (and the odd placement of the buttons - which I only noticed when I was working with the photo.)
PixelFashion had a couple of things I liked, including their jeans, but I passed on those for the Khaki & Blue shirt at $190L, because I'm a sucker for plaids and this was a nice one -- there were other colors available, subtle rather than bold, old faded plaid cotton as opposed to the thicker look of a flannel. The downside is the cuffs are no mod. I also really liked this Knotched Jacket at $230L in black. Since the coat is unwearable (there is no other version of it, unlike the waist plaid shirts SF Design offers), it's pretty much an accessory rather than an article of clothing. There is a demo in the display. If you like the look and are considering it, do try the demo first.
Brocade Tiger introduced a new crop look into his line; Black Snakeskin pants with a lace-up leg, sheer snakeskin long sleeved shirt with a really subtle sheen and pattern, and a fringed bolero jacket in the same black snakeskin. The Fringe comes sized for a back less broad than mine but it lined itself up perfectly on my chest so actually making the minor adjustment to size it was a snap, and no resize script to add lag. This is pretty obviously club wear but pull the bolero off or wear it alone and as with most of Lexi's pieces you've actually got several new elements to add to your wardrobe rather than a single outfit. At $300L, it's pretty mid range for something you could conceivably wear 6 or more ways.
The last outfit here isn't at the fair but I tripped over it looking at something else, and since I'm currently RPing in a urban sim, it was a little too much to pass up at $199L. From DrD, [Death row Designs] is this Dirty Deeds outfit -- pants, coat and two versions of a bloodied tank in white and beige. Add one of your own tanks (without blood) and you've got something very cool, or, put the bloodied tank back on and head out to your favorite RP sim to enact virtual mayhem on your friendly Co-second lifers.
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Hair:
#1 Flavor Design Eric Hair Coffee (in the Maverick Designs showroom at Fashion Fair. $1L)
#2 & 4 ZEUS YH-01 5color Black (not free)
#3 Rigel Mesh black - from the Hunting 9 hunt.
When dog days were puppies
I've been a bit MIA lately -- wish it was because I was on a fabulous vacation but alas, mostly I've just been insanely busy. But, here's hoping June will be a little less hectic...and to start the summer off right, both Gabriel and Equilibrium have some cool stuff for you.
Gabriel swapped up the group gift to include a tribal tank in blue and black. Summer is the best time for tank tops and these graphics reflect that -- not a store logo, just a cool summertime sun emblazoned along one side.
That makes them perfect to be matched up with the usual generous gifts offered by Equilibrium -- this month there are three separate pairs of jeans and a fun Guitar Hero graphic Tee (in store gift -- look for the bag near the door.)
The pale blue jeans, with the dark shading are this month's Group Gift. For having the store in your profile picks, you can pick up these dark brown jeans, and the Midnight Mania offering are these open-waist blues (and fixed boxers - sorry those of you who like to go commando -grins-) complete with undone belt.
Over at Bellissima! you can snag this full outfit from their lucky board. The T shirt set (three versions, tucked and untucked ) are from the popular "Archer" animated series on FX --the outfit comes fully loaded: shirts, jeans, belt and boots. Even if you aren't a fan of the series, you can certainly be a fan for the generosity at Bellissima!
In the Free and Not Entirely Free category, I offer up the new monthly from F2H, which is one of my favorite places for nice looking , stylish looks that don't break the bank, Linden or otherwise. This red Racerback tank has a nice sheen, shadow and wrinkle texture, an unobtrusive logo and pride star at the chest.
I put it with this not free kilt from Sangre Noir (at the Shopatorium) which you should consider for a couple of reasons: First, its $200L which is an excellent price for a kilt of this quality. And what makes it quality, you ask - well, you can't see it in this static picture, but this kilt moves like it's made of cloth. It's a dark charcoal grey texture that looks like finely scraped leather and the triple wrap belt detail on it is amazing (take a look at the clasp sets). You actually get two versions of the kilt itself - one with a resize script and one without. Noirran Marx, the creative mind behind the Sangre Noir line, doesn't do men's clothing very often, but she's a kick ass designer and when she does something she does it well. (She also has a couple of turtlenecks available for men with equally nice detail and textures -- but since we're going for the summer theme here, I'll let you take a look at them for yourself.)
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