SGB - Festival by the Sea

There was a big party at SGB (Sounds Gravis Beach) recently and I missed it, but a good many of the party favors and some discounted items are still there if you visit and wander a bit along the boardwalks, including this free pack of tank tops from Connors. You get two version in multiple layers. The one left is the Organic tank, but there's a second with a faint strip on the fabric. Good, solid texture work on both of them.

You can also find two different pairs of swimming trunks from Connors for $50L each. The ones pictured is Batik Towel, with a vibrant print across the hips and a plain crotch panel. It only comes in a pant layer but does have prim cuffs and a drawstring detail prim.

Connors was also offering some bright batik style beach wraps for the ladies and some Hawaiian shirts for the guys (or unisex.) These discounts will be good until the end of August.

It's all about the beach at SGB (and the music) and further along the boardwalk will net you this very nice tattoo from Daisuki (two styles, front and back ink) and close to that is this board pose with board and another to hang on your house to make your surf cred solid from +PLUS.

There were other gifts to be found (pictures below): a Festa Sofa from +PLUS, a very cool clock from Chabinns!, a set of three lamps and a set of wall decals from {what next?}, SGB-A4 speakers from high_end audio system, household items and shirts. I didn't go into every store on the sim but some very well known designers are there (VitaMen, WMD, HyperCulture, {what next?}) offering free stuff or discounted items. There were also designers I didn't know, but was intrigued by.

So, put on your flip flops and take a stroll through the SGB Summer Festa.

Poetic

::[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

Old School

Turn of the previous century old, that is:

:F@C: [Fiction & Chaos] offered up this Clock maker's hat and hair as part of the Steampunk hunt. Was blogged here a couple of weeks back but it's fun enough to show again and the Steampunk hunt is over at the end of the month.

Via group gift (and available as a dollarbie from her shop) comes Erwan from Dany French Touch. Dany continues to give her group members fun and unique styles to play with, and she is now back (and much more suitably) in her own shop at New Toulouse Bayou (part of the Toulouse group of France-New Orleans/Creole influenced sims) Shirt, Vest and pants and a belt that comes both with and without your own copy of Le Monde. (And yes ladies, there are always gifts for you too.)

She also passed her members the slightly more formal Albin this morning: Lace collar and cravat, pearl brocaded waistcoat, white starched shirt and cuffs, black trousers.

Dany's Group costs $50L to join. but most of her gifts are later released as dollarbies, so there's no real way to lose here. (The way her group works has changed: Erwan is currently for sale in shop for $150L, Albin is a dollarbie. All the more reason to join the group. )

The boots here are (Shiny Things) Old Boots (for men) - hard black (not free).

The tattoo is the current *Connors* group gift (Mandara Art003 Tattoo) and the skin is The Librarian from iNflict (not free).

And while Not Strictly Old School, it kind of fits the vaguely Victorian theme to the theme. Hell Raise is currently in the lucky Chair for men at +Calamity+.

Hell Raiser has a closed vest and full skirt/coat bottom that (deliberately) never quite settles, plenty of chains and metal, A top hat to give you that punkish feel and dark nose-riding sunglasses that remind me of nothing so much as Tom Petty's "Don't Come Around Here No More" video (albeit without the cake and dormouse.

The tattoos are part of the outfit as is the long muzzle loader worn on the hip. It's as much fancy as funky.

The hat and the belts are resizer controlled, so the whole thing can be a little script heavy. Once you've got them fitting the way you want, you may want to delete those scripts. The skin Kyr has on here has a scalp patch, but otherwise you'll need hair (unless you like the bald look.)