Friday Focus: Tank to Boots, How a Fashion Blog Happens.

Or “I need an accessories intervention” and the process of outfit development.

This look started with an innocent plurk about Callie Cline’s new tank tops.  Believe it or not, I had never been to Callie’s store. Yes, I admit it.  I manage to log on, and stand for a long rez.  (My end, not Callie’s store)  Loved the tanks, nabbed mega fatpack, and Callie gave me a free glitter tank (woot!) -She was there hanging out, (and as it happens my apparent twin sis rezzed right beside me) and we had a fun chat.  This was merely the beginning. 

I logged off, and returned later when I had some bandwith to rez the rest of the store, and that is when I saw the vendor for the UBU Rubber rain boots.. OMG.  Skulls, retro-tattoo theme, instant love.  Do I need to mention the quality of UBU products?  I think not.  Resizer in boots, fantastic detail.  CaChing, boots.  I stood in the store, looked around and said wow! Then the boots told me: reddish jeans needed.  CaChing.. oh wait, look at those other…CaChing CaChing…

I now had on the boots and the Reddish jeans.  Boots now tell me they needed one of the tanks, so I rezzed box after box right in the store (love being able to do that, TY!) until I found the best match in the pack of blue tones, yeay! 

Now needed something on top to bring the jeans into it and balance it out. Fishy Strawberry Minihood saved the day, the brown was just close enough to be in the same ballpark.  Spent half an hour trying on hair to find a shorter one that wouldn’t mess the hood prims, and would still tone well with the outfit.  Found this Uncleweb Burley. (Since the new MAD Designs hair I wanted to use isn’t out until tomorrow..Hair Fair!!!! WOOT!!!!)

At this point I needed a long hangy necklace to break up the expanse of tank.  I remembered a necklace that I bought  but had given away to a <3 friend as a fun gift.. and had to go look for it.  Off to Fashion Mode to find Creamshop. 

What a great mall btw. The most realistic mall I have seen so far, food court, escalators and I had Zero lag.  Raven (Did I mention I was dragging the poor guy all over with me?) found Creamshop on the second level (he is my seeing-eye shopper’s aid as well) and I bought the necklace.  Worked perfectly.

While I was editing the necklace, I realized I was standing about a meter away from a Creamshop display of handbags.  I must mention at this point that I have NEVER bought a bag in sl before. Ever.  I looked at my outfit and knew that it needed a blue tie-in item, and over on the display stand was a very nice looking bag in the right shades…so I clicked to buy.  $375L??? WTH? for a bag? I had to think for a bit, plurked for advice, did some closeup zooms and went ..OMG.  I took a leap and bought the bag.

I put the bag on, and realized not only were there awesome things IN the bag… it had poses!  I did not know this, and still don’t know if it is typical, but definitely made the bag SO worth the money.  Beautiful detail, cool things in it, charm outside dangling, and poses.  It just rocks, and definitely made the outfit what it is.

I had the knuckle ring set languishing in my inventory from a “come see what I found” TP invite a while back, and they suited my mood to a T.  They come with both gold and silver sets, Hate and Love, (one on each hand) and resize script works very well.

Raven found a great backdrop to go with the rainboots theme, and we were good to go.  Hour or 2 of finding the right poses, fixing the bag poses to match, Raven listening to me growl, editing shots and sending to me, then hour or 2 of PS compilations and resizing, Flickr uploading, editing, then few hours of blog writing and slurling.  Thus a blog post is born.

Below are the results of the effort.

Fashion credits and slurls:

Tank: caLLie cLine – med blue ribbed racer tank

Jeans: caLLie cLine -  fLoraL wash

Shrug Sweater: *Fishy Strawberry* minihood

Boots: UBU Tattoo Rain Boots

Bag: {creamshop} Madrid – Leather weave bag(Lightblue)

Necklace: {creamshop} cock?swan? necklace (gold)

Belt: Maitreya  Leather Belt

Knuckle Ring: QC Designs Knuckle Ring Love Gold

Hair: Uncleweb Studio, Burly-Hair  type-A

Photography by Raven Haalan  <3