So, today is the first day of September. Labor Day is approaching for those of us in the United States which means, we’re approaching the time where people are going to start making fun of people for wearing white. (I never got that, why am I not supposed to wear white after Labor day?) The Sun is going from “OH GOD IT BURNS BURNS” to “Hey, kind of nice outside” and school is starting. Sadly even which school starting we’ll still see High School in SL and related communities. But I ramble….on with the clothes.
I rarely browse the blog feeds. I have been told in the past that it makes me a bad bad blogger, on the other hand I have been told I’m a bad blogger because I have zero fashion sense. Also, my t-rex arms may have something to do with that. But I was bored the other day and started looking and saw a place called Arnadi. And they had a Depeche Mode tshirt. This is cool of course because well, I like Depeche Mode and I like tshirts. So I wandered on over and discovered they had a lot of tshirts.
Speaking of T-Rex arms. I don’t know what I am doing wrong. I look at my shape and my hands go to where they are supposed to be. I hope onto a pose stand and start going through poses and it appears not so much. At this point I’m in the C’est La Vie Camp about it. I figure since I don’t have everything out to 100 and my head and hands are not set to 0 I’m doing better than I’d say at least like 70% of the SL Male population. To me that is a Fashion Victory.
It was around at this picture that I went “Oh hey, those are little Clockwork Droogs”. Now, I bought almost every tshirt at Arnadi. Because as previously stated. I like tshirts. However, what I am not showing are the sculptie parts that came with the shirts. They had sleeves and a bottom. And I put them on and looked and went “Meh”. So there is that I suppose.
Sophia Harlow told me to wear the Sonic Youth shirt. And since she threatened to cut me, I decided to oblige her. I like band tshirts. I really do. So Designers, start making them. And before you people start going on and on and on and on about how it’s content theft to make band shirts, let me preemptively hit you with a “I do not care so please shut the hell up”. Seriously, nobody is going to firebomb your e-store for band tshirts. Well, Artist’s Voice might. But really, who cares?
Look! Shoes! BEHOLD!!. Actually, I’ve been wearing these shoes more and more and hoorenbeek less and less. Probably because if I want to buy more hoorenbeek shoes I’d have to sell a kidney. And I was told I’d need at least two of those.
And now for what I was wearing.
Skin – Mathieu sk0 – Belleza
Hat/Hair – Hair+Hat Brown – Grasp
Shirt – Clickwork Orange/Sonic Youth – Arnadi
Pants – Hip Huggers Jeans Black/Blue – Connors
Sunglasses – React – Role Optic
Tattoo – Mohawk Faded – Garden of Ku
Bracelet 1 – Chorus Bracelet Grey – blitzed
Bracelet 2 – Spiked Cuffs Old Leather Black – blitzed
Shoes – lowtops no laces – HOC
Belt – Plugged Belt – Blitzed
Poses – LAP, exposeur, Olive Juice (See look Luna!!! I credited poses!!)
*this post and look have not been approved by Vic Zuzu.
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Awesome, I can cross off “cut Dan” on my to do list.
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If it’s up for discussion and I won’t be branded too much of a bitch for bringing it up…
I don’t think it’s the /length/ of the arms, per se, Length-wise they’re pretty much correct in the classical “where the hands should be when you’re drawing a generic person” way.
However, with the length of your legs and the width of your torso, the general impression of your shape is that of a /big guy/. I think I’ve only been near you in-world once and you’re not ridiculously tall, but the sum of the rest of your shape puts me in mind of a (relatively slim) pro-wrestler. Normal human males aren’t a good frame of reference for Second Life males unless you’re going for the skinny hipster look (which, clearly, you’re not).
Am sorry to say, but for “realism” in SL males, we need to turn to the WWE for inspiration.
For instance, look at the wrestler Edge, before he bulked up, or to a lesser extent, Shawn Michaels towards the end of his career. Both of them were of course far more muscular than a regular guy, and taller, but within their field, very much on the lean side, and this makes them good templates for SL male shapes.
By contrast, if you look at Triple H, or the late Chris Benoit, they always looked faintly ridiculous in terms of proportion, particularly in arm-length, because they carried the majority of their bulk in their arms and upper torso, which does not lend itself to any kind of “natural” effect.
If you want to specifically keep your leg-length, you might want to look at Kane, who, while being like, 7 feet tall or some such shit, is one of the /leggiest/ wrestlers I can think of, and his arms go waaay down.
tl;dr/puked at the mention of WWE?: I recommend that you bulk down your torso muscles some, and shorten your legs and/or lengthen your hips.
Also, nice outfit, adore those jeans. <3
(as a side activity, from the names I was throwing out, guess when I last watched WWE)
You just had to get that ” Fashion Victory” dig in didn’t you? You’re hilarious even when you’re not picking on the trollboy……………