« New World Tableau: Gigmonger Stine's "What Lies Beneath" | Main | Insta-Studio: Good How-To For Building A Photography Stage »

Tuesday, July 01, 2008

Comments

Feed You can follow this conversation by subscribing to the comment feed for this post.

Vidal Tripsa

Excepting my shape I suppose that the oldest item I regularly wore (until a recent upgrade) was my marionette cross; a wooden apparatus that floats above my head and streams Lockmeister particles to my limbs as strings if I want it to. Such a thing seems backward to the point of uselessness other than as a statement of what I am here, but it's dear to me. I saw fit to make my own recently, in greater fitting with my Extropian surroundings. Yay for glowy, shiny, new puppet strings. ^_^

Efemera Bisiani

Yeah, with minor mods, my shape is my oldest item too. I don't really wear *anything* on a regular basis, but I'm blessed with a couple of old Dazzle outfits that were gifted me by a friend that I'm just in awe of. Guess it's the fashionista equivalent to the Starax wand, at least for me.

Alex Lapointe

I've been wearing my little shoulder penguin since late October 2006. He's gone through some enhancements over time (i.e. a talk script, vairous "outfits" for Christmas or formals), but the original design by Todd Borst (who both the penguin and myself have had the good fortune to meet) remains the same.

Rusalka Writer

I also wear glasses in SL. Have for half my life! Not sure why; I'm 20/20 in RL. Guess my poor avatar is nearsighted.

The longest-term item is probably one or the other of the Hawaiian fishhooks I sell. They were the first thing I looked for in-world. Didn't find them, so I made them.

Laetizia Coronet

Now, Hamlet, it's time for a new suit, too. Don't you think?

I guess my oldest wearable items are a pair of high top black boots Digital Dharma gave me. And I wear those very often.

Cardie Mahoney

My shoes - it took forever to find a nice low prim set of sling-backs that I like, and they pretty much go with 95% of my wardrobe. Bought back in 2006 as modify, they've been tweaked like crazy to fit my shape. I probably change the body shape (I rotate around three with subtle changes) more than the shoes.

Harper Ganesvoort

Good quality fashion never goes out of style. Just ask Audrey Hepburn or Jackie Onassis; people are still copying them after years. Just develop your own style, and let the doyens/doyennes of fashion that decree what's "the new black" every six months go fold it five ways.

BTW, Ham, Laetizia has a point; you need to loosen up (grin). Get a good pair of jeans or chinos, and I'll send you a T-shirt. (Of course, it'll be advertising my store, but [grin]....)

Gahum Riptide

It's actually a set of collared short sleeve shirts I bought at Barnes Boutique within a month of joining SL in 2006. They still look quite nice.

Hamlet Au

"Now, Hamlet, it's time for a new suit, too."

Hey, I got it from stampshady Grimm in like, 2005, so it's practically new!

I am actually looking to upgrade soon...

Laetizia Coronet

Hamlet, you'll need a khaki sleeveless jacket with lots of pockets - the type men use on fishing trips or reporters use in underdeveloped and/or disaster areas. To wear under it a blue shirt of the kind worn in offices all over the world, and dark chino's. Then you're ready to share a splitscreen with Anderson Cooper on CNN...

Vivienne Graves

Talking of obsolete...a new skin and prim hair would significantly update your look; it seems a bit pointless to give attention to small details like better eyeglasses when you're still wandering the grid in a 2003-standard avatar with a default skin and system hair. (And with the range of options available out there now, that should be fairly easy to do while still having the same generaly look, only improved.)

CyFishy Traveler

/me is amused that half the comments here are fashion tips for Hamlet . . .

I suppose my oldest clothing items (outside of the freebies I picked up that turned out to be older than I was) would be my first clumsy attempts at self-made clothing when I was still figuring out This Here Second Life Thing.

My first purchased fashion item is in fact something I still wear these days--the Deviant Kitties hair that Miles Montgolfier coaxed me into purchasing. (It's the hair I'm wearing on the female half of my SL profile pic.) That was the hair that sent me down the slope of spending money to make myself look good.

Marianne McCann

The oldest item on my avvie is also my glasses. They were old when I first bought them, within days of my account's creation. I've seen other glasses out there that I've liked -- but I always go back to the same old. I wish the seller was still inworld, so I could get some back-ups, just in case. Maybe someday I'll just up an make some new ones, but these have lasted me so long that its hard to think of replacing them.

Garth Goode

You know, it would be a fun story for you to go through a makeover. Maybe a joint thing with one of the men's fashion bloggers. And if your averse to spending L$, believe me, they can point you at some freebies that are much better than what you have now.

I'm sure you have your reasons for the early-SL look, but please, for God's sake, please. I cringed when I looked at the picture for this post.

Gahum Riptide

Well, there's Meta Makeover, so I wonder is there an avatar makeover show? If not, Hamlet could be the first guest :).

Hamlet Au

I appreciate the suggestions, but a certain Style Correspondent already offered to give me a makeover. Ahem.

Faerie

Like Cyfishy, my oldest item is also some Deviant Kitties' hair! I wear other styles but I keep coming back to this bright yellow, cute and punky hair from DK that is still fresh and unique to this day.

Verify your Comment

Previewing your Comment

This is only a preview. Your comment has not yet been posted.

Working...
Your comment could not be posted. Error type:
Your comment has been posted. Post another comment

The letters and numbers you entered did not match the image. Please try again.

As a final step before posting your comment, enter the letters and numbers you see in the image below. This prevents automated programs from posting comments.

Having trouble reading this image? View an alternate.

Working...

Post a comment

Your Information

(Name is required. Email address will not be displayed with the comment.)

Thumb Wagner James Au Metaverse book
Wagner James "Hamlet" Au
Dream Seeker SL Estates
Competitive rates, 24/7 English, Spanish & Dutch support -- visit online or in SL!
Dutchie SL furnishings
Click above to Dutchie Design's site!
Wagner James Au Patreon
Making a Metaverse That Matters Wagner James Au ad
Please buy my book!
IMG_2468
My book on Goodreads!
Wagner James Au AAE Speakers Metaverse
Request me as a speaker!
Making of Second Life 20th anniversary Wagner James Au Thumb
PC for SL
Recommended PC for SL
Macbook Second Life
Recommended Mac for SL
my site ... ... ...
ADD store SLurl
Visit ADD's SL mainstore, creator of sexy styles you want to wear!
Intellivision game console book Tom Boellstorff Braxton Soderman
Get the latest book from the author of "Coming of Age in Second Life"!
Meow Meow Making SL flowers
An SL flower shop for all occasions!
Rapture
Original SL mesh fashion since 2014
Vmuseum NWN Ad
Click to visit all four sites!
Second Life virtual world coffee table book
Coffee table book available now -- click above!
Juicybomb_EEP ad

Classic New World Notes stories:

Woman With Parkinson's Reports Significant Physical Recovery After Using Second Life - Academics Researching (2013)

We're Not Ready For An Era Where People Prefer Virtual Experiences To Real Ones -- But That Era Seems To Be Here (2012)

Sander's Villa: The Man Who Gave His Father A Second Life (2011)

What Rebecca Learned By Being A Second Life Man (2010)

Charles Bristol's Metaverse Blues: 87 Year Old Bluesman Becomes Avatar-Based Musician In Second Life (2009)

Linden Limit Libertarianism: Metaverse community management illustrates the problems with laissez faire governance (2008)

The Husband That Eshi Made: Metaverse artist, grieving for her dead husband, recreates him as an avatar (2008)

Labor Union Protesters Converge On IBM's Metaverse Campus: Leaders Claim Success, 1850 Total Attendees (Including Giant Banana & Talking Triangle) (2007)

All About My Avatar: The story behind amazing strange avatars (2007)

Fighting the Front: When fascists open an HQ in Second Life, chaos and exploding pigs ensue (2007)

Copying a Controversy: Copyright concerns come to the Metaverse via... the CopyBot! (2006)

The Penguin & the Zookeeper: Just another unlikely friendship formed in The Metaverse (2006)

"—And He Rezzed a Crooked House—": Mathematician makes a tesseract in the Metaverse — watch the videos! (2006)

Guarding Darfur: Virtual super heroes rally to protect a real world activist site (2006)

The Skin You're In: How virtual world avatar options expose real world racism (2006)

Making Love: When virtual sex gets real (2005)

Watching the Detectives: How to honeytrap a cheater in the Metaverse (2005)

The Freeform Identity of Eboni Khan: First-hand account of the Black user experience in virtual worlds (2005)

Man on Man and Woman on Woman: Just another gender-bending avatar love story, with a twist (2005)

The Nine Souls of Wilde Cunningham: A collective of severely disabled people share the same avatar (2004)

Falling for Eddie: Two shy artists divided by an ocean literally create a new life for each other (2004)

War of the Jessie Wall: Battle over virtual borders -- and real war in Iraq (2003)

Home for the Homeless: Creating a virtual mansion despite the most challenging circumstances (2003)

Newstex_Author_Badge-Color 240px
JuicyBomb_NWN5 SL blog
Ava Delaney SL Blog
Virtual_worlds_museum_NWN