Torn (by Torn Difference) is a new-to-me brand with lots of mesh clothing! I tried on a couple of items that I really liked, and they fit pretty well. I finally chose this Marie dress in Berry color cos it has a cute hoodie (not very visible in my pic, sorry) on the backside. I think this brand has a lot of potential, the way they shape the clothes is definitely sexy but I really do not like that the mesh items are invisible/transparent on the inside!
I die a lil’ on the inside when I try on mesh items that are not lined cos they look horrible in pics! Dearest designer, please line your mesh items so they’re not invisible on the inside. It’s really noticeable!
Other than that issue, I like what I’ve seen so far from Torn (or House of Torn).
What I’m Wearing:
Exile – Rumour has it (Drift)
Torn – Marie Dress (Berry)
Celoe – Xylia Pumps (Claret)
Su vida – Anchored foot tattoo
Donna Flora – Camelia Black Ring
L+R+W is a collaborative effort between Love Soul and R2 – the new L+R+W brand sells sculpted shoes with sculpted feet and they are so natural and beautiful. I'm really excited about these Venus shoes, they're so gorgeous and super easy to color match. The price is average, at $700L a pair with no fatpack options. Each pair includes a HUD to change nail and skin color; and an update card if they do updates you can get new copies! Yay!
My only complaint about these shoes is that I can't save my skin presets, and I can't use the same HUD for each color, I have to redo the skin tone each time.
The foot looks so real and has one of the best skin tone/shadows I've ever seen! When you're buying sculpted feet, be sure to check out how the shadows are done, because it can leave an undesirable color effect on certain skin tones. Here's an image I'm using from Polina Kaestner's flickr (she also convinced me the L+R+W shoes are awesome!!) to show you a good comparison of sculpted feet across several different popular SL brands:
(Cringe worthy!! Some of these shadows are pretty bad.) In sculpted shoes I look for a nice sculpted foot with a realistic, natural shape and well-designed around the ankle to hide the 'break'.
Here are more pictures of the gorgeous L+R+W Venus shoes which are nearly perfect, they look so real!
Fashion Expo is so much fun! When I went, there were a ton of people there but the lag wasn't bad at all. I loved that a lot of vendors are doing RFL items, and priced them reasonably. I always make it a policy to try and buy RFL items when I go to fairs or expos, simply cos I really don't *need* most of the stuff I see, but I will donate some money to charity if I'm getting something in return, that happens to be cute 😀 Sometimes I break that rule though, but I'll have to show you those items later in the week.
Zaara created this gorgeous Frawla+ishaya outfit, a RFL special item that includes gorgeous Ishaya gold pants with sculpted cuffs and a very sexy Pink Frawla top. The Pink Frawla top has great textures, criss-cross ties in the back, and sexy plunging neckline!
What I'm Wearing:
Gala Phoenix – Blossom (Lumine) Skin Truth – Minx 2 (Walnut) hair Zaara – (RFL Special) Frawla+ishaya outfit Muse – Banche Necklace in Gold, Blanche Earrings, Blanche Bracelets Detour – Glamour Metallic Pumps (Gold) Location: Photos taken at the gorgeous Verdigris sim!
The only thing on my calendar this weekend is the Spoonful of Sugar Festival. This event raises money for MSF/Doctors Without Borders, and I always admire the designers who donate their time to causes in Second Life, especially the smaller or lesser-known charities. Every year I look forward to SOS because some of my favorite creators are part of it.
This year it feels like a lot of people might be skipping the festival. The Seraphim mention didn’t include a gallery, and even SOS’s own website doesn’t have one. That made shopping a little tricky, but I went straight to the brands I love such as Izzie’s and Alaskametro and found some great things. There’s even a gacha area if that’s your thing.
Pro tip: Keep an eye out for a bowl of sugar if you want to grab some L$20 bargains from participating brands.
Izzie’s – Age Yourself (BoM Layers) – Left: Bare skin | Right: With face wrinkles added
One of the highlights for me was Izzie’s new Age Yourself set. Wrinkles and aging looks seem to be getting more popular in Second Life, and honestly, she’s scary good at transforming skins. The set comes in 50%, 70%, and 100% opacity layers so you can blend the wrinkles with your current skin.
I also picked up the new Soft Brows from Alaskametro. I never use the brows that come with a skin, so I’m always hunting for new ones. These are the perfect thickness, and they looked great when I tried them on. The only thing I wish is that they came with a HUD so I could play around with the opacity. I like layering BoM brows under LeLutka HD brows. On the left you can see the light colored brows, and on the right the tinted ones. You lose a bit of detail when tinting, but it’s fabulous that the option is included so you can get the exact shade you want.
Check out the SOS Festival, show your favorite brands some love, and support a good cause while you shop.
Just in case you missed it, here are some cool free stuffs circulating around the grid this week.
Creamy is awesome for making this Pretty eyes/Dirty mouth thing!!! It’s a freebie at the FreeStyle HQ!
elka Lehane sent this awesome Big Cheese necklace to her !BF! group! If the cheese is not big enough for you, there’s a resizer script inside so you can resize the whole thing via a menu on touch.
As if you didn’t know already, of course I am the biggest Cheese 🙂
The ever important question, “Am I Ruthed?” is a thing of the past with SL’s latest client release 1.20. I see clouds everywhere now!!!!!!!!!!! So this is my official farewell to Ruthie entry.
[ Refuge: Radiant Ruthie costume ]
Alaska Metropolitan proposed an interesting challenge on her blog this week. Make Ruthie hot/cute/decent looking without modifying the original Ruthie shape.
I’ve never thought Ruthie was ugly, all she needed was some softer curves and less ‘muscle’ on the sliders.
This is me vs. Ruthie in different skins:
[ Click the image above for a larger view ]
Do we look similar? Whenever I see a ruthie shape, I just want to tweak it all over!!!! Just a couple of minor changes and Ruthie could be supremely Radiant.
Hello from my backyard! Cheeky Pea just released the Taula Gazebo Set, perfect for when you’re inviting friends over for a drink. I just enjoy being outside in SL, and this ‘wine shed’ comes with everything I need to feel like it’s an actual living space – gazebo, furniture, lighting, and decor.
i agrees with you , it may looks weird the inside trasparent on the extremes as collar and end therefore i don’t think it is possible to have a definetely good ”align” because mesh will look different into each shape.
I believe one of the reasons most creators tend to make an article of mesh clothing transparent on the inside is because when the clothing is “lined” it has more vertices and when an object has more vertices it creates more lag.
Beautiful look, Gogo, and I agree, visible transparency on a mesh item is a big turn off for me. It actually would stop me from buying the item.
Related question: Does this store offer demos? Stores that don’t offer a demo for a mesh item pretty much send me running, right away, as well. I notice you said you tried several items and then settled on this one. Just wondering if you meant you tried on demos before buying or you bought or were sent several items to review (I am thinking that it wasn’t this last option since you didn’t indicate it was a review copy, and I know you try to do that when it is.)? If you had to buy several items to see how they looked only to find out the inner parts were trans parent on items, that would be discouraging.
Gogo, I’m the same with invisible insides!
Especially as often Mesh designers have perkier, larger boobs than I tend to have on my avie.
If the inside is coloured, it just looks like the cloth is hanging loose, if invisible, it looks… yeah, it makes me die a little on the inside!
I simply won’t wear mesh clothes that are invisible on the inside like this. Like Gogo says, I die a little on the inside.
To be honest I find very, very few mesh clothes measure up (no pun intended) to my requirements and expectations. Boots and shoes, on the other hand (or foot) are on the whole pretty good and lend themselves really well to Mesh.
i just did a post myself about mesh not fitting, i always have a problem with the boobs having a space between skin and fabric (if you look down) and the hips being too narrow. i have a normal shaped body (med size boobs and good hip/shoulder ratio). some places fit great though, i can especially count on “standard sizing”.
The reason why creators making mesh outfist “invisible inside” is because they can decrease the number of Polygoms. Polygoms are the things that causes lagg and makes us crash. The secondlife still doesnt have enough capacity for that much detailed mesh i think.
The invisible layer is not a fault but is something made on purpose. After they finish mesh items they need to find a way to reduce polygoms . SO they just neglecting some pieces so they can render it inside Secondlife. thx.
Though I think you could make it appear to be fixed by bringing the poly faces up just a little inside the hems of the neck/waist/sleeves/legs etc and leaving the middle (where you can’t see anything anyway) blank. Not that many more polys, and it’d appear to fix this problem :3
If they fill inside it doubles the lag, aka twice more “prims” just to fill the insides where most of the people wouldn’t even see the gap
I still buy these because it doesn’t really bug me that much and of course it’s a small sacrifice to avoid lagging myself and people around as I’m always clubbing.
But for photo bloggers I can see how it’s a turn off…
i agrees with you , it may looks weird the inside trasparent on the extremes as collar and end therefore i don’t think it is possible to have a definetely good ”align” because mesh will look different into each shape.
I believe one of the reasons most creators tend to make an article of mesh clothing transparent on the inside is because when the clothing is “lined” it has more vertices and when an object has more vertices it creates more lag.
Beautiful look, Gogo, and I agree, visible transparency on a mesh item is a big turn off for me. It actually would stop me from buying the item.
Related question: Does this store offer demos? Stores that don’t offer a demo for a mesh item pretty much send me running, right away, as well. I notice you said you tried several items and then settled on this one. Just wondering if you meant you tried on demos before buying or you bought or were sent several items to review (I am thinking that it wasn’t this last option since you didn’t indicate it was a review copy, and I know you try to do that when it is.)? If you had to buy several items to see how they looked only to find out the inner parts were trans parent on items, that would be discouraging.
Gogo, I’m the same with invisible insides!
Especially as often Mesh designers have perkier, larger boobs than I tend to have on my avie.
If the inside is coloured, it just looks like the cloth is hanging loose, if invisible, it looks… yeah, it makes me die a little on the inside!
it seems like dark-haired gogo likes wearing tattoos more often.. i approve of this!
I simply won’t wear mesh clothes that are invisible on the inside like this. Like Gogo says, I die a little on the inside.
To be honest I find very, very few mesh clothes measure up (no pun intended) to my requirements and expectations. Boots and shoes, on the other hand (or foot) are on the whole pretty good and lend themselves really well to Mesh.
i just did a post myself about mesh not fitting, i always have a problem with the boobs having a space between skin and fabric (if you look down) and the hips being too narrow. i have a normal shaped body (med size boobs and good hip/shoulder ratio). some places fit great though, i can especially count on “standard sizing”.
The reason why creators making mesh outfist “invisible inside” is because they can decrease the number of Polygoms. Polygoms are the things that causes lagg and makes us crash. The secondlife still doesnt have enough capacity for that much detailed mesh i think.
The invisible layer is not a fault but is something made on purpose. After they finish mesh items they need to find a way to reduce polygoms . SO they just neglecting some pieces so they can render it inside Secondlife. thx.
Thanks for the explanation, Aeris, but it doesn’t alter the fact that it looks absolutely awful and puts me off making a purchase.
Though I think you could make it appear to be fixed by bringing the poly faces up just a little inside the hems of the neck/waist/sleeves/legs etc and leaving the middle (where you can’t see anything anyway) blank. Not that many more polys, and it’d appear to fix this problem :3
If they fill inside it doubles the lag, aka twice more “prims” just to fill the insides where most of the people wouldn’t even see the gap
I still buy these because it doesn’t really bug me that much and of course it’s a small sacrifice to avoid lagging myself and people around as I’m always clubbing.
But for photo bloggers I can see how it’s a turn off…