Because these are not always easy to find online, here is a zip file for these ancient templates, done by people like Damien Fate and Chip Midnight, eons ago: all_fashion_design_templates-folder (click to download all of them and many more)
Clothes
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Today I decided I was allowed a free hour to remember my good old days in Second Life®, when all I had to worry about was… to chat with friends and look for exciting new things 🙂 While consulting my balance on XStreetSL, I came across daiz Papp’s ORACUL-Girl Xstar […]
Ready to admire some creative work in accessories for your beloved avatar? Well, what better opportunity but to take a jump to the Jewelry Fair 2009, which opens today 🙂 … there go my few remaining L$, lol. Ah well. Most of it goes to charity anyway.
If you’re going to San Francisco Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair If you’re going to San Francisco You’re gonna meet some gentle people there […] – The Mamas & the Papas, “San Francisco” (1967) On the very first day I visited a public sandbox, Cyrus Apollo, […]
Yes, it’s that time of the year to jump over to Hair Fair, 2009 edition, and shop until you drop… it has just opened a couple of hours ago for the private party, and the styles are just wet from the hairdressers’… well, almost! The theme for this year is […]
I usually don’t write things about fashion… I leave that to the pros! This time, however, my focus is on a particular aspect of the very competitive market of fashion design in Second Life®: custom service. We all know that the vast majority of fashion designers (and, indeed, most in-world-shop-based […]
Warning: The tips below were true for 2008. These days, Second Life has improved in all regards beyond our wildest dreams a decade ago. A lot of the tips and techniques written below may be simply not true any more! Also, thanks to Luma Darkthief for pointing out that this article […]
Last year, American Apparel, a popular US clothes brand, opened a shop in Second Life with a lot of positive press. Avatars could get for a few L$ relatively faithful replicas of their clothes in SL. Their project lasted almost a year or so, and then, as they finished their […]
In my never-ending quest of looking for fashionable improvements (believe me, it can entertain me for ages 🙂 ) I found out a cute thing about some fancy shoes: they have nice, realistic-sounding, heel-clicking sounds. Sure, I know it’s a “novelty” item — it scares people off the first time […]
Every girl who tried a flexiskirt once (how can you resist not buying them…?) knows about the problem: they look fantastic when standing up, but completely nasty when sitting down. The image here shows what happens. Flexiskirts, unlike mesh-based skirts (also known as ugly Linden skirts) simply don’t follow your […]
… you don’t know where the fashionable shops are! Now, thanks to Ana Lutetia, you’ll know. Thanks, Ana, for providing this crucial information 🙂
I came by chance across this interesting item on SL Exchange: AvPainter – SL Clothes Design and Preview Tool by Pootle Trollop. I don’t have Windows, so I haven’t tried it out, but the author claims it’s possible to upload a .tga file for your clothing and apply it visually […]
Chip Midnight is often in the forums telling people how to design perfectly-matched clothes. His ‘secret’ in developing wonderful new templates, based both on Linden Lab’s? own, and on images he has captured in-world to understand where the many avatar polygons join together. This upper body template is an attempt […]