Sunday 29 November 2009

Modernist Fashion in SL

Another old suit, this time one from Hoorenbeek. This beautiful black suit comes with two shirt colour variations: red or black, both open shirted or with a corrosponding tie, black-to-red or red-to-black. Its all beautifully textured as you would expect from a master virtual fashion house like Hoorenbeek but it has a serious flaws. The jacket and shirt are not multi-layered they come as a single shirt layer with shirt and jacket carried on that texture. This does not allow any mixing or matching and restricts the items use to this rather simplistic look. Multiple layers with seperate shirt and jacket layers would free up the wearer to use other shirts or jackets with the Hoorenbeek clothing; howevver, sadly, single layering seems to bne a feature of Hoorenbeek design which means its use is seriously hampered. This somewhat tragic as the texturing and design of the suit creation is masterful and I would love to wear it more, with other items but as thats impossible the suit rarely gets an outing.

Hoorenbeek are pure quality, well known across the grid; their trainers are amongst the very bestr out there and the clothing range of superb quality. But, this simple design rule of placing all clothing shirt and sweater, jacket and sweater et al all upon a single layer means I find their output of limited use; I hope things have changed since my last purchase as their clothing would add quality to any virtual mods wardrobe.
Hoorenbeek

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