Showing posts with label Scarf. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Scarf. Show all posts

Thursday, 17 March 2011

Modernist Fashion in SL

Venturing away from the sombre styles and textures of the early sixties the mods of the mid-to-late sixties started to wear more flamboyant fashion and the standard suit and tie combination was replaced by more raffish alternatives. Hoping to follow this style I headed off to the Marketplace where I sifted through endless naff fashions hoping to locate those few gems of modernist fashion. Eventually I stumbled upon Gizza shirts, looking at the retro range they seemed ideal to fulfill the fashion criteria of the pop art inspired mid sixties.

However my desire for classic modernism remains undaunted and so amidst the array of colourful shirts I grabbed the monochrome white with black pin spots variety. The shirt comes in a jacket and shirt layer, with underpants layer too giving it a degree of versatility sadly lacking in many fashion items who stick rigidly to the single layer sales format. Along with the multi-layers, the shirt comes with prim cuffs and a prim collar. These items fit my avatar and required no shifting to achieve a measured look. Reasonably pricey but nevertheless great value the shirt when combined with a styling black scarf and some Armidi trousers, plus my FKNY buckled loafers produces a stunning mod look from pop art period. Less flamboyant than much of the fashion and far more subdued in colour it is a classic piece of virtual mod fashion. Think about buying one, but stay away from the spots they're mine!

Monday, 5 April 2010

Modernist Fashion in SL

 Access Free Accessories

One of the current accessories that appears to be defining the uber virtual mod is ... yeah, the doyen of the warm winter woolly - a scarf. Yes that tradition mum's item has become the essential fashionista accessory both in real life and the virtual world. You dont believe me, check out the mod groove clubs and see the sharpest guys wrapped in their scarf. Fortunately there's a plethora of FREE scarfs across the grid; you can of course buy them too and sometimes I do - but there are so many given away that I just grab these free prim masterpieces and wrap them around my neck.


Worn with the right clothes a scarf immediately casts a retro spell and takes a rather contemporary styling on a sharp trip backwards towards classic sixties fashion. Whilst its capable of creating an amazing retro look, it can also define a fantastic contemporary NeoMod fashion statement, or immedetately put your look in its retro context.

Accessorising your look can work wonders in creating a great classic retro look from a rather bland set of contemporary clothing items. Choose the right shoes, a great scarf, fine watch or even a cool stachel and your jeans and T-Shirt blandness becomes a sharp cool modernist look. And most of these accessories can be found for free so its well worth checking the freebie blogs to get hints on where these cool items can be found.

ciao