FASHION NO-NOs: a Blogger Challenge

Fashion No-No: HORIZONTAL STRIPES! What was I thinking? Can I really pull it off? Will fashion bloggers everywhere do a spit take and get me permabanned for all their ruined laptops?

I double dog dare you all to choose what you consider the most binding fashion rules ... and break them all, but make it look steaming hot! I chose horizontal stripes, but you might combine plaid and paisley, wear bling, or patent leather shoes made of non-sculpted prims. Go crazy!

I figured cute girls can get away with anything, but some color at the eyes and beautiful jewelry should pull your eyes away from stripes, stripes, stripes.

Fashion Rules were made to be broken.

Necklace: Mandala “Shaka” (versions with and without shadows)
Earrings: Zaara “Tarika Claw Earrings”
Ring: Yabusaka “10 Ring (Sai)”
Bodice: Just Me “Hailey Top Black Stripes” (sculpted)
Shirt: Tyranny Designs “Find Me In The Rain” (unavailable)
Leggings: Pink Outfitters “The Bandage Pant”
Shoes: A-Bomb “Gidge Shoes Zebra”
Hair: Bishwear “Sweeny” (Hair Fair)
Hairbase: Tiny Bird “Blacks”
Skin: Curio “:GP: Petal [Light] Lovely-Firehouse 2”
Eyes: Poetic Color “Night Rain”
Poses: ImpEle
Photostudio: N30

Love,
Serene

p.s. Please put links to your Fashion No-No's in comments, or put a link in the Fashion Bloggers Group Flickr, so I can list them here! :P

1. Keira Seerose "Dear Serene"

RESTRAINT

I so admire restraint. Whether it is the seduction of physical restraint embodied in a corset, or emotional self-control, I admire it. (Probably because I wish I had more of it in my character. I wish I could perfectly control anger or pain or unthinking reactions.) Oh and did I mention restraint is sexy?

The sexy corset is paired with this new nightmare skirt ... The corset is sculpted and texture change with one version that has the back laces painted on, and another version with sculpted laces. Each color includes a hud that changes the texture three ways. For those of you using the beta viewer it includes a boxed version with alpha texture layer that prevents your ribs from showing through the corset when you bend or twist. ...And these sculpted skirts: I couldn't believe that the pack with all the colors of fabric was only L$300, that's usually the price for one color right? They are lovely. (The photo doesn't do them justice. You have to see how they look in three dimensions.)

Finally the lovely flower crown, which texture changes on touch to a zillion different flower and leaf colors. I got lucky combining the flowers with this hair because they fit together perfectly without any adjustment.

Shirt: PixelDolls “Duchess Top”
Undershirt: PixelDolls “Tintable Cami” (from Timepiece 001 Outfit)
Skirt: Sn@tch “Nightmare Skirt Wine” (fatpack only L$300!)
Necklace: La Gyo “Old Watch” (Designers United unavailable)
Corset: silentsparrow “Petit a Petit Underbust Corset”
Flowers: Illusions “Varda Rose Crown” (texture change everything, Wild Released item)
Shoes: A-Bomb “Ingrid” (colorchange)
Hair: lamb “I’m a romantic”
Eyes: Poetic Color “Night Rain”
Skin: JM:Mai “skin_devonz sakuran pure”
Poses: by Long Awkward Pose
Location: Empress and Hierophant

Love,
Serene

THAT BLACK DRESS

Sometimes if you're very very lucky you find just the right dress. You know, that one that makes you feel princess pretty. It takes you back to dress up when you were a little girl.

It puts a shy smile on your face and makes you want to wiggle or dance!

How lucky am I?

Gown: Ivalde “Ginger 1930”
Jewelry: Shiny Things “Nighttime Gems” (with color changing gems)
Shoes: A-Bomb “Ingrid Ankle Boots”
Hair: booN “ZGO223”
Skin: Curio “:GP: Acorn [Dark] Lovely-Pure”
Eyes: Poetic Color “Night Rain”
Photostudio: by N30
Poses: by Long Awkward Pose, Lost Angel Poses, Reel Expression

Love,
Serene