Are you going to the clothing fair?

Now that is something that can be helped by people reducing their ARC.

Anyone have a SLurl to this clothing fair?

I do not donate to SL charities any more though, since reading more than one Post Secret about people pocketing the money. (I make no accusations to anyone - but real life donations work just as nicely.)

I went - and yes, there is stuff for guys, but I'm afraid I didn't find anything that looked that different to me from what I already have. I probably could have found more items, but I was very tired that late at night and grew impatient with the 10 zillion texture loading time.

So I can literally think of these events as a gray area.

I'll probably go back if it's still going this weekend.

I went - (thanks for the help, you know who you are) and despite it being almost devoid of shoppers on a weeknight, I crashed twice, and stalled repeatedly.

There is an announcement to remove all prims as you go in, (which most people ignored, some including the designers themselves) and a 'low lag outfit' given as a gift as you enter, too. (I didn't try it, so I don't know if it was for girls, guys or unisex?)

I wore jeans and a top that were paint, and took off jewelry, shoes, hair and eyelashes. *trauma* I stayed like that while I was there.

As I've noted, most people ignored the remove-prims warning, even wearing things like prim string-ties on a blouse. I can understand being loathe to remove prim hair, but accessories? C'mon people...

But I have a suggestion. Is one pirate display enough? Could there be one by the entrance, rather than one in nearly every storefront? Do storeowners need to have furniture, knick knacks, stacks of empty boxes, etc.? Could there be a less laggy less accessorised build?

Isn't it a bit backwards, to ask prim removal of everyone entering to shop (but not designers, who were arrayed in heavily primmed fashions) and pack as many needless prims into the Sim itself as possible??

Second suggestion - LANDMARKS for each shop. By the time things slowed yet again I just wanted to go home, and ended taking a LM for each shop that had one. At least half did not. A note card with a landmark for each shop, given as each person enters the Sim, would be even better.

I visited, briefly, and had no problems dressing in the recommended basic clothes!

Well, I was there because I had very fond memories of my very first clothing fair two years ago, only a few weeks after I'd joined. It didn't even cover a whole sim back then, but it was so much more fun than this.

Clarissa - I couldn't agree with the landmark issue more. That was the one thing that I noticed right away, and from those stalls I saw, I found that only a quarter actually had the sense to offer landmarks for their main shop. How stupid is that? One of THE gigantic opportunities to promote your shop and you're not even sending people there?

Also I was hoping to grab a few freebies to check out new designers, but again - compared to my first clothing fair back then, I think I saw only two or three designers offering stuff. A handful offered special prices, but those were mostly no more than ten percent less than the original price, for items that weren't all that costly to begin with.

A lot of stuff I saw made me yawn, same old, same old. Hardly any fancy stuff, which I think comes from the user base generated during the last year or so - mainstream. BareRose had a stall, which was a pleasant surprise, but they had mostly the "normal" stuff on display, too. At least they had a nice marketing idea, they release one new design per clothing fair day. But also no landmark giver. Boo.

All in all, I was disappointed. I bought one dress because I'd been ogling it in the regular store for weeks now and it was cheaper on the fair, but that's it.

I can't seem to FIND it!! If it's a fair do the clothes disappear when the shows r not on?
The only thiing I can find is stage groups - I don't have ANY interest in stage groups I wanted to buy clothes.
Why is it so hard to find anything in SL.

Use the places search, not the all tab. Type in clothing fair. That gives you all the different sims it's hosted on.

This is my first ever post...newbie galore here...I'd like to have intro'd myself but I'll take care of that later...

Kyttn - follow this link in a browser, and go through the SLURL links to each of the "venues" as you scroll down the web page. You'll soon see that it really makes sense with the vendors listed in order:

http://slrflclothingfair.blogspot.com/2009/03/clothing-fair-2009.html

I went there today, and have gone through the first 3 locations/islands/venues...pretty interesting and it shows that a LOT of work went into it. Not the best trade show I've ever built/attended but it is tons of fun for a new comer to SL. I did set up in a (free) catsuit and also built a Unitard using underwear parts, both had an ARC of 1. It's pretty amusing to see the "godesses", as I'll call them, with 3000-6000 ARC's. I'd go nude but some people have a hangup, and my uni's have the same ARC and everyone is more comfortable that way. Best, Jackie.

Yes, those who do not offer a landmark, preferably right out front of their storefront in a huge immediately recognisable way (one offered one in a standup cutout of an av??) are losing potential customers. I tried but can't recall the names, now, of a couple shops I really wanted to visit later. I was too tired to fish out pencil and paper RL, or even keep a note card going (especially with lag). I tried, clicking on anything that might remotely be a LM giver but most had none on offer.

There was one jewelry shop that had a turquoise set I loved but I can't recall the shop name for anything. The fair could even send out a note card with all shops' names/SLurls/LMs later, to every av that visited. Would be a huge job though. I also noticed the lack of promotional/sale items and I thought prices on most 'charity donation items' were way too high. Lower prices, sell more items, imo.

Kyttn, I couldn't find it in search either so I agree about that too.

SJackB, everyone could just wear swimsuits and go barefoot...it's even on a beach! But yes a lot wore hats, jewelry, primmy clothes and big hair. Lol

I'm guessing this is Earthstones. I liked their work, but didn't see anything for men - or didn't wait around for the textures to load.

I have only gotten thru half the sims and yet have found at least a dozen places that I would have grabbed an LM to except there wasn't one. This truly blows my mind -- talk about a loss of potential business.

And as someone mentioned, the number of creators giving away freebies has dropped a lot from the last two years. Anymore I am very very leary of just dropping a few hundred on a designer that I've never tried before, let alone lots of hundreds.

It might have been, I vaguely recall seeing that store name also. This one had something to do with artists in SL? The store did not have anything for men, as I recall so maybe it was Earthstones. Will give it a look-see. Thanks.

eek I try to stay out of Earthstones, it costs me so much when I go there, I love it ALL!

I don't know about at clothing fair but she does have some (not a huge amount) men's things in her mainstore. Her mainstore is amazing too, a big log cabin, very nice The men's jewelry is off to the right, follow the signs.

I got my partner his rezday gift there.

I just dropped in on the Clothing Fair, in the DeLa-sponsored section, and all I can say is "yay"! I found quite a few vendors I'd never heard of before. Got some new skirts, scarves, bangles and dancing dresses. Everything I tried on here at home looks spectacular. Color me happy.

I went to the fair as SJackB Northman and made a donation and got a Clothing Fair blue T-shirt. It is non-transferable and I love it, plus it makes some sort of statement (I don't know what statement, but nonetheless a statement). Now that I'm the "new me" I don't have it any more. I could work out an inventory sharing thing, I guess, but I'd be willing to make another donation to RFL if there is a way to get another T-shirt. If any of the RFL people are out there, can you help me out? Thanks. J.

I made donations. All over the place. While there. Dang, stuck in short sentences, must break. Right. Ok, I made many donations while I was there. I did not get a "RFL t-shirt". Where's my t-shirt?

If I recall, I actually bought the shirt. I did make a bunch of donations at the kiosks but I'm pretty certain I had to outright purchase the shirt. I'd have to check my history.

Oh. Ok. I thought you were saying you donated and got the shirt from donating. A shirt given out to everyone donated, not a specific RFL vendor with a shirt to buy.

By the way, is there any news about how much those original 1 of a kind outfits brought in? When I looked at them all of them were at the 25,000L level, at least. Maybe at least 30,000L.

Oh, and did anyone buy one of those 40,000L outfits? Only ten of those. In one of the booths.

Gee, I don't know about the limited outfits. I did find a L$20 contribution and an L$100 contribution, both to RelayRaiders. I'm pretty sure that the L$100 was to one of the big standup sign boards and that must have been where the T came from. I want another T!!!! Sorry, just a small outburst. Cheers.