Met an avi with a greatly exaggerated RL

will you buy me a rocket shaped island? i promise not to tell who ya really are

I am just nobody special, just one of the lonely, forgotten, socially and fashionably impaired who reside in Seattle.
I wear socks with sandals.
Or maybe I am lying?

Sure. What color do you want it to be?

FD - I don't really have a problem with the socks and sandals. I understand cold toes. It's the wraps/sarongs/skirts worn over blue jeans that I don't get. Ladies: Either wear jeans or wear a skirt. Make up your mind or flip a coin or something. When you wear them together it looks silly. That skirt is not helping you, and yes, it DOES make your ass look enormous.

Okay, if no one else is going to defend this trend, I will

I love the 'wraps/sarongs/skirts worn over blue jeans' look! I wish I could pull it off. Haven't saris always been worn over pants? True, a skirt over jeans in SL does make the butt look big.

You know what I haven't seen much in SL? Men who wear white socks with dress pants.

I've been on one version of the internet or another since around 1982 when it was mostly bulletin boards. I learned very early on that most people (in my experience) exaggerate or outright lie about their real lives on the internet.

At first this really bothered me. How could I trust anyone if I thought they were all lying to me?

Then, as time went by, I realized that I didn't really need to know the person behind the curtain. That my relationships with these "electronic people" as I like to call them was rarely ever going to cross over into real life.

So now, I accept the people I meet in SL and in other areas on the web for who they present themselves to be, regardless of whether it is true or not. If they say they are a famous rock star, then for me, they are a famous rock star and I interact with them accordingly. LOL

Its much easier for me that way; I don't worry about if they are lying to me because I accept that who they are presenting themselves to me as, is who they really wish they were.

Is that just gobbledygook or does anyone else understand what I'm trying (and failing) to say?

A friend of mine is concerned that her SL boyfriend is a woman in RL. I asked her, "Are you ever going to meet this person in RL?"
"No."
"Will you ever do voice with this person or exchange RL pictures?"
"No."
"Do you enjoy the time you spend with this person?"
"Yes"
"Then what difference does it make in the end? On your end it is a man, accept this person for who they say they are and enjoy yourself."

Am I simplifying the situation too much? Who knows, but it works for me.

ttfn!
FaTeke Wottitz

"So shines a good deed in a weary world."
Willy Wonka

Saris are often worn over pants, but the pants usually match the sari. I'm talking about skirts over jeans, which seems to be a trend in the Pacific Northwest. If you like it, then I'm probably wrong, because my fashion sense is horrifically bad. Your two X chromosomes give you an advantage that you probably don't even need, so you win. It looks really wrong to me, though. I just don't like it at all. For the record, as bad as my fashion sense is, I know better than to wear white socks with dress pants.

Trout I'm from the PNW as well and I have noticed this trend over the past couple years.........I am NOT a fan of this style either. I don't find it attractive on women and is not something I would ever include in my wardrobe.

Do you know better than to wear socks with sandals as well as with dress pants?

I do. If it's cold enough to weat socks, it's cold enough to wear shoes. I'm in a conservative business, so I can't get away with anything other than dress shoes and a suit. If I'm not at work, I refuse to wear anything that isn't completely comfortable.

I'm going to go out on a limb and then cut off the branch and go plunging into the depths of ridicule and something or other.

That fashion ensemble that involves very short leather skirts, you know the ones that stop right there, combined with leather boots that stretch up and past the knee travel up the thigh and leave an inch of skin exposed? I don't really like that ensemble. Sorry. I haven't actually seen that in a while, but I used to see that all the time being worn by women on their way to their job in an office somewhere.

For the record, I do not own sandals or white socks (that reminds me that I need to buy some white socks for when the weather turns . . .and maybe buy some shorts . . no, I'll just continue with wearing slacks in 90 degree weather).

Remember...what were those called? Koolats (sp)? They were skirts that had the center sewn together so they were sort of like shorts, too. God has yet to create an ass that looked even remotely ok in those things. Just awful. Last thing: 99.5% of all the women on earth can't pull off super-low-rise jeans. Even some legitimate models look stupid in those things.

Really, women. Stuff like this is why guys wear normal cut jeans and t-shirts. We know better than to push the envelope.

Unless we decide to put on a mesh shirt, or walk around in one of those armless undershirts. Oh, and a speedo. A speedo and a mesh shirt.

I always thought the shorts/skirts were called Skorts? Again, never been a style of mine, but interesting that Trout is so up to par on female style! Shall I take you shopping with me some day soon? I will be sure to command you to sit holding my purse, in which will be filled lots and lots of neat little toys for you to play with.

Thank-you for opening your eyes very wide to take in the show and for panting for it to begin.

*starts strutting around in a speedo and a mesh shirt while belting out "It's raining men . . ."*

have you recently suffered a blow to the head, chap?

as long as I get a lap dance!! Now Shake it Soji!!!

Oh come on.......I'll sing for you!

They were called coulottes back in the day, when I was young. And I suspect that Trout isn't too much younger than I am. But, yes, now they're called skorts.

I have heard the term when I was younger, but never wore them.

Sir Mix-a-lot is from Seattle. Big Butts are IN.

i always thought they were called coulottes, but skorts work.

Are you telling me you don't find him sexy?
lol

I keep thinking maybe its the women with skirts over jeans, and men who wear skirts and baggy shirts over jeans that some how if our butts are covered they will be hidden and not "exaggerated in real life"
I am definitely a big into baggy hide every thing except my arms and face type of guy.
Shoes and sandals for me has to do the fact my feet get injured easily and I think the socks will protect the feet from injury. LOL
Claire he really needs lace leggings or pants.

So sexy!!
I've heard both terms quite frankly, I was just crackin a joke..........

uuuhh gawd.........i really didn't to see that after lunch