A Fashion Question Mostly for the Ladies

There are more knobs and buttons and switches on the sides of the bottom box, right?

A gentleman doesn't talk about THOSE buttons.

i have over 900 complete outfits and i would be in trouble if i tried to take the time to mix them all into different outfits. plus to be honest, alot of outfits look better the way they were designed to be worn. you can run into all kinds of problem with prims or jacket lengths etc etc when you do that. i do occassionally buy things with the intention of making outfits into them out of different pieces but usually i buy those items separate to begin with. like random skirts or tops that i think are very nice but dont come in a specific outfit. i wouldnt have enough time to mix it up as much as i might want to but i can really appreciate that idea. you can make very interesting outfits out of different pieces and in a way its completely unqiue because of how you decide to wear it.

i have over 900 complete outfits and i would be in trouble if i tried to take the time to mix them all into different outfits. plus to be honest, alot of outfits look better the way they were designed to be worn. you can run into all kinds of problem with prims or jacket lengths etc etc when you do that. i do occassionally buy things with the intention of making outfits into them out of different pieces but usually i buy those items separate to begin with. like random skirts or tops that i think are very nice but dont come in a specific outfit. i wouldnt have enough time to mix it up as much as i might want to but i can really appreciate that idea. you can make very interesting outfits out of different pieces and in a way its completely unqiue because of how you decide to wear it.

I am sorry if it has already been said, but mix and match is your best friend!!

This would never happen if you made your own outfits from the great stuff you buy as it would be a very rare thing for another to mix and match as you would.

A gentleman doesn't talk about THOSE buttons.

And yes, I know that the title alone will make a lot of guys browse this, but it really is the women's comments I'm more interested in, because to me it is more of a 'woman' thing. The thread about look-alike AVs and a situation from last night prompted this thread/query.

Last night, I popped over to the Forum Hangout. It isn't very crowded, I'm dancing (Tango on the ceiling is such fun), a lit bit of chatting, a bit of IM, a bit of Truth or Dare. Then I notice a new arrival and promptly say Hi, before she has even fully rezzed for me. Then, in IM, the guy I'm dancing with says "wow, she's wearing an outfit that looks a lot like yours".

AAAGGGG, a woman's worst nightmare (mine at least - RL or SL). I quickly cam over to her; she is just finishing rezzing for me and yes, she is wearing the exact same skirt outfit in the exact same color. Oh, the horror.

Now, luckily, she has an entire room that must rez for her and since I'm dancing on the ceiling that gives me another few seconds before she will probably see me. And thankfully, SL makes changing outfits so easy. So, I very quickly go into inventory and change my outfit to a different style, maintaining the all-black color scheme so it isn't extremely obvious that I'm changing. In less than a minute all is well again within the SL universe and most were never even aware that a crisis was in the making.

Now, in RL at least, this is quite often the ultimate taboo for a woman and most of us hope that we never have to deal with that situation. Whereas, if a guy shows up somewhere and dozens of other guys are dressed the same, his normal thought is "cool, I have good taste". I have thought those words in SL when I have seen another woman wearing an outfit that I have and immediately followed the thought with "I am so glad that I did not wear that tonight".

So, we finally get to my question: Is this an issue for you in SL? If you show up somewhere and there is another person wearing the same thing, or another arrives wearing the same thing, do you change clothes or maybe leave or just ignore it (because this is only SL after all)?

Minor, minor, minor, minor, MINOR.

I have already been to the most hellish experience on earth and back regarding such scenarios: My daughter's mother-in-law ACTUALLY WORE THE SAME DRESS I DID to my daughter's wedding this past summer.

Yes, I'd told her what I was wearing, described it, where I got it, and what it cost. Because she had called up to ask, because you do that, to make sure the mother of the groom doesn't wear what the mother of the bride is wearing, but still wears something similar, in terms of fanciness. And yes, this was a distinctively-described dress, involving a floral print and a three-tiered skirt.

So naturally, she showed up at the wedding in that very dress.

Once you've been there, everything else in LIFE - not just in the game - is peanuts.

I expect to be over it, though, in, oh two, maybe three lifetimes from now.

coco

With respect, it's SEVERELY worse if someone is WEARING THE SAME HAIR AS I AM!!

Has happened to me a fair amount, but oddly enough, 80% of those times were by my best friend ( I swear she's psychic or something).

That would require a bit more design sense that I have. Before I got to SL, I didn't even like to go clothes shopping (and I still hate it in RL). I can see an outfit and have a pretty good idea if it will look good on me. I don't do as well looking at separates and trying to put them together. And trying all those possible combinations on would just take way too much time.