glitch pants and skirt?

I know that as a male I don't know much about women's clothing. However, one thing I see in stores here in SL but not in real life is glitch pants (or skirt).

Just what are glitch pants? Do they exist in real life too?

With prim attachments such as skirts, they are phantom and sometimes when you move, sit, etc they end up going through the avatar body, such that the body underneath is revealed. "Glitch pants" tend to be textured to match the skirt, so that when those visual anomolies occur, it doesn't end up flashing a bare behind for example. Hence, glitch pants - for those sl glitches.

-Atashi

I have a skirt that when I move certain ways, or when I dance, my butt cheeks peek out of it unless I'm wearing the glitch pants.

No, glitch pants don't exist in RL as women's legs rarely poke through the fabric of their skirts in RL.

Glitch pants are pants worn under skirts in SL that have the same texture on them as the skirt so that when you move, and your avatar's legs poke through the skirt mesh and/or prims, you don't see skin.

Thalic,

As others have pointed out, glitch pants are to fix a "glitch" in the Second Life software. I have had my frilly, lacy underpants stick out from my skirt when walking. It is really apparent when the panties and the skirt are different colors.

Glitch pants, worn between my panties and my skirt, eliminate the problem.

Mary

Actually "glitch pants" do exist in real life. They are lyotards warn beneath dancing costumes. Also, glitch pants/dance pants do not have to match the skirt. If you are designing a jumper (American definition for a sleeveless dress with a shirt poking through) your dance pants may match the shirt. In this case the outfit is intentionally two layers. This also works with spiral style prim skirts which often fly up.

Why do you wear frilly, lacy panties when nobody gets to see them?

She likes how they feel?

Actually, when my daughter was young I insisted she wear shorts under all skirts....
also..you would probably most likely associate glitch pants for a dress to a slip.. "glitch" probably is not a term used in rl. But they do exist.

IMHO

^ yes yes

Yeah, but those aren't the same as glitch pants unless you also insisted that they be the same fabric as her skirt. Glitch pants are there not only so you don't expose your avatar's skin, but to blend with the skirt fabric so that it is harder to tell the leg is poking through at all.

Thalic,

I am female (SL and RL) and like to feel like it. Thalic, you may not understand, but many women (at least in RL) like to wear nice looking underwear just for ourselves. Under the conservative suits you see us wearing in the office may well be pretty, feminine, frilly, lacy, or sheer underwear. Likewise, I would like my avatar to look female underneath the clothes that you can see.

For everyone reading this: Thalic knows me in SL and RL. He is a RL friend (I guess) and colleague. His questions and comments are not as crude as they may seem.

Of course, he is still crude

Mary

omg next you will tell me santa isn't real!!!!


/me runs out crying


hehe <hug>

I wear 'system' skirts and dresses, mostly. I have made quite a few, and include glitch pants (or leggings) to avoid the 'kick-through' effect. The other secret to success with system skirts is to use a modified version of your normal shape, with flatter butt, narrower hips and less saddlebags - to counteract the excessive poofiness of system skirts, even when set to tightest fit. All this does is make your skirt-wearing av. look consistent with when it's in jeans or bikini.

System and prim skirts both have their drawbacks, they are both a compromise. For instance, prim ones hang under you like a flexible bucket when you sit down or crouch during a dance move!

That's why they need extra intermediate attachment points.

Skirt: pivots at pelvis, but pivots to the average of left and right upper leg.
Tail: pivots at pelvis, but pivots to the same angle as spine.
Neck: pivots at spine, but pivots to the same angle as head, or the average of spine and head.

I'm sure you can think of some more.

So, underneath those conservative dress-for-success power pantsuits is sexy underwear? I have a hard time imagining otherwise!






Edited to make correction explained below.

I know for a fact that, occasionally, under some of those dress for success power pantsuits is downright kinky underwear.

What we really need is non-phantom flexi / avatar interface. Maybe one day!

Or at least the ability to create new clothing layers using a mesh. You could almost do it with a sculpty "mesh texture" for the skirt layer... but new layers would be nice too. I personally want "long jacket / cape".

I shouldn't write posts early in the morning. I have edited my post. What I meant to say was that I would have a hard time imagining otherwise. I always wear bras and panties that make me feel sexy, even though I may be wearing my power suits, or jeans and sweat shirt -- depeding upon circumstances.

You may have a hard time, but I have a hard time imaging certain women I work with, particularly Ms. Cooperstone, wearing sexy bras and panties, in RL or SL.

Thalic,
Imagining it is the closest you will get to seeing it.
Mary

I agree, an 'overcoat' layer would be good, such that it doesn't need to be nipped in at the waist.

In fact I'm just about to make a winter coat, using shirt and jacket layers, plus glitch pants on the 'pants' layer and hopefully jeans texture on the 'underpants' layer. That way I can wear jeans with my coat without them kicking holes inh it!

I agree. I would like an "overcoat" layer. Leaving my RL office the other day when it was cold, I was wearing underpants, pantyhose, slip, skirt, and long knee length coat. I got to thinking that I could not be wearing that on SL. Of course, in RL I did not have to wear glitch pants.

I wish pants and skirts wouldn't make a crease where your butt crack is.......esp on white fabric, it's a shocker