A girl's world?

I usually shop for male clothing at Little Rebel, and you can find great shoes at Shiny Things. Robin Sojourner has some really nice shirts.

Was helping my Brother, Feral Mill, look less grubby recently. Check out Robin Sojourner for jeans and shirts. Try House of Zen for men's formal wear - Suits, dress shirts, ties, slacks, as well as some casual wear and men's Asian clothing (Japanese and Chinese styles). City Walk for men's boots and shoes? (Have to check that) You can ask Sasy Scarborough at House of Zen for her lead on men's shoes, and she'll give you a LM. She is almost always in the store. Baer Rose has some great men's clothes, though you have to hunt a bit through the Goth and game-inspired stuff.

The good stuff exists for men. It takes a more dedicated search.

While fashion products for men are less prolific, the ones that are available seem to be of consistently high quality, in my opinion. While there are more fashion products available for women, the quality is much less consistent, in my opinion.

I work at Blaze and we have some nice things for guys from tuxedos and business suits all the way to casual slacks, golf shirts and shorts. That being said, I have noticed the majority of our male customers come in wearing jeans and a t-shirt and usually mention that they have been nagged by a partner or g/f into upgrading their appearance OR they want more dresy things to impress a certain girl or girls.

Here's the thing...its a fundamental difference between most men and most women that women LIKE to shop. Its fun for us. We regard it as recreation - therapy even! Most guys regard it as an annoying chore. This is true in RL - another poster said to go to any mall and see how many women's clothing stores there are compared to men's. Its just the way things are. There are more gender differences than just "plumbing."

I don't know the exact figures, but I BELIEVE that the SL world is populated by more female AVs than male. That would have a bearing on this issue as well.

Men, whether in SL or RL get to the pojnt that they have "enough" clothes. We never do and I am ALWAYS on the lookout, wherever I may be, for something cute.

Good luck an dI am sure you will find what you need!!

also at Blaze we often have live sales help inthe store to help. that's what I do. Its funny, but often a girl will come in and I ask her if she needs help, often they just want to browse, which is cool. Guys generally have a shopping list, like they are going to the grocery store or something. "Um yeh... my g/f wants me to buy a suit. Have any?" or "I need a blue shirt." or Where are your shoes?"

You could get guys to shop as much as women -

Just require power tools for them to build prims.

SL throws a strange twist to that RL equation though. I keep hearing that guys won't shop for their male avatar, but if they create a female avatar, they shop like demons.

So it seems behavior is influence more by our expectations for an avatar's gender-role than the RL preferences of the person behind the keyboard.

In real life, for a long time, fashion advertising focused a great deal on making women feel badly about their bodies, and convincing them that they needed to improve their looks to find love. Recently, however, the fashion business has discovered that they can get men to become avid consumers of fashion too, because men are just as susceptible to being made to feel badly about their bodies. Thus, in recent years, the fashion industry for men has been catching up.

The only real difference between men and women on SL, as in RL, is that women have been conditioned for a long time that they must buy fashion products to win love. Fashion for love is comparatively new to men, and they are still on the learning curve.

You said what I meant to say while I was posting. Bingo. You hit the nail on the head.

That is a very interesting theory, which I hadn't thought about. Certainly food for thought.

Don't forget about hockey jerseys.

These are some of my favorite places for decent good looking normal guys stuff. They are also very reasonably priced.

Renegade
Sini Style
FORM
Desert Star

You can find them all on a parcel called The Block, or individually at their own main lots.

Also, there's a place called 1 800 Bettie's that sells a very nice suit. FNKY has very realistic looking shades and dress shoes.

Naughty Island has the best guy's hair and skin I can find.

FORM also has some very excellent, realistic AOs for stands.

I took a male friend shopping for his avatar, and we found some great guy's clothing, shoes, and accessories at SubZero (the mall, not the club). I've been shopping for a new AO myself, so I've hit a LOT of places over the last two days. I found some good guy AOs at a place called Vista Animations. Lost Dog also has a really good one called DNA for both guys and girls. It's a little expensive, but when you think of how much the individual animations would cost, it's worth it.

Wow, lots of good suggestions here! I'm going to have to start making a list. Thanks a lot, everyone.

Cheers, bilbo99. I really appreciate that.

now I know why ppl keep telling me to design some mens clothes
(I design womens, never really knew what to design for men)

now I am thinking, slacks, polo shirts, button down shirts (tucked and untucked) maybe some jeans, and of course briefs bikinis and boxers hehe

yep maybe when I get back home tonight I will try a pair of mens slacks....and a button down shirt... maybe LOL

Jack, don't get me started on the Hockey or Basketball Shirts. But a nice Baseball Jersey is another story.....

(Grins and nudges her to get her started)

Hmmmm, the Priminatic 3000, 3000 mega-virtual kw of prim distorting/shaping power, torus to giant mousetrap coil spring in under .5 of a second, cuts a 10x10x10 cube of concrete into a .5m thick floor slab with a click of the mouse Hmmmmmmmmmmnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

The Free Dove always looking for MALE clothing designers and MALE AO's designers... MALE Hair and shoes...

IM Me and I let the designer with a establish store put a free box prim for free promotion

This is exactly why most products are aimed at women... women are more likely to spend money.

Almost every male av I know has just a few clothes, they go for days without changing. Female avs change their clothes far more often .. just yesterday I wore a total of 4 outfits throughout the day, changing t suit the environment I was in. One outfit for building, one for the event at the club where i work, one for shopping and one for chilling at home. With the outfits I also change hair & shoes & jewellry. We spend more money, it's as simple as that

The majority of the population when it comes to consumers are women. As most know, women do the most shopping. But you are correct. I plan on openning a men's store in my rental shop area. Just trying to get these templates finalized.

I am wearing the same dirty denim jeans and yoda T shirt that I bought in my first week, thats the only outfit I own apart from the basic free stuff you get in the Library. Oooh I did buy some cool chunky alien boots back in 2005 which i've worn ever since. I dont get out much

In rl my wife just points to things on the internet and I generally grunt if I like it it. Thats what I need in sl, I spend all of my time building or supporting customers and no time or inclination for shipping so would be handy to just give some wench 50K and tell them to go buy me a wardrobe (without getting ripped off). Is there such a service? Wenches 'R' Us or somthing similar?

Coincidentally, I am about to release a male AO in my store. Give me a couple days.

Shall be at the door first thing Wednesday morning Johan! ...<rummages in cupboard for sleeping bag and blankets>

I don't like 'normal' clothes. However, it seems even the 'alternative' options for males are designed with a perfect mesomorphic Adonis in mind. Particularly the shirts, which follow the contours of a rippling six-pack and impressive pecs closely (and makes the av look like a plastic Superman action figure). I like my more ectomorphic av, but I've been frustrated trying to buy clothes that look good on him. Especially, like I say, since I have no interest in 'normal' clothes.

Then again, more than once said av has been mistaken for a girl anyway.

(I've been mistaken for a girl in RL, too. Probably because I have long hair. I would have thought the not-insubstantial beard would give it away, though o_0)

I think the majority of clothes in SL are pretty much tight though.

This is largely the result of the way clothes work from LL . I think a lot of people - men and women both would clothes that looked more realisitc with reguards to how they fit on the Avatar.

Give Robin Sojourner's shop in Benten a try. Yes, there aren't men's skins (yet), but the clothing is good men's or women's casual.

Mari