Fashion trends among older avatars

In that case, we'd better include:

The Oldies: Minimal everything; attachments, skin, clothing

The Funkies: Anything not discernably human or animalistic. Can be anything from simple glowing spheres to a collection of swimming sperm.

Men’s clothes…Gene Jacobs

Hrmm, I fit into several of those categories actually. As well as part-time fairy, medieval role-player, top fashion model, sports fan and prolly a few others I've forgotten about at the moment. As far as my favorite designers..wow..depends on the style but a few that I can always count on for quality stuff (and good customer service; important when one's AV is much smaller than average and has to call on a lot of designers for alterations) Digital knickers, X3d (hair and clothing), Analise(silks to -die- for), Calico Creations (yeah, the hair is primmy but it sure is gorgeous!) Celestial studios, (hair, skin and clothing), Stone Keep and DeFleur (for wonderful medieval outfits) and Chaospire whom I love and just wish she would do more releases...the attention to detail is just amazing. Not that these are all the places I love, the list would take pages and pages..

The key metrics might disagree with you

(2007 June F 42.77% M 57.23%)

Mari

I am sure I have a photo on Flickr of me, dressed in full ballroom gown, windsurfing by night off Bummer Bay.

Why? Because I CAN.

lol

So would all those people walking around with prim penises. Even if I do have a male alt, I can't seriously see putting one of those on. Nothing wrong with them; I just would have a really hard time "relating" to it, so to speak.

I created my own devil outfit with pitchfork and everything, but because I didn't want to remove my ears and tail . . I became the Neko-Devil.

For older guys, LILA Natural Skins has old dude skins, with wrinkled foreheads and grey chest hair. It's not too hard to go bald with them, but it can be harder to find grey hair. Add a bulge around the waist, maybe some freebie jeans that aren't low-rise, and you're set.

Oh, you meant _experienced_ avatars. That's different

Tell me, Mari. Do those key metrics take into account the number of male subscribers running around half-naked in female avies?

Oh, I dunno, I was able to set my hair grey (and adjust the amount to match RL) in my first couple of days inworld, so it can't be that hard.

Adam n Eve also has an old man skin... fairly decent actually.

Ive always worn something in SL, that i cannot in real life,not just because i can,but because it also solves ( at least for me) predetermination of character..what one can see isnt what is really there looking at the PC monitor.

Certainly, the kind of gender specific clothes available reflect an aspect of real life i am not using SL for, in fact i want to get away from real life, thats why i use SL. I am male.but being free in SL to touch aspects of my imagination and creativity and just plain curiosity is something i value SL for.A freedom of expression often hidden in real life, simply from the desire to conform, because conformity in real life is very defined from pre supposition. For example.. Your bank manager is unlikely to be wearing greasy overalls, with a spanner sticking out of the top pocket at work..(not impossible i realise.. but its just an example )

I also wear my neko ears in RL . . and I admit that the Judge is always ordering me to remove them

You'll have to ask LL, I suspect. That said, the long term trend seem to be towards more males than females, though the gap has been closing.

(search the blog for "Key Metrics"



zOMG! Ageplay!

Mari

When I first heard the term that is what I thought it was talking about. Playing your own age; or playing some other age and having it mean something (like rolling around in a wheelchair in white hair, wrinkles, etc.).

Maybe everybody gets more animalistic the longer they're in SL? Kind of a de-evolution. After 10 years we all become snarling cats, dogs and vicious lizard creatures.

Woof!

I dunno, AVs from the beforetimes always seem to me to have nice skins (if human) and nice AVs ... just no bling, small amounts of flexi in their hair, and casual low-prim clothes. And sometimes REALLY cool non-human AVs that they built.

right on Incony Hathaway thats what its about for me. I have to conform to a point in RL , I can't wear what I do in SL to my RL job. Being a musician I do get to do and wear some wild stuff but, the RL job that pays the bills no.

Here in SL I can have imagination and explore all kinds of styles.

I pretty much stick to 90% me with a few extra tattoos and maybe a better built body than my old man RL one LOL.

Renegade for jeans and shirts, Desert clothiers for the same, form nice stuff, FNKY, and there are many gems out there that are not gangster rapper looking or all leather... but they are hard to find. I can't even find places in my LM half the time. I wear Desert clothers boots all the time or Oi6 eye docs. or im barefoot, do have some decent FORM skate tennis shoes though

Hi All,

Just chipping in my 2 cents here. I have been in SL quite a while now, I dont consider myself old by any reckoning but these days I dont bump into as many people as old as I am, as much as I used to so maybe I am mature

I have never found it difficult to get my AV to look good though, he is not a conventional male, he is relatively slim, with a wirey, rugged kinda look but still manages to give the impression of being reasonably muscled. In short fairly realistic.

I think this is the key - try for realism - you know when it looks false.

Clothes wise, again you just have to put the same amount of effort into shopping as the girls do to look good. I never found it hard to look reasonable even at the beginning with freebies. I beleive it is a question of taste mostly. Again I am not very conventional as I dont wear jeans and t-shirts much, bling or wear many clothing prims (shoes mainly). However some of my jackets do have a few prims for collar and the lower part.

After a while of being SL (2 months I think) I partnered up with a lovely girl who took my shopping to new levels, now I know I look really good because she tells me when I do and when I dont.
And if at least my or my girls definition of good does not fit anyone else, well I could not care less to be honest.

Regards
Nathan

when i first came into SL i tried to make my avie as close to me in RL as i could with the exception that in SL since day one i have had pink hair, which in teh old days was a pain cuz there was no true pink to be found.

as far as clothes i wear a lot of what i wish i could wear in RL and not lose my job, my style has changed over and over.
Basically my advice is to experiment and find what you like and screw anybody who doesn't like it

i wish there was a list for petite-friendly designers

I am a "older" avatar



Yes, I have tattoos, rarely go shirtless, have a whopping 4 pair of prim shoes, hate bling, and no spikes or chains.

One of the first gifts I bought for my sweetie was a pair of the original FNKY! dress shoes...he said they were the nicest thing anyone had ever given him in SL.

Ummm... I do wear shirts/jackets most of the time... and even wear spikes sometimes.. I stand around when deep in IM's... the 'arms folded' is a good modelling pose I use... but the rest.. ermm yes.. you been spying on me?

I'm not known as a 'tough guy'.. bit of a pussycat really.. well except in business. When I look back at historic pictures taken of myself in SL.. and compare them over the years.. of course they change.. clothing, skins, hair, accessories, flexi have all evolved.. I love to hone my avie, but as this is a Second Life, I can't hone my RL body...

Woo hoo!! After three weeks of forum cold-turkey during working hours I'm finally back .. well, a quick post before a loo-oong bank holiday weekend

I think the provision of male clothing in SL is ohhh kaa-aay ... if you don't mind trekking miles across far-flung continents battling with orcs and trolls and bad taste .. sorry .. carried away there for a moment.

I largely alternate between tee and jeans, and tuxedo .. the fiancee seems to like it. It's interesting to scan back through my snapshots to see how I've changed. I've tried to mirror my true body weight, my avatar having slightly less grey hair than I do but macho?? .. ooh please! No spikes, no bling and no tattoos. OK a stubbly chin but that's as far as I go .. no medallion dangling underneath LOL.

Found some very nice sweaters, some with adjustable prim polo necks which create a brilliant effect. For guys and girls, they are very cosy! I think the sim was Meeting Support and the shop is Mari & somebodies (sorry!) The really impressive thing is, every time I've been there Mariangelino(?) is there in person .. well avatar .. but you get my drift? Oh and there's very often a freebie .. and here I mean a good quality product offered for a limited time for free! .. so it's well worth going back

After 10 months of being an unusually tall hobbit am I tempted to create a non-human - cough! - sorry, halfling!!? Noo, I don't think so. In fact, non-humans seem to be a little in decline in the general areas anyone else think?