Shopping therapy

As things have been a little bit tiresome in real life, I have been indulging in a little bit of shopping therapy — all in the line of duty, you understand. I’m looking for the fashion and shopping categories … hmmm, I suppose commerce will have to do.

Some people change their avatar’s clothes all the time, and some stick with one outfit that they like and hardly ever seem to change their appearance. Some cycle through whole new avatars, changing from furry to vampyre to person to tiny as the whim seizes them.

I have always been somewhere in the middle, in that I often stick with the same look and outfit for ages, and then I will suddenly have an urge to change my appearance and will either go in search of the right clothes, or spend ages doing the SL equivalent of getting out all my stuff on the bed and deciding none of it fits me any more.

Occasionally I will buy an odd item on impulse, and then find that I don’t have a thing to wear with it. I bought a wonderful cloak from Night Sky by Shaoshan Llanfair some weeks ago, and had wondered what on earth I could wear with it. As you can see from the picture if I have successfully uploaded it, the cloak is black velvet with fur trim, and I had a yen to go all Lara Croft with it.

Then, I happened to see via a post on Spin’s blog, through a post on the Men’s Second Style, that some good boots were on sale, and thought I would check those out. Things are rezzing slooowly for me, and they appeared in confusing clutter of rubbish trucks and walls, but I soon found the boots, tried the demo, and bought a pair.

I already had my free Numbakulla trousers, the cloak and the boots, so I needed something to finish off the outfit and found myself at Chaospire, which has been one of my favourite places for as long as I can remember. Devyn Grimm’s clothes are unusual and I thought they went splendidly well with the whole ensemble.

So I have been stomping around SL like a vampyrish Tomb Raider, swirling cloak floating out behind. It works for me, at present.