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Do these even exist?

Every pair I have (and they are legion in my inventory) are either badly textured, or have hideous base prims that do not come close to matching the textures, or look like cast-offs from the latest tranny convention.

Anyone have a pair that rocks?

Okay. I have whittled all my SL fashion wishes for the new year into one type of item that I feel will benefit us as a virtual society. Designers, if you are reading, hear my plea.

I estimate ninety percent of SL women have somewhere between a hundred and ten thousand outfits that suffer from EMS (Exposed Midriff Syndrome). These are lovely items that could be interchanged and salvaged if we had a variety of jacket-layer cinchers (also called corset belts and obi belts these days) to help us.

Take the adorable little Tanya dress I blogged a while back. It’s a darling little dress and I love everything about it down to it’s pretty tartan pixels. However, I would also love to be able to wear the top with my favorite jeans, or even an a la carte black skirt from another designer. When I try to do this, however, I get a horrible case of EMS:

The solution? It’s a cinch! We need a range of jacket-layer belts (not prims - I know there are some glorious prim belts out there, but I would honestly rather be Britney Spears’ publicist than try to fit another one).

They could be simple or intricate in corset or obi styles in a variety of textures, colors, and virtual fabrics. And because we SL gals love to mix and match there is a market for them to be both casual and dressy. There are many designers sensitive to multi-layer needs these days (Armidi, with all its faults really is a stand out in this regard) but expecting them to go back through years of inventory and update pants to underpants layers just isn’t practical. And, if you’re like me, there are still a few favorite items that you just can’t part with (this explains my RL closets as well).

And before you think I’ve been sipping at the cooking sherry while watching too many Dynasty reruns, let me just point out that 2007 RL fashion saw several of these accessories employed in both formal and casual flair.

Let’s all fight EMS together, please, and absolve ourselves of yet another hoochie SL fashion sin.

Holly wreaths. Sprigs of mistletoe. Holiday colored bows. Anything?

NO HATS. I have enough Santa hats to start my own elf brigade.

This isn’t a bounty because I’m hoping there are oodles and oodles of these things out there that I simply can’t find, but I’d like to know where the hell they are. If you’ve spotted some - please leave a comment.

I am in desperate need of some fashionista shopping prowess. I need to style someone for, uh, something we’ll talk about later, and I while I have bought approximately 3,000 really fabulous dresses today (and have blog fodder for approximately the next year), I would dearly love to find something along these either of these lines:

If anyone can point me in the right direction, I would be very grateful and $100L poorer. I have tried Paper Couture, Ivalde, Neph, and Vindi  and bought fabulous stuff but nothing really close to either of these. The orange Dior in particular is making me the mental because I know I have seen a similar style in-world.

Anyone?  Anyone? Bueller?

Thanks!