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So, I make this post bitching about a few of my beefs with the current state of glitch pants on the grid. The next day, I get a couple of IMs which, while gently worded, basically amount to: “we’re already working on this problem, bonehead.” From two of SL’s top designers no less. Shows what I know.

For those of you who think I do nothing but stare at my crotch all day, the above photo will certainly be your Zapruder film frame of proof. On the left is the jacket/underpants layer for the Blaze Sonatina dress and on the right is the jacket/underpants layer for the Simone! Tiffany dress. Both are (obviously) cocktail dresses. But note how the glitch area for the shorter skirts are lingerie-friendly instead of the Mormon magic underpants we’re used to getting stuck with. The Blaze underlayer is a bit more finished and detailed than Simone’s, but in both cases, I’m happier than Paris Hilton at a press junket to see the effort being made.

Tiffany comes in about twenty different colors and has a charming prim bow on the front waistline. I’m not 100% sold on the cascading satin skirt texturing effect in black and suspect I might like it better in different colors or possibly with a second skirt layer to lend some additional reality, but it is consistent through the skirt and looks much more natural outside of extreme close-up. There is always a compromise for texturing between close-up and reasonable distance, so I think this is the best tact to take for dresses like these where you’re much more likely to be looking at them from a slightly zoomed out club scene than, say, a close-up intimate setting. The bodice of this cute little number is smokin’ hot and the rest of its shining points (movement, style, etc) are the top-notch stuff you expect from a Simone dress.

What Blaze has turned out with the Sonatina and Crushed Tube dresses is really a fascinating direction for a type of dress I don’t get to wear much. Tight-fitting tube dresses are a staple of RL fashion from couture catwalk to mail order boudoir and every Bloomingdales and Old Navy store in between. Until now in SL, due to the fact that the SL mesh makes our asses look like Homer Simpson after a donut glut these types of dresses were not really feasable. Most of them consist of biker shorts with a prim shoved on the front and the back to make a pretend form-fitting skirt. The illusion only works, by and large, if you stand perfectly still in the right lighting. As you can see, however, Blaze has taken a giant leap toward improving on this practice.

There are still some poses that will make this type of skirt look out of whack, but that’s true for all things prim. I’m not an itty-bitty skirt type girl, but if I were, I suspect that this would be a day of rejoicing.

I also suspect that following the Oscar and Grammy Award shows of the coming seasons, all those tight, tiny little nymph dresses are gonna get a lot more representation in SL. Wootle.

Where To Buy

Crush Tube Dress - L$190
Sonatina Dress - L$400
Blaze
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Blaze/68/118/23

Tiffany Cocktail Dress - L$200
Simone
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Simone/123/153/36