What in Blazes…

Blazers and business shirts, a match made in Heaven! SF Design have released a new range of both and they look sensational.

The blazers are double-breasted and come in a range of lovely colours. The details on these are fantastic, I especially love the look of the buttons, very classy-looking indeed. The double-breasted blazers feature sculpted cuffs, collar/lapels and a bottom of the coat and they all come in two versions – one with a resizer script and one without. I didn’t need the scripted versions of them myself because I found that they all fit pretty much perfectly right out of the box. There’s also a skirt layer that you can use as the bottom of the coat if you don’t want to wear the sculpted one.

As for the business shirts, well they are just awesome. You’ve seen them in these pages before, some weeks back as a Monday Mania item, well now you can get them in more super colours. They go so well with the double-breasted blazers you would not be blamed for thinking them part of a set and not separate items.

However, as you can see here, they look just as good all alone. These shirts come on all layers so they can be worn as above, or by themselves, pretty much anyway you want to. The collar and tie come in 3 different versions: the long flexi tie, the tucked tie that you can see above or the version with a longer tucked tie. They also come with cool-looking sculpted cuffs and are just an all-round terrific piece of clothing.

These items are amazingly priced with the blazers costing L$200 and the shirts a stunning L$150, definite bargains and you should definitely head down to SF Design and add these to your wardrobe.

Get the gear here: SF Design

Men Only…Again

Well well, the Men Only Hunt has begun again. This is the 2nd version of this super hunt, featuring a bucketload of amazing stores with some fantastic gifts to be found. I started looking tonight and struck gold with my first n0t-quite-random cab off the rank. Once I saw what I had I had to take a timeout from the hunt and show you guys.

Gabriel has long been a favourite store of mine, hence it not really being a random choice of places to start my hunting. Their amazing Men Only Hunt gift is every bit of clothing you can see in the above picture! Yes indeed, the tanktop, the jeans and boots are all part of the gift. The tank is mesh and looks brilliant, great texture and I love the splash of colour over the white. It comes in five sizes so I’m positive you’ll find one that fits you. Onto the jeans: the dark denim colour and worn-in texture of these are perfect. They are kind of a set with the boots as the baggy, bunched bottoms are a part of the awesome looking, loose brown leather workboots. Great detail have gone into these and the resizer script makes them all too easy to fit. All in all, I think the boots and jeans make a great combo and look terrific with the mesh tanktop.

This is such a cool outfit, I was super happy to get this and I couldn’t think of a better way to start off the Men Only Hunt for me. I’ll be heading back to it and showing you some more gear before it ends on the 9th of June. In the meantime, if you want to find out more, including hints and slurls, you can check out here: http://menonlyhunt.blogspot.ca/p/slurls-hints.html

Get the gear here: Gabriel

Follow the Sun

Guys, the weekend has come extremely early this Monday so get ready to hit the beach SF Design’s Monday Mania release: the Beach Boy outfit.

Yes, that’s right, you heard me. I said outfit. Today you can score this fantastic set consisting of a t-shirt and shorts for just L$25. I have to say I got a kick out of standing outside taking pictures in this über Summery gear considering we’ve only got like 3 days until Winter starts here…ah you have to love the magic of Second Life. Anyway, as I was saying – very Summer gear this is. Both the board shorts and tee have a lovely floral pattern on them that goes really well with the yellow colour. The shirt is really well fitted, I like the way it clings to your torso and it comes on all layers as well. The boardshorts feature sculpted cuffs in two versions: one with a scripted resizer and one without. Personally, I didn’t have to edit them one little bit. You also get a cute little drawstring attachment for the shorts which finish off the look brilliantly.

As I mentioned earlier, this set is an absolute steal at L$25. Remember that you can only get it at this special price for today only from the Monday Mania board located just inside the SF Design casual men’s section. Pick ‘em up and hit the beach boys!

Get the gear here: SF Design

Working from Home

Where would we be without Mondays? The place to mourn the weekend gone by and where the weekend to come looks such a long, long way off in the distance. However, it’s also the day you know you’re guaranteed to find some good bargains in Second Life thanks to Monday Mania. For us guys, that means taking a trip down to SF Design.

This weeks offering is the super-cool Hamilton vest in black and green. Swaffette’s vests are some of the very few that look right on me and I really like the colour of this one, the black and green calling to mind deep, dark forests. It comes on the jacket and shirt layers in two-lengths for each as well as an underwear layer so you can tuck it in should you wish.

As always this great waistcoat will only set you back L$25 just for today. You can get it at this special price exclusively from the Monday Mania board located just inside SF Design’s casual men’s section.

Get the gear here: SF Design

Oh and by the way, the awesome desk that I sat down to write this little post at is one of the gems from The Mens Dept that I have previously mentioned in these pages. It’s called the Chisolm Desk Set and is from a store called POST. The details are fantastic and it really is a brilliant piece of furniture, perfect for your home office or bedroom or whatever. The desk lamp turns on and off and the desk also gives you the pen to write with (handy when you’re blogging) and coffee should you need one afterward. There are also different sitting animations for you to use. Right now it’s only L$150 at The Mens Dept, you should head down and check it out.

Get the gear here: The Mens Dept

The Bone, the Off-White, the Ivory or the Beige?

SF Design have the perfect shirt to start the working week off for this edition of Monday Mania: the beige Business Shirt with Ties. I love my business shirts, whether in SL or my real life, I’m a fan.

This shirt is super, the beige looks brilliant and the detailing is fantastic, especially the shading and creases around the chest and the buttons. It comes across all layers so you can wear this anyway you wish. You also get three versions of the collar with tie attached with this shirt: the long flexi tie that I’m wearing above and two tucked-in ties, one shorter and the other a bit longer. All three come with a script for resizing should you need them. The sculpted cuffs look sweet, not only do they fit perfectly but the cufflinks are gorgeous, going nicely with the colour of the shirt itself.

As always, this shirt will cost you L$25 for today only, for a shirt like this, that’s a total bargain right? You can get it at this price from the Monday Mania board which is located just inside the casual men’s section of SF Design.

Get the gear here: SF Design

Greener Pastures

A fresh new week always brings us some loveliness from SF Design for Monday Mania. This week’s offering is this gorgeously green Summer check shirt. Even as the cold weather creeps in down under, I can envision strong sunshine and warmth with this on, there’s just something about the colour that has that effect. The fact that it’s a great-looking shirt doesn’t hurt either!

This top comes on all layers so you can wear it underneath something if you can stand the heat, or just tuck it in nice and neatly. The sculpted collar and cuffs fit perfectly in both senses of the word, they look super. With each attachment you get a script resizeable version and one that has no script so no matter how you like to resize your stuff, you’re covered should you need to.

As usual, this shirt will cost you just L$25 for today only. You can pick it up at this special price from the Monday Mania board located just inside the casual men’s section of SF Design.

Get the gear here: SF Design

The Encore

While Faith was chillin’ prettily down by the water with her acoustic, I was sweating up a storm on stage with the electric. But still, I was feeling pretty cool in my new snakeskin pants from SF Design and so I just had to show them to you guys. Faith described these bad boys perfectly and since there’s not much difference between the guys and girls versions, there’s not much I can say except that these are awesome trousers indeed. I love the pattern and the colour is just perfect.

The price is right for you guys too, the usual Monday Mania bargain of L$25, so get up on stage with these snakeskin pants. They are available for today only at this special price from the Monday Mania board, located just inside the casual men’s section of SF Design.

Get the gear here: SF Design

The Men’s Dept.

Thanks to the magic of subscribo news, I managed to find out about The Men’s Dept, a sensational new monthly sales event, chock full of great designers and a range of gear for us guys. Almost everything you see me in above, I picked up while I was mooching about there: hair, shirt, facial hair and skin, all bought from the Men’s Dept. and I didn’t pay over L$150 for any one item!

The hair is from one of my all time favourite hair stores: [Shag] and is aptly named ‘This Charming Man’ as you will definitely look charming in this short, neatly styled ‘do. You get three different colour tones with this hair and three matching hairbases to wear with them.

The shirt is from [Sleepy Eddy] and is gorgeous. I love my striped shirts lately and this one fits the bill oh-so well. There are a total of four different colours you can choose to buy for this fantastic shirt, I was so tempted to get more than one but settled for the coral in the end. It comes on multiple layers and includes the sculpted body part of the shirt as well as white sculpted collar and cuffs that both look brilliant and fit really well.

Last but not least is the skin and facial hair which both come from Fruk, a store that’s new to me but one I’m going to have investigate more closely if this is the kind of stuff they have lying around. For a crazy-good price (everything at the Men’s Dept. is sold at crazy-good prices) you can pick up this Knox skin. This has an amazing-looking face, youthful and handsome and I like the skin tone it comes in as well and the body looks just as good, not overblown with muscles but still nicely defined and a manly bit of chest/body hair thrown in for good measure.  I couldn’t buy this skin and not pick up the Stinger beard Fruk was offering right there, it’s such a good add on to this skin (or any other really) and comes in two tones: black or brown.

So you guys definitely need to head down to the Men’s Dept. and check it out. You will be well pleased with the gear on offer, I think there’s a little bit of everything just about. Go take a look while you can.

Get the gear here: The Men’s Dept

Really, Truly

If you check out the marketplace, you will be able to find yourself this funky little casual outfit from *Stars* Fashion for the even funkier promotional price of L$99! This outfit, named ‘Truly’ features everything you see above except the shoes. The pants and two shirts are what you’ll get and they look pretty cool indeed. The trousers have a nice texture to them with some fantastic crease-work and they come with sculpted cuffs that are easy to fit.

The two shirts can be worn simultaneously or one at a time. I have to say that I like them worn both at the same time more though. The black, white and red colours of the check shirt look brilliant and it comes with sculpted collar and sleeves as well as a sculpted body part for the top, but you don’t have to wear it if you don’t want and there is a separate layer for those who choose not to. This sculpted body part comes in two versions, one for manual resizing and one with a scripted resizer included so you’re covered for fitting this perfectly. The white shirt also comes with sculpted sleeves for those times when you just want to wear it all by itself.

As I said earlier, this is a very cool, casual outfit that looks great. It’s an absolute bargain at L$99 and you don’t even have to go out anywhere to get it! Pick it up while you can.

Get the gear here: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Promo-1-week-StarsFashion-Truly/3371768?id=3371768&slug=Promo-1-week-StarsFashion-Truly

Visit them inworld: *Stars* Fashion

It matters not whether I win or lose

Because I look good playing the game! So can you guys with SF Design’s Monday Mania item for today: this brilliant mesh Cricket Sweater. I know Faith already beat me to the punch showing it, but I just had to do it. I don’t think that I’ve seen any other cricket sweaters around the grid and that kind of uniqueness just deserves to be shown twice. This sweater looks fantastic with great-looking colours, though green and gold stripes might have suited my patriotic needs a little more (Australia might not be the cricketers they were a few years back but hey, I still have to support them). The texture on the mesh is wonderful and warm, perfect for the when the dark clouds start rolling in across the oval.

The mesh comes in two sizes: average and larger (I’ve got the larger size on here) and of course you’ll need a mesh-enabled viewer to see this sweater properly. As always, you’ll only pay L$25 for this fine bit of kit and you can get it at this special price today from the Monday Mania board only which is located just inside the casual men’s section of SF Design.

Get the gear here: SF Design

Artman Designs, Inworldz

Greetings! Drivin Sideways here, your Pure Eggs ‘N Spam foreign correspondent.

It is time to spill my secret. I can no longer keep quiet. Friends, all of you … Second Life … you’re not my only grid. There are other grids in my life. I’m not ashamed, I am proud! Of course this doesn’t mean I don’t love you – what we have is dear to my heart. But I love the other places too, and there is plenty of love in this big ol’ avatar for all of you.

I’ve been enjoying citizenship on multiple grids, and my favorite of them is Inworldz. Today I’d like to introduce you to a few handsome items that designer Artman Xue is graciously giving away at Artman Designs’ keystone location in the region Vulcan.

First we have the Khaki slacks in white, Simplicity blue stripe shirt, and “Black Converse” shoes, all free in the Menswear department upstairs.

While you are there I recommend that you say “Hi” to Artman himself if he is around. You won’t find a more personable or helpful designer on any grid.

Next is my favorite: The Renegade Leather jacket, also free, shown here with The Xue Edition Double-belted Pant in black (not free). The Renegade has crisp photo-sourced textures and includes a leather jacket, goldenrod button-up shirt and white tee all on the jacket layer. You’ll find this in the Artman Gift Box by each door upstairs. Damn, WHY do my eyes always seem to close for the flash??

Artman Designs is two full floors of clothing & shoes for men and women. Clothing layers are Mod/Copy/No Xfer and the free shoes are Copy only. You can see these items and the entire Artman Designs’ line in Inworldz @ Vulcan 77, 105, 32

Happy exploring! – Drivin

Menswear Fashion Week

Menswear Fashion Week is in full swing and I have to say, it’s pretty awesome to have an event for us guys to mooch around. Speaking of mooching, yours truly has walked the circuit once or twice (maybe three or four times) and there are many, many amazing stores with stalls down there packed with some great goodies.

SF Design has one such stall with a couple of new release items out for you to grab. The first of these is called the ‘Ewan’ outfit and it is wicked. Ultra hip, this ensemble features a gorgeous suede jacket, plaid pants and a mesh tee. I love the look of the jacket in any of the three colours available (brown, blue or grey), I’ll definitely be wearing this a lot, either with the outfit as a whole or just by itself. The sculpted cuffs, collar and lapel all fit perfectly and the texturing is divine.

The mesh tee that comes with the Ewan outfit, as you can see, looks brilliant worn without the jacket and trust me when I tell you, I never thought that I would be saying that about a mesh t-shirt, like, ever. This tee can be worn tucked in or, if you have a viewer that allows multiple layers, you can wear it out with the pants layer.

SF Design also have this super mesh sweater and shirt combo in blue or black. This is an extremely preppy little combination that I like a lot. You’ll need a mesh enabled viewer to see these but it’s definitely worth it. The mesh comes in two sizes and I had no problem at all fitting into it. Definitely a very cool item that can be worn in any number of situations.

There are also some gifts dotted about MFW if you keep your eyes peeled. Gifts like this funky ‘Wake Up!’ shirt from FA Creations.  Basic black with sculpted sleeves, a perfect casual top. My favourite part about this shirt (other than the fact that it was free) is the sculpted bottom that comes with its own belt, it’s very well made and adds to the effect of the shirt. The tattoo you can see peeking out from the sleeves is a gift from *Birth* and comes on all different layers and in different levels of darkness (I went with the light shade for this pic). I’ve kept it on to show it off properly in the next picture below as well.

Last but not least, the ever amazing Akeruka have a stall at Menswear Fashion Week also. Many of their great skins are available there to buy, including this special version of ‘Damien’. Pale with dark lips teamed with the usual fantastic looking details, this is a tremendous skin for those of you who like to roleplay or to those of you who just like that child of the night look.

On a final note, the sunglasses you see me wearing in these last two pictures are a new release from Redgrave that you can also pick up at the MFW event. I fell in love with these ‘Zenith’ glasses the moment I saw them, they are colour changeable and look simply stunning. I was fortunate that my wonderfully generous partner bought them for me and thought I’d show them off (thanks bunches Roni x).

So there you have it, absolutely shedloads of amazing gear you can find at Menswear Fashion Week. This is but a small sampling. Head on down before the end of this week and take a long, leisurely stroll around and I’m sure you’ll find something you’ll love.

Get the gear here: Menswear Fashion Week

A Century of Mania

Monday Mania reaches the big 1-0-0 today and to celebrate, designers are putting out a special gift in stores for a week. Gifts like these classic sunglasses from SF Design. These are very funky glasses, dark lenses and a cool-looking frame that is also colour-changeable with eight different tones to choose from. I’m of the opinion that you can’t have too many pairs of sunglasses and these are very worth picking up.

Now onto SF Design’s regular Monday Mania release: the black blazer. I think this is a very versatile blazer, striking a good balance between casual and formal. You get two versions of this blazer today, the one that I’m wearing in the above picture and the other has white piping around the bottom. Both, of course, look brilliant. The details are fantastic, especially the buttons on the sculpted cuffs and the collar and lapels are resizeable via script should you need to resize them. There are also two sizes of the flexi jacket bottom for each version of the blazer.

For L$25 you can’t go wrong running down and grabbing this coat at all. Just remember, you can only get this at the special price for today only from the Monday Mania board near the entrance of the casual men’s section of SF Design and the classic sunglasses will be available all week. Oh and before I forget there is a version of this blazer for you ladies to grab as well, so head on down and check it all out.

Get the gear here: SF Design

Play Ball!

Monday has rolled its way back around to us yet again and SF Design has hit another home run, delivering us this sweet baseball jacket for Monday Mania.

I’m not sure whether swaffette intentionally chose the green colour of this jacket with St Patrick’s Day just going by, but let’s just say she did anyway. This is definitely a very cool jacket. It is pretty much entirely made from sculpted prims but there’s no need to be daunted by that. It fits like a dream thanks to the handy alpha layer that comes included and each attachment comes in two versions: one with a resizer script and one without. I barely had to touch this at all to get it fitting just the way I wanted it. The details are also fantastic, I love the creases in the sleeves, showing that they’ve been pushed up slightly and the buttons look great as well.

As usual, this jacket will only cost you L$25 for today only and you can pick it up at this price only from the Monday Mania board located just inside the casual men’s section of SF Design. It’s so worth it, head on down and pick it up and start swinging for the fences.

Get the gear here: SF Design

Fashion for Life

Fashion for Life is a tremendous event in Second Life which supports the American Cancer Society raising a great amount of money for donation. It’s currently running until the 20th of this month and I think we can all agree that this is a very worthwhile cause as I’m sure most of us have either directly or indirectly been affected by this disease. We all know how important research into finding a cure is. There are so many great designers on show with some lovely FFL exclusive items so when you head down to the Fashion for Life sims and buy something from one of the Fashion for Life vendors, be happy in the knowledge that not only are you getting some high quality merchandise, your money is doing good. There are also gacha machines and a hunt, giving you even more excuse to look around.

Now onto some of the gear you’ll find when you’re wandering. First up, I have this super skin from Akeruka. It’s called Damien mk1 (yes there is a mk2 as well). You’ve all seen Akeruka skins on this blog before so you know how good they are and if you haven’t, well just take a look at the above picture. Akeruka never stints on quality, bringing superb details to their skins. Damien has a great masculine look to him with tremendously sculpted muscles around the torso, even the belly button is done well. This version of Damien comes with some funky looking eyeliner that adds another dimension to the skin. Also included are tattoo layers for a light eyeliner and hairbase as well as a bald base. Everything is covered. This skin will cost you L$1000 and is definitely worth the price.

Akeruka @ Fashion for Life

::Schoen:: is a new store to me but they have some wicked looking items down at Fashion for Life. The ‘Black Down Vest’ you see above is one of their FFL Hunt items that can be yours for L$50. It is really very well done with just the right amount of puffiness to it, looks great worn by itself as well as over the top of something like I’ve done here. I love the black leopard print designs around the bottom and front of the vest. There is also a hooded version included that looks just as good. This is an item that you guys should definitely be on the lookout for.

::Schoen:: @ Fashion for Life

Last but not least, I have one of the Fashion for Life exclusive outfits from SF Design. Those of you who’ve seen the blog recently will recognize the shirt and mesh pants shown here but now they have been beautifully recoloured and put together for FFL along with an awesome pair of boots. As I mentioned, the pants in this ensemble are mesh so you’ll need a mesh enabled viewer to see them and they are definitely worth the new viewer, gorgeously detailed and fitting. There are 2 different sizes of the mesh included so you’ll surely find one to suit your size. The dark blue colour looks brilliant and goes so well with the boots and shirt. Speaking of the shirt, it’s a light blue version of the Flower Power shirt and I think I might even like this even better than the pink one, especially taken with the ensemble as a whole, it just all looks so good. As I mentioned in a previous post, you get two sleeve lengths for this type of shirt, the three-quarter length (which is my personal fave) and the full-length, plus they come on a variety of layers. The creases and shading are done ever so nicely and the sculpted cuffs and collar fit perfectly.

Now onto the Tweedy Rolltop boots. I love these shoes, they look too awesome. The colour is very cool (blue suede shoes without the suede baby) and they are dead easy to fit with the alpha layer (if you can wear multiple alphas, something I’ve only recently been able to do myself). The detailing on them is gorgeous, especially the tweed rolltop, seriously, that is my favourite part of these boots and that is saying something.

This ensemble will cost you only L$400 which is an amazing price for such a sweet set of clothing. More than worth it.

SF Design @ Fashion for Life (this link may not take you directly to SF Design but you’ll be on the right sim)

So there you have it, some of the amazing items on show at Fashion for Life. As you can see, the quality of the items is simply stunning and this is only a small sample of the gear you’ll find down there. Remember, it is all for a great cause so bring your money, explore the many gorgeous sims and help out!

Fashion for Life

http://www.fashionforlifesl.org/