I seem to wander around SL for a few days or a week 3-4 times a year. Not much more than that -- I have other games that occupy my time, and I do try to write every week now. Anyway I thought I'd post a few pics from the past few days.
I went looking for gothic lolita or sweet lolita clothing made for the Maitreya Laura body. It was difficult. I get the impression that the heyday of lolita fashion in Second Life was about 6 years ago, and that a lot of the Japanese designers and a lot of the smaller designers in general aren't around anymore (ignoring the fact that Bare Rose has been shoving out tons of lolita stuff for years -- I like their clothing but most of it is not specifically designed for Maitreya and is also a kind of cosplay/lolita hybrid, usually).
What I finally found was this dress from Kawaii Tofu, which is also not specifically Maitreya designed but worked well and fit the kind of thing I was looking for. Shoes are Candy Doll Melissa in black.
This is an outfit from Avid Gothic called Byzantium. This is the kind of "made for Maitreya" you find more of these days -- it's actually made like old system clothing, maybe even updated from an old design, but with appliers so that you can adapt it for your Maitreya body. That's fine, the end result looks good, but it's still dealing with a ton of pieces so it's a bit more complex than just tossing on an outfit of 1-3 pieces.
This location for these two pictures is also at the Avid Gothic store. There's a basement that you can go down into with long winding tunnels that comes out at this little secluded dock. It was fun to explore and gave me a good photo shoot locale. ^_^
Photo taken at the Plain of Jars.
In my quest for lolita clothing I checked out a bunch of old (mostly Japanese) vendors, and some are still around, although none were designing for Maitreya (no surprise -- my impression is that the popular mesh bodies were never that popular with the Japanese SL crowd). But I found t his dress at Lo*Momo, and I liked it. ^_^ Paired with fri.day Rowena heels.
Let's see if I can remember where all of this came from. Actually, it's mostly Blueberry, which does tons of Maitreya stuff (I have spent a ton of money at Blueberry lately -- I have 220 Linden in-store credit in fact). Blueberry Bonie socks, which are pretty awesome, I bought 3 different styles; Blueberry Kyla skirt I believe, shoes are the Candy Doll Melissa again, I really like those, got 2 different styles, and the top is from Vinyl (Azuchi + Vinyl) Ellie Corset/Top. I think this is taken at the Village & BarDeco.
More Blueberry stuffs! This is taken at Egoisme Milano, I think. Blueberry Lola Bustier Top, Vinyl Military Cargos in pink (Vinyl does a ton of Maitreya as well), the Candy Doll Melissa shoes in Candy, actually... that's about it.
