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Bump: Unisexy :FORM: by Zabitan Assia
By Celebrity Trollop | July 25, 2006
Bump I decided to pull this post “from the vault” in honor of Zabitan Assia’s Designer of the Month feature at PXP. It’s a great interview and Zabitan is a very talented designer. As I wrote below, his designs are focused on men’s wear, but normally it looks great on women too.
Just coincidence last night that I happened to meet Zabitan Assia, the designer of :FORM: menswear. Normally, I don’t cover men’s wear, but when I met Zabitan last night he was wearing the shirt (on the jacket layer) that I’m modelling in the photo below. (Except mine is modded to show off the belly tats. :D) As you can see, I think most of the things in Zabitan’s stores look just as great on a female avie as a male avie. So I decided to post his new polo shirt (that pattern on the back is just delicious gothy goodness) and use that as a spring board for talking about taking men’s wear and modding it to make it a little more girly girl.
Now it’s true that unmodified, the shirt I’m wearing below looks great on female avies. But with a little tweaking, you can take it and make it your own — and maybe highlight some stuff underneath like all those hot tats you painstakingly collected from all over Second Life.
Modifying clothes is pretty easy. All you do is enter your appearance screen, and click on the tab of the clothing layer you want to modify. For the Yeehaw shirt (on the jacket layer) I chose “jacket” and then I just adjusted the slider for “jacket length” to 50. And in the :FORM: 505 jeans, I changed the pants length to 60, crotch baggyness to 0 (girls with baggy crotches just look bizarre — like, “Is that salami in your pants or…”), and the waist length to 0 to show off the (very) low tummy tats.
So, all in all, it’s both fun and sexy to raid the men’s wear lines at places like :FORM:. That’s why even though I don’t follow men’s fashions too much, I keep checking in with Zealot Benmergui’s column The Man Factory. I’m just never sure when something he features will strike me as something I simply must have in my own wardrobe. Even if it’s a bit girlier than it originally started.
Do your own men’s wear closet raid by visiting :FORM: in EXPOSé.
In this photo: Skin: Love 04 (with suicide girl tats impressed) by Canimal Zephyr; Eyes: Fetish (DkBlueScope) by Canimal Zephyr; Belly and right leg tattoo: Rebirth by Laylah Mistral, Flrefly Ink and Studios; Hair: Vivacious (dirty burnt) by Elikapeka Tiramisu, ETD; Earrings: Crescent Moon chandeliers by Koge Cleaver, { JUNK }; Shirt: Yeehaw Shirt by Zabitan Assia, :FORM:; Jeans: 505 Jeans by Zabitan Assia, :FORM:; Shoes: Libertine (sable) by Lyra Muse, Papillionerie
Topics: Bottoms, Classified Highlights, Men's Wear, Tops |
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