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EMS: Salomé.. I Agree With You!!!
By Grazia Horwitz | January 9, 2008
Some time ago I promised Marianne a blog post about belly button covering clothing options, so it is high time that I live up to this promise… besides, over at Linden Lifestyles, Salomé has written a plea straight from the heart about EMS (Exposed Midriff Syndrome) and from the Second Style gang I would like to support this plea. Salomé… I am so with you on this one. In the mean time, women who refuse to give in to EMS are required to be creative and cunning users of the possibilities that their inventories offer. And luckily, we do have a number of possibilities
Alyssum Therian, over at Love Aly has made a set of cute layer belts on different hights on the various layers too, that might fix a small gap between your pants and top, but they won’t do for serious cases of EMS because they are not large enough. Corsets are a better option usually, but only when they come on the jacket layer, and when they are not too underwearish, after all, lets keep it stylish. Underwear as upperwear is 99% of the times for the working girls. However there are some wonderful corsets on the market that do just fine as an EMS cure. Paeoti Pomeray’s Hoop corset for instance at Nymphetamine (middle), or the corsets from the fall collection over at Pixeldolls, by Nephilaine Protagonist (right).
Some designers solve the problem by creating high waist pants which I think is a very elegant solution. Ginny Talamasca at Last Call made some exquisite ones. If you don’t have them yet, make sure you get yours during the final sale that will start on the January 11, because all those lovely designs will be retired once the sale ends (date not known yet, but it may be a while) and gone forever. There are others like Artilleri and Casa del Shai that have high waisted pants too which wil be normally available. Shirt and undie layer for a tucked look top is also fine.. bottomline for designers is, the more layers you create your designs on, the more love you will get from your fashionista clients.
If your shirt is not made on the jacket layer, then one of the most creative solutions is handed to us by Elka Lehane from Boing Fromage. She made 2 shirt add on kits to fix EMS on your casual shirts and “washed too hot” sweaters. It is a fix on various layers to match a shirt layer and to neatly cover the belly area. It comes either in a t-shirt version or in a polo version, and you can play around with tucked and untucked options, sleeve lengths and collars. If your EMS top is not too textured, you can always try to make a pair of knickers and match the colour of the top as closely as possible, but as said, this will only only work with litle textured tops, or in case it is a very small gap, otherwise you’d rather decide to wear the top in a different sort of outfit and continue looking for something that does work well.
Ok, due to downtime, slurls and credits will have to wait till next time I log in to SL after the grid goes back up, but in the meantime… happy reading!
Topics: Bottoms, Tops, Uncategorized |
Just throwing this out there, but couldn’t the SKIRT layer be used for wide belts? I’m not sure if it comes up high enough or not, but if it does, it seems like it would be a great choice for belts. It would overlap everything and still leave the other layers free and the separation from the skin wouldn’t be a problem on on a belt.
Of course, I probably don’t know what i’m talking about, so I’ll be quiet now.
Posted by: Annyka Bekkers on January 9th, 2008 at 9:57 amI looove this post!!!
And the sale at Last Call is really something I’m going to spend L§ on. I was there, walking around and noticed many must-have packs! Shall we place a bet on how fast the sim will crash when the sale starts?!?
I will definitly check out the shirt add on kit too. Looks like something I’ll need!
Posted by: Marianne on January 9th, 2008 at 12:15 pmI am holding out for designer Nena Janus(The League), she has promised a belt solution soon. I wear corsets sometimes, but you are right, they tend to look like lingerie!
Posted by: Harris on January 9th, 2008 at 2:49 pm@ Annyka: actually, now that you mention it… I remember that I must have such a thing in my inventory somewhere, although it is more like a pareo, hip cover, wrappy, scarf thing than a belt, and not high enough to cover up some serious EMS. But yeah, might be interesting to hear the opninion on this of someone from the designer population.
Posted by: Grazia on January 10th, 2008 at 7:11 am@ Marianne.. count me in.. I bet on somewhere between 10 secfonds and 5 minutes :-D
Posted by: Grazia on January 10th, 2008 at 7:13 amAnyone have a slurl for the sale? Do I need to be part of a group to go? I’ve tried teleporting to various places in Dazzle and don’t seem to ever make it there!
Posted by: Pascale on January 11th, 2008 at 6:05 am