This soft and silky sheer catsuit will go well under anything.
Tintable and copyable, create any number of different looks!
Underwear and pants/shirt layers included.

The total opposite seems to be Nyte’n'Day. Yesterday I saw a "new releases from Nyte’n'Day" on a blog, and went over there to have a look… and I have to say, I was awed.

Last time I went to N&D they had this small place in a skybox, and were doing a huge "everything 50% off" sale (which usually is the writing on the wall, as far as shops in SL go)…

Now, they have a full sim, and they didn’t "waste" store floor space for landscaping at all. The place is huge, and full of nice stuff, too!

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An example for going mainstream is Curious Kitties Deviant Kitties. The owner now has a new shop called ploom, and with every product announcement comes this distinctive “Seen that already” feeling… What happened to the time when Curious Kitties was unique, and distinctive? The hairstyles from D:K were definitely identifiable as “typically DK”. The hairstyles that come out of ploom are more like “is that truth, or ploom, or maitreya, or whatever?”

An example for disappearing completely is Nadeshiko Soul. They used to sell absolutely amazing kimonos, and their mini kimonos were unique. Same was true for Samurai Soul, the men’s line from NS. Now the owner seems to concentrate on Bijoux, their “normal clothes” line. And while the designs from Bijoux are definitely pretty, and definitely worth their money, they are just “more of the same”…

why do shops give up their unique selling points so easily?

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There are so many creative and imaginative people around.

Here’s a picture of a place that I came across today, that totally speaks to the point.

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… and it has almost convinced me that “men’s fashion” in Second Life basically means “gay vampire teen elves”.

Someone prove me wrong please.

Seriously… there are so many awesome designers out there, making such awesome stuff for women in so many different styles… why does men’s fashion have to be uniformly ugly, with only a very few notable exceptions (and even those exceptions are becoming pretty boring by now since they are all just repetitions of the same thing)?

I mean… how many different tuxes and “good suits”, how many different sneakers and jeans, how many different t-shirts does a guy need?

In SL, where clothes don’t wear out? One of each, with the single exception of t-shirts from T Junction maybe

And when a guy as those “one of each”, what is left?

Not much unless you want to look as if you’re wearing a costume.

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they are what I’ve come to call "ADD AOs", "attention deficiency disorder animation overriders".

You know, the kind of AO where the stand poses carry you around further than a sine wave dance.

Makes me wonder what kind of social interaction the creator has… Making an AO that makes other people that you’re talking to want to grab you, slap you, and shout "Would you please stand still and pay attention???"

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About an hour later I hear back from him, and he simply drops the new earrings on me…

Moriko has the same earrings, so I ask him if she would have to talk to him directly, and he just says "no, thats not necessary" and drops the new earrings on her, and another pair as a gift…

… why can’t all merchants in SL think like that about customer satisfaction?

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My take on this is pretty simple.

4500$ for one block of ads on one day?

There is no business in SL that would be able to make a decent ROI on this.

DO THE MATH!

4500 us$ is roughly 1.15 MILLION L$, or in other words, a constant incoming cash flow of 100.000 L$ per hour during the time the ad runs. Now lets say you do have your own sim, and the sim can handle up to 40 concurrent avatars at a time before it totally lags out, and it takes the average person around ten minutes to come to your shop, decide on a product, and buy it. Let’s also say one out of five persons actually does buy something in those ten minutes.

The above numbers give us:

• 240 different persons in the sim during an hour
• 48 sales

That amounts to a minimum price of 2100L$ for whatever you sell, only to break even on the costs of the ad.

I don’t think there’s any shop in SL that could generate that kind of sales with any kind of mass market merchandise.

Don’t get me wrong, I actually think that some kind of paid advertizing in the viewer is a good idea… but:

• the MotD is the wrong place, the start screen before you put in your password would be a better place… and that screen is HTML, it could actually have way more than one silly line of text.
• The price is way too high for any in-world business; The ones that make enough sales to afford that price don’t even need advertizing… and any RL business can get better advertizing for the same money in other places.

Disclaimer: I am not a MBA, so I used common sense instead to arrive at those numbers.

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But I just found this on the web:

Givenchy Pony Hair Gladiator Boot

and the other day I got me a pair of those from Aoharu/Anexx:

Anexx Gladiator Boot

Looks familiar, doesn’t it?

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