The Princess of Eboli. (The first Guro Lolita?) <3

I’ve a dreadful confession to make. For about 15 years, I was in a medieval/renaissance re-enactment society.  There.  I have confessed it, owned it. Now we can move on.  Such a long time in that environment is bound to leave marks.  It was my habit to wear 16th century Spanish clothing, which was plenty of black fabric always, hoopskirts, ruffs, and corsets.  (Random Factoid: this was the origin of hoopskirts as we know it.  But I digress)

This set of preferences seems to have carried over into my Second Life I’m afraid.  In particular, cage crinolines just make me insane, and I must own at least 10 different outfits with crinolines of some form. I found a fabulous outfit at Rotten Toe, which is yet another one of my fave places to binge shop.  Its called simply the “Black n White Dress”  and when I saw it I knew i must have it.  It has a crinoline, and a kind of ruff even! And skull tipped horns! Brilliant! Of course my major sin is outfit unorthodoxy, and I added a few pieces from the Black dancer set too.

Fast Tube by Casper

I am very fond of the NPIRL blog.  Bettina Tizzy finds the coolest things, and also Alpha Auer posts there too.  So I was very intrigued by this post about Oberon Onmura’s piece called “Plaza.” Once I arrived there I was enchanted by the whole thing….and of course I bumped into a very interesting looking avatar, an Italian Gentleman by the name of Graphic Janus.  Unfortunately he was not really able to tell much about what he was wearing.  He did pass along the link to his really fabulous Second Life calendar. It was so very typical of Second Life,  a chance meeting with that crazy sense of happy coincidence.  And so I was moved to record us there.

Juana la tuerta wears:

Black N White Set,  Black dancer Corset & hat, Clownish f1 skin by Rotten Toe
Whimsy walk shoes by  Nightshade Designs
Enigma bracelet loulou&co
Ran hair by ay.line
Yukio eyepatch by Little Boy Blue
Ghoul fest eyes by Tacky Star
Skull nose piercing by AVZ
Aztec Goddess tattoo by Ink Blots
Kabbalah Hamsa Pendant by AFantasy

at Oberon Onmura’s Plaza.
listening to Persian Nights from the Secret Garden Project

Tags: Black Dress, Fashion Machinima, juana manuel, Rotten Toe

Hi! My name’s Iris and I’ll be playing dress-up for your amusement every Tuesday here in Atomic Valley. Watch out for those irradiated zombies on the left, there. For Dress Up every week, I want to play with the idea of theme. Like, I’d like to take an simple piece of clothing and dress it up in a theme.

This week I picked the amazing black Silk Dress from RunoRuno, also known as Burned Rice. It’s superb and could go with anything. It comes in 3 lengths and on every clothing layer, so you can use it in lots of ways to build outfits. I wanted to dress it up (well, down) in a way that I could easily wear it to Dj in an industrial setting and fit right in.

I also paired it with the new Kissy Kissy hair from Tiny Bird. If you haven’t been by Tiny Bird yet, please check it out. Autumn does fantastic, delicate prim work in lots of styles to suit every taste. I haven’t taken this hair off all week, if that gives you any idea of how much I just freaking love it.

The facial piercings come from Cyanide, a store I just found this week. I’ve never been a big fan of piercings in SL, but these are intricate, detailed and lovely. Cyanide has a ton of options to choose from, as well as skins, shapes and funny slogan tees.

Outfit Details:

Skin: My Ugly Dorothy-Anya(S)03

Hair: Tiny Bird: Kissy Kissy-Ginger

Necklace: NSD-Rock n’ Rolla Chain

Tattoo: Artilleri-Maggie

Piercings: Cyanide-Arsnic

Dress: RunoRuno-Silk Dress

Chucks: No idea, they’re from XStreet and don’t show the right creator. Any help?

Tags: Black Dress, Dress Up