Fashion Fox Paws

Hey kits!  I had 2 excellent blogs planned for this weekend. One to be posted yesterday… and the other either today or tomorrow. Unfortunatly, while shopping for BLOG #1’s little extras…. I had a problem. I crashed in the Style Your Destiny/Layniewear Store in the Granymyr sim. Funny thing, if you go there… you’ll see me standing there. Freaky, no?  I’m recieving IMS in my email, though I dont know if they’re complete. I cannot log in to that account.  Perhaps I’ll call LL when I get time.  So, keep your eyes peeled. I shall be blogging as soon as I can.

This morning, I headed to the Casseopia Square for their Easter Event. I went to the St. Patty’s hunt, and was in love with the dollarbies. So, I arrived, finding much cooler things, and was even more thrilled to see the name Song4Amy Freenote, dangling above a person’s head. We began chatting, and within a moment, her SL wife, and business partner Saur Holt arrived. 5 minutes later, I had an interveiw going with the Fashion Geniuses behind “Passionate Neko” and “Bold Vixen”.

Evangeline Schism: So, Saur… you own and run Passionate Nekos. Song, I’ve seen your name on the dollarbies… what exactly do you do?

Song4Amy Freenote: I design prim items for the store, while Saur can do wonderfull primwork, her passion is the clothes. Anything with Bold Vixen on the item is made by me.

ES: Ahh! Ok! So, how long have you guys been designing?

Saur Holt: I started 2 years ago with furry avs, I moved to my passion ,clothes ,skirts, dollies and more, about a year and a half ago. I am well known for my dollies.
Song4Amy Freenote: I have been designing for 3 months now. My baby Saur taught me the basics and I ran from there.
Saur Holt: My old furry store used to be called ‘Lil Saurs’.

Evangeline Schism nods. “Saur, your designs are very EGL inspired. Do you like any of the other designers out there?”

Saur Holt: What inspires me is my SL auntie and mentor Ravenlynn, anime,goth and nekos. My fav stores are LVs and Co., DK hair, Lost Creations, and Cake. I enjoy designing and making people happy, which have also kept me going.

ES: Song, what got you into designing?

Song4Amy Freenote: My main inspiration comes from anime, I try to do stuff that others havent. I love places like Little Heaven, Discord, Nadeshiko kimono designers, anything with a japanese flavour.

ES: Wow… I’ve never heard of any of those places!

Song4Amy Freenote: They are well worth a look.

ES: Saur, what kind of furry Avs did you make?

Saur Holt: I used to make pooks, bunnys,tigers, Roos and kittys. I enjoy making them but my true passion is clothing.

ES: Ahh… so the Pooka from St. Patt’s[Passionate Neko Dreams had a St. Patty' Dollarbie hunt, much like their current easter one,] was sort of pulling an old rabbit out of a hat?

Saur Holt: My bunny AV is avaiable for the easter hunt. Pooka are an Irish folk tale so I thought it would make an awesome addtion for St. Pats.I made the bunny available just for Easter.

ES: So, are your Avatars still available for sale, year round anywhere?

Saur Holt: I am bringing them back out for sale cuz I do love them and it a shame to have them in my inventory. I spent 3 days this week making ‘lil bunny froo froo’[The 75L bunny Avatar with the yellow dollie dress, for sale in the Casseipiea sim.]

ES: Ever think of using furry models?

Saur Holt nods nods. “Ill be making a special dollie just for furries, being a fan of neko, furry and vamp, my goal is to make every group happy in SL, you can ask my baby[Song4Amy Freenote], I am a people person, and love to make my customers happy.
Song4Amy Freenote: She is a people person, we both are, we like people to be themselves, and feel able to explore that, thats why we both make such a range of items.

ES: Wow! That’s fantastic! I’m trying to get more designers to use furry models.

Saur Holt giggles. “I myself am a furry, neko and a vamp sometimes. I think you’ll be happy with the furry dollie when they’re released next month”
Evangeline Schism nods. “Please keep me updated on it! I’ll blog it!”

ES: May I make a suggestion though? Lots of different furry AV makers use different attatchment points for the tail which are ususally the places that prim skirts sit.

Saur Holt: *Nods* I know that well. *Giggles* I have over 75 Furry Avs.

ES: As a designer, could it hurt your business, to include 2 skirts that attatch to 2 different points?

Saur Holt: No it would not. Like I said I’ve been designing clothes for all most 2 years. One thing I find helpfull is to listen to the customer’s wants and needs. I was asked two months ago if I could make more layers for people with tats, so now my clothes come with different layers so people can wear their tats.
Song4Amy Freenote: Yeah gotta listen to the customer, cause they are your support as a designer.

ES: Pardon for asking, but you two are… lovers?

Song4Amy Freenote: yeah we are

ES: So each one of your joint designs is like one of your children!

Song4Amy Freenote: I like to think of it more like a symbol of how good we are together, like the latest design, I didnt see till after I did my bit, and they match perfectly, so it shows me are sooo in tune with each other.

ES: Awww! That is really amazing. The latest design, being what Saur is wearing now, right?

Song4Amy Freenote: yeah

ES: It really is amazing. Anything you’d like to tell the Furries of SL?

Song4Amy Freenote: Keep being yourself, SL is about exploring your identity, dont let anyone stop you from doing that!
Saur Holt: Yes anyones welcome at our store. Our aim is to make everyone in SL happy and welcome.

My first year of highschool, my grandmother was diagnosed with breast cancer. That was earth shaking. I got involved in a lot of local breast cancer charities. I participated in some annually. I even did the real life Relay for Life once. (Relay for life, is when a team of people is formed, and pledges are made based on the amount of laps done, in the 24 hour relay.) Last year, on my dad’s birthday, his father passed away from lung cancer.

There is an annual one week long fashion fair to benefit The American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life. Over (I beleive) 60 designers get together over 4 sims, and people come to score great deals, discover new brands, and find some kickass limitied edition dresses. Oh yeah, and to give money to a great cause.

I wandered and wandered. I met some designers. I bought some exclusives. And here is what I have to show.

This great pink number is by Icing. It is called Pink Miss Hathaway, and it is a RFL exclusive. (Meaning it is only available this week, in the RFL clothing fair.) (My tail was attatched to my stomach for this entire shoot) From this piece alone, I can tell you that I will be going back to Icing many, many times. And this was one of the special items that the entire purchase price went to RFL.

This green dress (such a high fashion dress) comes to us from Digital Darkes. It’s their Goddess dress in Wasabi. It cost me only one dollar, and I dont know if any of the profit from this particular dress went to RFL, but it’s a great dress, and comes in many other colors.

This is my first purchase from Popfuzz. A store I will certainly frequent, now that I am aware of it’s existance! This is a set called Gothic Purple Fairy. Again, I dont know if any of the profit from this particular dress went to RFL, but it’s a great dress, and comes a black variety as well.

Oh, what a gown! This is the kind of dress that if you want it, ladies (and maybe some gentlemen!) you need to buy this right away. It’s available from Nymphetamine for the RFL only, and costs a whopping 500L. This dress will be available no other time. And it’s a lovely lavender and white combination, just like the RFL propaganda!

Last, but never, ever least… this is a little outfit I put together. The cupcake on my head, is made by Pink Rain. It’s mod, so you can make it bigger too, or change the colors. I’d been waiting for it for a while (I bought, back when SL was having issues,) and was so excited to see it in my inventory, that I had to put it on with this Devilish Cupcake top (Called Roller Rainbow)! DevilishCupcake is a brand to seriously look for. They’re at the RFL fair, and have some exclusive sets. Not to mention that they’re affordable and really different from anything out there. Can you tell I’m a fan?

Anyway, I paired the DC top with another exclusive item. Bare Rose (the super hip, MEGA STORE) put out a purple variant of their Blossom dress, with all the proceeds going to RFL. So, I bought it, decided that the top of the dress wasnt really me, and chopped it off, making one of the cutest skirts EVER. (The texturing on the fabric is really neat too.)

So, that concludes my RFL blog. It shouldnt be hard to find, search “Relay” in the SL event search, and be on your way. I know I bought more stuff, but I need to dig through my inventory for it. And people are friendly here too, just try to be low on prims. Maybe take everything off, just be a discolored human, and n00b-run through the entire 4 sims. (It’s oddly refreshing.)

(I apologize in advance for the pics. I know they arent top notch. Gimmie time.)

Belts. MMMM….. like collars for your hips. In the past week I have come into some of the cutest belts EVER.

Let’s start off with the belt I actually paid for. It came with the Otaku set from Bare Rose. I love Bare Rose, because you will often find in their merchandise ads furry models. It attatches to the pelvis by default, and it comes with some other things (like the outfit… for one…) inspired by the anime punk harajuku street fashion of Japan. Oddly, it was one of the shirts in the set that inspired me to tint my locks blue, a color which you will learn, I dislike.

(I’m also wearing the WRONG pleated plaid skirt in green(prim skirt attatches to stomach), the socks and one of the tops from the Bare Rose “Otaku Boy Ally” set.)

It’s almost easter, and I gotta say, this has also provided me with another nifty belt. Lazy Places has made an easter egg hunt, with 7 dollarbies hidden in the entire sim. My favorites are the Peep Collar (shown in yellow) and the Bunneh Bait belt. The bunneh belt comes in two attatchment settings, one in pelvis, the other in stomach. One is mod, and the other isnt. The belt itself has little bags of goodies, such as peeps. I personally find this more than adorable, and think that it goes more than perfectly with the Style Your Destiny Peep underwear set.

Laynie Link is one of the neatest people I’ve ever met in SL, within 10 minutes of meeting her, she asked me to model for her. As a furry. She’s also given me so much encouragement in the feild of blogging. She’s also having a GREAT sale right now. 50% or more off everything that she’s made in her store! Why, do you ask, is she doing this? Well, Ms. Link had a computer mishap yesterday (while trying to set up a shoot with yours truly X3, ) and now needs fundage to buy a new compy for making cool stuffs for us to buy! (C’mon! Support designers who want to use furry models!)

I’m wearing the top to the “Audrey” dress in berry by Layniewear, under a green silk bustier by Rock Me Amadeus.

Welcome to Fashion Fox Paws. This is designed to be a Second Life fashion blog, BY furries for furries, and/or anyone interested in a different veiw of fashion.

So, let’s talk tail.  I’ve come to the conclusion that each Fur AV designer uses a different tail attatchment point. The only logical solution out there for us girls, (or kilt and skirt wearing boys) to (if the avatar peice allows copy) make 3 different tails that attatch to the three attatchment points that make sense for our tails. With this in mind though, I’ll be sure to tell you what points the skirt prims attatch to each time reveiw a skirt, or belt, so you dont run out and buy something, then realize your tail is missing in the middle of The Ark.

If anyone out there wants to be featured or reviewed, drop me a line in game (Evangeline Schism) and we’ll work it out.

Much more to come!