Jun
1
2009
Let’s get some… shoes?
Author: Jessica
Out of all the different things there are to wear in Second Life, ugly shoes are the one things I cannot understand. Even when I was a noob, if I put on a pair of shoes that squished my feet into impossible shapes or blinged to the point where I would never lose them in my closet, I took them off and trashed them. There’s no shame in going barefoot if you can’t find decent shoes to wear. I know for a fact there are cheap or free QUALITY shoes. I rarely pay for shoes, and the ones I do are never more than a few hundred linden.
I don’t understand what makes an avatar put on a pair of terrible shoes and think they look okay. I am generally very liberal when it comes to personal style. Everyone has a different idea of what looks good. However, there is no excuse for some of the ugly things you see on the feet of both new and old avatars. When I take a snapshot of someone, it’s always after checking their rezdate. You get the benefit of the doubt if you’re less than a few weeks old. The freebie warehouses out there are full of ugly clothes, including ugly heels that blind you with bling. I usually find myself running into avatars several months, or even years, old coming the same crimes against fashion that noobs do. There’s really no excuse for it at that point.
To me, there are three main offences. The first is the most plentiful: ugly, illfitting spike heels with poorly used invisiprims and an insane ammount of bling. Most of these shoes have been around for a long time, but have evolved from a new concept into a clickyclacking, blingy, sexywalking, too small disaster.
The second is wearing shoe bases but forgetting to actually wear the shoes. I imagine if our feet looked like footbound-esque stumps in real life like they do in Second Life without shoes, we’d never forget to put them on.
The last is dying out, but I still see them from time to time: SYSTEM SHOES! It’s 2009! We’ve got Havok 4, Midnight Mania and flexy sculpts! You don’t have to wear system shoes anymore! Honestly, system shoes were never good (just like everything else system based, like hair and skin) and I don’t even know where people get them. They’re not even in the library anymore!
Not really sure what else to say to wrap it up that hasn’t already been said. Stop wearing ugly shoes!