Newbie Fashion Tip: Joining Update Groups April 29, 2007

While many of you more experienced fashionistas are likely members to buckets of fashion update groups, the benefits of such groups aren’t always apparent to your average Second Life newbie…. including myself, until about a month ago .

Almost every designer worth his/her salt has an update group. Designers can send out updates of new products to these groups (obviously), which is benefit enough for the lazy fashion-obssessed, but often designers also send out special group only offers, ask for feedback, or even dole out group-only swag at our favorite price: free!

These freebies are not your out-of-the box gear either – they’re done by top-notch designers and are a way of thanking their loyal customers. So you can end up looking like this:

for free! All the items (minus my eyes) shown in this photo are gifts from various fashion update groups I am a member of: I am wearing a fabulous prototype skin from the yet-to-be opened TULI (the make-up is just sublime); part of a free jewelry set from EARTHTONES; a group-only hairstyle from Celestial Studios; and a group-only shade of the perfect Avril dress from Tete-a-Pied.

You should really only join the update groups if you are dedicated customers of the fashion line you are subscribing to – you often receive reminders and notices and if you don’t really care about the fashion line, you’re going to be pretty annoyed with the extra messages. But if you’re new on the block and are looking to tap into SL’s fashion scene, update groups are one of the best ways to see what’s cooking in the best fashion kitchens – and earn a free (and sometimes exclusive!) taste from time to time.

Sorry for the short, not particularly interesting post. It’s been a long weekend.

 OOH! And as an aside, please please PLEASE stop by DE at Clothing Fair (which seems to be lagging quite a bit less). They’ve got so much sugar fantastic-ness going on that I’ve got a headache just thinking about it. If you don’t want to brave Clothing Fair, visit their store. Here’s a little sample of what they’ve got:

This is Venu in Black and it cost $250L (please ignore my half-closed eyes in that photo… like I said, it’s been a long weekend and I was too busy to go back inworld and retake the photo). The skirt looks every bit as luxurious in-world as it does here, and the outfit comes in several different themes.