Thread by @Cajsa

My first real social media platform was Plurk. It's sort of like Twitter, but horizontal and really, that makes it so much easier to follow threads. It's a great platform, but is much more heavily used in Asia and it's owned by a Taiwanese company. Anyway, it is is SL-friendly

You can choose Second Life as the place you come from for example. Anyway, on plurk I have a habit of describing the wonderful outfits I see people wearing out and about. Fashionista on the bus, fashionista at the clinic, fashionista at the symphony. I thought I might share here

Fashionista at the opera: A fiftyish woman with BAZOOMS decided that if you've got it flaunt it and wore a dress that did not expose flesh, but certainly maximized the volume dramatically. It was black with white insets.

The insets were lozenge-shaped, narrow at the top and wider in the middle, as though they were made of stretch material, but it was not stretch, it was duchesse satin which has no stretch at all. The dress had short black sleeves, a simple circle neckline and

a black grosgrain inset separating the empire bodice from the skirt which was made of black and white strips of the duchesse sewn together to make stripes. She wore simple black slippers. Describing it does not do it justice.

It was stunning and had to have been tailored for her because I don't think that kind of fit comes off the rack.

Fashionista at the Opera: Wore a black brocade dress with a sleeveless sweetheart neckline. The dress flared out from the fitted bodice to a flared skirt without a neckline which meant they used a lot of fabric to make it.

She had black pumps with two crystals on each vamp. She had her hair up in a french roll clipped in place with a crystal concorde clip

Fashionista at the symphony was a master at layering. It was chilly and she wore black skinny jeans with dark brown booties. (I know they should be black, but oh well) Occasionally you could see a glimpse of black and white socks with narrow horizontal stripes.

She wore a black sweater with thumb hole sleeves. Over that she wore what looked like two jackets, but turned out when I got a closer look to be just one. It is a grey heavy fleece hoodie jacket, with a beige ruffled peplum bottom so it looks like one jacket over another almost,

but when she turned toward me, I saw the ruffle continued up along the front but only half as wide as the bottom ruffle. It functioned almost like a cover over the front zipper so the zipper (assumption) was not visible. It also had a beige hoodie inside the gray hoodie, smaller

and attached so it lay perfectly, She also wore a grey, beige, and cream Norwegian knit scarf wrapped round a few times and knotted, so nothing hung down.

The only discordant note was her Portland Timbers knit beanie in green and gold. That jacket was amazing. Go Timbers!

Fashionista at the symphony totally inhabited the aesthetic of Lauren Bacall. She was a blonde with thick golden hair, more made-up than you are likely to see in Portland, with bright scarlet lipstick.

She wore black palazzo leg pants in black charmeuse, the most beautiful fabric ever. She had on pointed pumps in freshly brushed suede...

you know how when you brush your suede and it looks like velvet for an hour or so...

Her shirt had a collared notch neckline and tucked into the pants. However, it was not fitted, but rather loose like a poet shirt, white, made of a soft georgette. She wore a scarf, one of those narrow like a tie that was knotted about the bottom of the notch.

Over that she wore a dramatic knee-length scarlet chenille coat with wide dolman sleeves that hung a bit off her shoulders as she leaned against the pillar, looking every bit like she was ready to light up a smoke and teach someone how to whistle.