Virtual Tights Meet, anyone?
by Smoov
Well, I had a great summer and pushed my public wearing to new heights, but this just isn't shorts and sheers weather at the moment so it's been all quiet on the tights front for me lately. I think that I also let being the 'only nylon nut in the village' get me down at times and I would imagine that many readers of this blog who also wear probably feel the same way from time to time. It would be good if there were enough of us about to be able to set up occasional meets but sadly I think we are still too thin on the ground for this to be a reality yet.
So it was that I came up with the idea of a Virtual Tights Meet on Second Life! It's something I have been playing around with a lot recently and I think it'd be a lot of fun.
For the unititiated, Second Life is a vast virtual world where you can create a character, or 'avatar', that looks pretty much how you want it to look, and you can walk or fly around the virtual world, mingling with others, or not, as you wish, and generally exploring and having a good time.
My current character is very obviously male, and looks very 'normal'....except that he wears a plaid mini-skirt, tan tights, and white knee length boots!
Well, I thought it looked OK but obviously the young lady behind me wasn't too impressed! I have no pressing desire to wear a skirt in the real world, but I love the look of the plaid mini so I thought I'd go mad and try it! I only created him last night and was amazed at the trepidation I felt at releasing him into the population, but as you can see below, he didn't create much of a stir...
Having said that, my first port of call had 2 girls standing together talking, and they greeted me as I walked in, and then one of them asked me why I was wearing a skirt! This is a place where people wear the most outlandish costumes, but I suppose they do still look either male or female, and people assume that the gender of the avatar reflects the gender of the person that created it - even in such a bizarre setting as Second Life curiosity still greets those sending out conflicting messages. Anyway, as often happens in the real life encounters we read about on the tights forums and blogs I found myself at a loss for a clever response and so just replied 'Why not?' and walked on. I should have stopped and tried to have the conversation but, well, I didn't.
Anyway, Second Life is liberally festooned with all sorts of night-club type places with plush seating arrangements that I thought would be perfect for those of us who wanted to, to have a Virtual Tights Meet. We could chat, admire each other's sartorial prowess, and annoy all the weird looking people standing around minding their own business!
Second Life is free to use for a basic membership, but does require Windows XP (or Windows 2000) and a broadband connection. Go to www.secondlife.com to sign up. If you are interested and would like to try and arrange something, leave a comment and we'll see if we can't sort out a get-together.
Hope to see you there!
Well, Smoov, I thought that your post would have provoked some comment by
now. It is not as though people haven't read it. In fact 26 people have
clicked on the second-life link so far.
Hi G.
Bowing to pressure and to badgering from a certain co-editor of this blog,
who shall be nameless, Geraden publishes for the first time a picture of
his Second Life character.
I must confess I have no idea what I am doing in SL: it even took me half a
day to figure out how to take this shot!
But there you are. And no, I am not wearing flip-flops with tights. It just
looks that way, right?
Well done G - Great picture!
Smoov and I at last met up in Second Life. I got some sheer pantyhose for
$L60 (worth about 24p! - thanks, Smoov!)
"Conclusive proof, I think, that our Brazilian friend won at mud
wrestling." - Smoov
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