ARF! — Angry Ruth Fashion

Welcome to this, my first ever fashion blog post - Zieen was awesome enough to ask me to contribute, so I figured why not give it a shot!  :)  Although I’m not usually a person of many words (I prefer to get right to the point), I’d better introduce myself - since this is my first post.

I’m Qualsha Nordberg - I’ve been involved with SL fashion in my small way since around August 2006.  First as a runway and very occasional ad model and now as a freelance streamed MC and DJ for fashion shows by different agencies and groups on the grid.  I think it’s safe to say I’m an admirer of artistic talent in SL in all forms, and fashion is one incredible way creativity can express itself in SL.

I’m not a creature of static style - I have been known to explore girly, funky, goth, high fashion, casual, and fantasy.  Expect anything from my posts, and expect me to be picky about what I like.  I am a texture snob, but respect and encourage valiant attempts at brilliance!  Everyone should try to push at the boundaries of possibility.

A bit about this outfit -

The Hair is scripted to change to any of 7 colors, brilliant!  The ad to buy the hair is not clear about this - I thought I was buying purple and it was my only option.  Such a pleasant surprise that i suddenly had 7 colors available to me!  This is a new item by Ameshin Yossarian.

The Sweater and Pants are from two separate outfits, both ridiculously low in price.  The sweater comes with a very cute mid-length flexi skirt, and the pants come with a fantasy inspired, stomach revealing and feather trimmed long sleeve top and long open-front skirt.  I had somehow never heard of Discord before - and damn I went nuts buying stuff there once I knew the price.  Orange Meili is a Japanese designer and the scale and volume of her store remind of BareRose - only with less lag.  So many absolutely incredible things come from Japanese designers.  I often wonder what’s out there that I don’t know about because of the language barrier.  I’ll find them eventually.

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Okay…. so not TOMORROW per se, but eventually…

I’m going to be making a couple of changes to the blog in the coming days (after I get back from a little mini-vacation).  I’ll be whoring out the page hits by moving ‘The Details’ after a jump (gotta click ‘read more’ to see them).  It’s not all bad! I’ll be going back over what I’ve posted and making it a rule for future posts to add the price (as of the post) of all featured items.

On another note, the great Trevor Turner has provided me with a few demos of new and upcoming hand-drawn clothes for his store, Young Urban.  Expect to see some great things from him in the next few posts.  If any other artists would like provide me with demos in-world, I’ll be happy to take a look and consider posting them here, on ARF.

So I haven’t posted in a while, so I’m making it official that the blog is inactive until further notice.  I upgraded some computer hardware and now I can’t run Second Life (at least not with settings high enough to take photos).  Until Second Life supports ATI’s HD4800 series video cards, I’m essentially out of commission.

If I upgrade my computer further (which means new mobo, cpu, and ram), I’ll build a secondary computer with older hardware so I can run SL.  It seems a bit odd that I have to build a computer with outdated hardware to play a game that is still in development, but that’s the way things are turning out.  Unless Second Life switches to OpenGL 2.1, I don’t see things ever working correctly again.

The website is officially ARF!able.  I’ll have the first outfit post up soon and things can get rolling from there.  For now, this is the home of Angry Ruth Fashion.  A new design with more features is in the future, but for now it’s all about the content.