When I first saw the Liv Glam "Yes sir, I can Boogie" (white/black) and Trains and Winter Rains (multiple color hud) suits, I desired them as a classic suit loving SL fashionista should.
Classic military style belted jacket, slim pencil skirt, what's not to love?
What's not to love? The skirt slit and rigging that's what. The jacket is fine, the jacket is worth acquiring...the skirt not so much. Look at the slit placement. Yes, I know, I should be cheering that it actually HAS a realistic slit, but it would be better if it was centered and not quite so wide. But the real issue is the rigging, notice how the skirt clips into the leg. That effect is worse, the more the legs bend.
Here's a close look at the issue. It's just simply a problem with the rigging...of the template. This outfit is a template so I can't blame the Liv-Glam's designer (SamanthaSJones) for this...other than her choice to use a template that really needed some more tweaks and polish. If the rigging was fixed...I would be recommending this outfit. But as it is, I can't. It's not horrible, and I've worn it out and about, but it does need more work. It's an "almost, but not quite" sort of thing. Which is what I say about Liv-Glam as a design house...with some reluctance: "Almost, but not quite a first tier designer...the work is hit or miss, could use more tweaks/polish/better texture choices, and a second critical eye would do the designer some good. Not horrible, but not spectacular either, especially since it's probably all templates."
For an example of how this skirt SHOULD be rigged, we have to go no further than the classic Maitreya Nolita. THAT is how you rig a slightly below the knee skirt.
I've got a couple of other issues with the Liv-Glam "Boogie/Trains" ensembles. The HUD colors on the multicolor "Trains and winter rains" version don't match the actual on suit colors closely enough. And some of those colors aren't very good choices at all, basically making those colors unusable. Why put unattractive unflattering colors in a HUD? Put colors that ARE attractive in it.
Theres also the fact that the template origin of the Liv-Glam suits are not mentioned and/or credited. A customer might not be aware that they're templates, and thusly not know who else besides Liv-Glam to send suggestions/complaints to. Here's a link to the template on marketplace
Dolphin Designs "The Lady"
It also means that there are most likely other designers using this template that needs more work that I don't know about. I am absolutely of the opinion that Templates need to be credited in the interest of transparency and honesty to one's customers. Use templates all you want, but for goodness sake, credit them.
SLURLS:
Belleza Betty Pale skin
Truth Colbie hair
Hucci Glynco pumps
Liv Glam
Maitreya
