What is your favorite group in SL for getting fashion tips?

[Harper Beresford]

Groups and group chat have become increasingly popular in SL over the past couple years. These are a few of my favorite groups for chatting about fashion where I go to friends (and acquaintances) for fashion assistance. What are yours?

 

MENstuff--Second Life's premier Mens fashion group.
http://stuff-sl.com/menstuff/

Join up for information regarding Men's sales, freebie items and information, direct from the designers.

Designers Application:
http://stuff-sl.com/menstuff/applications/designer-application/

Owned by the fun Ivy Maverick and occasionally raunchy. Has a great area of gifts for men.

 

Fashion Emergency--Fashion Emergency, the first and foremost inworld group for finding things in Second Life, since 2006.
Group Rules: Think; Don't be a bitch; No Advertising, No Bashing. We know you've the right to your opinions, just express them elsewhere.  PG group
 We focus on finding everything from Antlers to Zebra Print Stockings. 

http://www.flickr.com/groups/fashionemergency/

Moderated by Whimsy Winx and Celebrity Trollop, among others.

 

Womenstuff- Second Life's premier Womens fashion group.
http://stuff-sl.com/womenstuff/

Join up for information regarding Women's sales, freebie items and information, direct from the designers.

Designers Application:
http://stuff-sl.com/womenstuff/applications/designer-application/

Owned by Ivy Maverick. Just starting out. Has a great gift area for women.

 

Hey Girlfriend! - A group of girls, guys, nekos, tinies, Victorians, designers, shoppers, explorers, etc who love to shop, talk, have fun, talk, build, shop, learn, explore, and did we say TALK?  We do not spam, disrespect others, or have empty inventories.  If you can handle us and follow our simple "do unto others" guidelines, IM one of us for an invite.
http://heygirlfriend.wordpress.com/group-rules-order-amongst-the-chaos/
Owners Catty Loon Yvette Quijote
Officers Jenica Landar  Lauraleigh Ashby 

Owned by Catty Loon with ever present Jenica Landar moving things along.

 

Fabulously Free in SL--http://fabfree.wordpress.com/
FabFree Station, The Wash (81, 144, 23)
FabFree Group Rules:
http://fabfree.wordpress.com/fabfree-group-rules/
→To chat please watch the notices for when we are taking requests be added to the chat role.
Designers: Contact Renee Lowenhart (group OWNER) if you would like a designer tag to send out notices.

Owned by Renee Lowenhart and modded by a great group of folks for people who want to learn about gifts available in SL. Renee and her mods put a lot of time into their blog and into the group and they have a spectacular area of gifts for new and old users.

 

Skin Addiction--Update group for all new skin releases across the grid, including sales and special promotions. For both male/female/androgynous/etc skins.
NO asking for money in chat, results in immediate ejection.
NO advertizing in chat.
Designers Status-Invite Only
NO, don't ask, otherwise it will be an automatic no.
No rips will be accepted, and if found to be in violation, you will be removed immediately from the group.

Owned by Voshie Paine. A great group for finding out about new skins. Lots of announcements.



 

 

[Strawberry Singh]

Oh these are great links Harper, I didn't even know about Womenstuff. Thank you!

[Cajsa Lilliehook]

The groups sound sound fabulous. I am not a group person.  I join interim event groups, land management groups, a couple store groups,  groups I am required to join for feed purposes and then the one and only group that I allow group chat and mesages, and that's your Fashion Bloggers group with Callie Cline. 

 

[Harper Beresford]

My problem is that when I am sitting up on a pose stand and trying to get a blog done, I also like some "noise" in the background, so I am listening in on group chat in these groups. As a result, I ended up as a moderator in several because.. well... I am sure the owners figure if they can't kick me out, might as well give me some responsibility. I have made a lot of great friends through the groups.

I think that group chat is a huge huge bit of glue in SL for many people and creates the networks and linkages we may not have otherwise. It allows us to discuss common interests from afar.That's why we are all so anxious to see chat lag go away. It seems they are working hard on this at LL.

As for group chat, some folks don't like the intrusion and get aggravated by the "noise." Phoenix/Firestorm and Builder's Brewery always ding open when I log on and I just close them. No skin off my back.

Finally, regarding group chat, I think some manners do have to be followed: !. Don't send more than 3 lines at a time--too spammy. 2. Don't advertise unless it's acceptable in the group. 3. Keep to the topic the group allows. Some of these are just cultural things in the group. Fashion Emergency lets us talk about anything typically and things are only moderated when people get aggravated. Hey Girlfriends is the same but a much smaller group of people it seems. Menstuff can get raunchy and Womenstuff is much nicer. Skin Addiction is fun as is Fabulously Free but the topics can be a little more restricted. 4. If it's typically a chatty group, either leave or endure but don't complain. Who likes a whiner? 5. Do NOT ask for money in group chat. Ack.

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[Suki Hirano]

Womenstuff.

There was also Fashion Emergency which I liked better than womenstuff since it wasn't a creators group (womenstuff gets spammed by creator advertisements all the time, so effing annoying), but that group apparently disbanded some time ago...