How do i wear clothes i bought, and actually see them on my avatar?

[Strisitor Mantel]

OK I chose an avatar (a people avatar). Now i want to dress the dude up in a suit. I bought the demo suit, and then I selected it and clicked "wear", but my avatar is unchanged? Where am I going wrong? Very frustrating game. Need a PhD in computer science to do simple tasks.

[eyeye Afterthought]

Strisitor, dude, what u been doing since 2008?

[KarenMichelle Lane]

Stristor,

No a PhD is not required...just a link or 2 to the SL Knowledge Base and some videos

https://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/tkb-p/English_KB%40tkb

and specifically...

Opening Boxes: https://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/Opening-boxes/ta-p/700185

Controlling your Avatar Appearance: https://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/Controlling-your-avatar-s-appearance/ta-p/700709

Customixing a Classic Avatar: https://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/Customizing-a-classic-style-avatar/ta-p/2940719

Wearing clothing and body parts from your inventory

The simplest way to change your avatar's appearance is to wear a new piece of clothing or body part from your inventory.

1. Click the Appearance button at the top of the window to enter the appearance editing mode.
2. Click the Add More... button to open a list of available clothing in your inventory.
3. You may use the Clothing dropdown menu to filter by clothing type, or the Search button to filter by clothing name.
4. Select a piece of clothing and click the Wear Item button to add it to your avatar. Any existing clothing of the same type is replaced.

Tip: One quick way to see everything you're wearing is to search in your Inventory for "(WORN". (The open bracket is important, because different things are attached to different places; this catches them all.) You can also right-click your avatar and select Edit My Outfit to see items you're wearing divided by category: Clothing, Attachments and Body Parts.

To remove a piece of clothing or an attachment, select it in the outfit editor and click the Close icon that appears next to it.

You may use these same procedures to change your avatar's body parts (eyes, hair, shape, and skin) or attachments; just expand the Attachments or Body Parts list instead of the Clothing list.

Note: Some body parts, such as your avatar's shape, can never be removed but may be replaced.

 

 

[Rolig Loon]

Is your "people" avatar by any chance a mesh avatar?  If so, you are wearing it like a turtle shell over your real avatar.  The real avatar is inside, masked by an alpha layer to keep it from poking through and causing you embarrassment.  Unfortunately, if the clothes you bought are system clothes, they are applied to the real avatar and therefore invisible.

You have a couple of options.  One is to ditch the mesh avatar and use a "classic" avatar that you can dress properly.  There is a large selection in your Library >>. Clothing >> Initial Outfits folder. That's what I would do.  Another possibility is to buy clothing that was designed to fit on that specific avatar, or at least to get an applier that lets you do it.  That can be a frustrating alternative, but may be worth considering.