Vanity Fair

Okay, doing some testing now...it's clear that they did change the shoulder area in the new Jamie 1.0 body, as the beta clothing now doesn't fit right. No big deal, just delete all the old folders, including all the old clothing! (First pic is the old beta dress, new pic is the same dress, version 1.0.)

Yes, gowns like this, with bare arms and strapless, or with little to no fabric along the neck and shoulders, will work well on LaraX. I mean, you're usually alpha'ing out everything between the waist and the feet anyways. I have found that most non-skintight/bodycon dresses and gowns will work with LaraX, if you use the alpha HUD, although you might need to reset any included alphas first.

From the pictures in the new Linden Lab announcement, it looks as though they have fixed the formerly sky-high eyebrows on Senra heads, which was my number one concern about these bodies. I still want to play with the new Senra 1.0 heads and bodies to see how they work with older SLUV skins, though. (I know this is not an issue for the target audience, new SL users, but I have alts with inventories full of old SLUV skins that I would like to use!) It also would appear that LL is making some sort of Senra promo/tie-in for vendors participating in the Valentine's Shop and Hop, and I guess we can expect to start to see some clothing from creators! Good news all around.

I hope all stores start to do this! I know that Bumblebee has a LaraX section immediately to the right when you enter the store. (Don't forget you can pick up L$300 store credit at the Bumblebee booth at the 2023 Holiday Shop and Hop, and you can even use it to gift items to another avatar!) Carol's Store seems to be doing the same thing; all their LaraX clothing is along one wall. And they are giving away a L$300 gift card at the Shop and Hop, and they also allow you to buy gifts for other avatars.

I just picked up the new gown group gift from Hilly Haalan (it's at the landing point, and also at their group gifts store). I noticed that there is no Lara version, just LaraX, so I assume this means that Hilly Haalan will do a complete switch-over from Lara to LaraX from now on, and not try to rig for both bodies. EDIT: Oops, my mistake! I didn't read the poster properly and the new group gift fits both Lara and LaraX, as well as Lara Petite and PetiteX. Fingers crossed that HH will continue to support both.

Thank you! This is EXACTLY what I was looking for!!!

Report from my pillaging and ransacking of the gifts at the 2023 Holiday Shop and Hop event (remember, you can get in a day early if you join the Second Life Birthday group for free!): Shop and Hop stores with LaraX/PetiteX gifts include (use the directory here to find the stores' booths: https://community.secondlife.com/blogs/entry/14556-your-guide-to-the-2023-holiday-shop-hop-including-early-access/ ) : Blueberry (a tops fatpack), Salt & Pepper (a sweater dress fatpack), Sascha's Designs (a gown), MALified (a casual belted outfit with boots, MALified's gift is ONLY LaraX, no other sizes!) I may have missed a few stores that weren't on my radar, so there might be more LaraX/PetiteX gifts out there. I focused on stores that I knew/hoped would have good gifts that I could wear year-round, and not just at Christmas. This was just a quick 'n' dirty first pass; I hope to go back sometime later to update this report. If you do find other LaraX/PetiteX gifts at the Holiday Shop and Hop, please do share them here! EDIT: Some more LaraX items! Boots from Ambrosia, a knit dress and scarf from Freda, and the Zury leggings fatpack gift from Addams (which was a previous gift from the Addams group notices) now includes LaraX when you unpack the Lara version from the unpacker HUD!

Why do I have a feeling that I am going to be spending lots of Linden dollars this holiday season? I already see so many things and I want to buy buy BUY!

Canadians face this hurdle pretty much all the time. Right now the Canadian dollar is worth (double checks) 73 cents US, so yeah, it hurts. I can't even remember the last time our dollar was at par with the U.S. dollar.

Nope, I've had no time to try that out yet, but I had been trying old Lara 4.1/5.3 outfits on LaraX, and I have found that about 50% of it I can still be used, if I make good use of the LaraX alpha HUD. Things like T-shirts, bikinis, bars, panties and other skintight clothing, etc. will probably not work, but most clothing with full-length sleeves (or sleeveless!), full-length pants, and non-skintight skirts should all work okay (again, using the alpha HUD). And I expect the same to be true for the LucyBody Atenea mesh body.

I am reposting this from the LaraX? thread here, since it fits into the discussion. I'm so glad you created this thread! ViSion has already updated their Mell minidress and jacket to LaraX. It's now located at the front of the store, behind the front counter as you come in. If you bought it previously, you can get a redelivery for free, which includes the LaraX versions, which is great! Turns out that I had bought the Mell outfit megapack, which also includes the boots, which still fit LaraX well! Here's what Vanity looks like wearing it, below. The fatpack of the dress, jacket and boots comes in 30 colours, and the dress itself comes in two versions in the pack, cotton or satin, and it includes optional panties (also in 30 colours via HUD). It's an outfit I turn to time and again! P.S. the rigging is INSANELY good; once I was falling from a great height due to a vanished skybox, and the hem of the skirt on this dress actually fluttered as I fell! From that point on, I was a loyal ViSion customer. I mean, who thinks of little details like that when creating clothing??

Yep, that is what this diehard freebie fashionista is hoping for! I have a number of female alts who wear the Maitreya Lara 5.3-compatible Lucybody Atenea mesh body, and I have no plans to update them. I endlessly shop for freebies for them at events like the Shop and Hop, and by taking advantage of stores with dozens of group gifts and a free or inexpensive group join, like Scandalize. Those Atenea bodies are going to have clothing and shoes for YEARS, people! 😉

I suspect that most creators will probably drop Lara in favour of LaraX (and Petite in favour of PetiteX) going forward. Some vendors may choose to support both for a limited time, but I can't see that happening indefinitely. For example, almost all vendors have dropped support for Belleza's older bodies (Freya, Isia, and Venus), in favour of the new GenX bodies (Classic and Curvy). Similarly, nobody is still creating for the older eBody mesh bodies, in favour of Reborn.

Oh, hooray! I had bought both the dress and the jacket as fatpacks a couple of years ago, so I will definitely be getting a redelivery. That is great news! ETA: Turns out that I had bought the Mell outfit megapack, which also includes the boots, which apparently still fit LaraX! Here's what I look like wearing it, below. The fatpack of the dress, jacket and boots comes in 30 colours, and the dress itself comes in two versions in the pack, cotton or satin, and it includes optional panties. It's an outfit I turn to time and again! P.S. the rigging is INSANELY good; once I was falling from a great height due to a vanished skybox, and the hem of the skirt on the dress actually fluttered! From that point on, I was a loyal ViSion customer. I mean, who thinks of details like that when creating clothing??

So I have bought just a few new items for my LaraX body: one knit dress with belt from Carol's Store (they have a couple of LaraX items out now), and the following outfit, which consists of the Vintage Jeans from Maitreya (newly updated to LaraX, and 50% off for Black Friday), paired with the Megan top from GAWK (also updated for LaraX, and also 50% off).

Thanks, Blush! Is there a list of stores that make and sell Lara/LaraX body deformers anywhere? And I assume that just because a body deformer works for Lara, it might not work for LaraX, since the mesh is somewhat different, right?

One of things I like about the full-price Kalhene Erika body is the number of deformers for various areas of the body. I'm not an expert in this area, so I ask: if Maitreya does not offer these kinds of deformers, does anybody else? Perhaps there is a market here for LaraX deformers (for example, to remove the butt dimples, perhaps?). Like I said, I'm not an expert, so I'd like to learn more about the body deformer market. Somebody posted the before-and-after pictures of the effect of the shoulder deformers on the LaraX body, and I have a question: do these sort of deformers also affect the clothing as well as the body? I assume they do, but like I said, clueless about all this. Thanks.

Just kidding, luv ya, Blush! ❤️

Which Discord is this? I might want to join, particularly if they have a channel for new LaraX releases. Thanks!

Yeah, this I don't get at all. I got the notecard of LaraX apparel vendors from the Maitreya Lara Friends group and I was...underwhelmed. Perhaps the apparel designers for LaraX were under some sort of embargo where they couldn't release new clothing until the body was released. But I would have thought that more creators would have been ready to launch immediately with clothing for the LaraX body. Perhaps everybody was busy preparing for Black Friday sales?

I am sitting here with my morning coffee and roaring with laughter at some of the snark about the butt dimples. You all are just too funny! Me, I usually wander around the grid with either CalWL or Nam's Optimal Skin 1 or 2 EEP settings (the better to participate in hunts with!), and when I'm not, I'm usually wearing clothing over that area, so I'm good.

And here is what Blueberry has posted to their store group re: LaraX: ----- Berries! LaraX has hit the grid, and everyone has questions. While we cannot answer body questions, there are a few we CAN answer. We will be creating for LaraX, which is the good news! We will still be creating for Lara 5.3, at least for the foreseeable future. We will only be updating some of our older items as it would keep us from doing anything else, but we may be updating favorites. ❤️ Please note the Blueberry team will not have answers on when or what we will be updating; please lets not swarm the chat with questions on updates. We are SUPER excited about LaraX, too and will do our best to continue to make our berries as happy as possible. As far as customer support questions for the new bodies please contact Maitreya CSR: Gryphon Ronas for all LaraX questions or join the Maitreya Discord - https://discord.com/invite/tNss4XD If you are looking for information on LaraX - https://sl-maitreya.blogspot.com/p/lara-mesh-body-v5.html If you already own the body, you can receive your updated bodies in the Maitreya store, redelivery terminal. http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Maitreya Isle/129/130/23 Thank you for understanding and being patient with us! We LOVE YOU and the new Maitreya body ❤️

Also, here is the notecard Kiddo Oh of Dead Doll has posted to her store group: --- I have been asked questions about DEAD DOLL support to Lara X/Lara 5.3 a lot lately, I will try to reply to all of them here: ❤ Will new releases for Lara X fit my old Lara 5.3 body? For the most part they will not. The body has been reshaped, mostly in the torso/arms area. Since feet were not subject to alterations you will probably be able to wear footwear created for Lara 5.3 with Lara X. ❤Will old releases for Lara 5.3 be updated to Lara X? There will NOT be a systematic update of old products created for Lara 5.3 to Lara X. Unfortunately I can not afford to add more working hours to my current schedule, with 8 years of past creations to update I am unable to commit my efforts for the enhancement of old products. I might sporadically update older products, there is not a schedule or a list of products, the updates will happen at my discretion. ❤ Will the updates be available free of charge? This will be decided on a case by case basis. The criteria will range from the amount of time required for the update to eventual improvement/enhancement of other aspect of the mesh such as UV mapping, retopology, retexturing. ❤ Will DEAD DOLL keep supporting Lara 5.3? Moving forward all DEAD DOLL releases will ONLY fit Maitreya LaraX and PetiteX. I understand that this adjustments may impact Maitreya Lara 5.3 users. However, this decision allows me to allocate more resources to innovate and improve my work so forward is the direction I'm going. ❤ Will old Lara 5.3 Exclusive releases be retired? They will be eventually retired. Although there is not a plan or official schedule yet I will slowly be removing those products from my store. This is mostly due to the fact that often people refuses to try out demos, read/understand informative notes or item descriptions especially on the Marketplace while they are very inclined to leave bad reviews that are hard to get removed. FOR YOUR OWN SAKE PLEASE PAY ATTENTION TO TAGS, TRY DEMOS AND READ DESCRIPTION PRIOR TO FINALIZE YOUR PURCHASES. In order to safeguard my own mental health, i will not reply to questions asking if a specific product will be updated/re-released. Thank you for understanding. Love, Kiddo Oh DEAD DOLL ----- I do expect many creators will do something similar to this.

Oh, yes! I do expect some nice Advent calendar gifts this December, for those of us with LaraX bodies.

I have one alt who has Maitreya Lara 4.1, and I neglected to update her to 5.3, so I will just have to be patient and wait until the Maitreya store is less busy, so I can pay a visit and slap the redelivery panel in-store. (My other alts have Lara 5.3, so I was able to update them using the Redelivery button under the Misc tab on the 5.3 HUD.) Here's what I think is going to happen with respect to Lara versus LaraX: We are probably going to be going back and forth between Lara 5.3 and LaraX for 2-3 years. People aren't going to throw out all their old outfits, and I doubt that many creators will choose to go back and re-rig apparel for LaraX. Like Salt & Pepper has already announced, what will likely happen for most vendors will have a cut-off for Lara, probably as of right now, and from this time forward, everything will be for LaraX only. I cannot see vendors rigging for both bodies, especially when they're also rigging for Legacy, Reborn, Kupra, etc. etc. What I don't know is how many creators will bend to pressure to rig for both Lara and LaraX. However, the silver lining will be that a large amount of Lara 5.3 clothing will eventually land up in the freebie/cheapie bin, which is great news for all the female alts I have that use the Lucybody Atenea body, which is Maitreya Lara 5.3-compatible! (Except for the feet, which are Slink-compatible. However, if you get the latest version of Atenea from the store (30?, I think), there is a new button which has Maitreya Lara-compatible high-heeled feet!) I really do not expect that there will be many sales or bargains in LaraX apparel. Vendors are probably going to want to take advantage of Second Life fashionistas' natural desire to buy outfits to fit the new LaraX body. Some will no doubt choose to stay with Lara 5.3, but they will face a dwindling supply of clothing (much like what is already happening with Belleza Freya and other discontinued bodies). Anyway, my $0.02 (Canadian).