In Second Life, fashion stores exist almost everywhere. They sell everything you may need to dress up your avatar, from shoes and jackets to tattoos, underwear and bandanas. The prices range from zero Lindens in places selling freebies to several thousand Lindens in fashion stores owned by well-known SL brands. It is very easy to find any item you may need at any price you are willing to pay for it. However, it gets more difficult to find items that deserve the asking price or potentially even more.

The latter are items that all shoppers should be aiming for, but these are usually well-hidden in the plethora of clothing sold in SL. You will have to search a lot to find them but it may be worth the effort, especially since value items improve the quality of your clothing and save you lindens. I will be occasionally presenting in this column items which I think offer good value for your money.

1. Musashi-Do has the “Party in Venezia” tuxedo. Avatar Weekly has already presented the tuxedo here http://avatarweekly.net/?p=353.

This is a classy black tuxedo featuring a classic peaked lapel paired with a trendy two-vent style which can be used for any occasion. The jacket cuffs, shirt cuffs, trouser cuffs, lapel, collar, bowtie and jacket bottom are all original sculpted prims. Their size and position on the avi are controlled by a hud to help achieve perfect fit. The textures are hand-painted and high quality.

The price is 599L, which puts it somewhere in the middle of the range for tuxedos (the range for most tuxedos is 300-800L). What makes this tuxedo a great value-for-money product, in addition to its quality, is that the waistcoat comes in 10 different colors, which are all included in the package. Many designers of similar products would have included the different waistcoat colors in a fat pack, possibly asking a price of 1,000L or much more.

Musashi’s inclusion of the waistcoat pack makes this a good value for your Linden.

2. Savvy Avvy designs offers this wonderful business suit. The suit consists of pinstriped jacket and pants and two shirt options: buttoned and unbuttoned. The inclusion of the unbuttoned shirt makes the suit suitable for casual use. The shirts come in black and

white. Sculpted resizable collars and ties in white and black are included in the set. You can wear it with or without the jacket. All parts of the outfit are well linked and sit on the avatar very well. The textures, which the creator says are hand-drawn, are of good quality.

The in-world price for this suit is 499L, but you can find it on XStreet here https://xstreetsl.com/modules.php?name=Marketplace&file=item&ItemID=923665

at the special price of 50L. It has been there for a while and acquired a best-selling status. One of the persons who wrote a review of the suit noted that for this price, it is a steal. I agree with him.

3. Kalnins shoes offers a number of casual and formal sculpted models of nice design and high quality. The price for most models is 500L. Their main advantage is that they come in 11 different colors that are controlled by a hud, which also controls the position, size, shininess and walk sound.

The brand offers discounts of up to 25% to good customers. The discount is calculated on the total amount of previous purchases. I do not think you can find a better deal for shoes with the design and texture quality of Kalnins and offering the color variety and functionality that Kalnins products offer.