Review: Indyra Originals, Marquise II

We're bringing you something today to help make your Monday a little more fanciful.  This gem is a gorgeous creation by Indyra Seigo of Indyra Originals.  We did a post on a minidress from her Boutique collection a couple of days back and wanted to show some other amazing designs from this store.  This outfit is called Marquise II and sells for L$425.  The outfit includes the shirt, pants, pant cuffs, gloves, corset, and ruffled shoulders and is only available in-world at her store.  This is one of several outfits featuring this style as well, though they are not a formal collection.  

This outfit is great and very striking for any dramatic event you may wish to attend.  The pants that came with happen to be a particular favorite; they are long and drape well at the bottom.  The larger flared pant leg creates a delicate touch giving it a more formal feel.  In fact you could probably wear this for a very striking stylish evening wear.  The top is a quilted fabric that looks great as well, the texture is very detailed and contrasts the pants enough that you could easily wear the two together without the other components. 

The thing that really caught my attention with this outfit is the ruffles.  One of the earliest things that caught my eye in SL was the use of ruffles in everything, thanks to the overly gratuitous application of flexi-prims in freebie outfits.  Ruffles are generally something I avoid, and I beg and plead to my readers that you generally avoid them as well if at all possible.  I am sure we all remember rezzing in on our first day in SL and immediately discovering freebies filled with gawdy poorly textured ruffles that we wouldn't dare wear in our real lives let alone Second Life but we all did because... guess what... it was free and looked better than what we rezzed in with.  This is what I call the SL Ruffle Theory.

I could write an entire essay about the difference between a newbie at a freebie store and some of these top designers, who were all there as newbies as well (I do say "newbie" and not "noobie," which has a big difference).  However, and this is a big however, Ms. Seigo has cracked the SL Ruffle Theory.

Take a look at this photo.  What do you see?  There ruffles, and they are done exceptionally well.  Not too many, not too few.  And where they are in the outfit work well.  Even better, this is not the only outfit from Indyra that has ruffles that work.  In addition to this outfit, Mom owns Jessamine (a black high-waisted skirt with a white sleeveless ruffled blouse) and Sia (a Victorian-aviator inspired outfit with similar ruffles).  All three outfits look great and demonstrate one thing:  while there are a million wrong ways to do ruffles in Second Life, it took the talent of Indrya Seigo to find the right way to do it.  Thank you Ms. Seigo, thank you. 


Now to be forewarned - the ruffles come in two separate pieces; one piece with the ruffles and another shoulder-guard type piece that serves as the collar as well.  Depending on your AO the black collar can move above the ruffles.   Mom there found that if she attached the collar at the same point as the ruffles she was able to mostly remedy this problem as the two pieces then moved together with the poses and animations.  She also found the corset to be a little big, but that means that it will fit almost anyone that tries it on; her avatar is sized on the slimmer side for business, design, and fashion. 


Overall:  10/10

Pros:  The right way to do ruffles, striking design

Cons:  Corset was a little large at first, collar needed to be attached to same point as ruffles with "Add" and moved to place.

Stylings:
Outfit:  Indyra Originals, Marquise II in Rosedust for L$425
Shoes:  Similar Italian Footwear, Venezia in Black for L$750
Choker:  Chop Zuey, Death in Mantua for L$599
Earrings:  Indyra Originals,  Briolette Earrings in Noir for L$150
Hair:  Truth Hair, Kalia Blacks, for L$250
Skin:  Chaisuki, Vienna 14 in Nougat for L$1389