Being proudly Australian (non-Cronulla style)
In Australia, we are subjected to frequent government campaigns encouraging us to buy local and keep the dollars in Australia. It’s a great message, but to my mind has always been undone by these dinky little tags that dangle off every conceivable product that has some (often fleeting) connection to Australia – the graphic design of the logo hasn’t changed since the 80’s, and rightfully deserves to be stapled to the arms of an acre’s worth of Jenny Kee jumpers… in a parallel universe… far far away.
The logo alone has been enough to make my wardrobe proudly Chinese-made.
My xenophilia (no, not the alien type) has had to take a back seat since my SL inception, however, as the quality of Australian designs in SL are wonderful, and worthy of nationalistic pride. For outfits 2 and 3 in the ‘Not Buying Anything 100′, I mashed up two all-Aussie outfits without spending a cent.
Quite well known (to me) Aussies in my inventory are Truth Hawks, Stephanie Misfit, Dakota Buck and Siddean Munro (I keep them in a jar of Vegemite in my objects folder). Even before I knew their origins, I’d loved their work. Stephanie’s skins are some of my favourites, Truth’s hair is dominating my skull (and his clothes are pretty flash too), Dakota’s old venture, Savvy? is still being worn and blogged about (it’s SL-vintage, you know!) and the prolific Siddean is a skin/shoe/clothing making machine who’s shoes look like foot heaven to me.
I also learnt in my research the Aemilia Case from Philotic Energy, Eyva Matova from Bebe and Kaysha Sion from WRONG were from the land down under and so into my mix up they went. Kaysha’s stockings in particular have been a stalwart in my inventory, and I was stocked to be able to include them into the outfits. I’ve also recently had the pleasure of meeting fellow Aussie, Evangeline Miles from Evie’s Closet, on Plurk. I’ve long heard of Evie’s Closet but have somehow managed to never tp over – it will be first cab off the rank once the challenge is over!
Because the dinky seems to have been hard-wired into me by those awful little propaganda tags, I couldn’t help but raid my brush folder and pepper the sky with stars, cos that’s what these kids are.
*awwww…. gag*
But truthfully, with as little cynicism as an Australian can muster, it makes me proud to have bought Australian.
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As always, eyes from Celestial Studios and lashes from Cake
All poses are from Long Awkward Pose
One
Skin | La Sylphide
Hair | Philotic Energy
Bustier | Savvy?
Dress & Tattoos | Truth
Stockings | WRONG
Shoes | SLink
Hat | Bebe
Two
Skin | SLink
Hair | Truth
Shirt | Savvy?
Jacket | Truth
Pants | WRONG
Earrings | Bebe
Scarf | EEK I forgot to write it down. Will edit when I get home.
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