Doing things the hard way...

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VIOLATOR: Rising Sin Shibari in red (new)

Slinks flat feet

VIOLATOR's new Rising Sun Shibari outfit is a challenging garment for the perfectionist.  It's lovely straight out of the box but if you want every prim just perfect for your avie, it takes some careful editing--which makes it the perfect expression of shibari.  As a form of restraint, handcuffs are far easier and more effective than ropes.  Click them shut and you're done.  For aesthetics however, cuffs don't compare to the artistry achievable in rope and artistry takes effort and self-discipline.

Lest you think it's a fetish thing, consider karate, the tea ceremony or ikebana, the art of flower arranging.  The gun is a more efficient weapon than the way of the hand, you don't need to spend years learning how to brew up a cuppa nor put some flowers in a vase.  In the Japanese arts it's never really the product that matters, but rather, the self-discipline developed along the path.

Just to make things harder...

VIOLATOR Rising Sun Shibari & Chrysalis Couture Corset

Just to make a challenging outfit harder, I've mixed it here with Chrysalis Couture Corset.  Keeping the prims out of the mesh when mixing elements from different creators can be deliciously excruciating.

It needn't be all pain though.  Here are two tips for making this garment a bit easier.  The wrist cuffs are copy/mod so make an extra copy and rename them ankle cuffs.  Attach the second set to your ankles rather than wrists and edit them into place though you might need to stretch them a bit.  Done this way, it makes skin tone matching with Slinks bare feet utterly painless.  See the top photo for what your new ankle cuffs look like.

And for a second tip, attach the collar to your avie's neck rather than spine.  SL collars default to attaching on the spine and if it isn't narrow, avie's chin or collarbones tend to clip through when your AO starts to move you.  It takes a bit of skill with moving and rotating prims to get the collar in the right place but for the perfectionist, it's well worth the discipline.