Atmosphere

Shopping is buying atmosphere. We are not buying because we need an article. We are buying because we lack atmosphere, mood, feeling, warmth, compassion.
The shops don’t offer articles, they offer something they think is this 'lacking' atmosphere.
This idea of shopping for…having a great time, was discovered, or invented between 1850 and 1900. Shops were paying more and more attention to the design of the shop, the way to present, the effect of lights and color.
Malls exists mainly because of this, a continuous display of atmosphere without worries, where everything is fine, where everything is possible, oops, buyable.

If this is true for RL, than certainly it is true for SL. In fact you don’t even buy something, when you buy it, you only buy shape, colour and light! An idea, that’s what you have bought. Ideas are in the mind. Indeed the mind is the centre of these ideas, the mind is only working with ideas, mind-sets, even the image of the body is only 'in the mind'.
All of course when the belly is satisfied, lol!
Ok then in SL everything is a bit more primitive then RL, more cartoon like. Most SL shops don’t worry too much about atmosphere.
But there are a few fashion lines which have to carry along there mood, and they do! The gothic, the punk. So 5 likes to search out these places. Here it is where the high design, the neat, the clear is attacked, made a fool of. Filth is around, rust, dustbins, graffiti. But all, well again, all as an idea....
Why is it 5 always ends up in these places, not wanting to be ‘nicely dressed’. How can 5 know, even the mind is an idea of the mind…
Follow 5:

!Kalico Kreations! Neko, Emo, Goth, Punk, Hair, Clothes
Situated high up in the air, beautifully arranged buildings, even a bit out of balance.
5 bought super boots here, Chernobyl boots! Real terrible boots! 5 loves this kind of imagery.
By the way in the basement are lurking monsters….don’t forget to wander around!

On the ground:
!Punk-iT!
Here too, under construction 5 supposes, very much this sought after atmosphere, not really a lot of stuff to buy. It is a bow, which has only an inner side, from within you think you are in a big town, sky scrapers and all, but if the camera wanders further out….
Really a great place for practicing your wide angle with CTRL 8
This is fun too: litter is flying around in small gusts of wind…..

Also high up in the air:
*THE PSYCHOBILLS BUNKER* PUNK GOTH ROCK ROCKABILLY ALTERNATIVE
A nice bunker, high in the sky, made with a lot of love for the ‘underground’. Nice paradox. There is a ‘high dive’ into a tank with green water.
Look at the image of the windowpane, still having the bottle in it, which went right through it!
Under construction too, some nice boots, 5 bought here a ‘Skull waistcoat’, better in german: ‘totenkopf weste’…

Death, the last idea...

Gothic!

Five went in search for gothic clothes.
What is gothic, well……a rich mix of punk, fairy tails, fantasy, a bit of revolution, not too nice, certainly not civilized, but with lots of “style”. It looks like Victorian sometimes.
Gothic is total fashion comprising hair, make-up, hat, shoulders, large coats, big boots.
Colours, mostly black and a bit of red, or very bright.
Clothes are individual, you are supposed to work on the clothes yourself to make them unique.
You have to have courage the wear them!
Most classifieds or advertisements of shops selling clothes include gothic in their keywords, but most of them don’t have a really gothic line of garments.

The real gothic shops have a tendency to create a gothic atmosphere around them. That is to say a desolate landscape, garbage, fences, ghetto like buildings. It becomes an interesting mix of things to buy and surprise, mystery. This mix is very understandable, gothic is a state of mind, more than just nice clothing. These places are best visited by night!

Well this is the interesting thing for Five! Five likes this kind of themes, see former blogs! And the kind of against the fashionable, "nice" fashion side of gothic is also not far from Five's taste!

So let us go then you and I!
Five dived into the search engine, and a few of the best gothic fashion places are described, always including the surroundings of course!

Schlachthaus auf apfelland Ghetto
Very nice theme sim. Built around an abbatoire (in german Schlachthaus)
Garbage dump, with opening and closing doors.
The most original camping chairs ever seen: urinals in the toilets for man. Discrimination: toilest for women pay only half the amount of the urinals of man!



Goth1c0 - the big shop: goth,punk and cyberpunk clothes & hairs
This shop is situated in small theme region. Between two shops, there is snow and garbage containers, in which you can chill! Snow is blocking doors, you have to search your way in.
Really gothic style clothing, as far as Five understands gothic: lots of rich blacks, with here and there reds. Nice details, and really lots of top hats.
Hm, Five has never seen these clothes in freebies, for these: you have to pay!


~ silent sparrow ~ come explore! (gothic : victorian : eclectic)
The clothes are “nice” version of gothic if compared with the Icewater shop. Very rich details. Hm as with the last shop, you have to save a bit of money to get these clothes, but they are probably worth it. The shop is situated in a big Victorian mansion (greenery included) and there is a small village in Victorian style in the neighbourhood.
The cellars are really creepy, embalming sets? Gas masks? You can even enter the sewers again! You will end up in other Victorian houses!

Ok you cannot write about clothes and not buying, so Five bought The checkmate Loli boy, with darkdelion make-up. Broke again!