A week ago yesterday, my Aunt passed away after a massive and unexpected stroke. She was only 63, and none of us saw this coming. Two of her four children weren't able to get there in time to say goodbye. The last week has been full of long-distance phone calls, arrangements, questions and shock. My grandmother has now lost 3 of her children and her husband.
My Aunt Gail was an amazing seamstress. She could sew anything, and did. My sister and I often got dresses passed down from my cousins that she had made. My grandmother, mother and I both sew quite well ourselves, and so sewing and related things have been a frequent topic of conversation at family gatherings.
Aunt Gail was always late to said family gatherings. By hours sometimes. It got to the point that we would tell her Thanksgiving dinner would be at 3 if we wanted to actually eat by 6. I'm not sure she ever actually figured out we did that. My grandfather used to tease her that she would be late to her own funeral. Believe it or not, she was. She passed away in Nevada, and the funeral service was held this past weekend in Virginia. She was cremated, and her ashes weren't ready in time. Typical Aunt Gail. She got the last laugh on that!
Friday morning, I sat down to get things ready here before planning to leave to travel out of state. I opened up Photoshop, and before I really knew it, I had a dress that was actually quite similar to something Aunt Gail would have made and worn. It was a little surreal. Designing clothing is what I wanted to do when I first came to Second Life four years ago. I just didn't have the talent and the knowledge at that point. I'm still learning and this is only my second dress, but I absolutely love it.
It's a very pretty, vintagesque, springy dress. It was as if she were saying, "Remember who I was, don't mourn for me, but celebrate my life."
And so appropriately late, as Aunt Gail would have it, I present the Dotted Swiss dresses. It includes 2 skirt length options, seamed stockings and comes on all clothing layers. The prims are copy/mod and the rest is copy. Click on any of the pictures for a full-sized view.
Bloomin' Lilac:
Cotton Candy:
Cloud:
Orange Sherbet:
Snowcone:
Spring Green:
Sunshine:
There is also an RFL Exclusive edition you can pick up until the RFL vendors quit working.
You can get all of them at Calla, in the new release section. Calla SLurl
