Bare@Rose - Oldie but goodie

I discovered Bare@Rose a couple of months into my time in Second Life.  And I've always sort of assumed everyone finds out about it within a few weeks.  But lately I've run into some long time residents who were unfamiliar with this institution.  So, I dug out some of my old Bare@Rose gear and fitted it to my current avatar.  Then posed for some snapshots.  I hope you can see that even though these items are old style clothing layer and prim, they are still very amusing.  I've got some girl outfits too I'll have to dig out and take shots of some time.  These are all boy stuffs.

The shoes shown are not B@R products.  The over the knee boots are from Blackburn, the spats are from the shared LL library.

Bare@Rose has recently gotten into producing mesh clothing, but the demos I've tried are all for Avatars much more generously proportioned than I ever get.  I have seen a new line of mesh for "flat" avatars, I might try one of these out, but sadly there appear to be no demos.

Bare@Rose (B@R from now on) has a few kinds of hair, some shoes, and even a bit of furniture.  It has a large random freebie pile.  But what they excel at is complete outfits.  To use a comparison my fellow American's should follow, but might puzzle our friends over seas...

If SF Design is Men's Wharehouse and Grumble is Target, then B@R is Dress Barn.

The expensive outfits are still under 200L.  Average price for a complete outfit, usually without shoes but in at least two variations, is 175L.  The texturing and prim styling are not always the best.  But if you are looking for a "costumey" outfit, especially something related to Anime, Cosplay, Fantasy or Scifi, you can probably find one or more examples here.  While most outfits are okay to nice, a few things you'll find are absolute jewels.

And for those avatars still struggling to find mesh outfits to fit them right, the traditional clothing layer and prim stuff that fills the literally hundreds, maybe thousand plus boxes, will fit nearly any size avatar with a bit of adjustment.

The one up, or down, side to B@R is all items are modify and transfer, not copy.  So if you really mess something up adjusting it, you are hosed.  On the plus side, you can easily give stuff from here as gifts.  And since most boxes contain 2 or 3 color variations of the outfit, you can share selected parts of the outfit with others.  There is almost always one clothing layer piece that is not duplicated, so you can't split the entire outfit.  But you can often say, for example, give the jacket of a suit in one color to a friend or alt for their use with different pants, while keeping another color and the pants for yourself.

Lastly, if you shop at B@R HQ in world, they give away door prizes every few minutes.  Given it takes a very fast shopper probably at least an hour, more likely two, to quickly browse the entire store, odds are you'll win something while you shop.  If you don't like shopping in world, they do have a website here.   And some of their inventory is in the SL Marketplace here.