A Thousand Vanities – Ryan Schultz

Over the past couple of months, as a way to relax during a stressful time in my life, I have been slowly cleaning through and reorganizing the inventory of what has become my main Second Life avatar, Vanity Fair (I talk a bit about that here). After almost 18 years, Vanity has almost 900 saved outfits, ranging from old system-layers-and-flexiprim ballgowns dating back to 2008, to modern, fully mesh outfits that I bought just yesterday!

I decided that it was high time to impose some order on the growing chaos of Vanity’s voluminous inventory. So regularly (especially in the evenings after I get home from work), I put on some soothing music, and put myself into a flow state, sorting, organizing, and discarding some older virtual apparel I know I will never ever wear again. It helps me get my mind off all the troubles in the real world (most of which I have zero control over).

The Firestorm viewer I use to run Second Life on my desktop computer at home has a feature that lets you attach an image of your outfit to the outfit folder, and so I have been slowly taking and uploading pictures of all my saved outfits. I have also been sharing them with the people who follow me on Primfeed, in a continuing series I call A Thousand Vanities. I figure that by the time I finally finish (2029? 2030??), I will have reached one thousand saved outfits, hence the title of the series!

Here is a picture gallery of the first twenty outfits (please click on each thumbnail to see the image in a larger size):