Leather: Reloaded

I was so excited yesterday to see that Siddean Munro of SLink had released her new leather coats, and couldn’t wait to try them out.  I most certainly was not disappointed.

As you may recall, I was – and still am! – a big fan of the original coats, which I showed a few months ago.  Siddean mentioned at that time that a rework of the original coat was planned, but the Reloaded coat isn’t just a rework, rather it’s been totally reconceptualised.

Rather than the open design of v1, Reloaded is closed, snugly fastened with a zip, each tiny tooth visible, and wrapped round with a belt.  The chunky clasp of the belt is reflected in the neck closure, drawn tight so as to support the simply divine high neck to the back, standing proud to cover the nape.  And then of course, there’s that keyhole neckline – very daring and hella sexy.  And the texturing… oh, the texturing!  Incredibly tactile, the grain of the hide is apparent in places, other spots rubbed smooth, hand stitching further defining the shape.  The lighting is great also, from the wrinkles on the torso to the highlighting at the bottom of the coat prims.

Now, Whimsy Winx featured this same coat earlier, and managed to restrain herself from gothing up.  Me?  I love to indulge!!  I chose this deliciously vampy pale toned skin from Sin Skins, the fabulous strapped Deimos boots from Dark Eden, slipped on some gloves so as to not leave evidence, and went off to lurk in the dark for a while!

But with five colours available (red, gold and brown not shown), I wanted to show just how versatile the style can be, and took myself off to a country house with natural makeup, again courtesy of SLink in the form of the beautiful Isabelle skin.  Add a pair of jeans and Digital Dragon’s new Stream Line boots and I can look great whilst… directing the gardener!  In the pic below I’ve taken off the skirt prims to show off the sleek boots with the subtle circular design formed from metal eyelets both on the buckles and the side of the boot, and for that matter also reprised on the sole – great attention to detail!  This also demonstrates further versatility to the coat design, the jacket layer along with the sleeve and neck prims makes a great short jacket as an alternative.

Black:
Coat – SLink – Reloaded Leather Coat – Black
Lingerie – Insolence – Laure – Black
Boots – Dark Eden – Deimos – Midnight
Gloves – Bijou – Diva Gloves

Hair – ETD – Roxie
Skin – Sin Skins – Tone 1 – 07

Location photography – Devils Moon

Cream:
Coat – SLink – Reloaded Leather Coat – Cream
Jeans – Zaara Indian Couture – Jeans, Classic – Moss
Boots – Digital Dragon Designs – Stream Line – Beige
Earrings – EarthTones – Kamoana – Cream/Silver

Hair – ETD – Lynne II
Skin – SLink – Isabelle Fair – Natural

Manicure – Fleur - French Beige

Location photography – Curio

All images:
Lashes – Cake - Flutter Lashes
Eyes – Tuli – Luminous Eyes – Steel