Now, that is what I call black. It is so deep and so dark, and it still manages to have these wonderfully intricate decorations on the shirt and on the coat. Definitely something to stare closely at and if subtle patterns in rich colours are your thing, you just have to take a good look around silent sparrow.

Of course, its not all about patterns. Just look at that lovely collar, the gorgeous cuffs and the tail. So devastatingly elegant.

The laced up shirt, which probably is the best I have seen in SL, deserves a closer look on its own. I think that style of shirt is so sexy and so romantic, and I would happily have a whole pile of them in deep, dark colours. A dark red would be just yummy…

The boots worn with the outfit are the lovely Melisande boots in onyx from Jaywalk. Not quite a pair of cavalier boots, but I’ve yet to run into any such of the same quality that you get in more modern styles of boots.

And here we have my prettier half, looking ever so dashing in the male version of the Beloved suit. One of the best things about silent sparrow is definitely that she caters to the boys as well as the girls. I am just as fond of finding pretty clothes for Ran as I am of finding them for myself, since he does clean up rather nicely. ;)

To make me just a little extra weak-kneed, he decided to add this lovely owl mask from Illusions. Some masks are, I have recently decided, devastatingly sexy.

At first I was going to show the suit with just the jacket and no shirt, but I decided that I’d much rather show the shirt and no jacket and let Ran handle the shirtless version. I think it looks somewhat like he escaped from a romance novel cover.

Except perhaps that the boots are a little too fantastical for that. They’re part of our loot from the Tekeli-li sale the other week. Quite fabulous and of course colour change like all the jewellery.