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Tonight was one of those nights in SL.  The textures—especially the alpha layer for the boots—just wouldn’t load. At least not until it was almost bedtime for me. But, I just had to get this post out, with the latest and very cool release from Solange and with the sexy “Viewer 2.0 Ready” boots from Adam n Eve.

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Style Notes & Slurls

Skin: N2 Ava Tone B Kitty Kitty 2 by Blowpop
Hair: Sage Snow by Truth
Clothes: Traction Red & Moss by Solange
Accessories: Sleek Boots Red & Black by Adam n Eve, Tribal Cheek Tattoo by Adam n Eve

Traction, the latest silk from Solange Cerveau of Solange, is both sexy, full of attitude and stylistically very unique. Solange has put her considerable texturing skills to good use, creating a three-dimensionality in the clothing layer textures that suggests depth and structure, as well quite a hard, steampunk-inspired edge. The excellent primwork (beautifully shaped and textured) further elaborates on this, with gears, gears—and they even turn!—and more gears on the gorget, the gauntlets, the belt and the “nipple bolt”.

The set, shown here in red and moss but also available in several other lovely colours, includes all applicable clothing layers for the corset and panties (the corset can also be worn both with and without the panties), three variants of the belt & skirt and six different “nipple bolts”. It is modifiable via a resize script, and considering the relative ease of modifying a belt like this, I find it works in most scenarios.

I paired this silk with an attitude with the brand new Sleek boots from Adam n Eve which make use of the new alpha layer for Viewer 2.0 instead of invisiprims. No more conflicts with the background. These boots have a killer heel as well as lots of buckley and lacey goodness. I am also wearing a Viewer 2.0 face tattoo from Adam n Eve on top of my Ava skin from Blowpop.