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Matchy - Matchy Avi

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Heavenly Seraph

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I was putting together an outfit today, and I wanted to match the dress to the veil. This got me thinking. The color matchy-matchy style of outfit seems to be all the rage. Do you join the trend? However, the caveat is given that you should use no more than two items that are actually made to go with each other in an outfit. This state of affairs does well enough on avatar sites where a wide range of colors are used. However, what if things were always made to go together across the whole site? Take for instance the case of Ernya. On Ernya, every item is made using one of their 42 colors, so to match when dressing you only have to follow the name of the color like Garanimals. Does it appeal to you? Is this like using a set to you? Does it make things easier when dressing your avatar, or less creative?

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Matching is for pillowcases. I think it shows a lack of creativity. But I still wouldn't wear pink and red together - ugh.

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Couldn't care less for whether or not your avatar's hair clip matches the seams of its pants; that narrow way of thinking doesn't appeal, however, it's fun to play with colors and textures. I just aim for simplicity.

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I don't really care about matching per say, but I do try to have some sort of theme and an overall balanced avatar.
Is that bad?

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I like to use a minimum of 3 colors to make an avatar with.
As for yours... sweatdrop I imagine it's hard to work with that new D*C item, it's just too big.


Yes. It is a bit hard to work with since it is big and recommends by it's nature one of the four or five wedding dresses we have that are the same shade of white.

I mostly use between two and four colors myself.

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Couldn't care less for whether or not your avatar's hair clip matches the seams of its pants; that narrow way of thinking doesn't appeal, however, it's fun to play with colors and textures. I just aim for simplicity.


I often adopt this attitude, too.

If the items go together harmoniously, I will use them together.

However, some in the avatar chat would disagree, I hear.

I enjoy cluttering my avatar oftentimes, though.

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I don't really care about matching per say, but I do try to have some sort of theme and an overall balanced avatar.
Is that bad?


Some sort of theme or idea to draw things together works as well as matching colors in my book.

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Eh. I like to do matchy avis and non matchy avis. I don't care for what people say about my avi. If they compliment it, the a thanks goes your way but if you don't like it, is all the same all together. I do what I want and I do not follow any trend. I wear what I want, at any given time.

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          It's hard to match when I have the skin, tail and ears to work around, but I always try to have a
          matching costume. It just seems prettier to me, and designing the outfit gives me something to
          waste time on. I've matched just about every avatar since I registered — apart from cosplay ones.

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I'm a bit of a matchfreak, but I only have so much patience for it. If I'm making an avatar and it's coming together in a way I like, and I just can't match it as precisely as I'd like... well, eh, it's close enough, it'll do. I'm not trying to win any awards here.

One of the major reasons I've started becoming a little less inflexible than I was, to my shame, is buying a Highwire Belladonna. I love that item, but that particular shade of dusty pink it uses is a real b***h to match with anything but itself, and I'm not going to buy more than one copy of an item that's that expensive just for the sake of matchfreakery, so - well, who cares if most of my pinks here aren't as dusty as they should be, I'd rather get some use out of this item I really love than precisely match.

Curious thing - I tried using hair for this avatar that matched a lot more closely than the blonde Porridge wig, but it didn't look as good, so... eh again.

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Well, I think matchy-matchy has been one of the basics a bit too long to be just a trend.
Maybe a standard? IDK, the word for a better description has lost me right now.

Anyway, I think its a good thing. Only with limitations can people really focus on creativity. Outfits just end up all over the place unless they have some sort of theme, and it just so happens that matching colours is the best for giving a set goal but keeping the widest range of possibilities.

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Eh. I like to do matchy avis and non matchy avis. I don't care for what people say about my avi. If they compliment it, the a thanks goes your way but if you don't like it, is all the same all together. I do what I want and I do not follow any trend. I wear what I want, at any given time.



Since you are the one always seeing your avatar, you must first dress it to suit yourself. 3nodding

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Matching is fun, but I mostly just go for what I like. So long as it looks good to me I'm happy with it. 3nodding I try to avoid sets though...it's just more fun that way.

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Eh. I like to do matchy avis and non matchy avis. I don't care for what people say about my avi. If they compliment it, the a thanks goes your way but if you don't like it, is all the same all together. I do what I want and I do not follow any trend. I wear what I want, at any given time.



Since you are the one always seeing your avatar, you must first dress it to suit yourself. 3nodding



Exactly. :3
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