For those into role play
or portraying different historical eras you will be excited to find out that
there is a new vintage and retro. One of the most difficult areas of doing role
play in a vintage time period is to find the proper fashion to wear.
This new endeavor is a partnership with Old
Time Prims and 1920's Berlin. Frau Jo Yardley and Mila Edelman have teamed up
and are opened a new sim for supplying the retro and role play communities. The
name is Old Time Prims. It is a simple,
basic straight to the point name, and one that is known as a place for vintage
fashion for some time in Second Life. The new sim is striving to be the
ultimate place to shop for vintage and retro clothes and items. They cover
pretty much everything between the Victorian era and the 1960s.
1920 Berlin's Frau Jo
Yardley explained that the aim will be to offer quality and authenticity, so
she and Mila Edelman handpick the shops and make sure that the items there are
from the right age and look good. She said, “We will keep expanding as long as
we find shops that we think are up to scratch and fit in with the theme. We
will personally invite shopkeepers to come and join us after hearing about
shops that might be something we're looking for. We listen to what people in
the vintage and role play community are excited about and then see if those
creators are interested in opening a shop with us.“
Mila Edelman had
envisioned something along the lines of a new sim a long time ago, when her
popular Old Time Prims shop started to grow over time. She explains, “Well,
even my wonderful friends at Esoterica knew, way back when, that Old Time Prims
would someday outgrow her space there. We did make plenty of room for that to
take several years, but someday, it would happen. We had always planned that,
if Esoterica was still open by the time Old Time Prims outgrew her space, I'd
keep it as a satellite store, and open a full sim for the main store. And
eventually the time started to come, that Old Time Prims needed to expand to
her own sim. With over 1000 individual products, well, she's getting big.”
To take it back to the
beginning, they met back in 2009 when Frau Jo Yardley, new to Second Life, came
into the store at Old Time Prims. Being in-world only a short time, she had an
idea for a historical era sim and decided to try to make it work. “We met when
I was still a ‘noob’ in SL. I was only a few months old when I decided to start
the 1920’s Berlin Project and realized I wanted some freebies and shops in my
sim. Old Time Prims was and is one of the best vintage clothing shops in SL. So
I contacted her, she got excited about my plans, and soon we realized we shared
the passion for history. Our dreams and plans for SL are very much alike so we
soon decided to cooperate on projects such as 1920s Berlin.”
Mila Edelman also
remembers the conversations they had as they began to cooperate, “She explained
that she was opening a 1920's Berlin sim and she needed some free clothing to
offer visitors, many of whom were unlikely to have a huge collection of 20's
clothing in their inventories, especially at the time. From then on, we
discovered how much our pasts and our future goals matched up as far as history
and education, and finding a way to make a grand place for people to enjoy the
past fully.”
As many know, Mila
Edelman also co-owns the 1920's Berlin sim, as well. Jo Yardley, the other
owner, and her, discussed possibilities, and how they could best leverage
placement. They decided that both Berlin and Old Time Prims could be best
served by attaching it to Berlin's teleport area, and making it a much bigger
shopping area for historical clothing, than they had the room to do on Berlin
alone. Jo Yardley said of this aspect of the project, “I only needed half of
the prims of a full sim for my own store, so we opted to move all of Berlin's
teleport area vendors to the Old Time Prim street just meters away, and make it
one excellent place to buy the best in historical clothing. This also allowed
our vendors more prims to work with, and, since the Old Time Prims side isn't
limited to the 1920's and 30's, they could offer more, or all, of their goods.”
The new sim opened late
last year. The name of the sim is “Old Time Prims”, however, they style it as
"Historical Market Street". Shoppers are able to find clothes from
historical eras, as well as furniture and plenty of fun little gadgets. Their
goal is to offer the best in historical shopping, in one place, as they have
mentioned that many of the smaller ventures are disappearing. Since this
sim is not restricted to the offerings of what would fit into 1920's Berlin.
They explained that they are very much looking forward to inviting shops who
cover much more eras. There will be no emphasis on any one time period, as they
want people to be able to find anything in the vintage arena, not just items
from eras the two of them particularly favor.
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