Comments on: Reader Roundtable: What Do You Wear to a Virtual Business Meeting?

By: Queen Coronet

Queen Coronet — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:59:56 +0000

I showed up to my first SL Bar Association Meeting in an orange tutu and impossibly high heels. I’ve been a guest at the Metaverse Republic in jeans and a tube top with a cigarette dangling from my mouth. And even when I’ve donned a fabulous looking business suit I can’t help but to accessorize with some retro glasses and outrageous hair (and because I can, more high heels.)

Occasionally I’ll dress for the moment. When I visit the Gorean markets where I keep vendors I will cover myself to avoid glares from the citizens. And as an event organizer/host I’ll do my best to wear an appropriate costume. Often my dress is not dictated by where I’m going, or who I am with, but rather what clothing SL has allowed to rez and which prim attachments I can get to stick.

I find it is more effective to put on the suit when I have meetings and I really want to be heard. Even though I might still have a quirky look people respond to me differently when I’m in my power suit. I think it is because I am otherwise usually dressed like a cartoon, so a suit is a visual reminder that that I mean business.

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By: Benjamin Duranske

Benjamin Duranske — Thu, 03 May 2007 19:52:05 +0000

Hi Jessica – I suppose “client meetings” can mean a lot of things depending on exactly what business you’re in (e.g. performance acts differ from sitting down with someone to discuss a contract), so that clarification makes a lot of sense.

Interestingly, it sort of goes to my point too – it sounds like the real world analog to the virtual situation is what controls. You’d not show up for a performance wearing a business suit (unless it was part of the performance) but you’d probably not wear what you wear to perform to a bar association meeting either. Just like the real world.

By: Jessica Holyoke

Jessica Holyoke — Thu, 03 May 2007 17:57:08 +0000

I count certain things like bar association meetings and interviewing SL attorney’s as business meetings. For these meetings, I typically go business casual, sweaters or shirts and pants mostly. If I need to meet with people where I need a suit, I have those available, but the need for such has not come up yet. I believe that, in keeping with my avatar, when I’m doing professionally related acts, I stay attractive but not dressing in the sexual range of so many designers in Second Life. While the designers are introducing more reasonable fashions, in a world where you can dress in silks*, professional dress is slow to keep up.

*Silks are revealing outfits that a number of participants, more female than male, purchase in SL. Imagine Princess Leia as Jabba’s Prisoner in “Return of the Jedi” or John Carter of Mar’s cover art depicting Barsoom women.