Leather jacket fans were dependent on stiff sculpts and careful resizing for many years. After mesh came along my L&B sculpted leathers were about the only sculpted prim clothes I would still sometimes drag out of the darker corners of my bulging inventory. It says something that I would get people asking me 'where I got that great mesh leather' when they were actually looking at a sculpt item.
But even with high quality sculpts you were still spending hours if you were finicky carefully sizing, stretching and positioning to try to downplay the essentially stiff and static nature of prim attachments to create the illusion of a stretching, dynamic, three dimensional piece of clothing. Unlike some die-hards who resisted mesh I was a grateful early adopter not least because my determination to shape and position prim components had started to border on OCD.
Of course mesh comes with its own challenges: getting items that match your body shape - or adjusting that body shape to match what was available, that long uncomfortable period before mesh capable viewers became the norm where half the people or more that you met thought you had an invisible body with a weird egg shaped object floating where your torso should be and of course, cheap ass templates with minor texture variations flogged by every designer who wanted to claim he was a mesh designer.
But L&B create their own exclusive mesh templates and textures. They are expensive but worth it.
MENS S'Wear MESH "Classic" Black Leather Jacket w/HUD
HB - Pocket Bandana Pack MENS "Biker Classic Fit" in Black Distressed Leather Boots
Hair: Dura Boy 1, Dark Brown
Skin: Christen Medium by Evian Shape: Self made 3D Prim Full Beard by Jaryth's Barbershop Tintable Masculine Eyebrows by Jaryth's Barbershop Eddesign - Complete body hair type 1 Letis Tattoo :: Sirius :: Necklace: Silver 5 Bead and Leather Cord Necklace by Culture Fine Jewelry for Men
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