Dating your outfits
No, this isn't about marrying your clothes!
The simple benefit of adding a date stamp to your outfits is: you can easily keep a history of how your avatar's appearance has evolved. Maybe today that doesn't seem like such a big thing, but trust me, looking back in a year from now, you'll be amazed at how far you've come.
One of the easiest ways to do this is: after you click the Save Outfit button (in the My Appearance sidebar tab), append the date at the beginning. Torley prefers the (YYYY-MM-DD) format, also known as ISO 8601.
Or, you can always rename an outfit later by right-clicking it. But by doing it at the beginning, you don't have to worry about maintenance later, as minor as it may be.
Then, as you make entirely new outfits or even revisions to earlier ones, they'll be sorted in chronological order, with the newest ones on the bottom. There isn't yet a way to change the date sort order in the My Outfits tab.
Doesn't Second Life do this automatically?
Not yet, no. While the inventory system keeps track of when specific items are created or acquired, folders, unlike items, don't have such visible properties.
Are there other benefits?
Yes, if you make an outfit for temporary usage that doesn't have a date, it visually sticks out to be discarded later.
See also
- The blog post version of this page - Unlike the blog post, you can edit this wiki article and make it awesomer!
- Inventory links
- System folders