Slmen is one year old! YAY!
For the year following its start in january 4th 2007, Slmen has been 320 posts, 541,800 visitors, 993,300 viewed pages (see stats below).
It has been hard work, but a labor of love, with a simple goal: promote quality content creation in the virtual fashion scene and propose, and not impose, looks to men, with minimal comments, like a RL fashion magazine would do.
When slmen began, it was all about “where to find things for men.” This year, it will become “what to choose” as the men’s fashion landscape has dramatically improved during this past year, in quantity and quality. I hope humbly slmen had a little part in that expansion.
Thank you to the content creators who make our second life so enjoyable!
Thank you to Perry Proudhon, Harper Beresford, Dominic Palisades who worked for slmen in 2007 and allow me to have some rest sometimes! Peeps, you have to endure my demands and my terrible attention to detail, thank you to have held tight though!
We will together work to make slmen better this new year, with maybe a little less posts, but more selective ones.
Thanks to you, faithful readers. Without you, slmen would not have lasted more than a few weeks 
I wish you all an awesome new year with Slmen!
Ben Vanguard
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*showers you with rose petals* congratulations cheri.. you have been doing an AWESOME job. Congrats to Perry and the others who have contributed as well.
Comment by Grazia — 5 January 2008 @ 9:21
Congratulations Ben! Your contributions to Men’s Fashion are invaluable! Here’s for another year of success
Comment by Milla Michinaga — 5 January 2008 @ 9:44
congratulations Ben and all who work with you - you have helped highlight mens fashion in sl and given us who have no time for shopping an insight into the great things out there
Thanks also for all the kind reviews you have done of my outfits and the contstructive comments that have helped me aim higher.
Comment by swaffette Firefly — 5 January 2008 @ 9:54
Congratulation Ben
keep up the good work. Second Life men need you!
Comment by Dominic Palisades — 5 January 2008 @ 10:12
“I hope humbly slmen had a little part in that expansion.”
Pour ma part j’aurais jamais autant cramé de l$ sans SLmen :p je suis une cyber fashion victim grace à ce site que j’encourage encore et toujours, il m’a fait découvrir tant de boutiques.
Bonaniv SLmen
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I would never spend so much l$ without SLmen :p Because of SLmen, I’m a cyber fashion victim. It makes me discovers so much shops.
appybirsday SLmen
Comment by mop — 5 January 2008 @ 10:53
Happy Birthay !!!!
I love this site thank you Ben ;o)
and… happy new year to SLMen ;o)
Comment by FrozenII — 5 January 2008 @ 11:17
I’ve learned so much from you Ben and I’m sure I would not be near as successful without you. Happy Anniversary Dear, and many more.
Comment by Kim Takashi — 5 January 2008 @ 15:51
Congrats SLMen!!! May you have many more posts/years. It’s a pleasure to see good mens stuff featured. My male persona thanks you (however my inventory count may not, lol)
Thank you for the times you have featured my items. I hope there will be many more for you from me as well as other content creators. The more mens stuff the merrier.
Keep it up! We need SLMen.
<3
Comment by kesseret — 5 January 2008 @ 16:47
Congratulations Ben! and Congratulations SL MEN.
Please keep nice information . thank you SL MEN!!
Many Second life MEN`S love this website
Comment by AIR Winx — 5 January 2008 @ 18:34
Thank you Ben for your most generous gift to SL, your hard work and and eye for style. I know it is so often a thankless job for you, one you took upon yourself never looking for any monetary rewards, but hopefully deriving some satisfaction out of seeing so many of us visit your site. I know some us content creators can be bitchy prima dona’s and yet you graciously deal with us, or ignore the true a@@holes., and I love you for it =D
And thanks to Perry Proudhon, Harper Beresford, Dominic Palisades too. Hopefully you can take over more of the posts - A burnout Ben is an unhappy Ben. I am all for fewer posts and a happier Camper !
Many thanks again and happy 1 year Anniversary.
Mhaijik ^;;^
Comment by Mhaijik — 5 January 2008 @ 19:19
Congratulations Ben!
We always appreciate you!
Comment by edo Tone — 6 January 2008 @ 0:41
Congratulations SL Men and Ben, your generous work for the males of Second Life is already having a huge impact as the fashions you report on are picked up on by those with style, and those, like me, who sometimes need a hand to find the wonderful designers of SL you always feature.
Here is to the next year and all those that follow… I know I will remain a loyal reader.
Comment by Sean Heying — 6 January 2008 @ 5:45
Thanks, Ben, for everything.
Comment by Perry Proudhon — 6 January 2008 @ 18:47
Bravo Ben, and all the other writers whose hard work has made SLMen a highly regarded source of information on men’s fashion. On a personal note, I’d like to thank you for your encouragment and support: your constructive criticism is always welcome. Bon chance, mon ami.
Comment by Eponymous Trenchmouth — 6 January 2008 @ 19:19
Congratulations, Ben.
I hope to read you some years more.
Comment by Dpende — 6 January 2008 @ 22:35
Congratulations Ben and the rest of the SLMen team, and thanks for all the work you did this last year! You’ve helped me and a lot of men in SL to discover some of the big talents in SL fashion. Keep it up!
Comment by Tiuri Thiebaud — 7 January 2008 @ 16:47
Happy Birthday to SLEMN.COM darling! I am so proud of you! You have done a wonderful job with SLMEN.COM and you have certainly provided hundreds of SL citizens with one of the best kept secrets of the Men’s Fashion Scene in Second Life. Thank you for searching high and low to uncover the many talented designers that are here in Second Life that have gone unknown - until you discovered them!
May SLMEN.COM continue to Prosper in the New Year - bringing with it, pleasurable reading and exciting fashion finds for all of us!
We love you Ben Vanguard!!!
Your Ys!
XOXOXOXOX
Comment by Ysabel Isabella — 14 January 2008 @ 0:42
Many congratulations, Ben, mon ami!
Comment by Ryan Darragh — 18 January 2008 @ 1:27
Congratulations Ben! You have not only been a kind reviewer to me, but personally, one of my best friends in SL. With your kind advice and constructive critiques of my work you have helped me become a better designer and I have a feeling that I would not be seeing the same level of success had it not been for your friendship and for SL Men. Thank you so much, from my heart.
Love,
Lissa
Comment by Lissa Maertens — 18 January 2008 @ 15:27