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Troubleshooting Second Life changing clothes

Problem:
The sliders when I go into appearance to modify clothing does not work. i.e. Sleeves with not shorten or lengthen, Pants, collars. The sliders do not work at all in appearance making it impossible to modify designs.

Solution:
It looks likely that you have an NVIDIA graphics card with version 177 or 178 drivers.
There are known avatar rendering issues for these driver versions:
VWR-7957 (Clothing skinning error on nVidia)
VWR-9358 (Texture rendering problem Nvidia 178.13 release drivers)
VWR-8261 (With some clothes, viewer renders buttocks and legs totally white)

The following workaround has been reported:
Enable the Advanced Menu (Ctrl-Alt-D)
Disable rendering of Palletized Textures (Ctrl-Alt-F7, or Advanced/Rendering/Features/Palletized Textures)
Rebake (Ctrl-Alt-R)

Henry VIII and the Three Self Church

When the Pope refused to grant Henry VIII a divorce from Catherine of Aragon, he set up the Protestant Church of England, and declared himself supreme head of a new Church of England. In Act of Supremacy:

An Act concerning the King's Highness to be Supreme Head of the Church of England and to have authority to reform and redress all errors, heresies and abuses in the same. (Act of Supremacy, 26 Henry VIII, 1534)

Christian history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must the Pope be of learning from experience (George Bernard Shaw). Chinese government might have learned from British King Henry VIII, set up the Three-Self Church, declared the church must be under the leadership of CCP (Chinese Communist Party). The 'Three-Self' is a characteristically Chinese way of abbreviating 'self-governance, self-support, self-propagation'.

Church played an essential role in everyone's life

Social life would have been shaped by the season, by custom and by religious beliefs. 

The church played an essential role in everyone's life. On Sundays and feast days the people of this place would have walked through the open fields to the church, which was enlarged and 'modernised' over time. They would also be baptised and married and finally in procession for burial.