In the past 20 years the line between fashion and fetish has gotten thinner and thinner. Both fetishists and fashion designer dared more, sex went mainstream, with the result that rubber and fashion shop-windows looked more and more alike. Exactly as it happened in most styles, from Hippie to Rock Chick, designers are one step behind trend-setters; so what was dress code yesterday can be mainstream today. A few years ago I found this picture in a BDSM Newsgroup:
It seems to have been taken in a hotel room (When? The furniture looks fairly recent). The corset looks Gaultier (I am not sure: it could even be home made) but, perhaps for the first time, is used appropriately. Notice the incredible retro make up, behind the mask. No doubt: it’s what you wear, and how you wear it (and accessories matter).
Note the retro lack of grooming down-under as well. Just think, any of us could have stayed in that hotel room after this doll’s visit. Maybe those were her pubes in that never-dry cleaned bed spread?