A couple of weeks ago I was ragging on guys wearing socks in femdom shots. Today it’s the women’s turn. Or rather a particular woman’s turn, as this is (hopefully) a singular example rather than a trend.
I like this image. I like her feet on his arms, that’s a powerful position. But what’s the deal with her legwear? The 80’s style leg warmers are odd enough (although I’ve been told by fashionable friends they’re coming back), but what’s with the chrome studded leather things? Has she got leather ankle warmers? They don’t look like standard bondage cuffs, so I can only assume it’s flashdance style interpreted as fetishwear. I can’t see it catching on.
Tracking down an attribution for this image was a little strange. It’s all over tumblr, and I originally found it on the Slave Of Elena tumblr. However, doing a Google reverse image search just returned dozens of blogs, but no original source. That is until I noticed that Google claimed to have edited their results based on the DMCA, and pointed me at this copyright complaint. So based on that, I’m guessing the image is from the X-Art site. I’m not sure if it’s ironic, amusing or depressing that it was the copyright take down notice that allowed me to work that out. Hopefully I will not end up as one of the sites added to that DMCA notice.
Oh, and for anyone wondering about the post title, I give you a little taste of the 80’s. It was the kind of movie that I hated as a child, but it seems like a quaint period piece now.
Oh the legwarmers are back in force, I think they are already (thankfully) fading out again, along with the neon colours and bad haircuts.
Personally I’m more worried about the grunge revival, not because it was bad, but if trends of your youth come back, you can feel as young as you like, you finally have to admit to yourself that you’re getting old 😉
I’d be actually OK with the grunge revival. Living in Seattle I don’t think I’d notice. Nobody told the people here that it ever went out of fashion. I actually liked Nirvana before I moved here. Now I can’t stand them thanks to the constant playing that they get!
When it comes to the 80’s, I can pass on the leg warmers and neon, but I’d enjoy a return to the Armani style of movies like American Gigolo. I still have a hankering for that kind of look buried somewhere inside 🙂
-paltego
I see what you mean about the aesthetic value of socks (or rather, the lack of aesthetic value for socks) but sometimes there can be a good reason to wear them – a study conducted a while ago showed it was easier for people to achieve orgasm when they were wearing socks (sorry the only link I can find for it is quite old – http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/4111360.stm).
I suspect this was more to do with having warm comfortable feet than any sexy feelings associated with the socks! But I think the idea of making sure you’re comfortable, even if your look isn’t specifically designed to aesthetically please your partner, is quite a dominant one. Partly why when I used to dominate a boy I knew I’d usually do it in jeans and a t-shirt =)
That’s fascinating. I love the fact that I posted a jokey post on sock’s in porn, and ended up learning that they’re a/ A ‘thing’ in gay porn and b/ Having warm feet helps people orgasm.
Personally if I had socks on, I’d be too busy thinking “Oh my God, I’m wearing just socks and screwing, that’s so weird.” But I definitely get the comfort thing. I played in a really cold space last week in San Francisco, and it was incredibly hard to get my head in the right kind of space. It was distracting to be cold all the time.
D/s is all about the right headspace and attitude. Way better to have someone enjoying themselves in jeans and a t-shirt than shivering in a corset and stockings!
-paltego