Literally seconds after I read this Vice article on a new trend for cute BDSM toys and pastel colored fetish gear, the image below showed up in my twitter feed (via this tweet). I think that’s enough evidence to make it official. 2019 is the year of lavender whips, pink cuffs and beige harnesses. Anyone still going old school with black and red is like totally out of date. Until next month anyway.
In all seriousness, fashion designers often seem do a terrible job of adapting BDSM attire into their clothes. This outfit by Dion Lee, and the others featured in Lady Grace’s tweet, are a rather excellent exception. Elegant, with beautiful clean lines, but still retaining the BDSM aesthetic. They were created in collaboration with Fleet Ilya.
That’s good to know!
I think that using less aggressive colours lowers the bar and makes it easier for people to experiment with BDSM kit.
It’s a good development.
Incidentally, I wonder if in future Dommes will feel more comfortable about abandoning the classic Domme uniform dress-code of Black, Shiny and Pointy ?
I’m going to guess the best we’ll get is broadening of options, rather than specific movement away from blacks and reds. I suspect femdom porn actually skews more to the classic looks than pro-dommes do in general play. At least in my experience there’s a lot more variety in real life than on the screen.
-paltego
I do like red and black, but I’ve always liked to do something a bit different as well. One of my favourite things I own is a riding crop which is actually a dressage whip meant for teenage girls to use on their horses: it’s blue and silver glitter striped. It’s much more me, and I don’t like to feel like I’m playing the part of a big bad domme – I’m just being myself.
Variety is the spice of life! I think the more options everyone has the more comfortable and natural play can be, as your example suggests. I doubt we’ll ever getaway from the classic/cliched looks, and I’m definitely a fan of them in the right time and place, but no reason to force people down that track.
It’d be interesting to do a study on how colors of clothes or accessories affect how people play. I’m sure it must, as we’re always subconsciously influenced by our environment and the expectations that go along with certain contexts.
-paltego