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Imagined bondage. Part I.

You see no bonds, no fetters, no restraints, no chains or ropes. However, you can’t get rid of a thought that the person on the photo is inescapably bound…

Photo 1 and 2: Adriana Lima by Satoshi Saikusa

Photo 3: Aurora by Billy

Aurora’s Day and Aurora’s Night

The local people will relax later, after Aurora’s vacation…

Pantyhose encasement, transparent latex stockings, tight corset. Beautiful… Would YOU dare?

And don’t forget to leave a comment for her!

Office style -1

This is what was worn to one of the offices. People kept mentioning that girl’s trousers are torn 😉

Fetish music videos. Part II.
Madonna and “Human Nature”

(See Part I)

1995. Leather catsuits, latex hoods, bondage in a single-glove (or monoglove) strappado, Madonna chained to a chair, high-heels, what a list, eh? “Express yourself, don’t repress yourself” is the motto and the main idea of the song. The bondage itself and bondage symbols are used in the video as an allegory of “repressing”, when someone is not only allowed to live the life he/she wanted to live, but even prohibited to make any attempts of “expressing” his or her thoughts:

You wouldn’t let me say the words I longed to say
You punished me for telling you…
I didn’t know I couldn’t speak my mind
I didn’t know I couldn’t talk about … etc…

So, no, the video is not a bondage or fetish propaganda, quite the contrary 🙂

http://www.myvideo.de/watch/1496863

The stills from the video you can see here. Just like Robert Palmer’s”Addicted to Love” this video was directed by a professional fashion photographer. Jean-Baptiste Mondino was inspired by his photo session with Nadja Auermann:
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Madonna and “Human Nature””

Utrecht. Nice weather. Oroblu Dolce Vita 15.

If you want to know why inhabitants of Utrecht voted for closed shops on Sundays, you have to visit the center of the city twice: on Saturday and on Sunday.

It was Sunday yesterday. (Hm… Yesterday indeed … It’s 2AM at the moment…. 😉 +20, sunny, moderate wind, dark blue sky with white clouds, and almost empty streets. I accompanied my son to his classmate’s birthday on a bicycle. Not because he couldn’t ride there alone, but just for the “gezelligheid” (untranslatable Dutch word meaning simultaneously cosiness, snugness, comfort, companionableness, conviviality etc). I did not want to discredit my son in front of his mates and their parents (if any of them are waiting outside), so I was wearing pretty conservative Oroblu Dolce Vita 15 pantyhose with capri. Dolce Vita tights are pretty invisible (ok, ok, if you don’t stare at the legs, of course) even under the direct sun light but with a slight shimmer.

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Rotterdam. Oroblu Style 15.

The person on the left (the one with Canon 5D) is wearing shiny Oroblu Style 15 pantyhose. Guess, did anybody notice?

The photo was taken in the centre of Rotterdam by my sister-in-law while I was taking a photo of her taking photo of me ;-D

Oroblu Style 15 pantyhose have a well pronounced “glassy” shine. Visible? Under the direct light? You bet 😉

Amsterdam. A woman and a man. Or a man and a woman?

We’re driving down one of the central streets in Amsterdam, when we noticed a good-looking gray-haired figure dressed in jeans and khaki jacket standing with a bike on a pavement. I said: “Oh, a woman, I thought it was a man…”

A few moments later another figure caught our attention. Black knee-length skirt, black coat with a waist band, black opaque pantyhose, black shoes, gray hair. “A man!” we exclaimed simultaneously!

And it was, indeed, a man.

Shorts with tights

With a great surprise I discovered that shorts with pantyhose (tights, stockings, leggings, whatever) combination is thought by some (many?) people as strictly prohibited by the fashion canons. Does fashion have canons, actually? I doubt it. Probably caNNons, but not caNons 🙂 It wouldn’t be fashion if it was so conservative (“You can’t do this!, because … errrm…. Because nobody does this!) and lacked innovations.

There is no difference between shorts and skirts of the same length and made out of the same material. (I think shorts are more convenient). But there are people who fight for the right to wear shorts with pantyhose. And no, I don’t mean men (NB: Though it also looks ridiculous – nobody prevents men wearing shorts with pantyhose except themselves, but that’s another story).

Two examples (back to women): Continue reading “Shorts with tights”

High heels, nylons, madness …

Just a couple of hours after I had written about high heels in Moscow I found this article in Natural Blonde’s blog. The interesting thing is how different the standards are. While 2″ heels are considered high and 3″ are called madness at one place, 4″ stilettos/spikes are normal for everyday life at another.