Utrecht. Nice weather. Oroblu Dolce Vita 15.

Oroblu-Dolce-Vita-15-1If 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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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).

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Fetish music videos. Part I.
Robert Palmer, Terence Donovan and “Addicted to Love”

Remember? 1985! Gorgeous identical girls, black stockings, mini-dresses, high heels, red lips, faces with no expressions! Shocking, mind and penis blowing experience…

http://www.myvideo.de/watch/1736577


The video was directed by a great photographer Terence Donovan (1936-1996). Here’s a couple of his photos:
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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.

Thanks for the photos to highheels.web-log.nl and www.naaldhakken.info.

Dutch women, pantyhose and bicycles (or Wat heb/had je aan vandaag?)

To make a short story long 🙂 In the thread “The shiniest pantyhose you know” (Russian) it was asked about shiny red or pink ones. The only brand that came to my mind was Oroblu Magie 20. But I was not sure if there’re pink ones (I’ve seen red Magie 20). So I asked Google and found this thread: “What are you wearing today?” (Dutch).

I could not believe my eyes! Girls/women are discussing .. not only clothes, but pantyhose! What surprised me most was not the topic, but the attitude and the interest! I got used to the fact that the most (I don’t know, say, 95% women) hate pantyhose or think of them as of something they have to live with though not willingly.

And the models… OK, look:

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Victoria Beckham in back-seamed pantyhose and breaking rules

What I like about Victoria Beckham is how she smashes fashion dogmas. Not many celebrities dare to appear in:

  • shorts with pantyhose
  • back-seamed pantyhose
  • pantyhose with contrast back-seams
  • a corset

and still look stylish.


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