Cosplay - Fetish or Fun?

[Like Ra]

I'm curious - did you like the fact your legs turned violet or that you'd created violet coloured tights? 

The latter 😂 My mother (I used to borrow tights from) had only skin-coloured nylons, and I wanted dark ones (e.g. violet, like my crush from those times was wearing).

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Ps... I just know that @Culmor is going to find something about women dying their legs to look like they were wearing stockings, complete with hand drawn seams, during WW2

My mother also told me stories about after ww2 and later, how she and her friend fake seam by hand draw . What a time...

[Like Ra]

with hand drawn seams

Imagine such a tattoo!

[Like Ra]

Yup, 'Bisto' gravy browning was the dye of choice for faking 'American Tan' I believe. You just had to avoid going near dogs...

Almost related: https://www.likera.com/blog/wp/archives/2942

Imagine such a tattoo!

I saw one of the 'yummie mummies' unloading her car at a local school and I thought 'Wow, she's wearing stockings and suspies!'

Sadly as I got closer they were tattoo'd on 

😟

Now this Poison Ivy suit's a perfect fit!

   

Though they're not actually 'Poison' Ivy (Toxicodendron agg) but 'English' Ivy (a Hedera helix cv),I think these tights are still fun though.

   

[Like Ra]

I would say Hedera leaves are much more decorative, than Toxicodendron ones. And Hederas are also toxic 😆

(Off topic - I've just learned that there is Hedera canariensis, yet another Canary endemic - I'm a "Canary addict" 😉)

Nice tights!

I'm not sure Hedera canariensis is endemic to the Canary Islands, it seems to have been combined with H. algeriensis. The variegated cv 'Gloire de Marengo' is a favourite for municipal planting around here, it's on every roundabout and retaining wall and I'm actually quite bored with it!

[Like Ra]

I'm not sure Hedera canariensis is endemic to the Canary Islands

Wiki thinks it is, the other sources say, that it's "native" to Canarian laurisilva.

it seems to have been combined with H. algeriensis. 

Most likely it is H. algeriensis, because it's more cold resistant, than H. canariensis.

I'm actually quite bored with it!

Oooohhhhh yes ..... I actively dislike it... I find only one species (with long narrow "fingers"- liquidambar- or, rather, Japanese maple-like) relatively attractive.

And... related: https://www.likera.com/blog/wp/archives/69463