March 6, 2007...9:30 am
The Most Hideous Crimes of Fetish Fashion
Okay, okay I talk a lot about how my eyes get offended by male doms’ dress sense, but Mr Sir isn’t the only one out there committing utterly heinous sartorial acts and offending my delicate myopic eyes. There are many who are guilty. So, Bitchy presents, the most hideous crimes of fetish fashion.(Quick aside: Funny innit, how places with horribly oppressive “dress codes” will allow all of these things and yet balk and a happy relaxed young woman who chooses to express her dominess in jeans and trainers. Gits)
1. Anything you have had to have made specially made in your size. If it’s not made that size as standard, chances are there’s a good reason for that.
2. More than three facial piercings on anyone over the age of 19. Having your cheeks stapled together does not make you look hard; it makes you look like you don’t understand basic accessorizing.
3. Motorcycle trousers – y’know with the padding and all – yeuuch
4. Anything, just anything that you are being forced to wear as public humiliation because it is so revealing. Just who’s being punished here: you or the people who have to look at you in your labia revealing outfit?
5. Shoulder pads – It is not 1985 and you are not Joan Collins
6. Black lipstick – femdoms, look in the mirror before you leave the house and ask yourself this question: “In all honesty, could I be mistaken for Marilyn Manson?” If so, get the cleanser and start over.
7. Cowboy boots – run for your fucking life
8. Cowboy hats – as above but even faster
9. Platforms – stop it. It. Is. Wrong. Platform stilettos are even worse. No pleasant, not practical, as my grandmother used to say: ‘neither use nor ornament’, and I really didn’t want to start quoting her, but you have forced me into it.
10. Fishnets with stilettos – it’s fishnets with flats, stilettos with sheers. This is BDSM – I thought you liked arbitrary rules. If I told you not to ejaculate until next Wednesday week you’d do it, and yet, you can’t do this one little thing for me.
11. Those all over figure hugging body suit things that just have little holes for the eyes – yelp! And where do you keep your keys BTW? Second thoughts: I don’t want to know.
12. Leather waistcoats – over a shirt: nasty - over a bare chest: vomit.
13. Anything that shows your sexual organs (inc. secondary) – it’s not nice
14. Pony tails so tight it looks like you have had a botched face lift (apart from anything else: they hurt) – why is this dominant, exactly? Painful hair. This is the one thing about he femdom look that continues to perplex and floor me.
15. Anything where, in an attempt to further pervert something already perverse, it has been rendered in an incongruous fabric – rubber nuns, PVC French maids. It’s vulgar; it’s wrong: it’s vulgar and wrong.
16. While we’re on the subject nuns and French maid costumes are hideous anyways, likewise schoolgirls – look, did someone make this whole business fancy dress without telling me? Except men in uniforms. That’s okay, ’cause it’s hot. Everything else, so very no.
17. Tiny teddy bears in bondage gear hanging from belt loops – so many things wrong it’s hard to begin. Plus: do not hang things from your belt loops. You are not a roadie.
18. Thigh boots – transvestites only. And really, not even then.
19. Black PVC catsuits – (1) cliché, (2) unless you are a size zero you look like a slug that’s learned to walk upright.
20. T-shirts featuring 1980’s Goth or heavy metal bands – ugh, I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: it is not 1985. 1985 clothing didn’t even look good *in* 1985, let alone two decades later. Sort it out.
21. Femdoms: you are not Siouxsie Sioux
22. Male subs: you are not drag queens
23. Fem subs: No matter how much of a sexual kick you get out of it, letting a man decide what you wear on a regular basis is not a good thing.
24. Male doms: whatever you’re doing fashionwise, it’s probably wrong. Removing your facial hair would be a good place to start sorting it out.
Now, I know what you’re thinking: that’s just your opinion, Bitchy, so fuck off. And I say, yeah, but aren’t I meant to be taking total charge? If you don’t like one person steam rollering you and presenting their groundless utterly subjective opinions as if they were a priori truths then get yourself to another sexual sub culture.
Do I seem tense to you?


20 Comments
March 9, 2007 at 12:44 pm
I love this! Thank you for this post! I’m a costume / textile curator in real life and love documenting kinky style - may I request permission to reprint your post on my blog and a couple of the forums I moderate? Please drop me a line at the above email, if this might be ok with you.
With all best wishes,
Ms160
March 9, 2007 at 12:56 pm
Thank you. It’s nice to know that someone with some kind of actual artistic skill agrees with me.
March 12, 2007 at 10:14 am
i’ve enjoyed reading Your writings, and have a sub’s perspective to offer. If You are the dominant one, You can wear whatever You like. It’s Your prerogative, ‘cuz You’re in charge. If anybody needs to dress up a certain way, it’s the sub.
my Princess has put this principle into action in our Female-Led marriage, so i am usually wearing a tie and nicely dressed for Her until She invites me to change. She dresses however She likes. Often i find myself serving Her while dressed up and She is wearing lounge-around clothes and no shoes at all, uncomfortable or otherwise.
i look forward to more of Your writing.
March 12, 2007 at 11:47 am
Well, having a woman chose your clothes is probably better than you choosing them yourself for many reasons other than the dirty ones.
I like ties.
B x
PS I mean this with so much love, but can you please not do the weird capitalisation thing next time? It makes me jumpy because it makes me think you keep shouting.
March 12, 2007 at 4:02 pm
Pure gold.
March 12, 2007 at 7:19 pm
Thank you
March 13, 2007 at 5:16 am
Mistress160 posted this in her group “Kinky Style” on mydungeonspace.com. It had me shaking in my pointy boots I was laughing so hard. I look forward to reading the rest of your blog!
Thanks for the giggle - and pop over to MDS if you’re so inclined
March 14, 2007 at 7:58 pm
Thanks
March 25, 2007 at 10:39 am
So, what would you class as being actually attractive fashion for male doms?
March 25, 2007 at 10:47 am
Vintage military.
March 26, 2007 at 4:39 pm
Well, so long as that’s not code for “Nazi uniform”. I’ll admit that evil regimes generally know how to dress sharply, and there’s nothing wrong with a hint of SS round the edges, but actual swastikas are as much of a turnoff as dressing up as Myra Hindley.
Actually, more than a few transvestites end up looking like that, so you can probably ignore what I’ve said.
March 26, 2007 at 5:04 pm
Actually, Stan, now I come to think of it, I think it was code for an attractive fashion for male doms would be a jock strap, a spider gag, a pair of clover clamps, a shaved head, some rigid handcuffs and a moderate degree of pain.
Not a very good code, I’ll admit.
Also, if I start getting Google hits for your comment I may have to delete it - just so you know.
March 26, 2007 at 5:47 pm
Er, okay. I’ve no idea what sort of hits it would get, but there’s two unpleasant keywords in there I suppose.
I can’t see how any of the things you listed would be of use in a combat situation, but then I know about as much about that as I do about fetish culture, which is very little.
If I came across as snarky, I didn’t mean to. I think I was trying to be funny. I need more practice.
I really like your blog - partly because you mock the tedious trends and conventions that I saw when my partner and I dipped our toes into the fetish/fetish clubbing world (and subsequently shied away from).
March 26, 2007 at 5:59 pm
Yeah, well, lucky you. Some of us don’t get to leave.
March 31, 2007 at 5:39 pm
Vampyra sneaks off to check her warldrobe as shes sure it contians most of these things - muses that its probably ok as they tend never to leave the bedroom….
March 31, 2007 at 6:54 pm
Ha ha. Well, maybe…
April 22, 2007 at 5:15 pm
a well tailored suit should be ok for most men, be they sub or dom.
June 1, 2007 at 5:15 am
A dom will always maintain presence in a well tailored, high end suit. Dark suits work best. A mandarin collar is suitable.
‘Vintage military’ is a pretty broad range. Spatha, lorica, scutum and caligae OR plate armor and fouchard OR breeches, Sam Browne coat and riding boots OR….
July 9, 2007 at 6:52 am
On what men SHOULD wear as part of fetish/kink gear, I have a very strong vote for kilts. The last party I went to (I know, you don’t like parties) two dom men and one pretty sub wore kilts.
It was hot. Very hot. Kilts with business shirts… kilts with a form-fitting T shirt revealing six pack abs underneath…
Knowing that you’re a simple lift of the front flap away from full access to anything you’d like to see/torture/play with…
More men in kink should wear kilts. My opinion. The cultural context for kilts might be different in Texas than they are in the UK.
July 21, 2007 at 8:43 am
Oh sorry. I just commented asking about Billy, but here you already answer my question. Just ignore last comment….
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