What’s Your Personal Style?

 Posted by on September 16, 2013
Sep 162013
 
What's Your Personal Style?

By Julian Wolf

There are entire industries built around creating the right “style.” Interior designers craft inside spaces, exteriors can be landscaped, xeriscaped, gardened and beautified. You can go to a trichologist, a barber, or a hairdresser…

Dominant Female Fashion

 Posted by on April 29, 2013
Apr 292013
 
Dominant Female Fashion

By Princess Kali

I’ve attended fetish and BDSM events all over the world, and one of my favorite things to do at these events is check out all the style eye candy. The best by far to scope hot chicks in fetish gear are the events focused on Professional Domination

Mentioning Unmentionables Part 1

 Posted by on April 15, 2013
Apr 152013
 
Mentioning Unmentionables Part 1

I think it’s far past time that we start mentioning our “unmentionables.” There’s a lot more to masculine cut underwear than “boxers or briefs.” (There’s a lot more to feminine cut underwear as well, but that’s a different column.) During a recent conversation with a dear friend, he mentioned that he never knew that there […]

February Beauty Item Finds

 Posted by on February 6, 2013
Feb 062013
 
February Beauty Item Finds

I’m pale, y’all. Pale with the delicate skin of a hothouse orchid. OK, that’s an utter exaggeration except for the pale part. My skin is sensitive but in the dry skin, alligator kind of way. Not a pretty orchid way, because that would just be awesome and ethereal. No, I spend a couple hours out […]

Oh the Fur!

 Posted by on December 19, 2012
Dec 192012
 
Oh the Fur!

This fall and winter the fashion world has embraced fur again. Open any magazine and you’ll see fur trimmed collars, hats, boots… Fur was all over those dang pages. When I purchased the enormous fall issue of Vogue, I remember feeling appalled at all the fur. I couldn’t believe that designers were revisiting it. Hadn’t […]

Fashion is only for Women!

 Posted by on November 10, 2012
Nov 102012
 
Fashion is only for Women!

Any discussion of fashion usually revolves around women. Specifically, fashions only women are supposed to wear, be interested in or care about. Even if men are the ones leading the discussion, it is almost always centered on women’s wear. During Fashion Week we only see or hear about shows that depict women’s wear. Fashion seems […]

Oct 312012
 
Halloween Costumes Enforcing Gender Roles

Today is Halloween, which means eating candy until you puke, prank calling everyone you know and dressing up in fabulous costumes. Speaking of costumes, Have you noticed how Halloween costumes seem to be…designed differently for men and women? Costumes seem to always be gendered and clearly “belong” to one gender or another. And not just […]

Dressing for your body type: Part 1

 Posted by on August 3, 2011
Aug 032011
 

By Nina Love

I’ve noticed that fetish fashion tends to be timeless. Let me explain. I’ve been in “the scene” for just about ten years. Fashion – main stream fashion that is – has changed, changed again, and again…and then changed back.