Fashion or fetish?

Earlier on we wrote a little piece on how fashionable gloves are able to give a woman a sexy and powerful appearance. Like almost anything there's also a downside to that. In the fetish and BDSM-scene gloves are very popular. Off course we don't want to evoke such associations wearing fashionable gloves.

Its hard to draw a line between fashion and fetish. Many couturiers tend to flirt with the fetish element and we know some women do too. We'll try to give a hand illustrating how to be on the safe side, the tricky side or just over the edge.

Fashionable and decent:

• Avoid extremes. Don't wear to much leather or shiny materials at once. Look for some gloves with a supple quality and matte surface.


• Not to much skin. The most effective way to keep things decent is to keep the amount of visible skin within limits. No bare legs or arms.


• Boots can be very fetish, but a safe boot is a boot with the shaft not to high and the heels not higher than 6cm. Wear them in a way that not the whole shaft is visible.
  
• Avoid 'plastic' materials. This tends to look cheap. At best you could try real patent leather, but with it's shinyness its a bit risky.


• You can wear gloves of any length, provided that there's no metal studs, shackles, buttons etc.

Fashionable and attractive

• Look for a little edge or twist, but keep it simple. Choose nice and outstanding accessories. Patent leather is a good option, but not too much. Real snakeskin or crocodile leather are good show-offs.
  
• Easy with showing your skin. A bare shoulder, arm, leg or décolletage is fine. Don't show belly or buttocks. And by that we mean that your skirt must not be shorter than mid-thigh length.


• A combination with boots is saucy, especially if you wear them over your pants or with a skirt. Don't choose boots higher than just over the knee. Any heel height is fine.
  
• Maybe a nice idea is to wear a simple t-shirt with high boots over jeans and a pear of elbow length gloves.
  
• Possibilities: Short gloves with nice details. Extremely short gloves reaching to the mid-hand or even the knuckles. Long gloves with buttons, an exquisite cut or embellished cuffs.

Over the top

This effect is easily reached. Just take little to much of everything. Jewelry to tawdry, too much (fake) fur, too much shiny materials, too much skin. The example next wears a little too much leather, but other than that she'd fit the fashionable and attractive categorie.

Wearing stockins with cuban heels can be very risqué.

When you're going over the top anything is possible.