Got dressed in a hurry again.
As
an answer to the piece a few weeks backs (Oct 25th, Memory Knickers, Viking Wine and Tyranny!)
renowned burlesque artiste Dita Von Teese has announced her own range of
vintage lingerie to be produced through that renowned corsetiere Debenhams. The
announcement comes that Miss Von Teese wishes to ‘make women feel glamorous and
sexy’; which is very kind of her I’m sure.
At least there is a name that
matches a product. We’re all used to celebrities putting their moniker to
whatever can be boxed and sold, and here so close to Christmas. It probably
makes more sense than the Kate Moss brand of articulated lorries, or Norman
Tebbit’s range of feminine hygiene foam (‘Norman...’).
Already though there has been scepticism
from the all-important steampunk LARPers, cosplayers and genuine Martian
lady-explorers market. Currently the largest slice of the corset industry, for
those that do not know of what I speak steampunk is a science-fiction genre
based upon an alternative Victorian milieu. Whilst in both the feminine garb
relies upon heavy skirts, blouse and restrictive whale-bone underwear it
differs from the historical in that by some quirk the latter is worn outside
the former. Gentlemen explorers to keep in character strut about with their
underpants over tight leather trousers. Von Teese hopelessly misjudging the
market has produced a range designed to be worn next to the skin.
Ever having been a slave to fashion I type
this missive with a string vest worn over my coat and a pair of Superman boxer
shorts over my jeans.
What a vision...
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