The Year in Latex 2024-Part 2

If we were in a self-serving mood, we could expound on another year of us contributing a latex outfit to the World of Wearable Art competition and what happened there (which you can read here). And there were surely other things we wrestled our couture into (see that story here). But as with part 1 …

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Trending Halloween Costumes, 2024

Be they cloth, leather and lace, PVC, full-on latex wardrobes, or a combination of any of the textiles (or none at all) this time of year lots of us start to wonder what costumes will be trending for 2024. We know almost every costume shop, cultural blog, and even high-end couture site weighs in with …

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Let’s Finally Talk 2024 BET Award Fashion

Getting past all the blogs, tweets, and amateur fashionista assessments of the outfits worn—be they latex, leather, or the current nude dress rage—here is our perspective of the 2024 BET Awards couture. Two latex wardrobes stand out as do the seven different changes host Taraji P. Henson spun through and even a controversial clutch moment. …

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Honoring Joye Hummel Murchison Kelly

So, you think all the skin-tight latex wardrobes, slightly (sometimes more than slight) sexually alternative references and daring male/female interplay of comic-dom are the purview of guys alone? Well, meet Joye Hummel Murchison Kelly, the first woman to write scripts for the Wonder Woman comic-book franchise. Nineteen-years-old in March of 1944, Joye Hummel, as the …

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