By Noir Halo

From corsets to latex to harnesses and fishnet, kink fashion has evolved in many ways over the years and touched the mainstream in pop music videos, at music festivals, worn by influencers, on runways, and in mainstream club fashion. Kink wear has inspired so many, yet it’s still something that is mainly kept in the bedroom by most people or worn out to an occasional kinky event here and there.

I remember the first time I walked into a store that sold kinky clothes. I was young and accompanied by a parent, and I was just looking for goth clothes. Luckily, my mom was open-minded enough to let me go into the store and shop. She is religious and was a little concerned about my taste in clothing style, but I was a good student, and she had no real reason to be concerned about what I wore. Fast forward to 20+ years later, and the store she took me into now knows her as “Mama Halo” because she still goes shopping there with me and supports my interest in alternative and fetish events by taking my flyers to the store.

Anyway, the store had goth clothes and so much more. It sparked my interest in the fetish scene because goth and kink were so much related but wearing kinky clothes opened the door to the scene of open-minded people who wore this unique fashion but were also open-minded sexually and artistically.

Some kinksters found their first kinky piece of clothing by wearing it as a Halloween costume, or they found it at a lingerie store to surprise their partner in the bedroom. Maybe it was a borrowed pair of thigh-high boots or a girlfriend’s lacy panties. We all have stories of how we got into kink or started wearing kink fashion and how it evolved into something more. For most people, it’s always evolving. Now don’t forget, I’m talking about all genders here, not just female presenting, not just one body type, not any one ethnicity. Kink fashion is for everybody and every BODY. And we are in a community that accepts diversity better than most other communities.

Some beginner kinky fashion accessories include footwear such as knee-high, thigh-high boots, or steel-toe Dr. Martin boots. Next might be thigh-high stockings, fishnet stockings, or pantyhose. Corsets are basically a gateway kink accessory for all genders. Some people start with a plastic-boned fabric corset and work their way up to a custom metal-boned leather under-bust corset. Collars and lace chokers are another fashion piece every single kinky person has owned at least one of. Wrist cuffs may start out as leather bracelet cuffs, but suddenly you’re buying cuffs with plush fabric inside and hooks to give your partner the power to tie you down easily to the bed or to use on them to tie them down.

Lingerie can go from white lacy boring daily wear to shiny black bras and vinyl thongs. Then suddenly, your kink level increases, and you’re wearing cup-less under-bust bras or corsets, elastic harness accessories, and pasties when you must cover the nips. Now throw on a chain harness for extra pizzaz!

You can never own too much kink wear. And it comes in so many types of materials. Harnesses come in elastic, lace, leather, vinyl, chain, and latex. Corsets are made of leather, vinyl, polyester, latex, and lace. Latex being the holy grail of kinky material. So let’s talk about latex. My first experience with latex was wearing it on my head as a swim cap. Maybe yours was a latex condom. But latex can be made into fabulous outfits, dresses, corsets, hats, leggings, jackets, skirts, harnesses, and more. Latex can be formed into sheets and made into a fabric that is glued together or molded into textured pieces. The tightness and smoothness of latex is something that vinyl or other materials just don’t compare to. If you’ve never experienced wearing latex, I suggest you do whatever it takes to change that. The first time I wore a latex outfit, I was surprised at how smooth, cool, and tight it felt on my body. The feeling of squeezing yourself into a latex outfit is similar to that of wearing a corset but different because it feels tight uniformly around your body, and it’s actually more pleasurable to wear than a corset. Torture Garden Las Vegas saw more latex being worn in Las Vegas than ever before, but it’s a staple wardrobe in the kink scene in Europe. I was almost not allowed into a Torture Garden party in London because I wasn’t wearing latex.

Fetish model and stylist Angela Ryan introduced me to Dan Miga latex ( www.danmigadesigns.com ). Together Angela & Dan design and create custom latex outfits that can be made to order. Liquid Red also creates handcrafted molded 3D latex harness designs and necklaces, along with a variety of elastic and vegan leather harness designs.

If you’re looking for kinky fashion in Las Vegas, there are a few stores that cater mainly to the kink scene, including:

The Black Room on Sahara theblackroomvegas.com

The Dark Side Fetish Store
next to Dejavu on Tropicana
IG: @thedarkside.fetishstore

Other Vegas locals who sell kinky clothing but do not have a brick-and-mortar store include:

Liquid Red
www.shopliquidred.com
IG: @liquidreddesign

Wherever you find your next piece of kinky fashion, I hope you continue to let your sense of kink style change and evolve more and more. Wear those tall boots, slip on that fishnet, strap on a harness, squeeze into some latex, get tied up in a corset, and feel that sensation of sexiness again and again.

This article was originally published in the second issue of PROUD & Kinky Magazine. You may read it in its original format here.

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