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Fetish clothing includes any type of clothing and clothing materials which is commonly fetishized. It is possible for almost any item of clothing to be the subject of a fetish. Commonly fetishized types of clothing include underwear, close-fitting clothing and footwear, and commonly fetishized materials include leather, fur, rubber, spandex and PVC. Those materials are also used in functional clothing, so a garment in one of them is not necessarily fetish clothing. This page defines the category and its standard garments, from catsuits to thigh-high boots.
Fetish clothing includes any type of clothing and clothing materials which is commonly fetishized.
It is possible for almost any item of clothing to be the subject of a fetish. Commonly fetishized types of clothing include underwear, skin-tight clothing, and footwear.
Commonly fetishized materials include leather, fur, rubber, spandex and PVC.
Note that these materials are also commonly used in functional clothing, and that clothes made of these materials are not necessarily fetishitic in nature. However, this has also led to fetishization of functional clothing such as riding boots, diving suits and industrial clothing such as Hazmat suits and gas masks.
Many elements from fetish clothing have been adopted by mainstream fashion designers.
Common items of fetish clothing include catsuits, thigh-high boots and leather body harnesses.
See also:
Fur fetishism
Leather fetishism
Rubber and PVC fetishism
Stocking fetishism
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The category is defined by materials as much as by garments. Leather, rubber, PVC and spandex share properties that ordinary clothing fabrics do not: shine, tightness, a second-skin fit, and strong associations with specific activities — motorcycling, diving, athletics — whose functional garments were adopted into fetish dress. Fur adds texture, and footwear adds form: boots in particular cross constantly between work, riding, fashion and fetish use, which is why the same boot can appear in all four contexts. The definitions in this group therefore treat each material and garment on its own terms — spandex fetishism, shoe fetishism, the catsuit, the corset — under this general heading.
Fetish clothing has also fed mainstream fashion. Designers have repeatedly adopted its elements — thigh-high boots, leather harnesses, PVC coats, corsets worn as outerwear — and presented them as ordinary fashion, usually one element at a time and softened in material or styling. The traffic runs both ways: stage and screen costumes borrow fetish styling for effect, and high-street versions follow. For a definitions glossary the category matters because its terms are garment terms: a catsuit or a thigh-high boot must be definable as clothing first, whatever context it is worn in.
Fetish clothing includes any type of clothing and clothing materials which is commonly fetishized, including underwear, skin-tight clothing and footwear, and materials such as leather, fur, rubber, spandex and PVC.
No. Those materials are also commonly used in functional clothing, and clothes made of them are not necessarily fetishistic in nature; functional clothing such as riding boots and hazmat suits has itself sometimes been fetishized.
Common items of fetish clothing include catsuits, thigh-high boots and leather body harnesses, among the garments defined in this section.