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24th January 2021

Question with 18 notes

Anonymous asked:

wetting unsanforized denim shrinks it. if you put it on wet it will dry skin tight because it will only be stretched as much as your ass is fat. but if you bend your legs basically at all you'll end up with horrendous knee bags.

most people stretch them back out after drying, but it's true that you'd want to shrink them less aggressively in that case. but these days if you want skin tight they've got synthetics for that.

There was clearly some change in the material culture of the BDSM community around the 90s such that the things that were matter-of-coursely adjectived as “rubber” before that were referred to as “vinyl” afterwards, I kind of wonder about that sometimes

  1. theresponseblog said: was it just a thing of different feedstock supplies making new chemicals cheap enough to use?
  2. quoms said: PVC still occasionally crops up in mainstream fashion, but is now used exclusively in transparent form - clear backpacks and things like that
  3. kontextmaschine reblogged this from kontextmaschine and added:
    Haha I should not have been surprised that my "write as if the 1998 internet was the apex of civilization, including the...
  4. taxxxon reblogged this from kontextmaschine and added:
    If so, vinyl has been re-replaced by latex and leather since then. Rubber (natural latex) is much more popular among...
  5. youaresogoingtohell reblogged this from kontextmaschine and added:
    rubber, vinyl, and plastic are still used more or less synonymously, but it’s undeniable that a shift in language took...