Apr 13, 2010 08:10
I've been traveling with two white catsuits because I will need to wear one in Houston (Texas FetishBall) and also one this coming weekend in Amsterdam for similar performances. The one I was to wear in Texas is waiting for me in London and since I was shooting a couple of days ago I figured why not wear the one I had with me one last time in a shoot with the white HW cat accessories.
I took out the catsuit only to find it covered in black stains as well as a slightly ruddy coloured stain as well.
It was unwearable and very disgusting.
I go through a system of washing my latex and drying, then storing each piece with an almost compulsiveness.
A few years ago I lent out my white latex catsuit to a model to shoot in. I figured it was pretty durable (Skin Two brand from almost 15 years ago).
i remember that after this catsuit was returned, I did not wash it - I trusted instead that the model and done the job.
I do remember taking the extra time to wash the HW pieces (hood, gloves, socks though.
Talk about extremely upsetting.
In any case, the piece had been soaking all day in a bath of bleach water. After a few hours it's now almost void of any black stain marks although the ruddy ones remain. There's still some discolouration happening on the white latex itself which is making it more of a dirty off white/vanilla colour.
Luckily, I'm not going to be shooting in this piece. I'm using it in a performance. But if I wanted to, it wouldn't be possible and I'd be pretty pissed off that someone ruined a $350 outfit just because she didn't clean it properly before returning it to me.
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