Since Patrick Macnee died recently, I've been watching some old episodes of THE AVENGERS. Back in the '60s both Honor Blackman and Diana Rigg partnered his character John Steed in a fight against evil which involved both of those lovely ladies dressing up in tight-fitting leather outfits and beating up burly stunt-men. Macnee claimed that the choice of leather came about simply because it was tough and durable, but that the producers had inadvertently hit upon '...a quite common fetish'. The problem I have is that the smell of beaten up leather always brings to mind Physical Education periods at school. The memory of crashing into a leather vaulting horse, or else catching an old medicine ball, means that I don't really associate the smell of leather with anything erotic! Oh well...
Indeed! Pity that -- but NEW leather stuff doesn't have the same "distressed" smell. So you want to pick out a stylish dominatrix; accordingly, she'll want the latest motorbike pants and opera gloves and whatnot! She'll donate the old stuff to the Poor Clairs of Perpetual Adoration...
Voila! No scent of old medicine balls, etc.
And surely you don't think Macnee really argued for durability... I venture that tight leather is "its own reward" and there's no need to gild that particular lily...
You're right about Macnee, you know! I went back and checked up, and he may have told the producers that leather was durable, but he knew all about its other qualities. Mind you, I don't suppose that you could tell anything to a man who was expelled from Eton for bookmaking and for selling pornography (to both his fellow pupils and his teachers!)
I was watching an episode of the Avengers the other night. Mrs Peel saves him, with only seconds to spare, from a firing squad.
"Did your whole life flash before your eyes?" she asks.
"Yes. Infinitely enjoyable" he smirks.
I rather like your idea that all of that stuff is donated to charity. Perhaps somewhere along the high street there is a charity shop that sells nothing but old dominatrix outfits, kinky boots and whips. Now there is somewhere that really will smell of old leather.
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Voila! No scent of old medicine balls, etc.
And surely you don't think Macnee really argued for durability... I venture that tight leather is "its own reward" and there's no need to gild that particular lily...
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I was watching an episode of the Avengers the other night. Mrs Peel saves him, with only seconds to spare, from a firing squad.
"Did your whole life flash before your eyes?" she asks.
"Yes. Infinitely enjoyable" he smirks.
I rather like your idea that all of that stuff is donated to charity. Perhaps somewhere along the high street there is a charity shop that sells nothing but old dominatrix outfits, kinky boots and whips. Now there is somewhere that really will smell of old leather.
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