Leather Wear for a party

[rodeo]

Its Pride Week here and, I am supposed to go to a leather party ....I am going to wear a tight Tank top and tight lee jeans, do you think this will be acceptable....?

Com'on leather men..help a preppy gay guy dress the part!

[grunter]

1. First and foremost - NO "EFFING" COLOGNE!! Drop that bottle of stink-spray right this instant. No heavy perfumes. No over-powering deodorants. And no flower scented hair or body gels. A leatherman should smell like a man - not foliage.

2. No sneakers. Wear some form of boot. Even those beat-up old orange-tan workboots in the back of your closet are more acceptable than a lite-brite pair of Keds. (Or you can look at it this way: Keds don't look very butch looped through the stirrups of a sling.)

3. Make sure the tank-top is either solid black or solid white. No flourescents. No prints. No "Tasmanian Devil" iron-ons. Although this isn't quite as hard and fast a rule. If its a "good" (read: orgiastic) leather party, you won't have the tank top on for long anyway.

4. This may sound so simple you wouldn't even think it. But get in contact with whoever invited you and ask to borrow some appropriate clothing. Most likely they'll have some extra leather "accoutrements" that you could borrow for the evening. A harness, a pair of leather suspenders, or even just a simple leather baseball cap will help you "pass" more easily as a leatherman. And at least with the leathermen I've been buddies with, they're more than willing to help out a budding leather-boy. Leather isn't cheap, my friends - so sometimes we have to share.

5. Get very familiar with the hanky code. Flag what you're into. If you want to keep it light and airy, flag white (masturbation) or checkered (safe sex). Be careful with the darker hankies though - as in a dark playspace, they all look black. (Trust me, from personal experience, you don't want to find yourself "over-flagging". That's a definite "ouchee.")

Hanky Code Crib Sheet (http://www.padlockaz.com/hankies.html)

6. When in doubt, go with the cheap bear "clone" look. Frayed cut-off jean shorts, an unbuttoned flannel shirt/vest (ie. a flannel shirt with the sleeves ripped off), a pair of white socks (tucked down) and a pair of workboots. That's now pretty well accepted in leather bars as the de facto "bear" uniform.

7. Take pics. grunter wants to see . . . :D

[rodeo]

Grunter....you almost made me choke (like you haven't heard that before)..... :D

Thanks for the advice...

So no cologne, put the arm band on the right arm, break out my old construction boots and wear wool socks, flipped over the top of the boot....

I may just go for the Suspenders, they are about $40 here at the local gay wear store and not wear the Tank top...

Pics, hmm, not to sure about that!!!!!!

[Nick Danger]

5. Be careful with the darker hankies though - as in a dark playspace, they all look black. (Trust me, from personal experience, you don't want to find yourself "over-flagging". That's a definite "ouchee.")

:eek: Hunter green looks black? :eek:

[grunter]

Originally posted by Nick Danger
:eek: Hunter green looks black? :eek:

And I have the clothes-pin pinch-mark scars above my nipples to prove it.

;)

[grunter]

Originally posted by rodeo
Grunter....you almost made me choke (like you haven't heard that before)..... :D


That's the second time in 2 days someone's made a crack about my splendiforous endowment. You could quickly give a guy a complex that way.

Or a really, really big . . . ego. :D

Originally posted by rodeo
I may just go for the Suspenders, they are about $40 here at the local gay wear store and not wear the Tank top...

Suspenders and a bare boy chest - yeah, the leather-daddies will definitely be all over you.

I'm serious about those pics . . . ;)

[rodeo]

Get very familiar with the hanky code.

(Robin Voice/) Holy confusing colour codes, Batman....that sure as a heck of lot of colours to remember"(End/Robin Voice)

[rodeo]

http://www.priape.com/cuir/accessoires/images/bretelles-paralelles.JPG

Grunter, this is what I may pick up...the suspenders...not the guy. HMMMMMM, but now that I think about it......J/K!!!!

[Nick Danger]

So, did you have fun?

[grunter]

Yeah, pics?

;)

[rodeo]

WoW...not what I expected but still fun...it was actually a Military/Leatherman Dance, not a party. Still lots of things to do and see.

There were a few hankies, lots of leather, and a few surprises...

The music was loud, the place got hot, and when the stage show happened the place was even hotter. The stage show consisted of two porn stars, dancing and gyrating and doing simulated sex scenes on the stage...I thought the two stars looked like the same guys who did the Toronto production of "makin Porn" and were these guys big..in every sense of the word. They are a real life couple so, they may not have been acting.

Men of all shapes and sizes, and very friendly, willing to talk about leather, where to go, what to do, another thing, you get what you see. Hard to describe, but the majority of the people at this place seemed more honest, no facades, no posing. It was refreshing to see.

Thanks for your help gang, I may need it again when I decide to go out and by me a pair of leather chaps...... ;)

I have to investigate this leather scene a little more, there is a Leather Ball in August, I may have to go to this one.

Sorry Grunter no pics.......YET!!!!