Showing posts with label shoes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label shoes. Show all posts

Friday, 16 January 2009

Workwear - Yes we do wear clothes...sometimes!

As I mentioned to you earlier it costs alot of money for me to be (insert porn name).
And there was you thinking porn stars were born looking like that. Nope....as in keeping with the fantasy of pornutopia underneath all that silicone, acrylic and bleach we are nothing like our porn personas.

Believe it or not, one of the most important tools for any glamour model or adult actress (I hate using that term. I find it really cheapens the meaning for the talented real actresses) is her wardrobe. Yes we spend our time predominantly naked but we have our own style for this job. Slut wear is what you find topless models, club dancers, strippers and porn stars wearing. 6inch glass stilettos and tiny Lycra hot pants. If you’re still not sure what I’m talking about have a look at http://www.forplaycatalog.com/

Since I wasn’t in the habit of dressing up like a slag in my normal life I had to scrimp together what revealing outfits I did have for work. Short skirts and skimpy tops. I really didn’t have that many that were sexy and I knew I couldn’t be seen wearing the same top and skirt for every job so I had to go shopping. I had to buy a whole new wardrobe which wasn’t going to be cheap and I still wasn’t exactly rich in those early days.

My plan of action was this. I’d go shopping with what limited funds I did have and then make sure I was ever so careful with these outfits when I wore them on set. I made sure not to get any make up or bodily fluids on them and when doing my sexy little strip id peel it off so carefully so it didn’t rip or snag. Id then return them to the shop and swap them for something different I could wear the next time I was booked. This meant I had to do my shopping all over the place. I couldn’t keep going into Top Shop in my home town or id have been caught out returning and swapping stuff each week so I had to travel great distances to make my little scam work.

This way I could afford the nice outfits and look really good on set. I was loaning the clothes from the high street chains. The only thing I did have to invest in was sexy lingerie and stockings. Oh and my tranny porn shoes. To this day I have a draws full of beautiful lingerie from all over the world and in every colour you can imagine. I plan to auction it all off for charity one day. I really dread the day when I have no real reason to be buying gorgeous undies anymore. It is one of life’s simple and harmless pleasures.

Eventually I realised the other girls didn’t bother taking any pride in their wardrobes and the producers weren’t even that concerned either. You’d turn up on set with your big suitcase bursting full of new shiny clothes and ask the producer what you should wear to be told “Oh you pick something”. They didn’t want to be bored with menial tasks like picking wardrobe. They had important things to do like making unimaginative generic porn that looks like every other scene ever filmed.

Or they’d tell you to bring four or five different outfits. An outfit means lingerie plus outerwear, like a dress or skirt and top and shoes. No one ever asks you to accessorise and rarely to wear stockings or be imaginative with your make up. Then when you get there having lugged your biggest suitcase across the capital and not been able to squeeze your way onto three different packed commuter trains, sweating your bollocks off and looking less than attractive right now they say “oh just wear that teeny weeny g string. No shoes”. You wanker! I could have fit that in my pocket and left all this shit at home.

Dragging my case from A to B became the worst aspect of my work for a long time. How silly does that sound?

I also started earning enough money to stop my little scam after a while. I could have kept it up but it became time consuming and what else was I going to do with all this money. I learnt to buy afew nice things that would keep me going and then if I found something I really liked I treated myself.

I don’t leave my appearance in the hands of uncouth producers nowadays. I take the initiative and dress myself deciding on the little details like which accessories to stylise with, how heavy or natural to do my make up or what style to do my hair in today and I more often than not wear stockings if only hold ups and not the whole suspender she-bang. If I left it to the uncreative idiots who produce this tack id look exactly the same as I did in the last five films I shot.

I became obsessed with shoes though as I said in an earlier post. Even now I always try and streamline my suitcase and take a capsule wardrobe whenever possible but each outfit needs a different pair of shoes. Afew bangles and necklaces don’t take up much room but 7 pairs of shoes do!

I will never get away from that loathsome suitcase.

Tuesday, 22 April 2008

Porn Shoes

Firstly let me apologise for my recent disappearence. No i had not been shagged to death, it was purely the twits who host this blog allowing a 'robot' peg mark it as spam.

Anyway Im back on air now.


I remember the first time I laid eyes on porn shoes.
Stripper heels, platforms, spike heels, glass heels... call em what you like.
I called them tranny shoes. The only person id ever seen wear them was Ru Paul so I thought they were some part of a trannies wardrobe get up.
I’d never seen them in porn flicks before. Probably due to the fact I had only watched dated porn. Porn shoes were yet to be invented.
I remember seeing lots of different styles for sale in a street market in Bangkok on a trip to Thailand once and this just reaffirmed for me that trannies (and lady boys) wore them. I actually wanted to buy a pair. Something was drawing me to them. I stopped myself saying “What the heck for? Where would I wear them?” I wasn’t a porn star then.
I later realised strippers and adult models wore them when I saw every single girl in a copy of my house mates Playboy wearing them. I thought they looked sexy but kinda mad. Sort of like Barbie meets glam rock.
Now I have more pairs of porn shoes than I do normal heels. I have classic ones (if there is such a thing), silver ones, marabou ones, leg tie ones and even boots too. I have every colour possible. It has been known for me to turn up on set with one case for my clothes and another for my shoes. I pack a pair of shoes for each outfit I take. In fact I pick an outfit to go with the shoes usually.
I still have my first pair that I remember going out to buy after my first few shoots in some trash shop on Oxford Street. I wanted porn shoes like all the other girls so I got some classic strappy, black, clear plastic platform/heel ones. They look abit tatty now but they have been through everything with me so I daren’t replace them.
My favourite ones I call my Barbie shoes. My first ever Barbie doll had shoes just like these.
People say “How the hell do you totter around in those things?” and then I explain how they are actually dancers shoes (table and pole dancers that is) and that walking and standing around in them is a doddle compared to what those girls do in them.
It’s strange though, I can’t wear normal high heels for very long without suffering but these beauties I can wear for hours quite comfortably. Why is that? I once wore them out to a night club and didn’t moan once about my feet aching. I even hobbled down a cobbled street in them without falling over.
Note: it is NEVER acceptable to wear porn shoes except in porn. I was going out on a limb when I wore mine out and was with a bunch of 10 or so other models. Do not think like the poor girl I saw wearing them in Wimbledon shopping centre one Saturday afternoon that they are for normal people.
JUST DONT!