Sophisticated in Leather

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Of course leather uses have not been exclusively for clothing, but for tents, weapons, armour and furniture too. The clued up Egyptian women who were noted for their fashion sense went to great lengths to acquire good skins and outdo their friends.

The Spanish brought decorated leathers onto the scene, and this went a long way towards creating leather into a desirable status symbol - the wealthy even using it for carpets, sofas and clothing.

The English re-discovered a love of leather in Elizabethan times. Leather was a very popular garment worn during the first Elizabeth reign.

The North American Indians really made leather indispensable for just about everything - their tepees, their clothes and their shoes.

However, at no time in history has leather been as popular as it is today when it comes to fashion. Today leather is a power clothing symbolizing dominance, fetish恋物 — a strong sexual focus on one thing, and sexuality.

"Leather" is a blanket term for a large array of sexual preferences, identities, relationship structures, and social organizations loosely tied together by the thread of what is conventionally understood as S&M sex.

The desire to wear leather is a relatively recent and culturally specific phenomenon, originating in the mid-twentieth-century United States and Europe.

Wearing leather may involve elements of dominance and submission; fetishism, or a sexual orientation towards particular parts of the body.