“I have an obsession with old nylon stockings, with different intonations, shades of nude, and fake tan colors, some quite horrible. The idea that in order not to show naked skin one covered it with another layer of fake skin, a form of restraint that did nothing but excite the fascination with what lay underneath.”
—Victoria Bartlett on VPL
When I was 15, I worked in a store whose corporate policy stated we had to wear pantyhose with everything, skirt or pants, it did not matter (trouser socks!) In the blazing oven heat of a desert summer, it was painful, like taking a blow dryer to a pair of nylons and permanently melting them to your skin.
This being the early-to-mid-nineties, there were a handful of supervisors who had not yet given up their ‘suntan’ L’eggs supply from the late eighties.
VPL just surgically removes the suntanned legs and leaves it for your bum, like a reverse tanline. Scientific progress!
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