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FETISHES: Full Dress, Sinister Elegance by SimonaWing, literature

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FETISHES: Full Dress, Sinister Elegance

The screen world of the 1930s was a golden time for men’s full formal wear — and the erotic sphere gained by it Full dress, aka white-tie: an ensemble that includes tails, wing-collared shirt, hand-tied white bow tie usually in a cotton pique or fine grosgrain, and corresponding white waistcoat, traditionally three buttoned and cut low to expose maximum shirt front. Trousers, striped. For the feet, nothing but glacé, glossy pumps will suffice, silk bows optional. This look was established as a sartorial must-do by the early 1920s. Whether formal or extremely formal, the basic sonorous quality of the ensemble is the color black. Since the eighteenth century all attempts to introduce color to male formal attire have failed or have been derided. A shiny, colorful, patterned male evening ensemble is unthinkable; such is the continuing power and influence of tradition. From The Concise History of Costume and Fashion by James Laver (Abrams, 1960). You can download the entire 292-page

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About SimonaWing

Artist // Professional // Literature

Jan 7
United States
Deviant for 4 years
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Memoirist. Musicologist. Retired American movie actress, screen name Simona Wing. The Woman In Love With English Conductor John Wilson. Above is a screenshot from my last picture, Sadie (Bob Chinn, 1980) which was recently indexed by the British Film Institute. I write about classic US+UK movies / books / music / radio+tv / culture, chiefly on my blog "I'll Be Dead Before You Break My Heart".

Favourite Visual Artist

Banksy; Keith Haring

Favourite Movies

West Side Story (2021); Tár (2022); Love Me Tonight (1932); Nashville (Altman, 1975); To Walk Invisible (2016); Rules of the Game (1939); The Passenger (1975); The Lost Boys (1987); Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)

Favourite TV Shows

The Americans; Red Dwarf; Our Friends In the North; Slings and Arrows; Crazy Ex-Girlfriend; The Equalizer (1985-89); Star Trek: Deep Space Nine; The Marvelous Mrs Maisel

Favourite Bands / Musical Artists

Leonard Bernstein; the Grateful Dead; the Who; Dolly Parton; the Sinfonia of London (2018 revival); The John Wilson Orchestra

Favourite Books

Dubliners and Ulysses by James Joyce; almost all the novels of Western series authors William W and JA Johnstone; all the novels of Anne, Emily, and Charlotte Brontë

Favourite Writers

Mae Magnin Brussell; Cory Doctorow; Arthur C Clarke; Thomas Pynchon; Philip K Dick; Robert A Heinlein; Iris Murdoch

Favourite Games

Space Invaders

Favourite Gaming Platform

At the arcade

Tools of the Trade

Calling in old favors from Hollywood

Other Interests

Old Time Radio (OTR); classic BBC radio drama

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SimonaWing

Jul 12, 2024

Uploading the Visual Notes (VN) for my 30-part essay, Love, Teshuvah, and Filipinos Will Save Classical Music: Cantara Christopher Gives Her Beloved Conductor John Wilson Crib Notes on Todd Field's Screen Masterpiece, Tar. For Watchers only.

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John Wilson's Sex Appeal by SimonaWing, journal

John Wilson's Sex Appeal

Aug 18, 2024

Listen, you mooks. My love for John Wilson is beautiful and holy. Never mind what American critics think. John may be English, but he's not sexless. Did you see that brazen shimmy of his in the Gypsy Overture? No, here's the thing. John puts all his erotic feeling into his music and all his virile sexual urges into his Orchestra—and I don't mean so much the human element of an orchestra as much as his IDEAL of an Orchestra—and I find this tremendously weird in this day and age, and I find it also tremendously arousing. Go figure. Sexually, I'm from San Francisco. Oh, and I've done porn. (Check the banner of my front page why don't you.) The white tie and tails, when he wears them, certainly help my fetish fantasies. And like Marilyn Monroe I'm a bit of a geek chaser anyway, ever have been since I was six. So the glasses don't hurt either. But there's much more to my lust for him than that. [more later, listening to the Beatles/Stones/Kinks/Who now; meanwhile, here are some