Winning and losing the latex battle

So, I think this week was a record for latex damage and yet-to-be completed repairs. All this latex rippage gets a little discouraging sometimes...I mean, what the hell am I doing being freaky obsessive over a material that is pretty much guaranteed to eventually break, possibly at a horribly inopportune moment???

Weak spots are weak spots...what's an earnest bottom to do? Ya gotta have those convenience zippers put into the right places, dammit! ;p

Rear butt zippers are my nemesis...

I guess if you put it in perspective, ALL clothing eventually breaks down over time -- testament to the new (and unintentional) holes in my not-so-cheap Guess jeans, simply due to the fact they are getting worn out. Considering some of the latex catsuits I own have been worn at least once a week if not twice over an appreciable period of time, I guess breakage is to be expected.

As it turned out, M's Xmas gifts arrived last Friday just in time for the VML Christmas Party where we decided to wear festive red and black latex with white fur linings on our boots and the obligatory Santa hats. M's motocycle latex jeans and Mickey Mouse boots were just the addition to his great outfit. These killer boots are the bomb by the way...they look fantastic with a nice pair of legs in a tight black latex coming out of them...

...which brings me to the highjinks on Saturday. I had taken the Cair catsuit I bought at the Chicago Rubbermen Gear Swap over to M's for the week while I stayed there. I wanted to try on the Mickey Mouse boots with the catsuit. I know better, but for some reason I put the boots on without fabric socks over the rubber feet on the catsuit and 'rip!' - there went the back of the rubber sock on the catsuit. The tear is only a couple of inches long but I felt like an idiot for allowing it happening in the first place. After putting on a pair of sports socks, the boots slipped on and off without any problem, which is what I should've done in the first place. Idiot!

Saturday night's Best Rubber contest was when we discovered another rip in the white Libidex catsuit above the rear zipper, so that catsuit was taken off carefully once we got home after the contest and hung up on the 'to repair' wall.

Last night, I ran home to get a new change of clothes as I had been staying at M's place for the past week and decided to slip into the Invincible catsuit and wear it back over to his place under my clothes. We played around a bit once I got back over there but this morning as I was turning the suit inside out I noticed another inch long rip in the seam above the rear zip in that suit as well. Crickey! I can't seem to win with those rear zips.

So now I have three suits to repair. I guess it gives me something to do....

until my new Christmas present from M shows up. I am SO excited to see this arrive from Libidex in early January...


Has anyone noticed that STR has taken their catsuit line off of their website? Does anyone know why this is so?