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Photo shoot

posted Monday, 17 March 2008

Harisnyaby Harisnya

 

Our Hungarian friend, Harisnya, has sent me a report of a further male tights photoshoot that he did. He has kindly provided a preview of some of the photos as a taster. The full set will be viewable in due course on his site http://www.e-mancipate.net .

This time we left my home and asked a friend who runs a bar to use it on a day it was closed, for a small fee. So in the front part of the bar we could take everyday-like photos while at the back I could set up my paper backgrounds and use the dance floor as a studio.

The extra was of course the street-shot. As three of the four models were new to pantyhose for men, I stressed them to make the street at first - I knew if they would do it, they would do anything after.

But they were absolutely OK with it. We had a few looks from the people on the street, but it was more for the team of seven people (models, makeup, stylist, me) than for the hose.

During the whole day it was only the makeup girl who said that pantyhose for men was nonsense; but when I asked her that apart from being unusual, what 'nonsense' did she actually see, there was no answer.

One of my goals was to find where the limits were - where pantyhose colors or patterns would be too feminine for men. So I pushed the stylist to use white and pink, and other such 'femmy' colors - I had to explain to her several times that it wasn't a problem if we wouldn't use many of the images, as I needed to learn and it was an experiment. Surprise - I didn't have to throw out any images for that reason! So the big conclusion is that colors and patterns work fine on male legs, too.

And before you ask me... we mainly used pantyhose made in Poland and Italy. We had around a hundred pairs altogether to work with, from recent and older purchases, all sizes and colors. But we had no time and energy to follow which pair went where - this would need another person. So I only know that on the street image the guy wears a very expensive pair of Wolford pantyhose. And it looks good!"


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1. Geraden left...
Monday, 17 March 2008 9:30 am

A very nice collection of photos, Harisnya! I like the way in which you have photographed male and female models in tights together. This emphasises that tights can be an ordinary unisex item of clothing, and it may help to dispel some of the myths, for example that a man must be a homosexual if he wearing tights.

You don't say whether your male models enjoyed the experience of wearing tights, or discovered that they had the 'nylon gene'!

Anyway, well done.

Geraden


2. Max left...
Monday, 17 March 2008 5:36 pm

Wow!!! Very well done, Harisnya! Cant wait for the entire shoot to be posted on e-MANcipate.

I'm very curious "Has the photo-shoot started to attarct attention from the Media, Fashion designers, clothes manufacturers etc.?"

Best regards, Max


3. Acyclopath left...
Monday, 17 March 2008 6:45 pm

Great shots, good to see both male and female models together, also Geraden great to hear from you again!


4. mephpositive left...
Tuesday, 18 March 2008 4:21 pm

Harisnya, well done. Terrific spread ! Everything looks so natural and so matter of fact. Nice work. Good to hear from you Geraden. I hope all is well with you.


5. Anthony left...
Thursday, 27 March 2008 12:01 pm

I have almost given up wearing ordinary men's trousers. Instead I wear nylon/lycra running tights all the time - for shopping, visiting people, playing games, croquet and so on. When they are dark colours I get no comment at all. I can't get anything like as many other colours or patterns as I would like but when I have worn bright scarlet I've had some wolf whistles from cheerful workmen. Perhaps I should say I'm old (73) too fat and white haired - so it isn't because I look good!


6. Bob left...
Sunday, 30 March 2008 5:14 am

Nice photos. Was just curious, do the people in these photos actually wear pantyhose and tights in public... say walking down a busy downtown street and if so what are the reactions they get from men and women?


7. Harisnya left...
Tuesday, 1 April 2008 10:35 pm :: http://e-mancipate.net

Hi and thanks for the compliments!

Geraden: this time only female hosiery was used. As they are not very comfy, nobody asked to take home any (I mean the male models of course).

Max: no real attention yet. Last year we were in an industrial magazine, this year... who knows... you might send the url of the site to online magazines of your taste - it could help!

Bob: I was just busy with the photos. It was clearly a happening (4 models, makeup person, stylist and me), so if people stopped they were curious about the happening itself I guess. I haven't asked them... but it wasn't a crowded street anyway.


8. Martin left...
Saturday, 31 May 2008 3:01 pm

it look with these photo plus excellent fashion with tights to match - it great look, men can wear tights with either short or skirt as normal dress - it need to change tpye of fashion. Excellent pictures ive seen... Well Done Geraden for your 100% excellent website page cos it great to read,etc..... keep going on.


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