AI art by me.

This is another one of those times when I am taking inspiration for my D/s thoughts or Musings from real-life situations. While at my weekly pilgrimage to my favorite mall, I noticed two young women dressed rather closely to my illustration above. One of them was wearing fishnet stockings and no thigh-high boots. The other was in a plaid schoolgirl skirt with, yes, thigh-high boots. Both skirts were about the same height as shown here.

My question or musing is, do they understand what their clothing says about them to those around them? This would be followed up by, do they care?

I’m going to share my opinion, but I do open it up to hear from readers to comment. Since most of the readers who do are women, they will probably have a better idea of the right answer than me.

Having said this, I will say I don’t think they understand what their clothing is saying to others. I think they are just mimicking some influencer or model or other social icon. They are NOT trying to put themselves forward as some kind of poster-female for Submissives-R-Us. It didn’t come through in the prompt but I did ask for both women to be wearing some kind of cute, pink collar around their throats. Night Cafe likes throats better than necks for some reason. I see this fashion trend a lot as well and have the same questions about it.

There is a young lady in my family who said it well for those women who try to say “I wear this because it’s comfortable” or “I just wanted to look cute.” She’s told me, “let me see what they’re wearing at home on a Sunday or Saturday morning…if it’s similar then fine but I bet it isn’t.” She’s more grounded than the average young lady her age. I don’t know who has been influencing her.

In my recent story, I’m so Glad, I put in it a young woman who is observing the interactions betwen the older woman and her older dom with a wistful and somewhat jealous look. I put her into the story to show old versus new. For that character, she DOES understand but realized the men or males around her do NOT understand the D/s situation as they should. She desperately wishes they did.

I’ve said my opinion – they don’t understand. I will add to it that if they DID understand then I’d be very surprised and not necessarily in a pleasant way. I know age is just a number but sometimes…it isn’t.

Master Grey