Body Cages

[daggi]

*please do not quote images*

source: Fashion Toast

dirtyloundry I just love this one

 

[dirtylaundry]

source: http://www.bwgreyscale.com/

 

[fashionified]

^
that one is gorgeous

 

[daggi]

^
that one is gorgeous

yes , it is amazing and I love that pic too

 

[mariska]

Body cages are a bridge between armor/self-protection and underwear/exhibitionism. This strange interplay is an important theme for our times, and was reflected previously by the ever-popular S&M trends of recent seasons (latex, tough shoes, body-con, corsets etc.) Now all those trends have started to seem tired, but the ideas behind them remain relevant.

Nice post, Gasoline, you said it well!

Love this trend! love the allusions, ideas and contradictions they evoke. its like ribcages with the flesh torn off or corsets with their inner structure exposed, exposing and yet covering.
And fashions flirt with S&M is an interesting phenomenon by itself.

PS. soundtrack: My body is a cage by Arcade Fire

 

[dirtylaundry]

My body is a cage is such a great song, I suggest you watch the music video, they've taken scenes from the movie Once Upon a Time in the West, it's excellent, here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pyp34v6Lmcc (sorry if this is off topic)

 

[GasolineRainbow]

Great choice of song. I like how this thread is going off into such diverse but still relevant tangents.

 

[daggi]

some of beautiful Balmain dresses :









pics from www.style.com

 

[SingFrAbsolution]

I'm loving these pictures. I hope to see more of this.

 

[daaug1912]

To be honest, Balmain is not really what I would count as a body cage. It's just some wrapping around the body. I would call something like this a body cage:

 

[Spike413]

LikePorcelain, you'll need to provide the source that those images are from as per tFS policy. Thank you.

 

[daaug1912]

To be honest, Balmain is not really what I would count as a body cage. It's just some wrapping around the body. I would call something like this a body cage:

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Sorry, forgot to say there from style.com

 

[dirtylaundry]

I agree that those Balmain dresses were a bit of a stretch but they still present an element of an exoskeleton of sorts.

 

[bisous]

wow this look is really sexy, almost s&m. It kind of reminds me of some of the body con styles. I like it

 

[karmacoma]

scary! again a strange medival twist!

 

[SingFrAbsolution]

I was going to look around for something of this sort, and I don't even know what to put in my search bar Is there a name for this trend?

 

[GasolineRainbow]

^That's an interesting point you bring up, I ran into the same problem. Try "Body Armor", that seems to be the umbrella term for this kind of design. I found some nice images, but I'll let you post the ones you like first, since you brought it up.

 

[SingFrAbsolution]

I just looked around on Ebay, the only search that worked for me was "cutout dress"

Found this little number:
http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-Medieval-METAL-CHAIN-MAIL-Armor-SHIRT-HOOD-Suit_W0QQitemZ370107839148QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item370107839148&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1205|66%3A2|65%3A12|39%3A1|240%3A1318|301%3A1|293%3A1|294%3A50

Still not quite what I wanted though, I'd like a vest, but no luck with that.

 

[strawbs]

Done well this looks quite good, but I can imagine it looking quite trashy if/when it becomes commercialised.

 

[purly]

It reminds me of... Xena, warrior princess. Or maybe her arch nemesis Calisto. In general, the female body armor on that show was very cagey.

I read once that women wore actual birdcages as their hats back in the 1700s. Can you imagine?