I always read the porno spam in my email box to get insight into the state of the porno spam world. The latest picture ad (courtesy of MIME) is a weird eighties throwback, it makes me wonder if someone delibarately staged this shot to look eighty-ish, if this is really a saved picture from that era (unlikely) or whether the look is coming back.
The title is Power Suit Porn. (Power suits? Cripes, no one has said the word power suit since Nancy Reagan was in the White House.) And, Hot Corporate Takeover! Corporate takeover? That was like three corporate trends ago, we're post-dot-com these days.
Pictured prominently in the ad is a blond woman kneeling on an executive desk, a nice solid one of the type that bankers and lawyers still have and no one else does. Not a computer or keyboard in sight, another cue that we're not looking at the office of today. She's wearing these thigh-high stockings that have a rubberized band hidden under the lace that grips your thigh and leaves a sweaty, itchy red line when you take the stockings off. These thigh-highs do stay up (unlike every other thigh-high on the planet), but that's about the only good thing you can say about them. I haven't seen these in years.
On her head is a black straw hat, that reminds me of that hat worn by the woman in the "Going Back to Cali" video. I owned something very similar to this in 1993, and it wasn't exactly a hot fashion then. She has silver high heels with an ankle strap, and an ankle tattoo dimly seen through black pantyhose. Hey, I remember when all the biker chicks just had ankle tattoos! And maybe a tit tattoo. Instead of, you know, fifty gazillion tattoos over each and every body part. (Did tattoo guns really come dramatically down in price about a decade ago? I mean, what started tattoos as a standard accessory?)
Anyway, back to our daily emailed porno spam, she's kneeling down and gripping the tie of a startled greasy looking guy in a pin-strip suit. The tie is very narrow of course. And his hair is very hair-gelling and rumpled in that uptight way I remember the jocks hair-gelling and rumpling their hair in high school.
It's not just the clothes or the makeup, or the lack of any computers or psuedo-corporate porn clothes trying to evoke an era before casual Fridays. It's a whole glossy, stylized look that I haven't seen for a decade and a half. A Nagel poster in the background would make the scene. Is this really fantasy material now?
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