How To Design A Costume For Porn

Porn stars might not wear much on camera, but there’s an art to choosing what little clothing they do put on. Over at Fashionista, Tyler McCall breaks down the process of designing costumes for pornography. With the rise of free porn sites like PornHub and YouPorn, it’s harder to make real money from adult films, so budgets are lower. Only big companies use professional stylists nowadays, and most costumes aren’t designed specifically for a particular film—they’re cobbled together from store-bought pieces. Which means anyone with a good eye and a little training can style a decent porn costume on a budget.

Here, a few insider tips culled from Fashionista:

Use bright colors.

“We only use really, really bright colors because everything’s pretty much Internet-based today and when you’re looking on the Internet it’s the bright colors that attract the eye,” Kristen Price, a pornographic actress and stylist, told Fashionista. “That’s the way you get the most hits: if you see a girl in black versus a girl in a bright yellow, the bright yellow is going to get more hits.” Avoid jazzy patterns, and only go for black if it’s a goth or vampire-themed shoot.

Buy cheap lingerie (HM is fine).

You might think porn stars wear only fancy, extra-photogenic lingerie, but since such garments are generally not reusable, many actresses buy their lacy underthings at cheap-o chain stores or fast-fashion brands like HM. “They actually have really cute things nowadays, like, matching bras and panties,” Price says. “You need matching bra and panty stuff all the time, and they’re like 20 bucks, super cheap — so I do that.”

Keep a wardrobe of staple porn-trope outfits.

Companies often request that actors provide their own wardrobes—it saves them money and time on fittings. Most porn stars and costume designers will keep a collection of go-to outfits for cliche porn story lines, including schoolgirl, cheerleader, and secretary attire. “I actually shoot office attire all the time — it’s just the look that I have — so I have a lot of that,” Chanel Preston, a pornographic actress, told Fashionista. “I don’t shoot a lot of ‘girl next door,’ but I have some wardrobe for that; I have ‘stripper attire,’ knowing I shoot that, or ‘rich housewife’ attire. Every girl kind of knows what they get booked for a lot, so depending on what that is [determines] what wardrobe they mostly have.”

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Murdoch’s Sun Covered Up Page 3 Topless Women

(Corrects first and second paragraphs of story published
on Jan. 20 to show the Sun hasn’t permanently removed topless
women from page 3. The Sun published a topless woman again on
Jan. 22 under the heading “clarifications and corrections,”
without commenting on its future policy.)

Readers of Britain’s best-selling tabloid,
The Sun, found women clad in bikinis instead of the topless
models who have featured on page 3 since 1970.

Rupert Murdoch tweeted in September that the feature was
old-fashioned. A “No More Page 3” campaign has won support on
social media in recent years, garnering almost 220,000
signatures in favor of scrapping the controversial images.

The newspaper continues to show women clad in lingerie and
bikinis on the page, while topless pictures are still available
on its website.

“Page 3 is really beyond its use-by date,” said David
Banks, a former editor at The Sun whose job as night editor was
choosing the woman for the next day’s newspaper. “It’s
inevitable its time has come.”

Murdoch’s News U.K. operation, a division of News Corp. (NWSA)
that owns The Sun and The Times of London newspapers, did not
respond to queries about the decision.

The Sun is Britain’s No. 1 newspaper with a daily
circulation of 1.89 million at the end of December, according to
the U.K.’s Audit Bureau of Circulations. While the paper is best
known for Page 3 and covering celebrity sex scandals, it has
been polishing its image recently to appeal more to families.

News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch tweeted in September that the page was old-fashioned. Close

News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch tweeted in September that the page was old-fashioned.

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News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch tweeted in September that the page was old-fashioned.

Double Standards

The “No More Page 3” Facebook site, a campaign started by
writer Lucy-Anne Holmes to “Take the Bare Boobs Out of The
Sun,” was filled with congratulatory messages today and notes
on TV appearances to discuss the move.

“It wasn’t about Page 3 being offensive but about the
impact on our society of judging men and women by different
standards,” Stella Creasy, a lawmaker for Walthamstow in
London, said in a BBC Radio 4 interview today. “It was saying
to all of us that what mattered was our breasts not our
brains.”

Page 3 first drew opposition in the 1980s, when lawmaker
Clare Short introduced a bill in Parliament to kill the feature.
In recent years British universities including Oxford and the
London School of Economics canceled subscriptions. The Murdoch-owned Irish Sun dropped its version of Page 3 a year and a half
ago.

Banks said the end of the topless version of the Page 3
girl is only a partial victory, given the continuing appearance
of barely dressed women on the page and the topless pictures on
Page3.com. “We’re still going to be titillated, though I admire
The Sun for beginning this progress toward not producing soft
porn.”

Page 3 first drew opposition in the 1980s, when lawmaker Clare Short introduced a bill in Parliament to kill the feature. Close

Page 3 first drew opposition in the 1980s, when lawmaker Clare Short introduced a bill… Read More

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Page 3 first drew opposition in the 1980s, when lawmaker Clare Short introduced a bill in Parliament to kill the feature.

To contact the reporter on this story:
Kristen Schweizer in London at
kschweizer1@bloomberg.net

To contact the editors responsible for this story:
Kenneth Wong at
kwong11@bloomberg.net
Emma Ross-Thomas

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