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Think of costumes – sexy costumes – and most would think Halloween. However, costumes need not be for Halloween alone. When your relationship tends to fall into a predictable routine, it’s time you spruced it up – with costumes among other things. If your relationship is still growing, you can make it more exciting with costumes. Whichever way you look at it, and whatever your position, you can make your life more interesting with properly selected costumes.

Fantasies

Let’s face it. Most people have fantasies, and have learned to inject excitement, thrill or whatever you prefer to call it, into their lives using fantasy. Suit your fantasy while choosing your costume. Fantasies that men have are not restricted to skimpily clad women (Notwithstanding the fact that the costume that men would find most sexy is you-know-what). A sexy nurse? Why not? A flight attendant or a police officer – that would suit many men fine. So you see, there are a lot of roles that you can assume to turn on your partner. And as for men, you can do it with carefully selected costumes too. Sexy costumes are not necessarily revealing costumes – although showing off what you have works well enough most of the time, and there’s nothing wrong with it.

Playing roles!

“Not me,” is a familiar refrain with some people. If you sit down and think about it you’ll realize that there’s nothing wrong or foolish about playing a part with your partner, all dressed up for the role. Wanting to be in a sexy outfit, or wanting to see your partner in a sexy outfit, doesn’t mean that you don’t love her (him) anymore. Wanting to see your partner in a maid’s clothes doesn’t mean that you want to sleep with a maid. It only means that you want to have variety with your own wife or partner. So go ahead and fantasize and play roles. And by all means wear all the sexy clothes that you want to. It’s only adding spice to your love life and bringing you closer through a greater measure of enjoyment.

Purchasing the right costume

Purchasing the right costume can prove to be a problem for some people, because they may not know where to look, what to choose, and most importantly, how to overcome their embarrassment in asking for what they want. The Internet can help you with almost all these questions. You can find online shops as well as ideas about what to purchase; you can look through a host of options; and as for the embarrassment part, you wouldn’t know where it has gone.

While purchasing your costume, satisfy your wildest dreams, but make sure it would suit your partner as much as it does you. The quality of the material that you buy could be as important as the ideas that you have put into the selection of the item. Don’t settle for cheap material or poor quality.

Match the costume and the setting to your mood

That’s important. You have match all the three – your mood (and your partner’s), the costume and the setting. Select the costume that would reflect your mood, otherwise you would end up playing a role that is out of tune with your self, and end up spoiling, or at least reducing, the fun. Similarly, try to match the setting. There’s nothing wrong with wearing a maid’s dress in your bedroom, but it’s going to be much more exciting if you are in the kitchen. There’s no hard and fast rule – try and figure out what would work out best for you.

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Haley Smith - Fashion and Relationship Staff writer for The Reddoor, The World's Finest Erotic Boutique.

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Origins of the sexy heel

Would you believe that today’s high heels had their ancestry in humble riding boots that riders wanted to make more functional? This gave way to a sort of fashion among the nobility in France and other countries whereby men of high rank and noble birth started wearing high-heeled shoes (The term “well-heeled” actually has its origins in this practice.) The credit for introducing it as a women’s fashion perhaps goes to a diminutive French noble woman, who used it to enhance her physical stature. After a period of hibernation following the French revolution, high-heels resurfaced in the fashion world in the late 1800s and have since held a firm foothold.

What makes heels so sexy?

There are many reasons why high-heeled shoes appeal and are considered sexy. Here’s a sample that includes some of these reasons.

· The most obvious reason is that high heels make a person look taller than she is. Whether this adds to the sexy look is of course a matter of individual perspective.

· High heels accentuate the appearance of the calves because of the elongated angle between the foot and the lower leg

· High heels push out a woman’s chest giving her an “animal mating” posture

· The buttocks are pushed backwards, causing the hips to sway more

· Very often the sole of the foot is visible adding to the sexy look

If they’re all that great, then what prevents some women from wearing these?

There are number of disadvantages and discomforts that women wearing high heels are subjected to. Some of these include:

· Causes pain in the foot, particularly if worn for long periods

· Restricts the wearer’s movement and shortens stride

· Makes running almost impossible

· Damages feet and tendons over a period of time

· Unstable – women wearing these shoes are more prone to fall. Research has confirmed what common sense has always told – that women wearing high heeled shoes are twice as prone to trip and fall as those wearing normal shoes.

Isn’t there a way to make fashion meet comfort?

Well, that’s what intrigued Tina Norris, the founder of a firm called Foot Petals. She concluded that you don’t have to suffer to be beautiful. Her feet gave her no end of trouble when she persisted with her desire to pursue fashion. Necessity is the mother of invention – Tina padded her shoes with orthopedic inserts from drug stores to reduce her pain, which they did, but at the cost of good looks. After all, good looks were the prime motivation for wearing these uncomfortable shoes in the first place. So she did the only thing that she could – she innovated and created her own shoes. Today she sells in 17 countries all over the world. Other innovations include insoles with massaging gels from Dr. Scholl’s, and suede insoles that prevent slipping, from Summer Soles.

A few comfort tips

· Choose shoes with round, open toe or square toe, instead of pointy toes as these can add to your discomfort.

· A chunky or wedge heel will be more comfortable than a stiletto or pointy heel.

· Try out your shoes before buying them preferably late in the evening. Take a few steps in them and make sure you feel comfortable walking in them.

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Haley Smith - Fashion and Relationship Staff writer for The Reddoor, The World's Finest Erotic Boutique.

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