How Fetisso Clothes are Made

The First Latex Garments

The first traces of rub­ber and its use as gar­ment mate­r­ial came from the French inves­ti­ga­tor Charles Marie de la Con­damine, who joined an expe­di­tion to a geo­graph­i­cal sur­vey in Brazil. In his report of 1735 he said: “The natives of the Ama­zon region use the juice of the “Cahut­shu tree” (caou = tears, Chouc = tree: tear­ing tree) to pro­duce shoes. They form a foot-shaped fig­ure out of clay and dip it sev­eral times into the milky juice, which they gain through slits in the tree, until the sides have the desired thick­ness. At last they break the fig­ure, remove the pieces. The final prod­uct is some kind of rub­ber shoe, which is water­proof and has got a high elas­tic­ity.” No fab­ric with these two char­ac­ter­is­tics in com­bi­na­tion had been known in Europe before.

Fetisso is work­ing with sim­i­lar kinds of pro­duc­tion tech­niques to the ones described by Charles Marie de la Con­damine: The juice is still gained from the “tear­ing tree”, which is called Hevea Brasilen­sis in Latin. Chem­i­cally pro­duced rub­ber shows two main dis­ad­van­tages: It is not as elas­tic and doesn’t con­tain the same immuno­log­i­cal pro­tec­tion as nat­ural latex. How­ever, nat­ural latex can­not be stored as long as the chem­i­cally pro­duced one. There­fore James Goodyear’s dis­cov­ery for the vul­can­iza­tion of caoutchouc in 1839 was an impor­tant step to over­come the decom­po­si­tion of the first shoes made by the natives. You can eas­ily wear Fetisso clothes longer than for just a party night, with­out need­ing to worry that poi­so­nous chem­i­cals affect your sys­tem or skin.

In con­trast to the clay fig­ures of the natives we use much longer last­ing fiber­glass for our shapes. The moulds are anatomic and designed accord­ing to the Euro­pean stan­dard sizes. Not only did it take us a lot of time to work out the moulds but we have also worn the prod­ucts over and over again, changed them when nec­es­sary and worn them again and again until every­body was happy with the results.

Feed­back

Please let us know if you dis­cover basic defects on your fetisso item so we can remove them. Due to the fact that each per­son is dif­fer­ent in pro­por­tion, it is basi­cally impos­si­ble for us to make our clothes to fit every­one. Since we dis­pose of good equip­ment in the mould­ing sec­tion we can also offer you cus­tomized items. Don’t hes­i­tate to ask for an esti­mate of cost for items that you can’t find on the market.

Sizes and Colors

Fetisso pro­duces all items in the sizes XS / S / M / L / XL (except hoods and hooves which come in S, M, L).  We pro­duce in 6 dif­fer­ent colours con­tain­ing black, red, trans­par­ent, trans­par­ent fume’ yel­low, and blue. The stan­dard thick­ness is 0.4 mm. We call it the “aver­age” thick­ness. You may ask for “fine” (0,2mm), “thick” (0.6mm), “extra-thick” (0.9mm) or even thicker. Please tell us your requests.

Care of Latex Clothes

Every item is dipped sev­eral times and eas­ily dam­age­able parts like the toe parts of stock­ings or the crotches of pants are after treated with a spe­cial tech­nique. This after-treatment tech­nique was devel­oped by Fetisso to make “crit­i­cal parts” more resistant.

To guar­an­tee a smooth and shiny sur­face we rub in a sil­i­cone sol­vent by request, we will deliver your gar­ment with­out this spe­cial sur­face treatment.

Latex shouldn’t be exposed to too much sun­light or come in con­tact with oils or petro­leum prod­ucts. Wash your Fetisso prod­ucts with a neu­tral soap.

To keep the gar­ment shiny use a sil­i­cone spray. (Ask your retailer)