How to Wear Latex Clothing

Slow but steady wins the race when it comes to wearing latex clothing. While you may be super excited to get right into your gear as soon as your package of latex clothing arrives, wait until you can grab a hand if possible. If you have a friend or partner who’s happy to help, we recommend getting assistance when trying on your latex clothing for the first time to prevent getting stuck or having difficulty getting out of.

We recommend taking it slow because the fabric tends to bunch up, creating a thick band that can restrict your breathing or be awkward to get out of. Also, as rubber is not breathable, you need to make sure you’re carefully pulling it over your head. You definitely don’t want to get it stuck covering your face.

Customer tip: “If you're new to this kind of clothing, try it on quietly in private first so you can learn how to put it on, how to best make it sit on you et cetera. It's really not a very sexy sight watching someone struggling their way into it!” - tokimekiCat

Before you dress up in your latex BDSM clothing, take a look at the garment and think logically about how best to put it on. While a latex top will need to go up over your head, most other latex items are best tackled feet-first. If you’re worried about your latex clothing getting stuck around your behind, you may prefer to dress over the head. However, if it’s most likely to get stuck around the chest area, feet first is the way to go.

A little time spent thinking about how the garment will slip on makes dressing quicker, easier and safer.

Next up, you need to take some precautions so that you can slip into your garment with ease. To do so, you can use a renewer powder or cornflour to help you get dressed, or a specialist latex dressing aid like the Pjur Cult Easy Latex Dressing Aid 100ml or silicone lubricant. These will help to keep things slick and slinky to get in and out of.

To protect your hair and makeup from a latex lubricant, powder tends to be a better option for putting on latex tops or any clothing item that goes over your head. However, for those devoted to their latex clothing, dressing aids and silicone lube are more popular to protect the rubber from dullness and maintain its shine.

Customer tip: “Not only does it help you to get into your kinky outfit without pulling muscles and contorting your body into weird shapes as you become trapped in some kind of folded-rubber nightmare, it also conditions the latex at the same time.” - SR36

If you’ve decided to go down the path of latex lubrication, here’s what to do. Start by turning your garment inside out and from there lube it up. You only require a very thin coating of lube on the inside of your garment to assist in dressing, so apply it sparingly all over then flip it the right way around before putting it on.

If you’re using renewer powder or cornflour, you need to apply a little to your body as well. You might want to do the same with a dressing aid or silicone lube, but normally you’ve got enough on the clothing to do the job.

Customer tip: “Simply apply a little of the dressing aid to the inside of your latex clothing, squidge it around to distribute it, and slip into your outfit with ease. It's especially useful for those skin-tight sleeves, stockings, and legs of catsuits” - Nyx Debauch

Once you, your garment, or both are good and lubed, it’s time to get all dressed up. It’s best to be completely naked when you get started as it’s common to go commando underneath latex wear. The fit is so tight that even the smallest G-string will give you VPL.

We’ve said it once and we’ll say it again, dress slowly and carefully! Be sure that the latex doesn’t bunch up as you put on your rubber fetish garment. You can either slowly ease the rubber up bit-by-bit, ensuring it doesn’t bunch up. Or, try sliding your hands inside the garment, pushing the rubber away from your body with the back of your hand and then lifting it up and onto your body.

If you’ve taken the right precautions and you’re still finding it difficult to put on, stop for a moment and let the latex warm up against your body. If you’re pinching and grabbing at your latex garment, there is a risk that it will tear. The main causes of damage to rubber fetish clothing are stretching the rubber too much too soon, or accidentally puncturing it with your nails. That, we definitely don’t want!

Once your garment is in place, you can adjust the fit by placing your hands inside the garment and using the backs of your hands to push or pull the clothing into place. A final gentle tug at the hem should finish the job.

Customer tip: “The best way I've found to put it on is to turn it inside out, cover the inside all over with a generous amount of Pjur dressing aid, turn it back the right way round, step into it and carefully pull it up to your body. It will feel like a tight fit - it should!” - tokimekiCat

1. Purchase a latex shining product. To give your latex BDSM clothing a glossy finish, it requires some shining. To achieve that high-shine look, you will need to massage a specially formulated latex shiner or a silicone lubricant into the surface, such as Pjur Cult Latex Shiner Ultra Shine Spray 250ml.

2. Choose your method. You can shine your latex either using a polishing cloth or a hands-on method. The act of shining the latex can be incredibly erotic, especially if you’re lucky enough to have someone else doing it for you! However, shining up your latex can feel cold, so you might want to place your shiner in a bowl of hot water to get it warmed up first.

3. Check your clothing. Before you get stuck into it, make sure that you don’t have any powder on the outside of the latex. If there is any residual powder, be sure to wipe it off with a wet cloth.

4. Begin shining. If you’re using a squeeze bottle, place a generous amount into the palm of your hand, rub your hands together and then rub the shiner into the rubber. With spray bottles, you can apply the shiner straight to the latex and then use massaging motions to rub it across the latex.

5. Top up. If you’re wearing your latex out and about, bring a bottle of shiner out with you so that you can top up if it ever looks dull.

Remember: The shiner won’t absorb into the latex or your skin, but it will soak into other fabrics and transfer onto other people. So, be careful who you touch and where you sit to avoid leaving stains on the furniture.