Harness: the intimate accessory that becomes a must

It all started with a Whatsapp message: "girls, here are the last little outfits. We are also incorporating this, let me know if you want." The message was from a contact who sells underwear on demand and updates the catalog every week.

Nothing weird, until I got to what she called “this”: black or white elastics, some with lace, that came together or were added to the underwear: harnesses.

I thought they weren't going to sell them to anyone, I was wrong. Within a week I already had orders to deliver.

Among the stores in the center there are different criteria as to whether they are sold or not. In Guarnieri, when asked if they had underwear with harnesses, they first doubted and then ended up trusting that they did not have them because they had sold them all and, since the distributors do not work in January, they had not been able to restock. "They have asked us a lot, at first we thought we were not going to sell them, but we still brought some samples," said the seller. He commented that many times "it is men who buy from their wives or partners" and that they have been very well accepted among trans clients.

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However, other nearby businesses, located in Peatonal and its surroundings, were surprised by the question and recognized that they didn't even have that kind of outfit in their stores.

One of them, Charo Store, located in an apartment in a building on Calle España, sells lace lingerie and some accessories. "Many times the girls come looking for the complete outfit, because they saw it on Instagram and they don't want to take it if they don't have the harness," said the young vendor, who assured that her clients were around 25 years old, while in the other stores they claimed to have sold to clients over 45. "They take them for a moment of intimacy, not to go out," said the young woman, who explained that when going out to dance or eat with friends, lace bodysuits are widely used.

At Casa de Medias, for example, they showed us several sets of underwear with straps that run above the bust, "this is the only thing that has come to us and has sold a lot," said the store manager who added : "the ones that ask the most are young girls and some new divorcees", but that in general they had not been in much demand.

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What it is not

It is not bondange, it is not erotic lingerie, it is not a garter belt, It's not a sexy costume. It is lingerie with some touches of the above, but with very good taste. "Garter belts are hardly used anymore," said one of the vendors, "what they do ask for are lace bodies," which are the must this season. Some of the most daring garments are made of imitation leather or rubberized "but they don't sell much," he said. It is that in general the Mendoza continue to be quite discreet when buying this type of clothing. The set of white cotton underwear, surely they buy it in the center, in the stores with branded garments. But this type of accessory "is much more likely to be bought by whatsapp, as your friend sells them," said one of the last sellers consulted. Most of the major underwear brands have an entire line of harnesses that can be seen in online catalogs.

But they are not easy to find in the houses of these same brands located in the center of the city.

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The trend

It seems that the use of harnesses will become more and more common. On different direct purchase web pages, and on Instagram profiles, models from other parts of the world are seen wearing harnesses on their clothes. "Something similar to that and that is used a lot here is the body chain", a chain harness that is placed under or over the clothes as an ornament. "Women from Mendoza buy these things in Buenos Aires, because they don't feel like it here," said the manager of a traditional underwear store.