This isn’t your grandmother’s jewelry, girls. Body jewelry – especially harnesses – are making their way back this fall, all sleek and subtler than ever, with a slew of pop-up jewelers introducing their lighter feminine looks to the usually hardcore accessory. We credit Princess Ri for bringing bondage back in an honest-to-sex-goddess way with that one S&M song we were embarrassed to hear on the office playlist, but love that the look has been smoothed over for those of us who haven’t connected with our past lives as Dominatrixes. Yet.Over clothes or as underpinnings, this subtle body drapery ups the X-factor instantly. As outerwear, it adds a lace-like, dressy layer on top of simple white button-downs, little black dresses, and your usual jeans-and-T-combo. In case you’re not aiming to look like a swimsuit model circa ’98, let’s review some of the styles worth strapping cash for. So that you can then strap yourself.
Etsy favorite Norweigan Wood’s chained harness is not for the faintly styled, but the intricate use of fine and big-link chain metal and elastic bands transforms the most boring of black tanks into a standout ensemble.
Another Etsy seller, Reckless Crush, makes this two-in-one harness/necklace with a mix of gunmetal chains. Is gunmetal jewelry the new “packing heat”? Just say “Yes”.
The trend doesn’t stop with harnesses, either. I’m adoring the lace shoulder necklace which looks like a dainty, shiny tattoo, from Etsy shop My October Country. So, a shoulder-lace, then?
