In the early seventies while working for an editorial company in the States, I was fortunate to land a job as a fashion correspondent. This introduced me to some of the foremost fashion houses of the time in the UK. I was then at first hand to keep tabs on the latest fashions as they developed in Little Ol' England and report back to my editor in the States.
I had been chosen, because I was the most suited for the task. I'd just turned 23, so I suppose the right sort of age, was an attractive young woman, had just become single again and was already writing magazine articles on fashion Stateside, so I knew a fair bit about the business. I'd also screwed my middle aged editor, so that helped. Hey, this was the 1970's, I was ambitious and wanted promotion, so why not?
This era, for me and for many others who were involved in fashion, was a fabulous period. The sixties had been ground breaking in so many areas, such as music with the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, photography with David Bailey and Lord Lichfield, fashion with Vivienne Westwood and Laura Ashley, science with man's accomplishments in outer space, especially landing on the Moon in '69. There were just so many. Of course there were downsides such as the Vietnam War, which still dragged on into this decade, but all in all the Swinging Sixties was a hard act to follow.
But the seventies did its damned best to surpass the earlier decade. Fashion in particular and later, the revolution seen in music with the punk movement. At that time, as a very attractive twenty something, I was spoilt rotten as far as men went. I could get my way with anything if I wanted. And I frequently did. My move to London meant that I'd lost my first really serious boyfriend of the time, Sean. Not so bad as I'd found out he'd been fucking around and was becoming a real pain. I'd met Sean at a Stones concert in New York. He descended from an Irish line (I think his grandfather was from Dublin) and with his more than handsome appearance and oh so charming Irish manner, unfortunately, as I sadly found out, I was not the only one attracted to him.
Of course it could work both ways and with women's liberation and the pill, women too could screw around if they wanted. Sexual promiscuity was safer at that time and delightfully available. HIV and aids were to appear in a later era, in the 80's, and yes there were and still are many other sexual diseases, but if a young woman chose to take the risk, by using oral contraception she was always prepared for endless exciting, vibrant possibilities.
Rid of my boyfriend Sean and his philandering ways, when I arrived in London, not wishing at that time to involve myself in another serious relationship, that's just what I did - screw around I mean. An attractive, young, ambitious American girl with a very well paid job in London, well the world was my oyster as they say. But, hey, I made a point of not being the proverbial easy lay. I was choosy who fucked me. Most of the time.
To get around the city, I spent a lot of time on the London Underground, the Tube as it known colloquially. This extensive mostly under the ground rail network was started in the earlier part of the nineteenth century, back in the wonderful Victorian era. The plethora of tunnels were cut through mostly soft clay and today they cover most of London with comprehensive links to the regular rail routes to and from destinations throughout the UK. Enough of the history lesson. Back to me and my rather naughty story.
For work and socializing in London, the London Underground was and still is by far the easiest way to get about - and the cheapest, which at that time pleased my editor who was something of a bastard when it came to expenses. However on the rare occasion and I had no option but to take a taxi, he wouldn't have to reach out for one of his heart tablets.
Unfortunately, I had to travel mostly at peak times, at rush hour when the tube was at its busiest, as my work hours dictated this. More often than not, we were packed in tight, like sardines. This being my first time in such a busy train, deep under the ground, I found it so claustrophobic. At times, truthfully, I found it a little frightening.
Well, I must confess, I rapidly changed my mind. After a few trips on the good old London Tube, as I became more accustomed to it, I found that it was actually rather more fun than I had earlier thought.
In the intimate crush of the carriage I would regularly have my body felt, rubbed, touched, stroked, prodded, squashed, pinched and poked - nearly every time by fingers, hands, breasts, bums, hands and other appendages of the human body, some well erect. I was even kissed on the neck once - not sure how or why, it just happened so quickly. Likewise my limbs or body would commit the same unavoidable but at times enjoyable offences on other passengers, male or female, I wasn't choosy.
In the close proximity, this intimate contact was unavoidable. I am sure most of it was accidental, but however, sometimes, I was certain that it was more deliberate. Possibly even pre-conceived. Certainly, it was on my part, sometimes. If there was a good looking guy or even a sexy woman I liked the look of, they'd certainly get more than a rub if they were lucky.
Often I would get to work a gooey wet mess having been brought to the brink by all the arousal. I'd crash through the door, wave hello to my work colleagues and shoot directly into the bathroom to, er straighten things out, so to speak. Most mornings, I'd somehow start work with a smile on my flushed cheeks and a very wet feeling between my legs.
I must confess that I actually excelled on the stimulation, finding it was almost like a drug. The more I got, the more sexual excitement I needed to quench my rather naughty new found affliction. In an attempt to provocate increased levels of tube intimacy, to placate my addiction, I decided to wear increasingly risquΓ© outfits.
Boy, did it work. The first week the afflictions on my body more than quadrupled and it was so successful I would regularly have bruising on my breasts and bottom and other parts of my body.
While I was living and working in London that first glorious summer, having been there for nearly six months, I was so lucky to be able to wear many of the very latest new sexy designs. Fortunately I found that I got on really well with most, if not all the fashion houses. I treated them with the utmost respect and reported only what they wanted me to, often allowing my work to be read and if necessary censored by my contacts, before I wired it over to my editor.
I realized if I crossed the thin line and went too far in what I wrote, I could loose their trust. I would get no more gossip and that would mean no more juicy stories, so it would be goodbye job and bye bye London. Looking back, I think the fashion houses were manipulating trends in the industry in a clever way, by allowing only what they wanted the public and their customers to know.
This meant that for me, by carefully toeing the line and reporting just what they wanted, I could beg for and wear some of the latest designs. Some as yet unseen on (and some that never made it to) the cat walk. Typically these garments were made of the flimsiest, thin, highly colored printed material. Absolutely ideal for keeping cool in hot weather. This made it doubly exciting, wearing this sheerest of fabric over my flesh. Typically with no underwear. Fun on the hurly burly of the bustling, jostling underground. Deliciously naughty, huh?
After I'd seen one of the fashion models with a super smooth shaved pubic area, I just had to try it out. She told me that in the late 1950's her mother had been a high class hooker and she had been her introduction to shaving her vaginal hair. So, that evening I carefully did the same to my pussy, as I have done ever since, although now I go for the Brazilian wax method which removes all my unwanted hair, everywhere. Not only does it feel sexy with that thin barrier removed, it helped with some of the clingy fabrics I wore. What a dirty slut I was.
I fondly recall one particular hot summer's day that first exciting year. It was a baking late July afternoon and I was on my way home from work. In the crowded throng of passengers, the inside of the packed train was incredibly hot. As we traveled to our various destinations sweat ran off most of those who stood huddled around me. For some reason, this time the train was even more packed than normal. I think there was a bus or taxi driver dispute, I'm not sure, but it was very, very busy.
What I was wearing then still makes me blush when I think about it, even now. In my never ending quest to be noticed, I had at long last cajoled what I considered at the time the ultimate in fashion wear, a pair of hot pants. They were something I'd heard many of the models talking about.
Also known as short shorts, they were launched by Mary Quant in the sixties. In the early seventies they made a massive comeback. Considered by many as being rather too naughty to wear, they were in a way a type of a radical advance on the already short mini skirt, which could not get any shorter, as it already revealed more than glimpses of the wearer's panties. That's if they wore any.
The pair that I had managed to scrounge, were in dark blue almost black and made of a stretchy polyester material. They had a tantalizing, revealing one and a half inch gap down both sides of the legs exposing my bare flesh (no panties), with eyelets, through which a lace was threaded in a criss-cross manner which held them together. As I pulled them up and over myself, as they slithered snuggly around me, they felt so deliciously tight. Like a second skin, kissing my naked pussy, hugging my arse, and riding sexily along and into the crack of my buttocks.
My God, once finally in place, as I ran my hand over them, with no underwear of course, these hot pants felt like my own skin, with only the merest trace of the seam as the material met my flesh. The exposed gap each side of my legs showed my flesh below, and this made them feel so hot. They were hot. Christ, as I thought about their history which dated back to prostitutes from the thirties I felt hot wearing them. Funny that, because prostitutes were also the first ones to have shaved their pussy, starting what is more or less the norm for women today. Those clever ladies sure knew how to entice their clients. To round my outfit off, I wore a tight fitting red plunging v necked top which was tantalizingly cut off leaving my midriff bare. For footwear I wore an absolutely gorgeous pair of red high heeled gogo disco boots that came right up to my thighs. Sounds so slutty now, but then, well, it was the seventies and anything went, although, yes I'll admit it now, I must have looked like a tart, but no way do I regret wearing the outfit.