It’s an intriguing question, why wear rubber?
First of all, I guess it’s good to start with what is rubber?
Rubber is a natural substance, made from the sap of the rubber tree. It’s collected, and treated, rolled flat into sheets and then “vulcanised” which basicly means they add sulphur and cook it in an oven!
Why make clothing from it?
Well, why not! It’s just like any other material, it can be sewn, but more likely it’s glued together to make garments. The glues used are very strong, as strong as the material it’s bonding together. Rubber used to be seen as an “underground” material to make clothes from, for fetishists only really, but now it’s getting more mainstream, it’s commonly used in Film and TV to either convey “technology”or “futurism” or even “fetishism”.
An example of rubber being used in films extensively would be The Matrix Trilogy. Most of Trinity’s clothing in that was made by Reactor Rubberwear (www.rubber.com.au) as a lot of the Matrix was actually filmed in Australia.
So come on, why would I wear...