The New York Times reports the iconic Playboy Bunny bustier-and-tail ensemble is getting a makeover by designer Roberto Cavalli. According to the article, the classic mini-tux style has been revamped to exude SM overtones, featuring a bad attitude and bondage cuffs. The last Playboy Club closed in 1991, but next spring will see the opening of the first Playboy Club since then in Las Vegas.

Mr. Cavalli's bunny retains its familiar features - a tuxedo collar and cuffs, a tightly corseted midriff, and its signature cottontail and satin bunny ears. But in structure if not in spirit, it is far from the kitschy whale-boned riff on the one-piece satin bathing suit that Mr. Hefner designed in 1960 - a uniform worn in its heyday by the likes of Debbie Harry of the rock band Blondie, Lauren Hutton and even Gloria Steinem, who wrote about her 11-day stint as a bunny in the early 1960's.

As former bunnies attest, that costume could be downright painful. "Some girls unzipped their costumes" after work, "and their backs were bloody from the stays," Judy Vander Heyden De Serio recalled in Kathryn Leigh Scott's 1998 collective memoir, "The Bunny Years." "Some bunnies tried to line the inside of the costumes with tissue paper or napkins to keep the boning from pressing into their skin."

Mr. Cavalli has added an external corset, softened the stays and the bosom, raised the leg line to reveal more hip and elongated the bunny ears, giving them a playful droop.

kucera

Beaverton, OR

September 2005

NOV 04, 2005 03:24 PM

Glad to see the Playboy clubs coming back. Looks like the morality swing is coming back the other way. Woo Hoo!

datsun

Richmond, CA

October 2004

NOV 04, 2005 03:29 PM

morality was always a show anyway. (those people who are "appalled by the sinful homosexual life", and who act so superior are the same ones making Desperat Housewives a hit, and who rabidly followed the Clinton sex scandal.)

Someguysteve

USA

September 2005

NOV 04, 2005 03:51 PM

datsun said:
morality was always a show anyway. (those people who are "appalled by the sinful homosexual life", and who act so superior are the same ones making Desperat Housewives a hit, and who rabidly followed the Clinton sex scandal.)

Why can't you just bring one mormon fishing with you?

Because if you bring one he'll drink all your beer

twilightjack

Rancho Cucamonga, CA

February 2003

NOV 04, 2005 04:02 PM

But if you bring two, they won't drink any.

ExMissionHill

Los Angeles, CA

August 2003

NOV 04, 2005 04:10 PM

TwilightJack said:
But if you bring two, they won't drink any.

...thanks

mezra

Salt Lake City, UT

November 2005

NOV 04, 2005 05:01 PM

mormons can be fun you know there garments fall off at the state line. Let the fun begin!

BurningKrome

San Jose, CA

April 2005

NOV 04, 2005 06:40 PM

Someguysteve said:

Why can't you just bring one mormon fishing with you?

Because if you bring one he'll drink all your beer

A man dies and goes to heaven. At the pearly gates, he is met by St. Peter who offers him a tour of the great reward. The man accepts and is led down a corridor to the first door. St. Peter cracks the door and motions for the man to peek inside. As he does, he sees a large group of people enjoying a wild kegger. Confused the man gives St. Peter a inquisitive look.

St. Peter smiles and says, A lot of people are confused when they first get here. You see, when you arrive in heaven, you get to do all the things you abstained from when you were on earth.

Oh...I see. Says the man. May I see some more?

Certainly! says St. Peter. He then leads the man through many different rooms...some filled with people having wild orgies. Others were filled with people enjoying huge gluttonous meals. As they passed through the multitude of rooms, the variety of pleasures seemed endless, until they arrived at the last door. The man expectantly peeked in, only to see a room full of people quietly praying and studying.

Again, he turned to St. Peter with a curious gaze.

Oh, replied St. Peter, those are the [place favorite religious group here].

BlueCadet

Austin, TX

August 2003

NOV 04, 2005 06:43 PM

I like the old one better.

Lycoris

Toronto, ON

October 2005

NOV 06, 2005 10:48 PM

Pictures? (The first link isn't working for me.)

I've always wanted a Bunny suit ... now I just have more reason.

Sloane

SUICIDEGIRL

California, USA

NOV 06, 2005 11:27 PM

I like the old ones better as well.

Haushinka

Lakewood, NJ

August 2005

NOV 06, 2005 11:29 PM

Leave it to Roberto Cavalli to turn a good thing into an ugly thing.

BOARDS:

TOPICS:

I'm lost

June 2005

NOV 04, 2005 03:19 PM

Beaverton, OR

September 2005

NOV 04, 2005 03:24 PM

Richmond, CA

October 2004

NOV 04, 2005 03:29 PM

Someguysteve

USA

September 2005

NOV 04, 2005 03:51 PM

Rancho Cucamonga, CA

February 2003

NOV 04, 2005 04:02 PM

Los Angeles, CA

August 2003

NOV 04, 2005 04:10 PM

mezra

Salt Lake City, UT

November 2005

NOV 04, 2005 05:01 PM

San Jose, CA

April 2005

NOV 04, 2005 06:40 PM

Austin, TX

August 2003

NOV 04, 2005 06:43 PM

Toronto, ON

October 2005

NOV 06, 2005 10:48 PM

SUICIDEGIRL

California, USA

NOV 06, 2005 11:27 PM

Lakewood, NJ

August 2005

NOV 06, 2005 11:29 PM