you have to remember that until 1967 they weren't even house trained

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A black and violent thriller series, The Avengers, aroused particular excitement through Miss Blackman's 'kinky' black leather costumes. And indeed the London-centred craze for 'kinky' black boots, 'kinky' black raincoats, and 'kinky' black leather or plastic garments of all kinds raged throughout that autumn. By July 1965 this frenzy was only a symptom of the gathering strain beneath, as the 'swinging city' galvanized itself for a last flight into the stratosphere. Never before had London been a town so fashionably obsessed with kinks, with sexual abnormality and make-believe violence.