View Full Version : Custy's: do you like leopard print or not??
arielbriel
03-23-2011, 01:55 AM
On the subject of leopard print, I love this dress and personally believe that I could rock it. What do y'all think?
http://www.kamalacollection.com/Sheena-cheetah-print-halter-dress-p/hyp-1156s.htm
I own that dress and it looks amazing on. Get it!
I also own the outfit in question and it also looks amazing. Get it! You can also wear that bikini to the beach or pool. It's great!!!
http://cgi.ebay.com/Sexy-Lingerie-Lace-Edge-Swimwear-Bikini-Set-BN83-LPB-/270710886727?pt=US_CSA_WC_Swimwear&hash=item3f07a05147
So Fine Divyne
03-23-2011, 02:26 AM
Getting customer perspective on leopard print has been enlightening. I wear different animal prints and must admit to being a lp wearer. However, my outfits aren't really retro looking. One is a mesh 2 pc with rhinestones. One is a spanish looking deal with tie front top with little sleeves skirt with flounce/ruffles. One is an in between mixed animal print with tight o ring top and v front skirt. I make money in animal print for two reasons. Only a few girls wear it and it is extremely complimentary to my skin tone. I never really considered the retro aspect of it though so that's something to keep in mind. I might be missing out on the old school glamour/retro aspect of it because I don't have any mini dresses or corsets of said print.
KS_Stevia
03-23-2011, 05:12 AM
Perhaps I'm biased but I once invested $150 or so in a long tight leopard gown and had some of my best ever money nights with it.
I think what we wear doesn't have that much to do with sales as long as its flattering to the body and flattering to the skin tone.
bem401
03-23-2011, 09:57 AM
^^^Venture out of the SC sometime and look into it. "Custies" are degenerate addicts apparently everywhere except here. I was familiar with the word meaning that for at least a decade before reading it here. That being said, maybe the fact that I have been interacting with hundreds of inner city kids for the last two decades (actually my whole life) influenced my take on the word.
As far as the circumstances under which I was referred to as a customer, I was newbie enough at the time to be thinking (or hoping) we were on the path to something more. Ultimately, we did pull the plug on the dancer/customer aspect and become reasonably friendly (it took a few years), but that was my first dose of the reality of life in the clubs. Thankfully, I learned quickly.
SteveSmith
03-23-2011, 11:54 AM
^^^Venture out of the SC sometime and look into it. "Custies" are degenerate addicts apparently everywhere except here. I was familiar with the word meaning that for at least a decade before reading it here. That being said, maybe the fact that I have been interacting with hundreds of inner city kids for the last two decades (actually my whole life) influenced my take on the word.
As far as the circumstances under which I was referred to as a customer, I was newbie enough at the time to be thinking (or hoping) we were on the path to something more. Ultimately, we did pull the plug on the dancer/customer aspect and become reasonably friendly (it took a few years), but that was my first dose of the reality of life in the clubs. Thankfully, I learned quickly.
No one has ever heard of your definition. Dozens of customers and dancers on this forum don't know what you're talking about. Now you're saying that interacting with your students influenced your take on the word. Now you're just making it up. I smell a troll. ::)
bem401
03-23-2011, 12:05 PM
No one has ever heard of your definition. Hundreds of customers and dancers on this forum don't know what you're talking about. Now you're saying that interacting with your students influenced your take on the word. Now you're just making it up. I smell a troll. ::)
A troll with 1750 posts over 5 years? What I do and where I've done it are a matter of record. This was a thread topic when I first started here 5 years ago. The word is defined in the urban dictionary. Look it up. I've heard a good percentage of the dancers I know use the word to mean exactly what I just told you it meant, not as an affectionate word for a patron by any means. I've never heard the word used otherwise except here.
Are you going to delete post 56 too now like you did the one I was responding to?
SteveSmith
03-23-2011, 12:13 PM
A troll with 1750 posts over 5 years? What I do and where I've done it are a matter of record. This was a thread topic when I first started here 5 years ago. The word is defined in the urban dictionary. Look it up. I've heard a good percentage of the dancers I know use the word to mean exactly what I just told you it meant, not as an affectionate word for a patron by any means. I've never heard the word used otherwise except here.
Are you going to delete post 56 too now like you did the one I was responding to?
Sure you have. ::)
bem401
03-23-2011, 01:58 PM
Sure you have. ::)
Just got off the phone with one of my friends who danced. The word is anything but a complimentary term (at least around here), according to her, its the SC equivalent of a drug addict. And as if that's not enough, she's now texting "custy LOL" to me. But enough of this. Everyone's experiences are different.
yoda57us
03-23-2011, 05:28 PM
Just got off the phone with one of my friends who danced. The word is anything but a complimentary term (at least around here), according to her, its the SC equivalent of a drug addict. And as if that's not enough, she's now texting "custy LOL" to me. But enough of this. Everyone's experiences are different.
Amazing...I've been going to clubs since the early 80's, spent hundreds of hours chatting with hundreds of different dancers and I've never heard the word custy once in any context...not even as an abreviation for customer the way that it is used here...
Since I was curious I went to the place where all the hip kids like BEM are going nowadays to justify their "street" vocabulary...
My favorite definition from the urban dictionary:
Urban Dictionary: custy (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=custy&defid=5146678)
Young kid who ruins the scene by seeking street cred. He gathers this by taking credit for others actions or claims to know everyone of value. Often provides links to other people's work and acts as though he has done it himself.
yoda57us
03-23-2011, 05:32 PM
I own that dress and it looks amazing on. Get it!
Seriously, if that's you in your avatar I can't see how it could look anything BUT amazing!
Perhaps I'm biased but I once invested $150 or so in a long tight leopard gown and had some of my best ever money nights with it.
What I wouldn't give to have seen you in that just once...
Yes, these are blatant suck-up posts...it's what I do...
bem401
03-23-2011, 06:29 PM
Since I was curious I went to the place where all the hip kids like BEM are going nowadays to justify their "street" vocabulary...
I actually don't use the word but I sure have heard it a lot.
rickdugan
03-23-2011, 06:42 PM
I own that dress and it looks amazing on. Get it!
I also own the outfit in question and it also looks amazing. Get it! You can also wear that bikini to the beach or pool. It's great!!!
Seriously, if that's you in your avatar I can't see how it could look anything BUT amazing!
Yes, these are blatant suck-up posts...it's what I do...
Lol yoda - I didn't say it this time. ;) But regardless your observation is right on the mark.
But of course leopard print is certainly not needed as she looks great just as she is in the avatar. :)
miss1dancypants
03-23-2011, 06:58 PM
sorry bem, didn't mean to touch a nerve there...
bem401
03-23-2011, 07:30 PM
sorry bem, didn't mean to touch a nerve there...
I was merely making an observation here. I'm not worked up about it, Just wanted to make it known what the more general meaning of the word is, which is to say an insult, in other circles.
bem401
03-24-2011, 05:37 AM
Amazing...I've been going to clubs since the early 80's, spent hundreds of hours chatting with hundreds of different dancers and I've never heard the word once in any context...not even as an abreviation for customer the way that it is used here...
And white people don't use the "n-word" around black people either, if they use it at all.
.
yoda57us
03-24-2011, 06:04 AM
And white people don't use the "n-word" around black people either, if they use it at all.
.
Your not making sense BEM.
I am a customer, therefore I wouldn't be ofended if a dancer used the abbreviation of "custy" to refer to me as a customer. I say this even though I have never had a dancer use the abbreviation in the literally thousands of conversations I have had with dancers.
As for your other definition, I don't fit into that category of person so why, if it is a word you say is commonly used among dancers, have I never heard the word used when having a conversation with a dancer about the losers, drug addicts and lowlifes that hang out in their clubs?
You amaze me BEM. You have been given ample opportunity to remove your foot from your mouth on this one yet you just can't seem to do it!
This is a strip club board. The word "custy" has a definitive meaning here an abbreviation for "customer". Simple isn't it? We are not in "the hood" so your meaning means nothing to any of us. Your entire point here couldn't possibly more meaningless...and that's really saying something in your case...
bem401
03-24-2011, 06:25 AM
At least in certain circles, the word is a knock against certain people to demonstrate the clued-in have a leg up on the clue-less . I have been around students and dancers who have used words like "8-ball' and "rolling" in my presence thinking I have no clue what they're talking about it. It occurred to me the liberal use of the word "custy" here could be much the same. If you want to take the position there's no way a dancer would ever do something like that, knocking guys (you and I included) in the process, be my guest and keep throwing the money at them. I also don't deny that there might very well be dancers not meaning it that way. I posted what I did as a word of caution to the girl using it, nothing more, nothing less.
Hopper
03-24-2011, 06:51 AM
Back to leopard print, it must look just as good stretched tightly over an awesome female body as it does on a leopard.
rickdugan
03-24-2011, 07:22 AM
At least in certain circles, the word is a knock against certain people to demonstrate the clued-in have a leg up on the clue-less . I have been around students and dancers who have used words like "8-ball' and "rolling" in my presence thinking I have no clue what they're talking about it. It occurred to me the liberal use of the word "custy" here could be much the same. If you want to take the position there's no way a dancer would ever do something like that, knocking guys (you and I included) in the process, be my guest and keep throwing the money at them. I also don't deny that there might very well be dancers not meaning it that way. I posted what I did as a word of caution to the girl using it, nothing more, nothing less.
Who...fucking...cares.
I actually agree that the use of the word "custy" probably has a slightly deragatory undertone, at least as used by some of the dancers, but I just don't care. I get what I am looking for from SCs, and that's all that matters. At the end of the night, they go home and I go home. A SC is an entertainment venue, not a place where I go to source life long friends.
Your hypersensitivity about this is getting ridiculous - man up already. If you get this worked up over what strippers might think of you, or about customers in general, then IMHO you really need to re-examine your life situation and priorities.
bem401
03-24-2011, 08:02 AM
^^ Dude, you need to lighten up. If you don't care, don't fucking respond!
I make an observation about the way a certain word might be interpreted and people like you get your panties in a bunch about the fact the observation was even made.
Like the sentence you highlighted says, if that word being directed at you doesn't bother you, then just keep doing whatever it is you do. Godspeed.
100% of the time I hear the word unrelated to dancing it means scumbag or lowlife. You admit there's a hint of derision in the way the word is used here. If you are willing to overlook the fact you might be being derided through its use because you need this environment to scratch your itches, then by all means ignore it and scratch away.
I was only trying to give the OP a "heads-up" about possible interpretations (or misinterpretations) of the word. How you, or any other self-admitted "custy" deals with it, is of no concern to me.
miss1dancypants
03-24-2011, 09:09 AM
wow so 71 posts on this thread and prolly about 10 of them about leopard print... thanks for the threadjack bem, i think maybe you should start a thread called ''custy's anonymous support group"... for all of this degrading talk towards our "custy's.."
rickdugan
03-24-2011, 09:15 AM
Bem, you're just being absurd now. If you were just making a clinical observation then you would have quit your back and forth posting on this, filled with melodrama and hyperbole, a long time back.
But I hear you. You care about how you are perceived, even by dancers in a SC. In fact, I think that you care a lot. So much so, in fact, that you can't stand just being another customer, and the thought of them actually feeling derision towards you is unbearable, no? ::)
Let me help you here. While that little club that you used to frequent might have been your version of Cheers, for the girls it was a workplace. To most of those girls you were just another customer, albeit one who eventually stopped paying them and instead just started sucking up oxygen on the club owner's dime while wasting the dancers' time.
That about sum it up? ;D
bem401
03-24-2011, 09:52 AM
But I hear you. You care about how you are perceived, even by dancers in a SC.
I've had enough of this thread. There's even a bit of a dig at dancers in that quote, like they lack significance.
Maybe its a RI thing, maybe its a city thing, but the word has no positive connotations that I'm aware of, enough said.
While I appreciate your analysis of my interactions with certain girls, I'll merely say we did what worked for us. I'll ask the ones I now have RL contact with if they agree with you.
As I said 30 or 40 posts ago, let's get back on topic.
lemiwinks31
03-24-2011, 09:56 AM
I'm with BEM......I was at the Home Depot picking up a new lawn mower....the model i wanted was on the top shelf...so i asked for help, and the guy got on the store pager and said "Customer needs assistance in lawn & garden"....so i knocked him the fuck out.....
miss1dancypants
03-24-2011, 10:21 AM
I'm with BEM......I was at the Home Depot picking up a new lawn mower....the model i wanted was on the top shelf...so i asked for help, and the guy got on the store pager and said "Customer needs assistance in lawn & garden"....so i knocked him the fuck out.....
i'm not saying i agree or disagree with you... but how else were they supposed to reference you, in your mind?
rickdugan
03-24-2011, 10:38 AM
I'm with BEM......I was at the Home Depot picking up a new lawn mower....the model i wanted was on the top shelf...so i asked for help, and the guy got on the store pager and said "Customer needs assistance in lawn & garden"....so i knocked him the fuck out.....
LOL. And when his unconscious body hit the floor, no doubt you hovered over him, red faced and frothing at the mouth, screaming: "Do you know what that word means where I'm from?! DO YOU?!"
lemiwinks31
03-24-2011, 10:41 AM
i'm not saying i agree or disagree with you... but how else were they supposed to reference you, in your mind?
you dont know whether or not it was OK that I assaulted an employee for calling me a 'customer'? Its OK...you can say i may have overreacted a bit...;D
i was just being sarcastic because i thought it is rediculous to get offended at somebody referring to you as a customer........when you are a fucking CUSTOMER
In every industry i can think of, 'customer' is an appropriate term to use when referring to a CUSTOMER....i think its even kind of polite....
lemiwinks31
03-24-2011, 10:42 AM
LOL. And when his unconscious body hit the floor, no doubt you hovered over him, red faced and frothing at the mouth, screaming: "Do you know what that word means where I'm from?! DO YOU?!"
No jury would convict me.
miss1dancypants
03-24-2011, 10:46 AM
you dont know whether or not it was OK that I assaulted an employee for calling me a 'customer'? Its OK...you can say i may have overreacted a bit...;D
i was just being sarcastic because i thought it is rediculous to get offended at somebody referring to you as a customer........when you are a fucking CUSTOMER
In every industry i can think of, 'customer' is an appropriate term to use when referring to a CUSTOMER....i think its even kind of polite....
haha exactly... i think it is polite too... but i guess it is derogatory depending on where you are from.... glad they are not from where i am from...
DAMN CUSTY'S.... oh excuse me CLIENTS...
shift_6x
03-24-2011, 12:00 PM
I actually have a light blue leopard print and it looks amazing and I was actually pulled aside by a girl who said it was her favorite costume. It does look exceptional.
jack0177057
03-24-2011, 01:01 PM
Me - I may be in the minority, but I like animal print.
If it looks really "trashy" (like with fishnet stockings) - that's even better.
http://www.attractivewear.net/images/sh-09/96243-A-hot-lingerie-09.jpg
http://www.odgirl.com/media/images/product_detail/017-8069-M.jpg
http://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/snaz75_2149_854001758
http://media.victoriassecret.com/product/prodpri2/V317362.jpg
http://www.odgirl.com/media/images/product_detail/03-221136-M.jpg
jack0177057
03-24-2011, 01:25 PM
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kxol2ffnus1qa8n2io1_500.jpg
KS_Stevia
03-24-2011, 02:23 PM
I'm with BEM......I was at the Home Depot picking up a new lawn mower....the model i wanted was on the top shelf...so i asked for help, and the guy got on the store pager and said "Customer needs assistance in lawn & garden"....so i knocked him the fuck out.....
:D :D:D
I've had enough of this thread. There's even a bit of a dig at dancers in that quote, like they lack significance.
Maybe its a RI thing, maybe its a city thing, but the word has no positive connotations that I'm aware of, enough said.
Where was the dig at dancers? Anyway, I am aware that in the hip hop community, "customer" can have a negative connotation.
"I'm a hustla homey you a customer croney"
...for example. But how many people, besides yourself, really link those two uses together? You admitted you felt like you had the wind knocked out of you when you were referred to as a customer. Because you knew the truth. You weren't a "custy" in the hip hop lowlife variety. You were a customer in the way that I was at the restaurant I went to for lunch, a patron. She didn't love you or care for you like you wanted her to, and you simply, to this day, cannot handle the fact that you are not truly a friend to these girls.
SteveSmith
03-24-2011, 04:49 PM
"Custies" are degenerate addicts apparently everywhere except here.
I think I figured out where Bem is getting his wires crossed. I looked up the word custy in the Urban Dictionary, and the word custy could be slang for a drug addict. On SW, custy is a shorter and cuter way of saying customer and carries no negative connotation. Two different meanings for the same word are known as homonyms. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homonym
Apparently, Bem doesn't understand that the same word with the same spelling can mean different things. Maybe if I show Bem pictures, he will understand what a homonym is.
This is a degenerate drug addict, or custy.
http://img855.imageshack.us/img855/4427/hansonaddict.jpg
This is a Strip Club customer, or custy:
http://img651.imageshack.us/img651/1711/stripper20pole20guy.jpg
Same word, different meanings. :)
rlams2000
03-24-2011, 08:16 PM
I'm rather fond of Pathetic Loser.
CFMNH44
03-24-2011, 08:16 PM
...and the question was... As far a leopard print I love it! - As the animal print, in other colors, it's just another pattern, so not so much...
(OK to call me Custy if you're hot!) :)
Hopper
03-25-2011, 12:48 AM
Two different meanings for the same word are known as homonyms. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homonym
Apparently, Bem doesn't understand that the same word with the same spelling can mean different things.
This isn't an example of a homonym. Customer in both cases has the same basic meaning, just different usages, bem's being merely adapted for slang. Homonyms have same spelling and pronunciation but completely different meanings.
I think people are being too hard on bem over this. If he thinks that "custy" has that meaning or connotation, then he is entitled. He is not pushing it onto anyone, just warning the OP that some people may be offended by it. I don't agree with with him (or the dancers at his club) that customer is necessarily derogatory in a strip club, certainly not the equivalent of an addict to either drugs or strippers. However if that is how the dancers at his club actually use the term, that alone is reason for bem not to like hearing the term when he is in it. Others here are right to challenge his interpretation of the word but it's not like he's telling everyone else what to think. Did bem create the thread jack or did others cause it by putting shit on him and provoking him to respond? Seems to me he got the actual message long ago and agreed to differ. Now he's just responding to the wags.
yoda57us
03-25-2011, 05:13 AM
I don't agree with with him (or the dancers at his club) that customer is necessarily derogatory in a strip club, certainly not the equivalent of an addict to either drugs or strippers. However if that is how the dancers at his club actually use the term, that alone is reason for bem not to like hearing the term when he is in it.
Well, since you brought it up...
I have been going to the same club as well as several others in RI for about ten years now and gotten to know quite a few dancers. I've never heard the word used in any context by any dancer in any of those urban Providence RI clubs. OK, maybe BEM knows a few who do use it and I myself have certainly met dancers who hated their customers. I'm certainly not going to call him a liar since I don't sit next to him in clubs or over-hear his conversations.
My issue here is relevance. There is none. He hijacked the thread based on a word that, despite it's possible connotations in other segments of society, is used hare, and has been for fucking-ever, as a simple innocuous abbreviation for a word that describes every guy who goes into a strip club unless he is delivering beer...
bem401
03-25-2011, 09:30 AM
I never said "customer" was derogatory. I said it could be a wake up call to the customer to hear him referred to that way by a dancer with whom he was "fantasizing" or "escaping", to use two of Yoda's words . A dancer injecting reality into that mix is not likely to be helping her cause. That's the only reason I mentioned it. Based on the thread topic, she's clearly looking for some direction regarding work.
Custy is another word entirely. If everyone here is content that this is the one place on the planet it shouldn't be considered an insult, so be it. As far as its use in the club I go to, it didn't happen all that frequently but there were occasions that word was used to describe a customer that very little was thought of ( uggggh.... that fucking custy). And while I'm not calling anyone here a degenerate addict, lets be honest, the clubs are full of them, but I've heard guys referred to in much more offensive terms that that anyhow.
I didn't hijack the thread. I offered the OP a cautionary suggestion that using certain words might not help her business. I didn't accuse her of using the words maliciously either. It was one sentence that a number of people found necessary to dispute. Let's just go back to the original topic.
KS_Stevia
03-25-2011, 11:30 AM
Bem does have a point, I would never call my customer a "customer" to his face when dancing due to the escapism aspect. However, in my other businesses, its less of a problem to refer to them as client or customer....even though I've always been friendly with all my clientele, no matter what line of work. Guess I'm just one likeable bitch, haha.
slowpoke
03-27-2011, 05:26 PM
http://s6.thisnext.com/media/largest_dimension/8EB85303.jpg
Another retro look.
4everresolutions
04-03-2011, 03:39 AM
Lolz, this page of the thread is full of win. Charlie Sheen style. Too funny.
To the OP: I LOVE the Bikini you posted! If I saw a girl at a club wearing that I'd have to get a dance or two. And having seen your pics I think it would look great on you!
Montrealais
04-06-2011, 04:29 AM
OK, looks like a thread to tread lightly in. :O
Firstly, animal print surely can be trashy, but on the right girl trashy is awesomely hot. We're talking strip club wear, right? In the right mood, trashy is exactly what I'm looking for, so count me as a fan.
Secondly, that bikini is teh hawt. ;D
Lastly, anyone who gets their panties in a twist over being thought of, or referred to as a customer needs to take many deep breaths. In a bar, you're a customer. Getting your oil changed, you're a customer. Exchanging money for a lady's time and nudity, you're a customer.
Look, I don't want to sound preachy but if you think you're anything else/more, you're deluding yourself. I use the term "patron" because it's slightly more specific to a service club environment and makes me feel classier than all the losers around me. (I kid!)
But I have zero doubt that, in their heads, the girls think of us in ways considerably less flattering. It's just in their best interests not to show it.
So I guess a stripper who may instead introduce the guy she's currently engaged with in a different manner, such as "I'm with so-and-so" or something less obviously commercial in nature without being fake about it ("he's my man!") might do a bit better in this rare occurrence.
And if she did it wearing leopard print, more power to her!
So Fine Divyne
04-06-2011, 11:26 AM
I'm with BEM......I was at the Home Depot picking up a new lawn mower....the model i wanted was on the top shelf...so i asked for help, and the guy got on the store pager and said "Customer needs assistance in lawn & garden"....so i knocked him the fuck out.....
LMFAO. I read that and then page four and I'm still laughing.I love Customer Conversation.
arielbriel
04-06-2011, 03:31 PM
I just did a photoshoot in the bikini in question. I will post pics so you can see how it looks once I get the pics back.
arielbriel
04-09-2011, 03:58 PM
http://us.mg4.mail.yahoo.com/ya/download?mid=1%5f177692%5fAKYaiWIAATJ8TZ%2fzmw3h2m WvAy4&pid=2.2&fid=Inbox&inline=1
http://us.mg4.mail.yahoo.com/ya/download?mid=1%5f177692%5fAKYaiWIAATJ8TZ%2fzmw3h2m WvAy4&pid=2.4&fid=Inbox&inline=1
OldWiseGuy
04-17-2011, 06:24 PM
about leopard print...
One of my favorite dancers at the club I visit works bits of retro style -- like leopard print -- into her outfits very often. It kind of adds a hint of 1950s Hollywood noir, or early 60s Italian movies 8), to whatever else she's wearing. And there's another dancer there who does whole ensembles that way. Done right, it can be both hot and clever.
Hot and clever works better for me than just hot. Your customers' tastes may differ. If you think they can handle it, I say go for it then.
lestat1
04-18-2011, 11:58 PM
As a general rule, I'd like more "classy sexy" and less "trashy sexy" in strip clubs. The last dancer I saw with actual lingerie (matching bra and panties, garter belt, stockings) I took back for multiple private dances. So I vote no on the leopard print.
EDIT: That being said, a sexy dancer turning me on with just the kind of dances I like could be wearing a burlap sack and I'd still get private dances.
Leopard print isn't my cut of tea.
Brigham
06-05-2011, 08:22 PM
http://s6.thisnext.com/media/largest_dimension/8EB85303.jpg
Another retro look.
I definitely like this leopard.