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A detail of Horst P. Horst's famous (and fantastic) photo for Mainbocher

Let’s us all take a moment to give thanks for Lycra.

According to the Lycra website, before the miracle stretch fiber was invented (by “a team of scientists” at DuPont), “consumers endured saggy, baggy, stretched and bunched clothes.”

They forgot to include “pain” and “disfigurement” in that list.

An image of a Zentai suit enthusiast from The Daily Beast

When I first saw the images in a recent Daily Beast story about men who lounge around in their brightly colored and printed head-to-toe Lycra suits, I figured it had to be a joke. After all, I’ve been around, I live in L.A., I’ve got some crazy friends, but this was the first I’d heard of Zentai suits.

But a quick Google search confirms it. Zentai is for real.