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- So today we're going to be wearing chokers
for the first time in our adult lives.
(slow, dramatic music)
- I haven't seen a choker in a really long time.
Are they back in style?
- I feel like they look good on everyone else except for me.
- Does Kylie wear a choker?
- You have to be really stylish, or just have like
tons of cool points to pull them off.
- I just don't wear a lot of jewelry.
I also dress a lot like a toddler,
so I feel like chokers are maybe a little too sexual for me.
- I wore one once as a kid,
and I didn't understand the concept of a choker,
so when I had that choking feeling,
I took it off immediately and like,
I never pushed my mom to buy one.
- Oooh, do I want something to like strap around my throat?
Do I wanna like, ugh?
- Yeah, people.
- Do I want that feeling of like?
- Being, being strangled.
(laughs)
- I feel like chokers will
like reach my inner sexiness.
- I feel like people look cute with it, though,
so maybe it's not so bad.
- Oh, uh, we're making the chokers today?
(zipper zipping)
- I'm really horrible at crafts.
I'm really bad with my hands.
- It's just a necklace.
I mean, it's not like we're building a house.
- Let's, let's go for it.
We can do this.
We are grown-ass women.
We got this.
- High-five. (slaps)
- I'm gonna make kind of a velvet choker
with a little key charm.
- Right where your finger is.
- Yeah, oh my God, I'm so scared.
Okay, it's fine.
- I feel like what I need to account for
is when you're like swallowing water,
because right now I'm doing it so tight.
- Do I have a nice neck?
- [Woman In Black] It's a normal neck.
- You can do this.
- Women wore chokers to remember people
who were killed with a guillotine.
Hard-core.
- I think it's a lot more stylish
than like pins and stuff.
- You know what always helps
in times like this?
- Tiny hands?
- Glue.
- It looks a little crooked.
- Respetsy.
(bell dings)
- This is very therapeutic.
Arts and crafts.
- Ah.
- [Woman] Well, Manet was probably French, right?
So Manet's painting ladies in these chokers.
- These are very French.
I feel like they always wore them in Moulin Rouge.
- Some people have their different opinions
about prostitution, but in Europe, it's legal.
(bell dings)
- Chokers start with guillotines.
Then Manet paints a lady wearing one, a prostitute.
- [Woman] Then Royal people started wearing them later.
- [Woman] And then Royal people started them wearing them,
which is insane.
- The rich always gotta steal.
- Isn't that always the way.
It starts as something for the lower class.
Then, they're like, we did this.
- Now they're making a comeback, now, though.
It's like a big thing.
- [Woman] Yeah.
- All the teens wear them.
- Do you like your choker?
- I love my choker.
- It's so cute.
- I guess we'll see how we like it the rest of the day.
We've got a whole day ahead of us.
(camera shutter clicking)
- It's cute.
You look so nineties.
- I do like it.
You look like very African goddess woman.
- Were you wearing that earlier?
- [Woman] No.
- You look like a Victorian bad ass.
- [Woman] Thank you.
- You look like Little Bo Peep and Rhianna.
- It's very hip.
- It looks very The Craft.
- [Woman] Oh, I'm into that.
- Yeah.
- [Woman] I'm a little witchy.
- Oh, I'm impressed.
- [Woman] Oh, thank you.
- Yeah, that's awesome.
- I think you look sexy.
(choking)
- Still, not super used to it yet.
- I had to take my choker off 'cause it was
restricting my breathing.
- The original choker that I had on was choking me,
and so I decided to put the second one on that I made,
and this one feels a lot better.
There's a lot more space.
- So I've come to the conclusion that
I might have made it a little too tight
as I was trying to eat Cheetos.
- It's kind of a cool accessory.
It's just really easy, it's really simple.
It's a little lopsided.
(laughs)
But, otherwise, I think it's cool.
We're back.
- Yeah.
- After a long day of wearing these chokers.
- It went a lot better than I expected.
I thought people would be staring at it,
like why I are trying to pull this off?
- I hate this.
It makes me feel like I'm going to die.
- There was like a pimple on your face,
and how you're the only one who really notices it,
but nobody else really does.
That's what it felt like.
- I just really decided to take it off.
Actually, I took it off earlier, because I'm bad.
- When I first had it, I felt really self conscious,
like I can't do this, I can't pull this off.
I was super negative.
And it wasn't until I got feedback from other people.
It was like, actually it looks really good,
it's really nice, you look like this.
And that's when I started getting a boost.
Like, maybe I can rock this.
(camera shutter clicking)
Maybe I am like secretly a sexy bad ass on the inside
and I just never knew it.
- You know, I don't normally wear jewelry
but it was really cool, actually, trying this
'cause now I think I like wearing chokers.
- I don't know about making them.
Like definitely I'm down to purchasing a few chokers.
(groans)
- Oh, it feels so fucking good.
- Sweet release.
- Lady liked.
(laughing loudly)