The Ever-Erect Nipple Conundrum [not a Sherlock Holmes story]

[LucasM]

I just got this film recently, as I filled in my back-riffs for B & MJ, so this observation is highly delayed, and no-one likely gives a shit any more (if they ever did). 

I was watching, and B&MJ repeatedly comment on the female 'lead' 's erect nipples, which were present in every shot she was in where she didn't have a jacket or something over the top of her tee.  First time I watched I thought, "did the actress 'top them up' before each time the 'director' yelled "action!"?

But on repeat viewings of the film, I realized something: they are prosthetic nipples, molded into her top!

Because, there is no way nipples could remain that rock hard for the length of EVERY shot, and it would likely be - shall we say, 'problematic' - if she was asked to make them erect before each shot.  If it were a porn film, that would be routine, but this wasn't one.  Then again this was a sleezy film from the '90s, before sexual harassment was taken seriously by studios.

But the main thing?  There is the scene where she is soaking wet.  Her clearly THICK bra shows as completely white underneath her top.  In other words: you can't see skin color through it.  No material THAT thick would be flexible enough to stretch in the exact size and shape of nipples.  It might make small, very gradual mounds, but they wouldn't be recognizable as nipples.

Hence: they are likely plastic or rubber nipples built onto the OUTER surface of the thick white bra she wears to try to sucker the adolescent audience into believing they are seeing nipples.

And... clearly I spent way too much time examining and thinking about boobs with this film.   So I was suckered in, as that was precisely what the director wanted or he wouldn't have had prosthetic nips added to her top in the first place!