The Hankerchief Code

Two pages of a scanned brochure from “Image Leather,” a now-defunct leather daddy shop in San Francisco, describing what the wearing of certain colored handkerchiefs indicates when out cruising for sex. It’s amusing to think of thousands of men milling around the darkened parks of San Francisco, squinting to distinguish if the bit of cloth sticking out of a liaison’s pocket was leopard print, signifying a love for tattoos, or magenta, signifying that he’s an “armpit freak.”