Type of Site: Fetish
Address: www.dessousgallery.com 
Price: 
$29.99/month* (free trial option)
Date of Review: 
April, 2006
Pornreports Rating: 

    

Review:

(Note: The webmaster got in touch and informed us that "dessous" is in fact a word for lingerie.-Eds.)

You know how much we like to start off a review by talking about the name of the site. But here we're a little flummoxed because we don't really know what it means. "Dessous" is, we believe, French for underneath. But we asked someone who knows French if it's also a word for a type of clothing and they said they'd never heard of it. So maybe it's just called Dessous Gallery because it's concerned with the various things women wear underneath their regular clothes. Which is a long way of saying it's a lingerie site.

We're not the fastest bunnies in the forest around here.

Basically what we have here is lots of models posing in their undies: the black chemise, the white silk slip, the red satin panties. Like most nylon/panty fetish sites it has a retro flare to it (in other words: no thongs). It's also very softcore. Some topless posing, but we only caught the very odd glimpse of pussy. And even the posing is pretty demure. Which is another French word that means the opposite of slutty.

The site itself is really simple. There are no extras on tap, which keeps down the clutter. Basically you have a model index, a model search, and the usual photo and video sections. Quite a lot of pics to look at. Nearly 900 galleries by our count. The photos come in three different sizes (we're approximating slightly with the pixels here, but this is close): Good (600x900), Medium (900x13500) and Best (1200x1800). These appear as G, M, and B on your options, which confused us because we initially thought they were in descending order of quality and stood for Good, Medium, and Bad. Guess we should have known that most sites don't like to call anything "bad".

Told you we aren't fast bunnies. Actually, it says Good, Medium, and Best on the mouseover. We just weren't paying attention.

The pics aren't bad, but they aren't anything fancy either. We definitely thought they should have fixed some of the red-eye we saw. The sets are super-simple. Usually it's just a bed or they have the model standing in front of a sheet that's been hung from the ceiling. We didn't really groove to the viewing window that popped up for individual pictures. Too much going on.

There were only 19 of them when we visited, but the quality of the downloadable video is very good: 640x480, 1030 kb/s going up to 720x576, 1200 kb/s with the newer stuff. Unfortunately they don't do a lot with them. They seem to mainly just be video records of the the photoshoots, with the photographer talking to the girl, posing her, and then the flash going off, etc. And the editing is really abrupt, with sudden cuts to new outfits.

So . . . lots of content with fairly clean and simple navigation, a good update schedule (they seem to be updating with something new every day now), and all exclusive stuff that hits the underwear niche right in the ol' dessous. Our major complaint was that we thought it needed a stronger sense of style, more of a "look". We also thought it was too expensive for a site that still needs to beef up its video section, not to mention the fact that a major competitor (if not the dominant site) in this market, Only Tease, is $10 cheaper. However, the lingerie here is classier and more expensive, and there is a limited access free "trial" that will give you a pretty good idea of what it's all about that might make your decision easier. Better informed anyway.

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