You can get kinky inspiration from the strangest places. I remember a particularly dull TV spectacle being the state opening of Parliament, where all the Lords wore their big robes. And you sometimes used to hear about society debutates being "presented at court". Not really knowing what that meant, I concocted this fantasy image of beautiful girls in big robes like the Lords' being led in to be presented to the king (or tyrannical despot, in my fantasies). Of course, underneath she was in chains and half naked...