I've followed several posts, over the years, wondering why a lady in wet clothes appeals.
And why this scenario appeals more than a conventional image of semi-nakedness or nudity.
I've often wondered if it's rooted in my very strict religious upbringing.
Anyway, I was reading criticism from AI of this story.
https://umd.net/stories/i/julie-comes-of-age/return/%2Fprofile%2Fi%2Fmrwetshirt%2Fsection%2Fblogs%2F
Loosely personal experience.
AI suggested that the, "Reverse Baptism" i.e. water fight, represents initiation, ritual transition from the religious to the secular world.
So, I enjoy swimming in my t-shirt, because every time I do this I am re-affirming my transition.
Made me think.
But I'll carry on enjoying.
Peter

It's part of the uniqueness that makes you who you are.

I've seen it as a form of transgression. A fun and harmless rebellion against the oppressive forces of conformity.

When I was younger gameshows made me sad because I thought the contestants were being humiliated.
I'm still really not into extreme humiliation or debasement.

When I see a nervous (perhaps slightly embarassed) lady, who gets messy, but laughs and has fun, I see someone who CANNOT be shamed or humiliated, and it's magical.

I don't think I could ever enjoy watching a clip of someone who looks sad.

Fetishes typically come from something imprinting on you as a child. For me, I was watching the Mickey Mouse club where a girl got a pie in her face for her birthday. Something clicked in my brain - a fetish was born. Totally outside of anyone's control.

This is something unique to each of us, something I have come to realize recently is that we may try to figure out in our minds, but the true thing is somewhere in the heart and soul.

A smart man once told me, "Don't question the things that bring you happiness." So long as you are not harming others, just be glad you found something that you enjoy

-JD

Honestly, I've never really seen wetlook as something bad or something to be ashamed of. I started doing it as a toddler who hated wearing swimsuits, though for very different reasons than today. My parents didn't encourage it, but just sort of accepted it as one of my quirks, and even designated one of my dress-up costumes as my go-to swimwear so I'd stop ruining nicer clothes. They figured it was something I'd grow out of, which I eventually did... sort of.

When I joined the swim team, I had to start wearing real swimsuits, and that bled into my normal non-team swimming as well. I still hated wearing them, but I saw it as a necessary evil since I loved being in the water so much.

What really changed swimming in clothes into something of a fetish for me was in my very early teen years when I saw a young woman in full eveningwear walking past just outside the pool fence at the local public pool while I was swimming with my friends. She disappeared around the corner of the pool building and I never saw her again after that, but my imagination went wild, and so many of the imagined scenarios involved her ending up in the pool, still wearing the whole outfit, gloves, heels, and all.

In reality, she was probably just one of the lifeguards/other employees there to pick up something she'd forgotten or came to show off her fancy outfit to her friends before an event, and I never saw any evidence of her ever entering the pool area (believe me... I looked!), but those thirty seconds or so of her just walking past the pool started what later became almost an obsession with wetlook, and eventually WAM in general, though to a lesser degree.

For me, I was young and watching a movie, specifically High School Musical 2. At the very end of the movie Troy and Gabriella, played by Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens, jump in the pool but fully clothed and after that it just stayed in my brain and I wanted to try it for myself. Over time started swimming in clothes myself and finding women soaked in their clothes more and more attractive. Over time, I also started to not like men's swimsuits and instead would just wear athletic shorts if swimming because it was more comfortable. I don't have an issue with getting wet in clothes whatsoever. If I have someone over to swim and they wanted to go in fully clothed I say go for it.

For some odd reason I remember a dream I had a long ass time ago that involved me and a huge pool of mud. that's stuck with me since I was in elementary school. Im guessing it had to do with that.

My fetish started similar to a lot of replies on this thread.

Saw an audience member get pulled on a game show and later get slimed, hoodie and all. I remember feeling bad because I thought she was going to have to go home all wet and slimy and cold.

At some point shortly after, I came across one of the TopGunge Christmas special previews, and felt "bad" for Lisa because her nice dress was getting covered in slime.

Not sure when I realized the "feeling bad" was actually me getting turned on for whatever reason, or what it is about long dresses in WAM turning me on specifically. All I know is that I had a teacher walk into the room one day in a maxi dress - and she was bone dry, no wet outfit from the rain or anything - and I went home that day and searched up "woman in maxi dress getting slimed" and the rest was history, to the point where I have a legitimate maxi dress kink because of it.