Although the original Amsterdam DeMask store only opened in 1990 at Zeedijk 64 (where it is still operating today), founder Steve English started the label some four years earlier in the UK.

After moving to the Netherlands and establishing his Amsterdam shop, he quickly followed up with the first Europerve party.

The 1991 event at the Artis Zoo quickly achieved notoriety thanks to a front-page exposé in British Sunday tabloid newspaper News of the World headlined Royal at Rubber Orgy.

It featured a photo by Tim Woodward, stolen from Skin Two magazine, showing Steve English with party guest Marina Mowatt who, as the daughter of Princess Alexander, was then 20-something in line to the British throne.

The original annual Europerve events ran for 14 years at various Amsterdam venues including boats and converted warehouse complexes.

They were revived in 2011 under the name EuroPerve Resurrection by Louva and Anton, the new owners of DeMask who had bought the business from Steve English that same year.

The new parties are a joint venture between DeMask and Wasteland promoter Rene of Vault Productions, who was apparently keen to get involved in a true, dedicated fetish party.

And EuroPerve certainly is that thing. Fetish people who have attended other so-called fetish parties in Amsterdam have been known to complain that too often they are just sex parties with a sort-of dresscode.

EuroPerve, on the other hand, is proud of its mission to evoke the spirit of proper fetish events of earlier times.

This means that there is a tight and strictly enforced dresscode consisting of rubber, leather or authentic uniform (such as army, pilot or police).

If I were looking for a London comparison, the nearest in dresscode terms and in general ethos would probably be Rubber Cult.

Both these events are out to attract real fetishists and they largely succeed (though it has to be said that EuroPerve does it on a rather larger scale).

EXPOSÉ: Europerve’s 1991 tabloid front page

You won’t get into EuroPerve wearing PVC, Lycra or trainers, while bare chests and nudity are also strictly verboten.

Trust me: I know the doorbitches and you won’t get past them unless you’re fully dresscode compliant!

Europerve Resurrection V returns on October 8 to last year’s new venue, WestUnie — one of several industrial-to-leisure-use conversions on the site of an old gasworks a little to the north of central Amsterdam.

The only downside, especially for a fetish event in Amsterdam in chilly October, is that taxis can get no nearer than about 0.5km from the venue to drop off or pick up, and the nearest car parking is a similar distance away.