Locally-made gifts for your boo (or you)

STREET SEEN You are welcome to spend Valentine's Day as I will this year: corralled onto a dark dancefloor with 200 similar atheists in the face of the love goddess. But as many of you will be happily celebrating with partners (hiss!), I've assembled this four-pack of completely locally-made Valentine's Day gifts. You're welcome (pfft.)
TOURANCE FAKE FUR RABBIT ROBE, $178

You can't get more luxe than this without killing something, and unless it's vintage, I find artifacts of animal death incredibly unsexy. Tourance makes all its faux fur right here in the city, so if your Valentine isn't much for Hef wear, check out the line's vests in faux fox and mink, and its throw blankets modeled on chinchilla fuzz or inspired by mane of lion. Highly recommended for those of us too embarrassed by the word "snuggle" to ever ask to be embraced — nuzzling comes naturally when you just unwrapped the softest garment known to personkind.
RECCHIUTI'S CREATIVITY EXPLORED DOG ART CHOCOLATES, $21
Guardian photo by Caitlin Donohue
I am not a fan of gifting chocolates on V-Day to anyone but the most perfunctory recipient (the sweet woman who lives above you, the office manager, one's priest.) That being said, it is possible to make a case for the originality of this four-pack of burnt caramel bites. The foursome is only available at Recchiuti's Dogpatch shop, which is tucked into the flank of the factory where the chocolates are made (next to the company's super-fly Chocolate Lab café, which is doing two dinner seatings for a special Feb. 14 menu.) The doggie designs were born as art made by developmentally-disabled adults at community gallery Creativity Explored, an echo of the for-sale exhibition you'll find behind Recchiuti's cash register. And in addition to all these things: doggies. People love those guys.
807 22nd St., SF. (415) 826-2868, www.recchiuti.com
VARIANCE OBJECTS HARNESS, PRICES START AT $240/SET
Why does BDSM fashion have to be so damn obvious? Everybody knows you're there to be roughed up, do we really need to drop hundreds of dollars on the same industrially-accessorized black patent leather that everyone's wearing? I love Variance Object's founder Nicole Rimedio for making beaded bondage gear for your kinky-yet-discreet angel. "I love the idea that I may be wearing a rope to bind my lover's body, but that most everyone else thinks is just an onyx necklace," Rimedio told me in an email. The line includes pieces strung with super-strong cord that can be worn around the calves, looped underneath the crotch, or tied around wrists. Most everything is modular, for versatility/variety's sake.
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