Disclosure: This blog post contains affiliate links. Sometimes, you just want to go back to the basics with something plain, simple and fun. Despite their name, babydolls are an incredibly versatile item of lingerie. When I’m answering questions from readers who want something a bit more boudoir-friendly but that doesn’t seem too risque or inaccessible (especially when you’re new to lingerie), I often recommend flowing, floaty items like chemises, gowns, […]
I.D. Sarrieri has long been a favorite of TLA, topping year after year of Holiday and Valentine’s Day lingerie shopping guides. Since 1992, this decadent Romanian luxury brand has been making the kind of lace lingerie that dreams are made of. Their A/W 2014 is no exception, combining exquisite fabrics (embellished metallic silver Chantilly lace!) and exciting directional silhouettes. While many brands will use the label “luxury” or “couture,” I.D. […]
A couple of days ago, during New York Fashion Week, Britney Spears debuted her new lingerie collection, The Intimate Britney Spears. As is to be expected for a celebrity of her calibre, there was a lot of buzz about the launch; I’ve seen articles everywhere from the NYTimes to MTV. There’s also been a significant uptake by retail stores, mostly in Europe (more on that later), but a little in […]
Y’all… I want this. I know it’s completely impractical, and that I’m basically paying for the lingerie equivalent of censor bars over my nipples, but I don’t care. I love it. Yasmine Eslami is a name I feel like I’ve heard before, but that I never got around to checking out until recently. They’re a French label, based out of Paris, and they work with basic, simple silhouettes in bold […]
When I first heard that bras could close in the front, instead of in the unreachable, unscratchable spot on my back, I was overjoyed. Since then I’ve bought bras with front closures when I stumbled into them, but I was often unimpressed by their design; in brick and mortar stores, they tended to be rare and a little plain, without much variety. This is the conundrum of the front-closing bra: it’s […]
