Today’s guest article is from Soap. Soap is a nonbinary tech enthusiast who knows one or two things about gender. You can find them deep in cyberspace or connect with them on Instagram at @soap.png. For the last three years, I’ve worn chest binders as a form of gender expression. Although I don’t bind every day, they’re a handy tool in the arsenal for feelings of dysphoria and are a […]
No collection in the history of lingerie has impacted me personally and professionally as much as the Jean Paul Gaultier for La Perla collaboration, ‘Collection Créateur.’ The first installment of the collaboration released at the very start of my lingerie studies. With 3-4 figure price tags on every garment, my student budget meant that these designs were a distant dream. Yet that didn’t stop me wandering wistfully around La Perla stores, […]
Note: This set was partially purchased by the author and by The Lingerie Addict. Dita Von Teese Lingerie is the rare celebrity lingerie label that can stand on its own. When launched in partnership with an Australian lingerie company, Target, in 2012, the brand had a lower price point as well as a different name: “Von Follies by Dita Von Teese.” A year later, the name shortened, quality improved, and […]
Today’s guest post is by Caroline Reilly, a writer with bylines in the Washington Post, Teen Vogue, and Bitch Media. You can follow Caroline on Twitter here. Please note: this article contains affiliate links. Roughly four years ago, I was diagnosed with endometriosis, a chronic reproductive health condition that occurs when tissue similar to the uterine lining grows elsewhere in the body. It can cause acute pain, fatigue, organ dysfunction, […]
The idea of a sample size is fraught with emotion for some people, but as we learned in Part 1 of this series, most samples aren’t meant to be seen by the customer and have nothing to do with the “ideal” human form. Samples are simply garment prototypes, sewn before a style goes into mass production. We also learned that all brands, even those known for having multiple sample sizes […]
