Ava Corsetry is a new lingerie brand out of the UK, and, as the name suggests, the designer Danielle Cowan specializes in corsets. However, she also has some perfectly lovely pieces of lingerie sprinkled among this first collection, and you may even recognize the sheer half slip from Catherine’s report on Mode City Paris from earlier this year. While I’ll always love a good corset, I have to admit the […]
I got these graphic images made for TLA a few months ago, but I never posted them to the blog, and I thought it’d be a good idea to rectify that today. There’s a good chance you may have even already seen this floating around on Pinterest or Tumblr. Like all the images we make for the blog, you’re free to use these. Just please don’t crop out the url. […]
While there is something to be said for the mystique of corsetry, it has a side effect of creating a bit of a barrier, seeming distant, untouchable… and therefore daunting, and avoided. “What do I wear it with?” women ask me, somewhat bewildered, when I’m fitting for Dark Garden. “Where do your clients wear them?” people ask me when I talk about my line, Pop Antique. As soon as you […]
The NY-based loungewear brand She & Reverie just did a new loungewear photoshoot with the photographer Franey Miller. As I’ve mentioned in my previous posts on the brand, She & Reverie is a label with a very clear point of view. They are about whimsy and dreams and romance, and their take on what lingerie and loungewear can be is completely different from what anyone else is doing right now. […]
Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. I first ran across this week’s lingerie of the week on Dollhouse Bettie’s Pinterest page. I remember thinking that I shouldn’t like this. Though I adore a good garter dress, flowery, fuddy-duddy, wallpaper print really isn’t my style. Yet a week or so after I first saw Jolidon’s garter dress, I’m still thinking about it. I think I’m attracted to how unique this piece is; […]
