One of most favorite things about having run The Lingerie Addict, the thing that will have the biggest impact on my life even I were to shut down my blog tomorrow, is that I’ve made some of my best friends through TLA. People who I would have never had an opportunity or reason to meet otherwise have come into my life through the power of bras and panties, and my […]
In Spring 2008, I wrote my first ever blog post about lingerie. The name of that blog was Stockings Addict, and I wrote under a penname Treacle. Yet from that one article, The Lingerie Addict has grown to become one of the leading websites for lingerie information in the world, with nearly 15 million visitors to date. We’ve published over 2,000 articles, covering intimate apparel for trans and nonbinary folks, […]
To be honest, I was almost afraid of putting together this year’s “Best of TLA” post. We didn’t publish as many articles in 2017 as previous years (largely due to the book , but also because of the move), and I was worried there wouldn’t be enough good posts for this feature. But I’m rather elated to say I was wrong. Our Best of the Year roundup is meant to focus […]
The subject of pricing is perhaps one of the most emotionally fraught topics in the lingerie world. Consumers are often convinced they’re paying too much for lingerie, while brands and retailers frequently believe their margins are too small. Furthermore, it is true that margins in the lingerie industry are among the narrowest in the fashion world; an absence of automation combined with specialty fabrics and hire R & D costs all mean that lingerie is incredibly expensive to produce…far more than a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
When I was in high school, I owned seven identical sports bras. They were from Kohl’s, I think, and I did not try them on in the store. I bought size Medium and took them home and wore them. I was a pretty gender-nonconforming teenager (short hair, wore boys’ jeans, shirts, and sneakers to school almost every day). So it made sense that all my underwear would be the same […]
