“What a delightful confection!” That’s the very first thing I thought when I saw this lovely, pink dressing gown from Dottie’s Delights at the Designer Lingerie Showcase last spring. It was so soft, so sheer, and so very, very vintage. In the intervening months, I haven’t been able to stop thinking about this robe, and so I was impossibly happy when one of my favorite boutiques, Faire Frou Frou, decided […]
This probably won’t surprise you, but I look at a lot of lingerie. And especially with the popularity of Mad Men, I look at a lot of vintage-inspired lingerie. Every lingerie company out there is slapping a little bit of lace on a bra and a couple of garters on a panty and calling it “retro,” “pin-up,” or “burlesque.” But nobody, and I mean nobody, is doing vintage-style lingerie like […]
It’s been a minute since I’ve written one of these features, which could really be called “Introspectives into Buyer’s Remorse.” Not that I could have actually afforded to buy most of the pieces here, of course, so I suppose it’s more like “Theoretical Buyer’s Remorse.” I keep my spirits up by imagining that somewhere in another universe (or universes) there is another me with a treasure chest full of all […]
I’m kinda obsessed with the color pink. I feel soothed by it in a way I can’t really explain. I feel most like myself when I wear pink, or when my hair is dyed pink. Or both. If I’m honest, I got into lingerie because of my love of pink. In the early 2000s, frilly and feminine fashion wasn’t super trendy or accessible. Bows, ruffles, and florals were only popular […]
Today’s guest post is from Neptune Violet, who describes themselves as follows: “Professionally, I’m a journalist and freelance cultural creative. Often, personally, as Mrz. Neptune Violet, I bend gender and cultural expectations like a bag of soft pretzels. Moreover, as Nep, I’m a sociopolitically aware, and sex-positive, binary-shatterer. In final, my deepest-seated goal of late — in any form — is to become ‘America’s Next Thot Model.'” If looking for […]
