Editor’s Note: This article has been split into two parts since publication. You can find the original first half here. Let’s talk about cheap bras. Bra pricing is a sensitive subject – on both sides. Brands, factories, and designers (the production end) as well as customers, buyers, and retailers (the consumer end) all have strong feelings. Many of those feelings are valid. It doesn’t help that there’s so much feeling […]
Lingerie is arguably one of the most complex categories of clothing. Very few other garments require quite the same level of accuracy, attention to detail, and skilled human labour. Understanding lingerie construction and quality can be a minefield, even if you have some sewing skills. This series will cover some of the most common stitch and construction techniques used in contemporary lingerie, with the first part covering the most common […]
Winter doesn’t seem to want to go away. So here I am, in the first few days of spring, staring at leftover snow outside my window, and thinking of velvet lingerie. One of the things that’s been most important to me in the last nearly-10 years of lingerie blogging is that indie designers have a direct conduit to me to share their latest collections. I know a lot of people […]
As someone who wears as size 11 narrow, I don’t keep up with many footwear trends. Most shoes I like aren’t in my size, and over the years, in the style of The Fox and the Grapes, I’ve convinced myself that’s a good thing. After all, since I couldn’t become obsessed with shoes, I had to funnel my love of pretty things into lingerie. So imagine my surprise and excitement […]
Made by Niki’s Fringe Collection took the lingerie industry by storm in 2011, but like all the very best trends, it was a little ahead of its time. The world at large wasn’t quite ready for befringed lingerie. Well fast forward 7 years later, and fringe is everywhere now. Though it’s a bit of a wildcard trend, fringe is exciting precisely because of how tactile – how touchable – it […]
