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Sexy Lingerie
What is the difference between sexy lingerie and underwear? Basically, underwear as the name implies, is only worn under something else. Its purpose is to be functional, to protect the outerwear. Sexy lingerie is made to be seen. Sexy lingerie enhances a woman's natural charm and can give her confidence. This lens is about sexy lingerie.
Famous quotes about sexy lingerie:
Cybill Shepherd: One of my ex-husbands thought I had a breast job. They looked bigger. I just got the proper lingerie.
Heidi Klum: You should spend your money on some nice lingerie. Big wool cotton pants, that just doesn't work. You have to feel sexy.
Annonymous: If love is blind, why is sexy lingerie so popular?
Spanx: A Quiet Revolution
Women of all ages and sizes who are interested in a smoother, more flattering shape are turning to Spanx.
Celebrities including Gwyneth Paltrow, Jessica Alba, Queen Latifa, Madonna and Oprah Winfrey swear by Spanx Shapewear. Women are relying on Spanx because Spanx make you look thinner and your dresses, pants and skirts smoother.-
Spanx Shapewear: Say Goodbye to Lumps and Bumps!
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Have you heard of Spanx? If not, listen up! Spanx is one of the fastest growing brands of shapewear in the world. In fact, it is safe to say that Spanx reignited the interest in shapewear, which had nearly died off until a few years ago. Started les...
A Selection of Spanx
Sites About Shapewear
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Shapewear: From The Corset to Spanx
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Shapewear goes back a very long time. It is believed that corsets have been around since 1700 BC. Both women and men have worn shapewear through history to shape the body and create the effect of tiny waists. For example, in 16th century France, unde...
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Sassybax: Shapewear For Your Upper Body!
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Sassybax big focus is bras. Sassybax has done for the upper body, what the more well know Spanx has done for "the bottom line". The Sassybax byline is "Comfortable Bras Eliminate Visable Bra Lines". Do you remember "visable panty lines" or VPL? Now,...
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Flexees
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Flexees shapewear is made by Maidenform. Maidenform is a New Jersey based manufacturer of women's underwear which was founded in 1922 and became famous for the Madenform Bra. Maiden form produced both dresses and support undergarments, particularly b...
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Barely There: Shapewear Without Seams
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Barely There is a fresh alternative to Spanx and Flexees, the larger and more prominant brands of shapewear. Barely There has been marketing shapeware since 2000 and focuses on comfort. Barely There manufactures shapewear without seams or tags. So no...
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Spanx Shapewear: Say Goodbye to Lumps and Bumps!
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Have you heard of Spanx? If not, listen up! Spanx is one of the fastest growing brands of shapewear in the world. In fact, it is safe to say that Spanx reignited the interest in shapewear, which had nearly died off until a few years ago. Started les...
The World's Leading Brands of Luxury Lingerie...A GREAT gift idea!
Internationally Known Lingerie Designers
Strangely, there is no brand of sexy lingerie that is popular in both the USA and Europe. In fact, the leading European brands of sexy lingerie are difficult to find in USA and vice versa. Below are links to the world's top brands of sexy lingerie.-
Le Mystere
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Founded in 1991 by Michael Rabinowitz, Le Mystere is now a huge success in the USA. One of the main reasons for Le Mystere's success is the support given by Oprah Winfrey. Oprah Winfrey, the US talk show hostess is one of the most influenti...
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Chantelle Lingerie
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Chantelle lingerie is not only one of the top brands of sexy lingerie in the world, Chantelle lingerie is the leading French lingerie retailer and exports to more than 50 countries. Though it is hugely popular in Europe, and...
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Elle Macpherson: Sexy Lingerie From Australia
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Elle Macpherson is a six foot (182cm) tall Australian supermodel. She is famed for her unprecedented four Sports Illustrated covers, as well as her brief acting career from the 1990s in the movie Sirens and also Batman and Robin. She appear...
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La Perla Lingerie
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La Perla began as a small Italian manufacturer of corsets and is now very well known and respected internationally as a leading manufacturer of sexy lingerie. La Perla is one of Italy's largest exporters of lingerie.
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Triumph Lingerie: Top Lingerie From Germany
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Triumph Lingerie is a German manufacturer of sexy lingerie that started as a small local manufacturer of corsets. Triumph Lingerie, a family run business, started in 1886 as a team of six employees. Triumph Lingeri...
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Victoria's Secret
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Victoria's Secret was atarted in San Francisco, California in 1977 by Roy Raymond. Raymond vision of Victoria's Secret was to create a European style lingerie shop that was accessible to males as well as females. The Li...
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Cosabella: Italian-American Lingerie
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Cosabella Lingerie (Cosabella means 'beautiful thing' in Italian) is unusual in that while its headquarters is in Miami, Florida the lingerie is manufactured in Italy. Ugo and Valeria Campello started Cosabella Lingerie in 1983 an...
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Aubade Lingerie: Sexy Lingerie From France
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The Aubade brand evolved from a French corset manufacturing company and was brought into existance in 1958 by Claude Pasquier. Though it is still led by the Pasquier family and all manufacturing is entirely in France, Aubade was aquire...
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Agent Provocateur
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Agent Provocateur is a well known and rapidly developing UK brand of sexy lingerie. Agent Provocateur Lingerie was started by Joseph Corre and Serena Rees in December 1994, in London's Soho. Their vision for Agent Provocateur Lingerie ...
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Dolce and Gabbana
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Domenico Dolce (born 1958 near Palermo. Italy) and Stefano Gabbana (born 1962 in Milan, Italy) are business partners and for 19 years, they were lovers. They met while working as assistants in Milan in the early 1980s and soon brought...
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Cosabella Infinity Low Rise Thong
Cosabella Marlene Balconette Bra
Cosabella Marlene Low Rise Bikini
Cosabella Marlene Camisole
Cosabella Celine Low Rise Hotpants
Cosabella Stella Low Rise Thong
Cosabella Stella Low Rise Bikini
Cosabella Stella Low Rise Hotpants
Cosabella Stella Push-Up Underwire Bra
Cosabella Stella Camisole
Chantelle Fete Underwire Bra
Chantelle Legende Underwire Bra
Chantelle Legende T-Shirt Bra
Chantelle Legende Panty
Chantelle New Essensia Plunging Convertible T-Shirt Bra
Elle Macpherson Intimates Harmonies Culotte (Boyshort)
Elle Macpherson Intimates Dentelle Thong
Elle Macpherson Intimates Sheer Ribbons Thong
Elle Macpherson Intimates Sernade Chemise
Chantelle Chantilly Shorty
Chantelle Chantilly Lace Chemise
Chantelle Chantilly Garter Belt
Chantelle Graphie Low Rise Tanga
Elle Macpherson Intimates Angelic Long-Sleeved Top
Elle Macpherson Intimates Angelic Lounge Pant
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Lingerie By Type
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Sexy Thongs: Ten Reasons To Love Them!
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Sexy thongs are sometimes known as G-strings, strings, tanga, or in Brazil fio dental (dental floss). But whatever they are called sexy thongs are becoming more and more popular. As sexy lingerie, women like thongs because they do not cause pant...
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Nursing Bras: Double Duty in a Bra
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Nursing bras, when fitted correctly, can be your friend. But the major problem with nursing bras is that breast size can change pretty dramatically making sizing quite difficult. The largest change in size often comes immediately after birth when the...
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Girdle: The Original Shapeware
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Girdles were widely popular for about 50 years from the early to the mid 1900's. Made& originally of rubber and later elastic, girdles smooth the body line and made the wearer appear to have a nicer form. Girdles replaced the very restrictive corset...
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Sexy Bras
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Bras may fullfill several important functions and there are specialized bras designed to meet specific needs. Everyday bras may: Provide everyday breast support Prevent or delay breast sagPrevent nipples from showing through clothesSpecialized Br...
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Sexy Corsets
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Traditional corsets are designed to mold the body into an hourglass shape. Usually made from a soft and flexible cloth sexy corsets are stiffened by stays or ribs that are inserted into the material. Originally made of met...
Shirley Of Hollywood
Shirely Of Hollywood lingerie
'Brief' History of Sexy Lingerie
Sexy lingerie as we know it, is a relatively recent concept. For most women, it is important that they look and feel great in their lingerie. But until 50 years ago women wore underwear purely for practical reasons rather than esthetic purposes. Your grandmother would probably never combine the word sexy and lingerie in the same sentence; in her day no one bought underwear to be seen in it. Until 1960s, women's underwear served three main purposes:Corsets and Girdles
Shape was achieved by compressing the waist and moving flesh to the breasts and hips. From the 16th to the 19th century this was accomplished by the corset, which was made to squeeze a woman's waist to as little as 16 or 17 inches (40 - 43 cm). Some people would practice "tight lacing", or training their body to accept progressively narrower binding and achieve an extremely exaggerated, hourglass shape. For many, however, the corset was painful and impractical. During the 1920s, the corset was slowly replaced by the girdle. The girdle also shaped the body, but more comfortable materials were used and the effect was much less extreme. The girdle would smooth a woman's body, and give it a more appealing line. The girdle was either fullbody style, starting at the shoulders or simply started at the waist. It was closed by either hook and eye type closures (such as in modern day brassiers) or by zippers. At the bottom of the girdle were usually fasteners to clip to stockings and keep them in place. By the 1960s was replaced by the panty girdle and eventually control top pantyhose.
Bras
There is much controversy about who first invented the brassiere. While many credit Mary P. Jacob with the invention, this is because she used the name 'Brassiere' in her patent application, though her invention looked nothing like a modern day bra. Further it was designed to be worn with and cover a corset. Olivia Flynt in 1876 envisioned and invented the modern day brassiere.
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History of Lingerie-Continued
Panties and ThongsUntil 1970s, women's underpants served one main purpose: cleanliness of the outerwear. Neither sexy nor attractive, they were originally designed to be functional. Known as 'drawers' in the 1800's some were full body outfits; others just came to the waist. Usually the longer type had convenient flaps in the backs so that the wearer did not have to get undressed when using the toilet. Drawers usually extended down to cover a part of the thigh. As time went on, ladies underwear became smaller and smaller. First, the thigh covering became shorter and shorter until by the 1950s they completely disappeared and the panty was born. But even then panties were large, baggy and unattractive. By the 1960s, companies like Frederick's of Hollywood started to glamorize lingerie and even featured a 'glamour string' in an early catalog, which looked alot like the present day thong. Though not a common place item for many decades to come the string, g-string or thong is proof that lady's underwear have gone from full body covering to the barest of essentials.
Pantyhose
The miracle of the pantyhose is that it combined the panty and stockings into one garment. Until the late 1950's the girdle got smaller and lighter, but stockings were usually put on separately, by clipping them to a garter belt or the bottom of the girdle. Glen Raven changed this in 1959 by combining the panty and stockings and the pantyhose was born.
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Specialized Types of Lingerie
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C String: The World's Smallest Thong
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Did you really think that the G String was the smallest thong around? Time to meet the C String. The C-String is a completely new and exciting innovation in lingerie, with no waist band to show under skirts, pants and dresses. The C-String is the wor...
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Sexy Costumes
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Lingerie is not always worn under something. Sometimes, lingerie can be an outragous costume designed purely for fun. Many people like to play dress up. The classic 'French Maid' is a particular favorite. Alternativly a Dominatrix costume is often ch...
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PVC Lingerie
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Leather Lingerie
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Many people love the look of leather. But leather lingerie is, for many, the ultimate in sexy lingerie. The course feel, the rough, rebellious, dominating look appeal to many. Today, more and more lingerie is available in leather and this s...
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Silk Lingerie
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Silk is a natural fiber obtained from cocoons of the silkworm. Silk fabric was first made between 3000-6000 in China. The process that is used today is not dramatically different from the process that was used then. Silk is popular in lingerie becaus...
Corsets: A corset from Vollers is one of the best in the world.
See some Vollers corsets below or look at this site which specializes in Vollers corsets.
Lingerie Parties
A fun and sexy idea for a party
* Invite a sales person from a lingerie boutique to host it for you.
* Hire a party consultant.
* Do it yourself!
Doing it yourself is probably the least expensive and most enjoyable and we can suggest two websites to help you.
First, a website to get ideas on how to organize a lingerie party.
Second, a squidoo lens to buy supplies for lingerie parties lingerie parties.
If you have ever organized a lingerie party yourself, please leave a comment about it in the box at the bottom of this page.
Lingerie Books
1000 Dessous: A History of Lingerie
With little text and lots of photos, this is a must for those into lingerie.
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Six Styles of Lingerie
There are six styles or categories of lingerie generally recognized: Sport, Natural, Elegant, Designer, Sexy and Bridal Lingerie. There are no definate boundaries, bridal or sexy lingerie can be made by a designer, sporty lingerie can also be natural. Below is an overiew of the six styles of lingerie.Natural Lingerie, is functional and less obvious. Quality and comfort tend are reasons to buy them. Darjeeling lingerie brand is an example of natural lingerie.
Sporty lingerie should support without restricting. They should not be obvious under tight clothing and yet they should be functional. Prada and Sloggi are well known for their sport lingerie.
Elegant lingerie is designed to give the woman a look of subtle sensuality without being too obviously erotic. Elegant lingerie often cross over with designer wear. Chantelle's Riviera lingerie is one example of elegant lingerie.
Designer lingerie gives a woman the feeling of being special. The woman who spends the money on designer lingerie is spending it mostly for herself. The recently popular Agent Provocateur is becoming a very important designer of lingerie.
Sexy lingerie is a large category, many different types of lingerie can be included here. Thongs or g-strings, teddy, corsets, garters, body stockings, sheer lingerie etc.
Bridal Lingerie is made especially for the wedding day AND night. Usually it combines an elegant and sexy style. Comfort or durability is hardly an issue here, but style and sensuality are a must.
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Bridal Lingerie: Nights In White Satin
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Bridal Lingerie is the perfect finishing touch to make the wedding day, and night, extra-special. For the wedding day, you will need one set of bridal lingerie and for the wedding night, you will need another. Here are some suggestions on what to loo...
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Discount Lingerie: A Sexy Idea
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Who says sexy lingerie has to be expensive?? This lens features discount lingerie of various makes and brands. The discount lingerie offered here is mostly from Amazon.com, a name most shoppers trust. The discount lingerie is either on sale or has be...
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Look Sexy In Plus Size Lingerie
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Who says that lingerie is only for skinny girls? Today, there is lingerie to fit women of all sizes. We have selected lingerie that looks great on Queen Sized Women. If you have a plus size figure, review the lingerie below and you will certainly fin...
Skin Care and Beauty Tips
How to Keep Your Skin Young and Sexy Looking
Beauty Salon, a cool website devoted to skin care, with great advice for women of all ages.
PLAYBOY LINGERIE MAGAZINE
A playboy special editions magazine published every second month and features playmates in lingerie.
Playboy Lingerie 12 x 12 2010 Wall Calendar
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Playboy Lingerie, Feb/March 2008 Issue
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Oprah Winfrey's Favorite Bras
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