Monday, October 31, 2011
I Wanna Be A Caped Crusader!
Who wouldn't be when the cape is vintage sheer silk chiffon with a floral lace collar around the throat? Thrilling!
Sunday, October 30, 2011
This Week's OMG Vintage Lingerie: Peignoir Edition
Two layers of ivory chiffon -- the top one in pleats! -- adorned in ivory ribbons and sweetly decorated with pink and green flower appliques. This dreamy vintage peignoir has a satin covered button at the waist.
Saturday, October 29, 2011
The Best Gifts Are Topped With A Bow
Like this vintage black satin open bottom all-in-one girdle with illusion lace cups, and six metal garters! I love the little black satin bow symbolically sealing the gifts beneath... As if that weren't enough, this is a true vintage corselette as the foundation garment is boned all the way around.
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Lingerie News Link Round-Up
In wildly exciting news, What Katie Did lingerie appears in the film My Week With Marilyn. *swoon*
In just wild news, Madonna's iconic black bustier, worn on the Who's That Girl tour in 1987, has been sold at an auction for £45,000. *gasp*
Image Credits: If this image looks somewhat familiar, that's because it is. The band Bad Girlfriend asked for permission to use it and I was happy to oblige -- note the little credit at the bottom right corner!
"Scottie Says ~ Here's A Line For You"
An adorable vintage pinup postcard from my collection. It's one in a series of "Scottie Says" linen postcards by MWM -- a Color Litho "Bursheen" Finished card, #814, with art by Irby.
How Much Black Lace Can You Stand, Girdle Lover?
If you just can't get enough of black lace, check out this vintage long leg all-in-one girdle by Jezebel! Super sexy, super sheer, and with a few red accents that really pop on all that black lace.
It Couldn't Have Happened To A Nicer Vintage Lingerie Blogger
I say that with great irony, if not modesty *wink*
Here's the story...
My daughter, now a teenager, has not the same love of lingerie as I. I know, I know; it kills me too!
Like many girls her age, she thinks fashion lies in skinny jeans, rock tees, and Converse All Stars. And what lies beneath it all? Who cares.
It doesn't matter what I place before her. Or how often I leave her alone to shop. This young woman just doesn't care about lingerie -- or, I should say, "underwear," because that's what she calls it, be it bras or panties. *heavy sigh* Have I done nothing right?
There was a brief shining moment when I thought I may have have got her around the corner and into loving lingerie. It was that pretty looking and beautiful feeling PJ Salvage chemise.
But that seems to be a one time only affair. *even heavier sigh*
Well, there was that one time we shared a moment while watching Suburgatory...
While my dear daughter didn't really appreciate the shopping scene -- I sure did. Enough to share part of it here. (Plus, it will help you to understand the moment we shared if you see this first.)
I laughed so hard, I cried!
My daughter just sat there, uncomfortable. Likely that's exactly how she views our exchanges about bras -- even if I'm not quite Dallas! lol
But the good moment my daughter and I shared came at the end of the episode, when Dallas brought Tessa the most beautiful pink bra (sorry, I couldn't find any images of that, let alone shopping info). Tessa is determined not to crack in front of Dallas, but once Dallas leaves the room, Tessa admits is the most beautiful thing she had. I gushed, "Oh, yes!" and my daughter said, "I know, right?!" which, in case you don't have a teen, means she too thought it was beautiful.
But that did not spur any change in my daughter's lingerie fashion sense. *yet another sigh*
Flash forward a few weeks and my daughter comes home from school, all excited, wanting some "girl talk."
Like most parents, I get a bit nervous at such announcements, but, well, you'll see.
"Ohmygosh, I just have to tell you, girl to girl, that I love thongs!"
I sit there, wide-eyed and silent. Nope, not even a sigh escapes my lips; I'm that shocked. Not that that stops her in anyway from her gushing.
"I mean I just love them! They're awesome!"
I recover from my shocked stupor and say, "OK... So how did you discover that?" -- because I do most of the laundry and I know she doesn't own any...
Turns out one of her friends gave her a pair -- brand new, she insists. Too small, so she gave them away. And my daughter leapt into them. Right at school.
Practical hygiene matters out of the way, I then asked just what made thongs so awesome.
"They're soooo comfortable!" she gushed.
I shuddered.
Then I probably sighed.
At which point she stopped and looked at me, assessing me with the criticism of youth.
Accusatory, and with pity reserved for an old lady, she asked me if I ever wore them.
It was a challenge I, somewhat condescendingly, rose to, telling her that yes I had -- one can hardly judge something like that without having tried them -- and that I find them anything but comfortable or awesome.
And then I retaliated a bit by laughingly commenting that she must have no feeling in her butt.
Girl to girl time was over.
Ultimately, the story ends like thongs themselves: a lot more up front than at the end, leaving me uncomfortable and embarrassed.
How I can end up with a daughter who eschews real lingerie and falls in love with thongs is beyond me.
I guess I'm just going to have to pay more attention to the sales on thongs that are listed in my Sale Mail Alerts from Shop It To Me. Like these SPANX® "Skinny Britches" Thong (shown in this post in "pale iris") on sale at Bloomingdales for just $15.40.
Here's the story...
My daughter, now a teenager, has not the same love of lingerie as I. I know, I know; it kills me too!
Like many girls her age, she thinks fashion lies in skinny jeans, rock tees, and Converse All Stars. And what lies beneath it all? Who cares.
It doesn't matter what I place before her. Or how often I leave her alone to shop. This young woman just doesn't care about lingerie -- or, I should say, "underwear," because that's what she calls it, be it bras or panties. *heavy sigh* Have I done nothing right?
There was a brief shining moment when I thought I may have have got her around the corner and into loving lingerie. It was that pretty looking and beautiful feeling PJ Salvage chemise.
But that seems to be a one time only affair. *even heavier sigh*
Well, there was that one time we shared a moment while watching Suburgatory...
While my dear daughter didn't really appreciate the shopping scene -- I sure did. Enough to share part of it here. (Plus, it will help you to understand the moment we shared if you see this first.)
I laughed so hard, I cried!
My daughter just sat there, uncomfortable. Likely that's exactly how she views our exchanges about bras -- even if I'm not quite Dallas! lol
But the good moment my daughter and I shared came at the end of the episode, when Dallas brought Tessa the most beautiful pink bra (sorry, I couldn't find any images of that, let alone shopping info). Tessa is determined not to crack in front of Dallas, but once Dallas leaves the room, Tessa admits is the most beautiful thing she had. I gushed, "Oh, yes!" and my daughter said, "I know, right?!" which, in case you don't have a teen, means she too thought it was beautiful.
But that did not spur any change in my daughter's lingerie fashion sense. *yet another sigh*
Flash forward a few weeks and my daughter comes home from school, all excited, wanting some "girl talk."
Like most parents, I get a bit nervous at such announcements, but, well, you'll see.
"Ohmygosh, I just have to tell you, girl to girl, that I love thongs!"
I sit there, wide-eyed and silent. Nope, not even a sigh escapes my lips; I'm that shocked. Not that that stops her in anyway from her gushing.
"I mean I just love them! They're awesome!"
I recover from my shocked stupor and say, "OK... So how did you discover that?" -- because I do most of the laundry and I know she doesn't own any...
Practical hygiene matters out of the way, I then asked just what made thongs so awesome.
"They're soooo comfortable!" she gushed.
I shuddered.
Then I probably sighed.
At which point she stopped and looked at me, assessing me with the criticism of youth.
Accusatory, and with pity reserved for an old lady, she asked me if I ever wore them.
It was a challenge I, somewhat condescendingly, rose to, telling her that yes I had -- one can hardly judge something like that without having tried them -- and that I find them anything but comfortable or awesome.
And then I retaliated a bit by laughingly commenting that she must have no feeling in her butt.
Girl to girl time was over.
Ultimately, the story ends like thongs themselves: a lot more up front than at the end, leaving me uncomfortable and embarrassed.
How I can end up with a daughter who eschews real lingerie and falls in love with thongs is beyond me.
I guess I'm just going to have to pay more attention to the sales on thongs that are listed in my Sale Mail Alerts from Shop It To Me. Like these SPANX® "Skinny Britches" Thong (shown in this post in "pale iris") on sale at Bloomingdales for just $15.40.
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Petticoats On Parade
A new fan of mine, who was pleasantly surprised to find me here, sent me this fabulous page from catalogs past... Makes you want to twirl, doesn't it? *wink*
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
No Cruella With This DeVille -- Just Luxury, My Pet!
Kiss Me Deadly's new seductive Blue DeVille lingerie collection is here! There's a pretty panty -- but it's the wickedly ruched bra and the stunning suspender skirt which have me most wistful... Plus, order this week and it's free shipping -- wherever you are!
So, to re-cap: Buy sexy vintage styled lingerie, get free shipping -- and the the chance to win a professional glamour photo-shoot to boot!
So, to re-cap: Buy sexy vintage styled lingerie, get free shipping -- and the the chance to win a professional glamour photo-shoot to boot!
The Marketing Magic Of Lingerie Fashion Illustration
I love pretty fashion sketches, especially the lingerie drawings. It's one of the reasons I collect vintage lingerie ads -- for all the lovely illustrations.
I don't precisely know why lingerie makers and catalog marketers gave up on the beautiful illustrated ads... My guess is that the general demise of Golden Age Of Illustration was greatly assisted by the increase in cultural acceptance of fashion photography -- and the resulting desire for photos of scantily-clad women. Whatever the reason, I mourn the loss of illustrated lingerie advertising.
Whatsmore, I believe that everything I love about illustrated lingerie ads is the stuff that marketers should note because it sells actual lingerie.
When I look at illustrated ads featuring lingerie, I see myself in that dream... No matter how fanciful.
That bosom can be my bosom. No thoughts of reduction or plastic surgery enter my mind. The flimsy floating full skirts are the stuff I can feel, regardless of the lack of any wind. The illustrated woman's wispy waist isn't like that of a (heavily doctored) model's -- I don't feel I need to achieve anything -- I don't feel the need to compare myself to any ideal, just insert myself in the fantasy.
Illustrations, no matter how stylized, are seen as just that: illustrations. It's art, fantasy. It's not some standard or preferred female form; it's a preferred ideal of what I want to feel when I wear the garments.
Illustrated ads do not run the risk of starting or perpetuating body dysmorphia or forms of self-hating body loathing because we know they are illustrations -- no one looks like that. But we can pretend to...
We want to feel like the imaginary woman in her dreamy, romantic, sexy world. Illustrations help us suspend our disbelief, forget about some specific model, hired for her freakish abnormal appearance and further freaked by airbrushing and digital manipulation. We don't want to worry about her and her ilk. Worry about what her appearances and celebrity do to ourselves and other women. We just want to be in a fantasy -- a fantasy that features us as we see ourselves when we don our frilly, floaty apparel and pretty underthings...
Isn't that the optimal way to sell lingerie?
Even illustrations of apparel on hangers makes you covet and buy -- and you know no one is fancying that's how they'll look; it's about how they'll feel.
I don't precisely know why lingerie makers and catalog marketers gave up on the beautiful illustrated ads... My guess is that the general demise of Golden Age Of Illustration was greatly assisted by the increase in cultural acceptance of fashion photography -- and the resulting desire for photos of scantily-clad women. Whatever the reason, I mourn the loss of illustrated lingerie advertising.
Whatsmore, I believe that everything I love about illustrated lingerie ads is the stuff that marketers should note because it sells actual lingerie.
When I look at illustrated ads featuring lingerie, I see myself in that dream... No matter how fanciful.
That bosom can be my bosom. No thoughts of reduction or plastic surgery enter my mind. The flimsy floating full skirts are the stuff I can feel, regardless of the lack of any wind. The illustrated woman's wispy waist isn't like that of a (heavily doctored) model's -- I don't feel I need to achieve anything -- I don't feel the need to compare myself to any ideal, just insert myself in the fantasy.
Illustrations, no matter how stylized, are seen as just that: illustrations. It's art, fantasy. It's not some standard or preferred female form; it's a preferred ideal of what I want to feel when I wear the garments.
Illustrated ads do not run the risk of starting or perpetuating body dysmorphia or forms of self-hating body loathing because we know they are illustrations -- no one looks like that. But we can pretend to...
We want to feel like the imaginary woman in her dreamy, romantic, sexy world. Illustrations help us suspend our disbelief, forget about some specific model, hired for her freakish abnormal appearance and further freaked by airbrushing and digital manipulation. We don't want to worry about her and her ilk. Worry about what her appearances and celebrity do to ourselves and other women. We just want to be in a fantasy -- a fantasy that features us as we see ourselves when we don our frilly, floaty apparel and pretty underthings...
Isn't that the optimal way to sell lingerie?
Even illustrations of apparel on hangers makes you covet and buy -- and you know no one is fancying that's how they'll look; it's about how they'll feel.
Sunday, October 23, 2011
On The Eve...
Special panties make any date special enough for the night before to be called the "eve." But the post gets the title for the name of the woman in the vintage photo, Eve Meyer.
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Why Whisper When You Can Rustle?
A vintage full-slip in white taffeta with lovely lace insets. Sexy, yet modest; formal attire for when you are about to retire...
Halter Me, Muzzle Me?
A very rare appearance by Icky Vicki's at this blog -- but when Victoria's Secret puts out a sexy retro 80s halter-style teddy -- in black -- and discounts it to just $28, I'll admit, I might just be able to be bought off. Or at least muzzled for the time being *wink* Sale found in my Sale Mail Alert -- get your own alerts to the stuff you want, in your sizes, here.
Friday, October 21, 2011
Kiss Me Deadly Wants Morgana To Shoot You
More cool news from Kiss Me Deadly -- this time a beautiful contest! Every time you order (from now through November 14, 2011), fill in the question when you check out, and if you get it right then you get a chance to win a photo shoot with Morgana:
The prize covers a photoshoot where Morgana will style your hair and make-up in her lovely home studio, then shoot 2 clothing changes (or lingerie changes, we hope) with a bit of help and advice on what poses work for you, and send you 4 finished images in high resolution that you can use as you wish!Note: You must be able to get yourself to the shoot in Colchester in the UK. (That rules me out. A bummer for me, but one less entry for you to compete with lol) Again, you enter when you make a purchase, but contest details are here.
This Week's OMG Vintage Lingerie Is A Pair Of Answers To Periwinkle Prayers!
Ahh, periwinkle, the sweetest and rarest of all the purples, especially made for soft moods... And when lingerie creations made of silky smooth nylon, well, what else is there to say?
I adore this vintage peignoir set -- so much periwinkle nylon it makes my head swim!
Look at those ruffled sleeves and all the lace trims!
But I'm absolutely over the moon for this vintage Movie Star full-slip!
Floral appliques, chiffon and lace trims and the hem? Oh just look at those insets of sheer chiffon pleats!
I adore this vintage peignoir set -- so much periwinkle nylon it makes my head swim!
Look at those ruffled sleeves and all the lace trims!
But I'm absolutely over the moon for this vintage Movie Star full-slip!
Floral appliques, chiffon and lace trims and the hem? Oh just look at those insets of sheer chiffon pleats!
Win A $1,000 Lingerie Wardrobe!
Bare Necessities is celebrating the sale of their five millionth bra with a contest: five lucky winners will each win a $1,000 lingerie wardrobe and a free consultation with stylist Jenny Altman!
Putting On Stockings
Putting on stockings while a voyeuristic audience watches from the other side of the scrim, 1932. Life magazine.
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Beautiful, Ethical, Peace Silk Lingerie!
Do your ethical concerns keep you away from silk? Now you needn't stay away from the silk lingerie! One of my favorite lingerie labels, Ayten Gasson, has come out with a limited edition range of Eco lingerie made of organic silk and cruelty free peace silk!
Unlike the traditional method of silk production, where the cocoon is boiled alive, peace silk allows the silkworms to emerge from their cocoons and live out their full lives. Modern, cruelty-free silk in classic lingerie pieces such as camisoles, tap panties, and teddies.
Unlike the traditional method of silk production, where the cocoon is boiled alive, peace silk allows the silkworms to emerge from their cocoons and live out their full lives. Modern, cruelty-free silk in classic lingerie pieces such as camisoles, tap panties, and teddies.
So Sheer Can You Even Call It Pink?
Spotted this uttlerly-sheer chiffon vintage babydoll nightie and immediately thought of Fran Gerard! (I know what you remember about Fran; I remember her lingerie!)
Normally Cats & Stockings Don't Mix...
Love cats? Check out how to make these Hand-Stamped Cat Tights! (Of course, you can substitute the cats with any symbol of your affection too.)
Black Lace Blues
Black lace over blue nylon tricot make this (yet another) half slip you don't want to hide! Vintage lingerie by St Michael of the UK.
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Clearance On Black Lace Bettie Boudoir Robe!
Secrets In Lace now has their Bettie Boudoir Robe on final sale for just $19.75! Black lace over pink or mocha nylon blend for the classic vintage illusion lace look and styled as lovely as can be!
Blame It On The (Purple) Rain
Deanna's Purple Rain post (on retro 80s footwear fashions) has me reminiscing on the film and all the lovely lingerie those ladies (and not-so-ladylike women) wore. So here's a salute to the retro lingerie, Apollonia Kotero and the other beautiful babes in Purple Rain.
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
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