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posted by Little Lingerie | 7:11 PM
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"Retro Lingerie" –
What Exactly Does Retro Lingerie Mean?
Today when women talk of retro lingerie, they are typically referring to the pinup era – namely, the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. The women of this time period favored showing off their curves and dazzling everyone with their delightful figures.
Although these three decades are the height of pinup style, retro lingerie also refers to designs from the entire 20th century.
The beauty, as well as the fit of retro lingerie is what makes it so stunning. (Read more on the fit of retro lingerie.) However “retro lingerie” also usually refers to certain specific items, such as:
Bras
These can be lightweight bralettes like those of the earlier 20th century, or full-on bullet bras.
Did you know it was Warners who introduced bra cup sizes in the 1930s? In the 1940s, padding was added as a way to prevent nipple show-through.
In the 1950s, bullet bras were in style. These bras separated the breasts and gave them lift, without modern-day underwires or molded cups. The bullet shape was created by concentric circles of stitching on the cups, resulting in a cone. Midriff bras were common. These created the shapes of the original Sweater Girls – those gorgeous pinups who looked so good in a sweater!
Garters
These can be sexy garter belts that hold up stockings or flirtatious – and handy! – leg garters, as were used to help a parched flapper take refreshment during Prohibition.
Full Slips
A staple of retro lingerie, full slips show everything off while keeping the tease alive.
Beginning in this time period, form-fitting full slips that supported the bosom and extended to the knee became popular. Famous pinups in full slips include Rita Hayworth and Elizabeth Taylor.
Camisoles
Very popular in the early part of the 20th century, camisoles are still loved for their comfort and sex appeal.
Girdles and Corsets
An essential and fun bit of fashion still considered the ultimate in sexy. Longline girdles were popular to get a smooth and glamorous look.
Sources:
http://www.fashion-era.com/bras_and_girdles.htm
http://www.kissmegoodnight.com
posted by Little Lingerie | 7:48 PM
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A Little Lingerie Company's bralettes, camisoles, and full slips are all inspired by the style and fit of retro lingerie. Read how we adapted the fit of retro lingerie to modern fabrics.
posted by Little Lingerie | 7:24 PM
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posted by Little Lingerie | 6:10 PM
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Once upon a time, in a land of flat-chested models who had yet to see the far side of puberty, a full-grown princess with ample cups browsed amidst the bralettes and camisoles in her local lingerie shop and grew sad. “Oh,” she said to herself, ”how I wish I could wear something so light and feminine. How I long for something so soft and delicate that could actually support my curvy bosom!”
One day, the president of ALittleLingerieCompany.com entered her kingdom and told the princess that she, too, had suffered the same sadness, as she was also a busty chick.
And thus it was and with great rejoicing that a new line was born from A Little Lingerie Company: bralettes, camisoles, and full slips, each offering just enough underbust support to keep a bosomy girl in the cups, but not so much that she felt encased in armor. The word got out and even Goldilocks – a woman whose bosom is neither too big, nor too small – pronounced them “just right.”
posted by Little Lingerie | 3:42 PM
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posted by Little Lingerie | 12:53 PM
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You know those awful situations where you have to deal with someone who just sucks the life out of you and you try to shake it off and get over it and remind yourself that they have no power over your life, so why give it to them – yet you find yourself fuming and steaming and venting at an empty room at all hours?
Well, one of these nefarious little vampires has landed on the fringes of mine own life and I must needs vent or die. (Forgive me – is anyone capable of discussing vampires without seeping into Gothic speech? And it doesn’t help that I’ve been reading Charlotte Bronte all week.)
Why is he here, I ask myself? Why? WHY???? Not that I haven’t met his kind before – god knows, I have, and a more wretched bunch does not exist. And I hasten to remind myself that, of all the times a bloodsucker has appeared in my world, this one is the most tangentially connected to me of them all – even if he will, sadly, remain, as the shade-dweller he is, on the fringes of my world for a while more to come.
I try to see the humor in his behavior – of which there is much. The painfully narrow avenues for recourse he allows anyone in his wake. The hugely apparent foibles he insists do not exist. The glaring insecurity hiding behind his condescension (O, the loathsome vileness of a condescending creature of the night!).
I try to blow it off – it’s a triviality, a mere wisp. A nothing in the overall scheme of my life. A mere tra-la as I go about my business.
I cave. I can’t blow it off. I can’t find it funny. I give in to a brooding premenstrual pit of despair brought on by the wretched frustration of having encountered a self-proclaimed human being whose lifeblood can only be sucked unwillingly from the living flesh of those in his midst. I scream, I wail, I give in to the ragings only my hormonally-altered persona can produce.
As if by magic, I feel better. Relieved. The vile succubus has been excised, at last. Sent off to the hidden byways wherein the undead may travel, free and safe, amongst their own kind.
And I realize I have, at last, discovered the true purpose of PMS – the warding off of vampires. And for one brief moment I see the continuity of all things and feel at peace.
posted by Little Lingerie | 3:13 AM
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