“Although a lot of the designs in the 2010-2011 catalog are fun and playful, what this new catalog represents is romance in its truest form that can also inspire the post- holiday season,” says Elaine Carson, senior designer at Coquette.

New to this year’s catalog is the New Years collection which features stunning black satin and lace lingerie adorned with sparkling rhinestones.

“I was inspired to create the New Years collection from the new materials we started to use for Christmas. We decided to go with dark, rich colors that would be more appropriate for a winter line while utilizing traditional Christmas themes. From there, we started working with black fabrics to create something exciting for the holidays, constructing elegant garments suitable for New Years,” adds Carson. “Even some of the dresses in the collection are appropriate to wear as a cocktail dress for a New Years Eve party.”

For Christmas and Valentine’s Day, Coquette updates their classic silhouettes by using more interesting fabrics, such as embroidered polka-dot taffeta, while incorporating unique details like rhinestones and removable bows.

Also new to this year are Coquette’s musical G-strings for men and women that play “Jingle Bells” and “Rudolph the red nosed reindeer.”

The Holiday catalog includes pieces from Coquette’s ZAKK collection, featuring sexy and playful intimate apparel for men, including the low rise candy cane print boxer brief.

As always, Coquette offers something for all figures. The “Perfectly Plus” section of the catalog is dedicated to holiday styles that are specifically designed for plus sizes.

This time it’s a Christmas-themed limited edition, and even though we missed it when it launched there’s still a couple knickers & pasties available on the OF-site!

Designers Stevi & Emma wanted to add: “We would like to thank the garage studios team for their amazing photography and letting us trash their beautiful new studio, go check them out…“

The scarf is $29.50 US, the cap is $34.50 US, the slipper booties are $19.50 US, the Hannah bra is $29.50 US, and the boyshorts are on sale for $7.50 US.

Velvet Passion as envisioned by Triumph with plenty of holiday candles to set the mood.

Pictures courtesy of Triumph. Visit the Triumph site. If you like the theme music, here is a link: Triumph Web Theme Music 2008. It reminds me of a NYC band called Ivy. Perhaps it is.

So, I decided to have a peek and see how many ways lingerie companies can make a Santa suit. And what I found was there are hundreds of designs. Keep in mind that the suit does not have to be focused on the red and white outfit-clad jolly character alone but also on the elves who wear green and red as well as the snow fairies who come wintrily attired in glittering white and silver. As you now see, there are endless possibilities to creating a magical evening during this holiday season.

I think I found the largest collection on a site called ODgirl. I have never seen so many Santa, Elf and Snow Queen sets as I saw there. Sweet little bows, lace up bodices, black belts with square buckles, gold satin bow gloves, pretty dresses trimmed in marabou, candy cane chokers, sexy red garters, plain white snowman dresses with big black buttons adorning the front, Jingle Bell fishnet stockings, v-necked and hooded dresses, triangle bikini tops donned with ruffled miniskirts, red plaid jumpers, long robes, old fashioned capes, and a cute set with reindeer antlers.

The other thing that amazed me was how fast the inventory sells out. In both regular and plus sizes, if you decide to wear one of these season-conscious, merry, sexy outfits, you better start looking to avoid the last minute rush!

Unlike a trip to your nearest lingerie boutique, ordering online requires some planning ahead! To help you out, we’ve compiled a list of ordering deadlines for your online lingerie shopping. Most ordering deadlines are intended for Christmas; if you celebrate a different holiday, use your best judgment based on these time tables. If you need help deciding what to buy, head over to the Gift Problems section of our forums and let other lingerie lovers weigh in! And of course, after you’ve signed up for the forums it will be easy to enter to win a Lucia bra and thong set from The Little Bra Company.

Before you order from any of these websites, be sure to check out our sales section and see if there are any discounts you can get on your order. After all, the more discounts you receive, the more lingerie you can buy…

• Agent Provocateur: Order before noon on these dates to ensure delivery in time for Christmas: UK- Dec 20, Europe – Dec 12, US, Japan, & Canada – Dec 10, Middle-East and Asia – Dec 5
• Bare Necessities: All dates for US orders. Orders being shipped UPS ground must be placed by Dec 15, USPS Priority Mail by Dec 17, UPS 3-Day Select by Dec 19, UPS Next Day Air by Dec 23
• BeCheeky: For US, Japan, or Canada orders, orders must be placed by noon on Dec 10. For UK orders, orders being shipped with Standard Delivery must be placed by Dec 20, Next Working Day Delivery by Dec 22.
• Figleaves UK: In the UK, order by noon on Dec 19. In US, Canada, and Eastern Europe, order by midnight on Dec 7. In Western Europe, order by midnight Dec 10.
• Figleaves US: All dates for US orders. Orders being shipped with Standard Shipping must be placed by Dec 16. Express Shipping, Dec 21.
• Freshpair: All dates for US orders. Orders being shipped with Standard Shipping must be placed by Dec 12, USPS Priority mail by Dec 19, 2 Business Day Shipping by Dec 22, 1 Business Day Shipping by Dec 23
• Henry & June: All dates for US orders. Orders being shipped with UPS 3-Day must be placed by Dec 19 at 2pm, UPS 2-Day by Dec 20, UPS 1-Day by Dec 23. No guarantees on Standard Shipping.
• HerRoom: All dates for US orders. Orders being shipped with Standard Shipping & UPS Ground must be placed by Dec 8 for Hanukkah, Dec 15 for Christmas, USPS Priority Mail by Dec 12 for Hanukkah and Dec 18 for Christmas, UPS Second Day Air by Dec 16 for Hanukkah and Dec 19 for Christmas, UPS Overnight and USPS Express Mail by Dec 17 for Hanukkah and Dec 22 for Christmas
• La Senza: In the UK, orders being shipped with Standard shipping must be placed by noon on Dec 19, UK Express by Dec 22. In Europe, orders must be placed by Dec 12.
• Mio Destino: In the UK, order by Dec 22. In Europe and North America, order by Dec 15
• Victoria’s Secret: All dates for US orders. Orders being shipped with Standard Shipping must be placed by Dec 18, 3rd Day Business Express by Dec 19, 2nd Day Business Express by Dec 22, Next Day Business Express by Dec 23.

The fashion show was an opportunity for Pudding to unveil new premium ranges from exclusive brands such as Lise Charmel and Damaris as well as an increased range of sexy lingerie from 30-40 A-H cups and the brand new Pudding website puddinglingerie.com, where shoppers can now buy online for the first time.

“We’ve had a lot of customers from outside of the region since we opened and we’re delighted that we can now offer the Pudding range to lingerie connoisseurs all over the world – we offer free delivery and luxury gift wrap in the UK so lots more people can sample our luxury lingerie now.”

Owners Paul and Helen Masters were presented with the award for ‘Best Newcomer 2008’ at a Gala Ceremony Evening in London hosted by Underlines Magazine and as Helen said, “Our aim at Pudding is to make our customers feel and look fabulous and we’re really pleased that our approach has proven to be so popular in our first year and earned us the ‘Best Newcomer’ award. We wanted to celebrate our win in style – so we thought we’d treat our customers to a display of some of our fabulous new winter styles and make sure more people can now have access to them too.”

Despite the current economic climate, Pudding says demand for luxury lingerie and expert fitting is still strong. “We’ve found that while people may be thinking more about what they’re spending, they still want quality. In fact, we’ve been delighted with the response to our new premium ranges – these lines are very exclusive, with bras priced at £100 and £130 but we’ve had a lot of demand.”

“We created some eye-catching posters to promote the benefits of sexy lingerie in beating the credit crunch blues and they’ve definitely captured the imagination. We also announced the introduction of our Christmas Gift Hint Service on the night – we can now send a text message hint to men whose partner has a gift list with us- we’ve had quite a few people signing up already.”

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Shopping for all of these pieces at Mio Destino.

With all these colors and styles, I imagine it would be easy to pick just a few pieces and be able to mix and match for a lot of different looks. Any retro-loving, vintage-style, pin-up girl would be thrilled to unwrap her presents to find a piece from the Holiday Collection – I know I would! To make sure you get her exactly what she wants in the sizes she needs, go to the website and search for her wishlist. Ladies, make sure you create one in case your man goes looking for it!