What was the original appeal of animal prints on intimate garments?
In the mid-1950s, Sheena Queen of the Jungle, played by Irish McCalla, created a hit out of the 26 t.v. episodes that were produced. Inspired by the Tarzan films, the series was so popular that even Elvis Presley made one of his first acting [...]

Cadolle has a long history of being near the center of French lingerie.
The origin has been claimed by different countries for centuries and by different people. Nevertheless, there seems to be consensus in what French-woman, Herminie Cadolle whom patented the first bra in 1889. The innovation of Cadolle was to divide the traditional corset in [...]

We first introduced you to The Lake & Stars earlier in the year. Since then, designers Maayan Zilberman and Nikki Dekker have experienced much success. They recently were interviewed by New York Magazine for a feature article honoring the 100th Anniversary of the Brassiere (see the article for more features including a piece [...]

There is much controversy about who first invented the brassiere.  Henry Lesher is credited by some with patenting the first brassiere, in 1859. While his design looks more or less like a bra, (though the figure of the person wearing it hardly looks like a woman), he designed it primarily as a “breast pad and [...]

In the next few weeks we’ll be hosting a series of excerpts from Gene’s article on the history of lingerie. In an interesting article illustrated with loads of retro-photo’s from Gene’s collection, he talks about the history of bras, corsets, panties and so on…
Gene writes:
“Lingerie as we know it is a relatively recent concept. Your [...]