For the award show, Affinitas will be featuring their entries into the Best Daywear, Best Fashion Lingerie, and Best Seamless. The Best Daywear entry is a cami and hipster set from the light and summery Sandra collection. The clean white background with pops of baby blue, pale pink, and grass green will be sure to keep you looking (and feeling) cool on hot summer nights. In the category of Fashion Lingerie, the entry is from the flirty Helen collection. A bustier and matching skirted thong feature a number of intricate details from embroidered overlays to simple bows. The Grace plunge push-up bra and corresponding hipsters are contending for the title of Best Seamless.

Check back in August to see how Affinitas fared in the award show. In the meantime, find out more about the numerous other attractive and affordable Affinitas collections on the Affinitas website. The website also provides a number of online retailers stocking Affinitas with a specialty store list coming soon!

And if this hasn’t made your day, well, how about this? This fall, Cosabella will extend the Sex and the City collection to include new colorways and silhouettes!

The Fall Carrie collection will still retain a fun and fashionable essence, but will replace floral print tulle with scalloped edged lace. The cami, brief, and g-string all come in a gorgeous, vibrant pink called Lipstick. The Charlotte collection continues to use the amazingly soft and eco-friendly bamboo fiber. However, for Fall 2008, it is featured in Sage and incorporates a 3/4 sleeve top. Samantha takes sexy in a new direction with an animal print called Ocelot. The spotted print tulle is available in a bustier, low rise hotpant, and low rise thong. The hotpant and thong of the Miranda collection will remain, but a soft bra is introduced. All pieces will be featured in Cocoa with a Pink trim.

And that’s not all for the fall collection. Look for more details about the rest of the fantabulous fall collection in an upcoming post. In the meantime, channel your inner Carrie, Charlotte, Samantha, or Miranda and start shopping! In addition to Bloomingdales and Bare Necessities, the collection can be purchased at Chic Mystique or the HBO Shop (which also has a number of other SATC goodies, including a very cute eco-friendly dry cleaning bag!). Click here to see video footage of a recent segment featuring the lingerie, dry cleaning bag, signature glassware, and more from New York’s CW11 Morning News.

For additional retailers worldwide, visit the Cosabella website.

The “Carrie” collection is described as “whimsical and eclectic” and features a push up bra, bustier, and low rise thong in a black, floral print tulle. Of course, it wouldn’t be a “Carrie” look without the contrasting animal print trim! While the signature “Carrie” look is in Black Rose, the collection will also be available in Ivory Rose.

The “Samantha” collection is featured in juicy Passion Fruit and contains a spicy bra, low rise thong, and garter belt (of course!). Made with French Chantilly style lace with fine, micro-dot mesh, this collection is sure to please!

With contrasting Blue Violet and Sky Blue tulle and lace, the “Miranda” collection is chic and practical, just like the character. A molded bra, low rise hotpants, and a low rise thong are the signature items. Items will also be available in Magenta and Hot Pink.

And for the sweet and feminine, Charlotte, Cosabella has designed a camisole, long pant, and low rise thong made of soft modal and an eco-friendly bamboo fiber. The signature “Charlotte” collection will be featured in Ecru with Ecru accents, but also available in Black with Ecru accents.

I know these items will be worth the wait! Please let us know in our forums as soon as you see them at a store near you. In the meantime, buy other beautiful Cosabella camis, bras, thongs, and more at your local boutique or department store as well as online at Bare Necessities or Chic Mystique.

Can’t choose just one? Sign up for the Smart Ass Monthly Knickers delivered directly to the recipient’s door!

Smart Ass is not just fun, but functional and comfortable as well. In addition to the thongs, Smart Ass boasts a lightweight, flirty, and feminine Everyday Sexy Collection made of European-inspired mesh and beautiful stretch lace. Choose from the “finally-long-enough” cami, “girl’s-night-out” cami-doll, “it’s-a-wrap” robe, or “pretty-sexy” chemise. All can be mixed and matched with the low-rise thong, low-rise bikini, or low-rise gal short. With six sassy pattern choices, the options are limitless! The camisole and panties are already available in Pink Hearts and Black Scroll. Those items and the rest of the collection will soon be available in Cashmere Rose, Purple Zebra, Angel Blue, and Blue Flowers.

Purchase online at Smart Ass Intimates or at a store near you!

One lucky reader will win the Aimee slip (see below). This glamorous, silky something, perfect for a night in, is reflective of the Julianne style.

Julianne is designed for women like me who love looking pretty, sexy, and feminine without trying too hard! The Julianne woman is also a jetsetter who needs to transition easily from day to night while remaining glamorous. The Spring ’08 collection features chemises, camis, shorts, and tops in a color palette reflective of designer Nikki Adamo’s summer trip to Capri. Navy, coral, beige, and black silk satins, silk georgettes, and silk jerseys trimmed in French and Italian laces. See more of my favorites below.

According to Nikki, “These pieces are guaranteed to turn heads.” I wholeheartedly agree! These one-of-a-kind, luxurious essentials will turn heads not because they are super revealing, but because they reflect an understated elegance that only a confident woman can pull off.

Don’t forget to sign up here to win the Aimee slip! In the meantime, check out Julianne in Australia and New Zealand as well as the U.K., Spain, and the U.S. Online, check out the Julianne site as well as TLP favorite figleaves.com.

The wide variety of styles is refreshing; while some could be candidates for our “Trashy, Slutty…. Yet interesting!” forum topic, there are just as many pieces that are classy and pretty – so you can be naughty when you wanna be and nice when you wanna be! You will have no trouble finding charmuese and lace bridal babydolls, shirred bustiers, lace-up open-cup chemises, camigarters with cherry prints, leopard print babydolls, leather bustiers, and fishnets that make it look like you have ankle tattoos – all on one site! You can also find swimsuits and shoes on YumDrop – and I was delighted to find that the shoe section has the same wide variety as the main focus of the site (lingerie!). There are naughty nurse platform boots and marabou sandals, but there are also sexy Mary Jane pumps and rhinestone sandals perfect for a night out. YumDrop’s real strength is offering such a wide variety of pretty, sexy things, with sometimes daring designs, at very palatable prices.

While the pieces available on YumDrop.com are affordable, they still rival far more expensive brands as far as design and style goes – and the site offers these unique items in a way that is completely comprehensible, easy to navigate, and refreshingly thorough. There are multiple views available for most products, so you can see how a product looks from different angles or in different colors (on the product page, just hold your mouse over the view you want to see), as well as prominently displayed sizing charts to help you navigate incongruent sizing between brands and styles. This is especially helpful because many of the pieces available are decidedly for wearing at home, and don’t use standard sizing simply because support isn’t much of an issue with something you won’t wear every day. But YumDrop translates the manufacturers’ “small/medium/large” categories into band and cup sizes so you can be confident in ordering the correct size.

I recently received my package from YumDrop, and was even more pleased than I thought I would be. I ordered the Star Studded Panty, a pair of boyshorts with lace-up sides and “Sexy” silk-screened on the back. I couldn’t be happier with these – I’m a sucker for corset-style lacing, and my new panties are every bit as comfortable as my everyday boyshorts. They are, however, far more “rock-n-roll” than my everyday boyshorts!

I also got the Ruffled Rhumba Hot Pants. These are cute, but I’m torn about them. They aren’t really my style or much like anything else I own, but I’m trying to broaden my tastes and they are very flirty for lounging around at home. They seem a great accessory to a simple cami or short chemise.

My favorite, however, is the Pink Mesh and Lace Cami set. I am a larger cup size, so usually I shy away from anything with underbust seams because they never hit me correctly. I had to take a shot with this set, however, because it looked so good – and I’m glad I did! I was pleasantly surprised to see that the straps are adjustable, so even ladies with larger cups can adjust the top to fit them well. And I absolutely love the design.

When you visit YumDrop, be sure to check out their costumes. Halloween will be here before you know it!

P.S. Check out our sales section to find a coupon code for YumDrop!

But, playsuits seem to be their signature item and the super cute clothing and lingerie designers just posted some new playsuit photos on their blog. I think I’m going overboard for the sailor suit. It’s absolutely darling yet still sexy. Of course, I have no idea where I would wear it, but still…

The Micro Cheeky Lace bottom is one of the most eye-catching knickers WW has in their collection. A very low cutout, high rise on the sides and pretty quality lace adds an intimate and girly touch. At $20 it’s not too expensive if you ask me. Pretty, sexy, small: a signature Wicked Weasel piece!

Not so much lingerie or swimwear (even though you’ll look sexy at the beach), but these WW Lighthouse Shorts (#516) are surely spectacular. I suggest being a S-bottom in stead of an XL though, as there’s not too much fabric on the brazilian styled backside! Price tag: $54.

And last but not least, the Microminimus Naked Lace thong for $21. It’s a bit too (really, TOO) tiny for my taste, as the name would make you believe!